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Pauline grew and pampered her grandmother's heirloom roses with pride each year. In March they had just began to leaf out, by May they were magnificent, but come

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GARDENING GODDESS — What do area gardeners do in the bleakest months of the year? We hunker inside with our plant catalogs and seed-starting trays. We also do

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