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Article: BUTTERCUPS AND HORSETAIL MEAN GET BUSY.(Life and Arts)(NORTHWEST GARDENS)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 8, 2003
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Byline: ANN LOVEJOYCOLUMNIST
AS MAY USHERS in summer, the garden fills with peonies, roses and daylilies. If you are gardening on heavy clay soil, it also may fill up with buttercups and horsetail.
Lustrous buttercups hold up their golden goblets to the sun, their petals gleaming as though glazed with golden Chinese lacquer. Feathery horsetail rises in delicately textured turrets, its whorling fronds unfurling in the warm, summer air.
Lovely as they undeniably are, these two weeds are the scourge of many a gardener, creating a great deal of frustrating work for those who garden on clay. The heavy clay soils so common in the Northwest often ...