The clematis are doing very well this year, even the laggards, the reluctant growers, are much improved.
1. C. Voluceau (I think…)
2. C. Prince Charles, probably.
3. C. Rebecca, probably.
4. C. Comtesse du bouchard, probably.
5. C. Warsaw Nike, maybe.
6. C. The President, definitely.
I still have plenty of other clematis yet to flower, you can be sure they will feature here at some point.
Apologies for the brevity this morning. Normal service will be resumed next week. Assuming I can remember which day of the week it is!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, stay safe.
I’ll be back next weekend with another #SixOnSaturday.
The Propagator 
Your clematis are great. Mine look terrible this year. Don’t know why….taking a gap year? Or just discombobulated like the rest of us.
https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/sixonsaturday-may-9th-white-and-wild/
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that’s strange, mine are the best they’ve ever been this year. i’m putting that down to maturity in some cases, but i also conclude they like a good watering and i’ve been around to do that more regularly than I usually am.
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Evening
Those clematis flowers look very attractive. They’re something we’ve never tried to grow, though we’ve plenty of honeysuckles and other climbers.
Here’s my six for this week – I’ve been doing more work in the garden, and haven’t spent enough time relaxing in it …
https://eaglesfeartoperch.blogspot.com/2020/05/building-raised-beds-six-on-saturday.html
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definitely worth growing if you have a bit of spare vertical space. best to buy a well established plant from a specialist grower, they can take a few years to get going if bought very small.
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Know the feeling! Please let us return to routine soon! Fab selection of clematis there. Here are mine
https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com
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friday being a holiday is what threw me, i’m easily confused.
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Confusing times
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What an amazing group of clematis! Mine doesn’t even have buds yet. My six:
https://wp.me/p4Y6ke-2uX
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i’m sure they’ll turn up soon.
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Wow! gorgeous Clematis. I could only ever grow white ones, Sweet Autumn and Armandii. The days are really running together aren’t they?? Here is my six: http://theshrubqueen.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-may-happenings/
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why only white? conditions not suit?
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Non native Clematis is tricky to grow in the American South. It is popular on mailboxes and I have seen a lot of dead vines on mailboxes.
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Whoops! I was accidentally anonymouse…
Lovely collections this week. So nice to see the clematis blooms. I have more wonderful weeds and wildflowers to share this week.. https://doingtheplan.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-with-more-wonderful-wildflowers/
Jen x
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i’m always pleased to see the clematis, and they are doing very well this year.
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Lovely collections this week. So nice to see the clematis blooms. I have more wonderful weeds and wildflowers to share this week.. https://doingtheplan.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-with-more-wonderful-wildflowers/
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Lovely clematis. Supposed to grow in my zone, but the one and only I tried died. I think it was me, I saw an amazing one growing not far from my house.
Here’s my Six. Blogger changed things overnight, and the photos are not how I placed them last night! Some “new” thing I have to figure out now. I wish they’d just leave things alone.
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2020/05/six-on-saturday-may-9-2020.html
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they can be tricky to get right planting wise. close enough to the wall/fence, but not too close, enough sun but not too much. i’m finding they are thirsty plants, doing much better this year perhaps because i am around to give them a good soak twice a week.
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I am envious of all your beautiful clematis. I have two but they are not happy. I must look at moving them. Another six here https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-9th-may-2020/
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water them, lots.
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😊
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How can you go possibly wrong with Clematis in the garden! I love the big violet purpley ones the best! Here I am at a Market in Germany! Needed a bit of color today! https://thecadyluckleedy.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-the-schwerin-germany-edition/
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quite, love a clematis.
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I love your clematis! My offering for the day: https://enthusiasticgardener.com/2020/05/09/early-may-in-the-fortnight-garden/
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thanks Candy, i’m pleased with them this year.
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Wow, that image is a blast from the past. Takes me right back to my granny’s living room in the 1970s.
Thanks for the Clematis inspiration. I only grow two, but keep thinking I ought to try more.
My SoS is also a single subject this week: slipper orchids in my greenhouse.
https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/spring-ladys-slippers-six-on-saturday-55-may-9-2020/
In other news, I’ll be busy trying to protect plants out in the garden today. Unexpectedly, there’s a freeze warning for tonight, which would be the latest date for frost in more than 20 years.
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yes we have a little cold spell, had to wrap up my outdoor tomatoes last night. could get down to freezing tonight. Jack Frost’s last hurrah, i think.
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Hey, nice one there. Always great to see so many Clematis. So, here’s my Six on Saturday https://wp.me/paZ8Ih-xt.
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thank you Keith, I do like a clematis.
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Lovely clematis flowers Here’s my six from a brief visit to the allotment . https://reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-from-the-allotment/
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hello! thanks, look forward to reading.
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I was greatly concerned when I saw the close down image on your blog page! A nasty scare, but then I had to laugh. I have had a nicely busy morning here so was feeling a bit sheepish about the late post. But here it is https://wp.me/p97pee-zh I love all those clematis and will be taking notes. They are all in my favourite colour range. I’ve also got a hankering for the lime green one mentioned by 30 days. Now I’m off to try to fit in some gardening.
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yes, nothing too dramatic! a close run thing, timewise. always worth growing a clematis or two. or ten. or fifteen.
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Lovely collection of clematis. I’ve got nothing as elegant, except maybe for a Siberian iris, but I’ve got some other purple blooms, https://aftereden.blog/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-9-may-2020/
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
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Too funny! My Clematis are about 30 cm high now! Yaay!
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-09-05-2020-frost-and-other-surprises/
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i’m sure they’ll soon catch up.
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That’s a lovely set of clematis…es? clemati?! Mine are quite a long way behind that, mostly because they got chopped back when I moved them. Enjoy your bank holiday weekend! https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/sixonsaturday-darling-buds-of-may/
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the two that i moved recently are sulking a bit. sort of. they are both flowering like billio but have refused to grow much more. i’m sure they’ll recover some poise next year.
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What the heck is a billio?
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Such a lovely collection of Clematis, I am slightly envious as I have never been successful except for one which defies my attempts to kill it off.
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Can be a bit hit and miss. Best to buy good matureish plants from specialist. The ones you can buy from b&q, say, are usually too small, need growing on in pots for a couple of years before planting out.
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‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ sayeth the bard, it’s a discipline I could learn from. I planted two clematis during the winter, neither is doing much. I have a ‘President Definitely’ flowering out of reach of the camera but that’s all. It’s out of reach of the slugs too will be the explanation. Perhaps I’ll get a fabulous summer display from mine. In the meantime you get this lot: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2h3
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1st year sleep, 2nd year creep, 3rd year leap is the mnemonic for clematis. unless you buy as a good mature plant.
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Beautiful, beautiful Clematis. They certainly enjoyed the wet autumn/winter and we’re getting the benefit now.
Due to my usual technical inadequacies my link isn’t working properly and it says ‘Oops it can’t be found’. However, if you scroll down a bit then there it is. (I hope). It’s like a treasure hunt.
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-09-05-20/
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I can get your post on my email site, but not all the photos show. I’ll try again later.
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the date in the working link is -08-05-2020/ is all.
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yes they do seem to like a lot of water. thirsty plants.
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Lots of blues and purples popping up in my Reader this morning, seems alliums and clematis are on their way! I am envious of your clematis. Only one in flower in my garden, oh, no that’s not quite right as there is one in the front courtyard that is flowering, but difficult to see as the flowers still appear green to me. I must get a photo. Anyway, nothing from Charles or Kate, but Marjorie is beginning to colour up and Nelly has buds.
Have a great day, whatever you have planned!
https://wp.me/p79zFr-2VP
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marjorie has been and more or less gone in my side passage, as it very much were.
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Beautiful Clematis! You have convinced me that I need to try a lot harder at growing them. The flowers are gorgeous!
Here is the link to my Six on Saturday: https://hairbellsandmaples.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-w19-feathered-friends-and-other-excitement/
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yes, must try harder!
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Wonderful clematis – and gosh that card brought back (fond) memories!
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I love all the clematis – it’s truly a favourite climber. Any colour! Love them. Here’s mine for this week. http://pruebatten.com/2020/05/09/sos-9520/
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yes i’m a big fan.
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Beautiful clematis selection! Don’t know where the time goes in lockdown but it seems to just fly by! Here’s my six also written at speed!
https://carrotsandcalendula.co.uk/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-3/
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I would love to see a photo of the garden w/all these in bloom – your border patrol perhaps? Or does one already exist? What a sight that must be. Loved your ID Tweets w/Thorncroft, btw. They sound like a great bunch of folk. My post is brief this week as well, but brief for me, so not as brief as yours. https://lorahughes.blogspot.com/2020/05/blooms-buds-buddy.html
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Its a bit of a cheat to take pictures of individual flowers like this. Few of the plants are yet grown to the point where they are covering a fence. A few do, but most are a few feet high. It’s a work in progress. The next border patrol post should give you a sense of where they’ve got to.
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Lovely clematis, all of them. I must get some more if and when Garden Centres reopen. That was pretty good for 13 minutes! Have a good weekend. Here are my 6.
https://theoptimisticgardener.wordpress.com/category/6-on-saturday/
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thanks June, it was a bit of a rush job. i was expecting something about garden centres from BoJo last night, perhaps the details will be announced today. mine is at least doing click and collect now.
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Your probably, maybe and definitely clematis are all beautiful – whatever they really are. Though I’m sure you’ve (probably, maybe and definitely) named them all correctly. Have a wonderful Saturday!
Here’s mine for this week: https://notesfrommygarden.co.uk/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-2020-08-05/
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yes, that is the most important thing! some will likely remain ambiguous in the name department, but so be it.
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Lovely clematis plants. Mine are doing very well this year, too. Hope you all have a good weekend, although tomorrow the temperature is due to plummet! Here are my Six-on-Saturday, I hope it works.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-09-05-2020
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yes it was cold last night, and set to be colder still tonight. my outdoor tomatoes will be shivering.
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Fabulous clematis. It’s great that you have all those wonderful plants in one garden. Are they all growing up fences, or do you grow them up other supports? How I’m regretting not splurging on the bargain clematis earlier this year.
Here’s my Six
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2020/05/the-vegetable-garden-in-may.html
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Fences, walls or trellis. I don’t have any obelisks or the like. They do take a few years to get going properly, or most of them do, but worth it.
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https://basia329.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-08-05-20/
Here are mine – I remember that test card too. Kia Ora from New Zealand.
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hiya, yes a childhood memory for many here I suspect!
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Each time I see your clematis collection I chastise myself for only having 2 in my garden. I may have one open next week unless the forecast cold front holds them back. Prince Charles stands out for me.
This week I’ve been getting close to my alpine flowers to show their intriguing forms and detail. Hope you like them.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/alpines-flowers-up-close-six-on-saturday/
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“Katharine is doing very well in her garden lessons. She puts in a lot of effort, and her greenhouse is an example to all. Her clematis growing lets her down, however, she really must try harder. We expect better things.”
😎
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Today’s Propagator blog is bought to you by Oasis album Definitely Maybe. I struggled to find time yesterday in writing this weeks SOS as I got caught up with drinking beer and watching the VE Day celebrations on the telly. I finished this morning. I have a question I think I am going to have a problem with some of my Clematis as the trellis is to short and of course the shoots are shooting up in the sky and the leaves are burning off. Do I cut it back to encourage more growth below? Here is my six. https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-9th-may-2020/
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Water it more. Clematis can take a bit of sunshine. If you prune a clematis they usually respond by going even more nuts.
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https://tonytomeo.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-first-rose-parade-2020/
Brevity is actually suggested in the Six on Saturday guidelines. I have been limiting mine to about 300 words.
I finally got into the landscapes today. I will show some rhododendrons next weed from this last week. I am pleased that so many were still blooming. For now, it is just a few of the roses. There are more in other landscapes, but I did not get pictures of them. Perhaps I will later.
https://tonytomeo.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-first-rose-parade-2020/
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indeed it is, although a certain amount of verbosity is also welcome. a balance to strike.
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Great to have so many lovely clematis in flower…a garden view maybe next week showing the effect? Here are my six: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2020/05/six-on-saturday-alliums-and-small.html
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the next garden view will be the end of May Border Patrol. Watch this space….
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The world has truly gone crazy, even The Prop is affected! Although I did laugh when I saw the test card, and your very concise comments. Nice clematis, whatever their names. Yes, I have also been a little confused this week. Have a good one https://offtheedgegardening.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-befuddled/
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very much a rush job. just about saved my blushes.
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Nice clematis. I only have 2 in bloom and am waiting for 5 others.
I think you needed time to complete your watering system. Don’t forget to show us the final result !…
An explanation about the headed photo??
( my link later )
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When I was a child there were only 3 (later 4) TV channels, 2 of which were BBC, the others commercial broadcasters. When there was no programme being broadcast, the BBC used to show that picture, it was to help people tune their TV well, to get a sharp picture. It was called the “test card”. Very cheesy music was played at the same time, there are people that still collect the music.
Yes i was busy yesterday with the irrigation pipework. It was also my daughter’s birthday so some time was spent on that.
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That was my idea. I didn’t understand the link between the test card and the pretty girl.
We also had this image but no music ( and also 3 channels then 6 when I was 10)
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I’ll reply for The Prop, the headed photo is the Test Card from the 1960 and 1970’s, maybe even later. They put it on the screen when there was a gap between programmes, or if something went wrong. There are loads on YouTube, apparently there is a cult following. Great BBC voice on this one, if it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncmg3bxtTB0
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Thank you for the link. As I said we also had this image … without the girl…. without music if I remember but I was young. First in B&W then coloured. HD and 4K didn’t exist !!
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A lot has changed!
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Erratum: I googled and we had music too. ( but no girl)
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Glad to hear it!
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I was also confused by the top photo & my first thought, as I was posting late this week, I wonder if Fred’s already asked about it. You had. Collecting the songs . . . this is such a weird country.
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oh truly, very weird, but mostly benign.
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Fantastic collection of clematis. I thought I’d managed to kill off all mine but recently discovered a few, most of them growing horizontally through the undergrowth rather than up fences. I think Rebecca might be of the them. I spent most of yesterday thinking it was Sunday https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/six-on-saturday-9-may-2020/
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rebecca gets about. she wants to watch it, she’ll get a reputation.
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Lovely collection. Have you found time to put your new ones in? Apart from my Montana’s most of my clematis are still a bit disappointing thus why other climbers have taken the fence space.
Got my one success on this week’s. Hopefully the other clematis will establish in the end. My six for this week https://wp.me/p7AXpE-2Dq
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I still have two to plant out, plus a couple of montana cuttings which have grown on nicely. I took a bunch of cuttings of ‘blue angel’ yesterday (hasn’t flowered yet), can’t help myself.
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Sounds good. I’ve got permission to raid a local garden for cuttings when this is over. I want their lime green clematis.
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Lovely! A cuttings raid on another garden is a great idea.
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