Want beautiful legs Take up gardening and walking
The piece touts gardening as a path to strong legs and a healthier heart, noting leg muscles act as a second heart and help move blood uphill when we push lawn equipment. It also highlights the mood boost and skin glow from backyard walks and gardening.
Spinach guide highlights strength of versatile green
Washington notes spinach readiness for cool weather and small space, with glossy leaves resisting pests and frost. It thrives among crops, can be harvested young or mature, and rewards sun exposure, thin spacing, and late summer to early spring sowing for salads and hearty dishes.
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Red Delicious Apples and the Sport of Change
A look at how Red Delicious apples grew redder through natural sports and genetic variation. The piece explains how a single cell change can alter fruit color and flavor and how growers select and propagate redder branches while noting that sports often trade color for flavor. It also mentions other sport varieties like seedless navel oranges and White Sim carnations and advises gardeners to scout for favorable mutations.
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Swan Fountain Recreated At Hillwood Gardens In Washington
The Hillwood Museum and Gardens reopens after a 3 year 9 million restoration led by Constantine Seferlis to recreate the Swan Fountain in pink Tennessee marble. Two swans rise from reeds as a water canal runs the parterre's length. The project preserves Post era style with boxwood parterres, an ornamental canal and antique garden tables from the 1930s.
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Perfect perennials vary from garden to garden
Horticulturist Lindsay Bond Totten lists top perennials, praising Geranium cantabrigiense St Ola as near perfect groundcover with crimson autumn foliage and long pink blooms, and recommending deer-resistant hellebores and Sedum Matrona for foliage and massed display. He notes plant choices reflect his cooler Pennsylvania climate and gardener influences from Pamela Harper, Rich Darke, and Christopher Lloyd.
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