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Article: Going to Seed at the Nurseries
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 29, 1989
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It's worth saying once again: Winter is not a black hole into
which the garden falls. On Inauguration Day I noticed pansies
blooming about Capitol Hill. My own hybrid witch hazel opened
flowers on Jan. 18. And surely somebody (though not I) has some
snowdrops and crocuses by now.
The most reliable crocus I have grown for January bloom is
`Violet Queen,' which in some years makes an agreeable glow of color
beneath snow that has turned to ice. Others follow in succession in
February, and the large `Dutch Yellow' is much earlier with us than
it is in gardens farther north.
But not to wander from the central point, winter often brings us
skies of purest deepest blue and brilliant sun, and ...
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