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Article: PLANT PICK.(Seattle @Home)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 28, 2006
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Picea omorika (Serbian spruce)
The Serbian spruce is a fine choice for our mild Pacific Northwest climate - a much better choice than the blue spruce (Picea pungens) that gets ravaged by winter adelgids. Picea omorika is disease- and insect-resistant, and therefore retains its lovely needles instead of dropping them prematurely. The deep green foliage is accented by silver-blue undersides. This and the spruce's form - tall and narrow, ...
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Article: PLANT PICK.(Seattle @Home)(Correction Notice)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
January 7, 2006 ;
416 words
... ... evergreen backdrop for the changing scenes of early bulbs, through summer perennials to the fall color of small shrubs such as Fothergilla gardenii. Abies koreana was a 2002 Great Plant Pick (www.greatplantpicks.org). - Marty Wingate
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