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Article: Get your feet wet with container water gardens.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 21, 2004
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Byline: Lynn Underwood; Staff Writer
In the late 1970s, Soni Forsman was fascinated by water lilies and wanted to try growing them, but she wasn't ready to take the plunge into water gardening. So instead of digging a large pond, she planted water lilies in a wooden half-whiskey barrel.
"I can still remember when `Attraction,' my first water lily, bloomed," Forsman said. "That's when I became addicted to water gardening."
Since then, 18 compact water gardens of floating lilies, arrowheads, water hyacinths and lizard's-tails have sprouted in her Eagan yard. And Forsman has become a hard-core water-garden addict. She's a member of the Minnesota ...