The Original Mystery Plant
Photo by John Nelson
      Most Americans will be familiar with this species as a showy, somewhat exotic aquatic plant. Its leaf stalks arise here and there along the submerged rhizomes, eventually rising three or four feet above the water, unfurling a bright green, smooth leaf whose blade is circular and appears ...
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Berries create winter wonderland
Stopping to smell the flowers
      Arlene Marturano Arlene Marturano is a master gardener, writer, and educator. As an advocate of gardening as a tool for learning, she helped develop the Carolina Children's Garden at the Sandhill Research and Education Center. She is an education consultant with T.E.A.C.H.
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