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Article: Conifers deserve a place in every yard.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Byline: Gardening by Sarah Robertson For The Register-Guard
AN ABUNDANCE of exciting conifer cultivars is currently flooding the retail nursery scene, allowing gardeners to blend their desire for dramatic year-round color and unique texture with relatively easy maintenance.
This marvelous family of plants has been largely ignored by contemporary gardeners, many of whom are still recovering from nasty childhood memories of parking strips and hillsides covered with prickly, wasp-infested junipers.
Breeders and nurserymen have been hard at work in recent years to vanquish that stereotype and spread the word about the many glorious members of the ...