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he Habitat is in its full glory, and will continue through August. The garden is full of nooks and crannies, with by: BALI over a dozen SZABO different and separate plots divided by paths. Keeping them weed free and walkable is a constant challenge. Many plants are not weeds, even if they act like it, like mustard. They grow wherever they please, and provide much needed yellow in an otherwise sea of blue. They’re nitrogen fixers, don’t crowd out other plants and are easy to pull up. The young red basal leafs are great in salads. They also help with the wild look and feel. And they’re not alone. Many local plants are travelers. Oxeye daisies. Checker mallow. Yarrow. Flax. Cornflow-
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tion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satpools, waterfalls and other water urday when the Sawtooth features, said tour Co-chair Botanical Garden stagLynn Whittelsey. es its 15th Annual The Held garGarden Tour. This den is no different. year’s tour—one Tom Held, a buildof the Botanical ing contractor, has Garden’s major constructed two fundraisers--will ponds fed by a by: Karen feature seven priwaterfall that Bossick vate gardens in the snakes out Knob Hill area of of the trees Ketchum, along Sun over native Valley’s Fairway Road rock. Held, who and in Elkhorn. keeps the garden Tour-goers may go at their himself with the help of gardener own pace on the self-guided tour, Susie Michaels augments the taking time to enjoy the artpond with water lilies and other ists, musicians and gardening water-loving plants. experts that will be posted at But the main attraction for each garden. This year’s tour will spotlight continued, page 16
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or years Tom and Shirley Held watched as Florence Mohler went into the hills, returning with armfuls of penstemon, prairie smoke, buckwheat, columbine and vase flowers that she planted in her Ketchum hillside yard at 171 Spur Lane. Squatting down in her Chinese hat, her body limber from hours spent under yoga teacher Richard Odom, she replanted them turning her yard into a native plant lover’s paradise of scarlet gilia, columbine, scabiosa and gladiola. The Helds continued her tradition when they bought Florence’s home, adding up to 500 more plants. They will showcase the collec-
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