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Article: For winter gardening, seek plants with cold-weather appeal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 7, 2002
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JENKINTOWN, Pa. _ Winter gardening. On a morning in late January, with several inches of snow lingering on the ground, those words sounded like a contradiction in terms.
But the luxuriant plantings that wrap around J. Liddon Pennock's house at Meadowbrook Farm outside Philadelphia offered a road map of possibilities for the nearly 30 people on a tour of the garden.
Along the path leading up to the house, the peeling bronze trunk of a paperbark maple was striking against the white landscape. Fat buds adorning the branches of a large Camellia japonica caught the morning sun like so many tiny candles. The intricate skeleton of a kousa dogwood was etched ...