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Article: PARADISE ALONG THE PATH COUPLE PLANTS FLOWERS FOR ALL TO ENJOY ALONG BIKE PATH PARALLELING SHORE DRIVE.(HOME)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1999
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Byline: ROBERT STIFFLER, GARDENING COLUMNIST
THERE'S A SMALL stretch of bike path paralleling Shore Drive in Virginia Beach that is hard to pedal along without pausing.
Depending on the time of year, you could be stopped in your tracks by a riot of color from such beauties as geraniums, salvias, castor beans, blue plumbagos, clerodendrons, hydrangeas, rudbeckias, hollyhocks, daylilies, melampodiums and gallardias, to name a few. Even now you'll find orange-berried pyracantha, sasanqua camellias and red-berried hollies.
Loretta and Les Harlow call it ``their window on the world.'' Bikers and walkers who use the path through the Cape Story by ...