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Article: A Boston Beauty: Isabella Stewart Gardner's flowery legacy flourishes here.
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- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2007
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Byline: Diane Stoneback
May 18--Stan Kozak may be the only person in the world who has nightmares about nasturtiums. Iridescent orange blooms ... thousands of them ... on snaking vines each measuring 15, 20 or even 25 feet long.
But his dreams aren't sci-fi-style tales about giant creeping vines choking out everything in their path. As head gardener for Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kozak's haunting worries concern possible attacks on his precious nasturtiums by blight, disease or insects.
Although he coddles the plants 10 months a year, the pressure builds immeasurably as April approaches. That's when 16 to 18 bloom-filled ...