TIDEWATER GARDENING
by K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
Phloxing to Your Garden With so many types of perennial f lowers available for home gardeners, deciding what to plant can sometimes become a challenge. One advantage of perennials is that they come back each year. You do not have to replant them each spring, as with annual f lowers. Another advantage of perennials is
that they multiply…sometimes too much! Right now, I am having to divide and clean up a crowded and overgrown daylily bed. Of course, the over-reproduction of daylilies is a nice problem to have because you can give away the extras to friends and family! Well, the National Garden Bu-
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