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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
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 08:03:13 pm

I was out shooting photos in my jungle, uh, garden today and I noticed some interesting (but unintentional) combinations.

I'm growing this ornamental kiwi vine with its pink and white leaves between an old rhody and my chimney. The whole pink, white, red thing works. Who knew you could work off a chimney?

I love lavender. I love euphorbias. And both love my garden. This Spanish lavender and this euphorbia both have seeded themselves in my garden. It makes me a little nervous but I wouldn't call them invasive. This time of year purple and chartreuse really work well together.

I've had three white lupines growing for a couple of years now. When I found this new one growing in a path I just didn't have the heart to yank it. I'm glad I didn't now. I wasn't expecting pink. Gotta love those Mendelian genetics at work.

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