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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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Garden~~<br />

Shed<br />

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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calclllm, potatOl)<br />

back to the day" when St Patrick<br />

lI'Rd It to demon,conSIdered a Sign of<br />

good luck<br />

The clover wa

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