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Article: GREAT LATE-SUMMER COLOR.(perennial flowers in Northern California gardens)
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- September 1, 2001
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Many perennials deliver dazzling blooms late in the season, when Western gardens need them most
"The fullness of late summer and early fall ought to be one of the richest seasons in the garden," says Mary McBride, a horticulturist at Tom Piergrossi Landscape Nursery in Vista, California. But--and this is one of McBride's pet peeves-that's when most gardens look their worst. Summer annuals and vegetables are spent; spring-blooming perennials are growing leggy and are in need of cutting back, This time of year, when the weather is often at its most glorious and we're most inclined to linger outdoors at day's end, what do we see? Hardly a flower.
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