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Article: A SEASON FOR PERENNIALS RIGHT TIMING IS THE THING IF YOU WANT HEALTHY BLOOMS.(Home)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 25, 1991
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Byline: Barbara Delaney Staff writer
Ask Melba Higgins to tell you why your phlox hasn't flowered and she'll first want to know what you've fed it all year.
If your answer happens to be "nothing," she'll then respond with a wave of her hand, "Well, there you go. You got back exactly what you gave."
Higgins is an expert when it comes to phlox, or bee balm, or any other kind of perennial - the flowers that are the backbone of Smalltown Perennial Gardens, the business on Kingsley Road owned by her and her husband John for over ten years.
But even at the age of four when she worked alongside her mother, Higgins considered herself a ...