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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.

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A Gardening Blog
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 06:52:19 pm

I still haven't seen Heath Ledger's final performance in "Batman" but I thought of him and my niece, Heather, when I shot this photo.

This is my heath and heather garden. A single heath or heather by itself isn't impressive and even a patch of the same variety doesn't have much impact. But, if you have the space, a group of them with contrasting foliage color makes a painter's palette.

In this collection I have a blue star juniper growing in the middle to add even more color.

In order to really be effective you need a hillside or an elevated spot to view it though I shot this photo from ground level.

Categories: Ahhh, that's adorable

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