Well,I guess I'm not all black thumbs - I got my paperwhites to bloom and they look ok. Why do they grow so tall and weedy though? they like to slump over sometimes too - i'm not a fan of that. But here they are in all their glory!![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpC2R9gHnUJzxnUAAAuVna1fbXPTUMUUVMQDzQ7hVJiZjSb8XIXPvHDYFMPcug70CO17iH70uSculgrlrcFvEX_ETtfF29UGXU8INy9UBZtDBacsn7xrqyqFNuzDWHUJbfz590GOFfyK4/s400/paperwhites.jpg)
they bloomed!![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpC2R9gHnUJzxnUAAAuVna1fbXPTUMUUVMQDzQ7hVJiZjSb8XIXPvHDYFMPcug70CO17iH70uSculgrlrcFvEX_ETtfF29UGXU8INy9UBZtDBacsn7xrqyqFNuzDWHUJbfz590GOFfyK4/s400/paperwhites.jpg)
Here are my baked pears from the other week too -just so you can see mine are just as pretty as the photo I posted!![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffB_Lrd4Of5gU0fSBAAAq3l8XKATGnvPE17U2YYGLUQwEhsux7fXlYgPIEBkPtck01VaW4HgqfObT_hgLlgzZiRQJGipIHY1SBFzUmpIpnxC1-w0N2uGQPZn7to2KgvMLycp23OvEZWo/s400/baked+pears.jpg)
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