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Article: It's worthwhile to spot plant variations
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 1987
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Often there are slight variations in plants that make a
difference to gardeners. It is well worth keeping one's eyes open
for the oddities.
Sometimes they are worth growing simply because they are odd,
but sometimes because they are more beautiful or have some other
great advantage.
I was told by a daughter of a famous plant collector that some
of her mother's happy discoveries were made when they stopped for
gas. You read that such-and-such was collected in a remote river
country of some far-off place and you assume the collector climbed
cliffs, but sometimes there was no such difficulty.
I recall seeing a wild American phlox that looked like all the
others, but it had an intense ...
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