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Update 10 May: We’ve had a couple of nice tweets about this. Brianironman believes in canada goose clearance sale the rhyme and predicts a drought this year as “our ash is very late.” While chrimw has noticed the “biggest gap I’ve ever noticed between oak and ash.” But, piloshop he says, “does it just indicate that ash hate drought.”
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