Beautiful blooms

Sunday, July 17, 2016

For some reason I have been struggling to come up with an interesting topic for this column. Nothing seemed to pop into my head until one of my co-workers came in from watering this morning. Her comment was, "Talk about summer beauty outside." She had been watering pots of summer blooming plants such as abelia, hydrangea, butterfly bushes, hardy hibiscus, roses and crepe myrtles. So I thought, what a great subject for a summer gardening column.

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