Oregon Considered

6/28/2007 - Cold-Averse Plants Warm Up to a New Home

June 28, 2007

0628_flowers.jpg With apologies to most of the country, we gardeners in the Pacific Northwest are spoiled rotten. Our temperate climate enables us to grow a glut of the world's plants.

Walk down a leafy street and you'll see not only native or Asian plants, but less familiar species from South Africa, Chile and the South Pacific, particularly from New Zealand.
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