New Plants for Gardening, Part 1
Each spring gardeners walk into their neighborhood garden centers and ask the question every adventurous gardener wants to know: “What’s new?”
They usually go home with new annuals and perennials and somehow find room to plant them in already-full flowerbeds. New plant introductions are what keeps things interesting in the garden.
The answer to helps drive the country’s multi-billion dollar ornamental horticulture industry. Every year gardeners scour mail order catalogs and visit far-flung nurseries searching for exciting new plants.
“There’s a tremendous interest among the gardening public now. We’re catching up to the European’s fervor for special plants,” says Kelly Grummons, owner and chief horticulturist at Timberline Gardens in Arvada, Colo. “Gardeners are le

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