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The 25th of December is a day we always winter sow our poppy seeds. I made a mistake 2 years ago and decided to save hubby the work and do it the "night before". The following is an explanation, with apologies to Clement C. Moore :)
When choosing broadleaf evergreen shrubs for Southern landscapes, it is easy to fall back on the ones that we see in neighbors' yards and the ones that are commonly available. Every neighborhood is filled with azaleas, camellias, gardenias, loropetalums, and ligustrums. However, there are some less-commonly chosen evergreen shrubs that will add charm and distinction to your landscape.
These are seed pods from my friend that visited sedona, arizona and the grand canyon... He said the yellow ones were from a cactus.
Do the others look familiar to anyone?
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Today in history: December 24
1524: Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer, died. He was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
1905: Frederick William Burbridge, plant hunter, died in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 58. He was a plant hunter for the Veitch Nurseries and later curator of the Botanic Gardens at Trinity College, Dublin. He is commemorated by the genus Burbridgea and several specific epithets.
1914: John Muir, Scottish-born American naturalist died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 76.
1923: President Coolidge lit the first U.S. Christmas tree, a 48-foot Balsam fir donated by Middlebury College.
1983: The coldest Christmas Eve on record in the U.S. Over 125 cities recorded record lows for the date, including 17 cities that established all-time record lows for the month of December. Chicago recorded its coldest ever with a reading of 25 degrees below zero and Havre, Montana recorded their all-time low with 50 degrees below zero.
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