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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 08:55:14 am

The Daffodil Parade is this Saturday. The annual event is in its 75th year. TNT photojournalist Joe Barrentine has produced a great video on the history of the event complete with lots of historial photos. http://www.thenewstribune.com/942/story/326761.html

The whole thing got me thinking about the ubiquitous flower. A little confession: I don't grow any. Maybe it's because the little Narcissus is just too pretty - like a Greek youth who admires his reflection so much he drowns in it.

My mother, a native Washingtonian, loves them. So, I planted a long row of many varieties along her driveway.

I have to admit there are some impressive varieties on the market these days with all sorts of color combinations and even doubles and triples. Here's one of my favorites. Instead of the typical yellow corona this one is a soft apricot. It's really quite nice - not that I'm planning on growing any of them soon.

But give me a couple of years.

Categories: Flowers