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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
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 02:23:16 pm

For this Halloween edition of Get Growing I thought I would write about bringing the dead back to life.

I found this driftwood (and several others) on the beach and thought it would make a great garden accent.

I got them home and, as artfully as I could, placed them around my garden.

Meanwhile, I had several pots with sempervivums in them looking for a new home. One day I looked at them both within a few seconds and lightning struck. I'm sure others have thought of this and are doing it but it's new for me.

This particular piece has some deep crevices. I filled them with sand and potting soil and then jammed in as many of the hens, chicks and succulents as I could.

I'll keep my eyes open for other new and interesting plant containers. I'm open to anything. Except old plumbing fixtures.
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