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Healthy crops on the Central Coast
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Healthy crops on the Central Coast

Photo courtesy of Lance Runels Glad-A-Way Gardens grows annually on about 500 acres of row crop farmland, harvesting more than a dozen different colors of gladioli all year long for cut flower markets throughout the United States and portions of Canada. More than 30...

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14 plants with really big blooms
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14 plants with really big blooms

A single flower panicle of a butterfly bush may be up to a foot in length, with each panicle comprised of hundreds of densely packed florets. Butterflies, naturally drawn to the nectar-rich little flowers, create a summer- through-autumn parade of these winged garden...

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Brian Minter: Commemorative tulips
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Brian Minter: Commemorative tulips

Commemorative Tulips. Photo: Van Noort Bulb Co. Ltd. PNG It was the spring of 1945 and the Second World War was still being fiercely fought, but the tide was turning in favour of the Allies, and Canadian troops were being sent to liberate the Netherlands. It was no...

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