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BUYING. SELLING. GARDENING' IMPROVEMENT<br />
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Real Estate Resource 6<br />
Home design of week 8<br />
For Sale 8<br />
Condos/Apts.lFlats 11<br />
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Sep,~ber )'9t 199~~<br />
The birds and the plants (<strong>for</strong>get the bees)<br />
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If you are a bIrdwatchel as well<br />
as a gardener, you wIll have bIrd<br />
frIendly flowel s and plants m your<br />
garden Catbirds, cardmals and<br />
thrashers enJoy dogwood, honey<br />
suckle and hawthOl n Columbme,<br />
tl umpet vme and cannas attract<br />
hummlllgblrds<br />
BIrds are a great asset m gardens,<br />
not only fOl their songs and<br />
bnght plumage, but fOItheIr im<br />
mense value as msect eaters (It's<br />
possible, as well, to plant herb'> to<br />
repel msects Mmt WIll dIscourage<br />
bugs m vegetable gardens, espe<br />
clally near cabbage and broccolI,<br />
and basIl WIll keep flIes away<br />
GarlIc wIll keep maraudmg cats<br />
away from your roses)<br />
There are, of course, some plants<br />
that are harmful to bIrds, but the<br />
birds seem to know whIch ones<br />
they are and aVOldthem Bll'ds<br />
and plants generally seem to co<br />
eXIst qUIte happIly, but there are a<br />
few plants that birds really hate<br />
and WIll actually destroy<br />
In thIS category are any plants<br />
that the bIrds perceIve as strmgy.<br />
SpIder plants, ferns of many kmds,<br />
palms and bamboo are some of<br />
them An asparagus fern WIll van.<br />
Ish completely III a few days And<br />
whIle bIrds wIll eat most kmds of<br />
hel bs, they wIll not touch rose<br />
maryor mmt<br />
Sunflowers are wonderful and<br />
natural bIrd feeders The RUSSIan<br />
mammoth IS a good one and pI 0duces<br />
flower heads more than a<br />
foot acro'>'>on stems 10 to 12 feet<br />
tall Durmg the grOWIng season,<br />
the sunflower's practice of tm nmg<br />
Its head toward the sun as the<br />
,;un\; pOSItIOnshifts m the sky<br />
makes It an Intel estmg plant to<br />
\\atch Cardinal,>, finches and spal<br />
lOW'>all love to feast on the matm<br />
Ing seeds<br />
FranCISCoPizarro, arriving In<br />
Peru m 1532, was amazed at the<br />
gIant sunflowers he saw there,<br />
whIch were venerated by the Inca<br />
empire a'>the Image of Its sun god<br />
The prIestesses, the maIdens of the<br />
sun, wore long golden dIsks on<br />
chams around theIr necks depict<br />
mg the sunflower<br />
The North Amencan plams Indl<br />
ans conSidered sunflower seeds sa.<br />
cred food They placed ceremomal<br />
MICROGRAPHIC & ELECTRONIC IMAGE CONVERSION<br />
SERVICES • SYSTEMS. CONSULTATION<br />
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By Ellen Probert<br />
bowls of sunflower seeds on the<br />
graves of thell' dead <strong>for</strong> food to sus<br />
tam them on their long and dan<br />
gerous huntmg Journeys<br />
Dahhas are another late summer<br />
flower beloved by many This<br />
tuberous, rooted plant comes III<br />
every conceivable shade and combmat10n<br />
of shades, WIth the excep "'"<br />
t10n of blue, and blooms exuber.<br />
antly from August until frost stops<br />
Its VIViddisplay A member of the<br />
daISy famIly, dahhas grow WIld III<br />
MeXICOand are named <strong>for</strong> Dr<br />
Dahl, a Swedish botamst<br />
Modern vanetles have lost theIr<br />
old habit of hIdmg theIr blooms<br />
under theIr fohage and now flaunt<br />
theIr lovely flowers on strong<br />
stems hIgh above the leaves They<br />
are easy to grow and very accom<br />
modatmg as to where they are 10<br />
cated m the gaI den.<br />
Most of us are only too famIhar<br />
With two plants which encroach<br />
upon our lawns no mattel how<br />
zealously we try to keep them out<br />
- the dandehon and the clOVe!<br />
Dandelions orlgmated m anCIent (<br />
Greece HistOrians beheve they<br />
\\ere one of the bitter herb'> spo<br />
ken of m the Old Te called It "stlong<br />
Ioot" and used It medlcmally.<br />
In Italy, dandelIons are much<br />
used m salads With chiCOry,and<br />
the French grow dandehons com<br />
merclally In RUSSia,some expen<br />
ments have been conducted III an<br />
ef<strong>for</strong>t to create a rubber substitute<br />
from the milky JUice of the dande<br />
hon Dandehons have been SClen<br />
tlfically proven to have a benefiCial<br />
effect upon the hver and kidneys,<br />
and are very good sources of VI<br />
tamms A, B, C, and E, as well as<br />
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back to the day" when St Patrick<br />
lI'Rd It to demon,conSIdered a Sign of<br />
good luck<br />
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