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Cool Plantings

Fall is time for a second harvest of vegetables; think color when filling containers.

FOR PATIOS AND PORCHES Fill pretty containers with perennial foliage plants such as heuchera 'Dolce Mocha Mint' (far left) and 'Dolce Licorice' (front center). Another good potting choice is euphorbia 'Efanthia' (rear center) and 'Helena's Bush' (far right).
By Ellen C. Wells
September 10, 2006

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The kids are back in school, the traders are back on Wall Street, and your garden looks like a kitchen the morning after a dinner party. Instead of putting that trowel away until next spring, enjoy what's left of the pleasant weather by working in the dirt. (Full article: 921 words)

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