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Article: Wish you were here: take home gardening tips from a European-style landscape on Mississippi's Riviera.(GARDENING)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Every rose does indeed have its thorn.
For the horticulture team at the Beau Rivage resort in Biloxi, the thorns were the roses themselves--hundreds of them, all delicately beautiful but also vulnerable to pests and diseases. As part of the formal European garden that separates the hotel from busy Beach Boulevard, the crescent-shaped rose beds were among the first sights weary travelers laid eyes on when they reached this waterside destination. But their maintenance was proving to be far too labor-intensive. The garden-savvy staff made a tough decision--the roses had to go.
Today, with plots of lush green grass in their place, none of the estimated ...