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Article: Plants of the past; The spirit and romance of heirloom flowers and vegetables - as well as their fragrance and flavor - are capturing the attention of Today's gardeners.(Features)(Homefront)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 29, 2000
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Two decades ago, when Scott Kunst moved into a small house built in 1870, he had no idea that the move would eventually result in a new career and put him in the vanguard of a new gardening movement.
The changes started before he began to restore the house: He looked at the privet hedge across the front of his yard, a single white peony, and a tiger lily that were barely surviving, and wondered how long they had been there.
Had they been planted by a previous owner in the 1950s, or were they as old as the house? He had no idea, and wasn't sure how to find out. At the library, the Ann Arbor, Mich., resident was able to find only one book on historic ...
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... ... Kent Whealy, 58, founder of Seed Savers Exchange, an organization in Iowa that ... and his wife, Diane, began Seed Savers in 1975 when her terminally ... remaining heirlooms are guarded by seed savers all over the world who gather ...
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