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Published February 08, 2012, 12:00 AM

Growing Green - Winter sowing perennials

The spring garden catalogs have been filling my mailbox, and I am always impressed by the pictures of perennial borders filled to bursting with beautiful plants. I am usually unsuccessful trying to reproduce the striking drifts of plants in my own yard because purchasing the number of perennials needed is cost prohibitive.

By: Robin Trott, U of M Extension educator, Alexandria Echo Press

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