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Beauty in the Backyard November 2, 2007
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The Original Mystery Plant
Dr. John Nelson
      Plants known as annual species have their whole lives compressed into a single year. Annual species germinate from seed then grow as much as they can from a fibrous root system, and finally go into reproductive mode and produce a crop of seeds before drying up and withering away.
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The salad days of Winter
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
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Show us your garden!
      Send a picture of your garden to The Columbia Star, PO Box 5955, Columbia, SC 29250. Email digital photos (jpeg 300 dpi) to mimim@sc.rr.com. 771-0219
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Grapes and raisins trigger health problems in dogs
Contributed by Laurinda Morris, DVM Danville Veterinary Clinic Danville , Ohio
      This week, was the first case I've had of raisin toxicity at MedVet. My patient was a 56- pound, five- year- old neutered male lab mix that ate half a canister of raisins sometime between 7:30 am and 4:30 pm. He started with vomiting, diarrhea, and shaking.
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