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Garden: Cuttings
Briefs and news of note for the gardener in you.
By JUDY STARK
Published May 20, 2006
Painful wrists dig this toolChicago gardener Cookie Wherry, who has arthritis, invented the Wedgie to create planting holes with less mess and wrist strain than digging with a trowel. Insert the wedge-shaped plastic gardening tool into loose soil and rock it back and forth and side to side to create the hole. Send a check for $16 payable to Wherry Enterprises of Illinois Inc. to Wherry Enterprises, 1 E Schiller St., Suite 5D, Chicago, IL 60610. A printable order form is at the Web site, www.wedgie.biz. A-flutter about butterfliesVisit a local butterfly house today on Page 5F. Then learn more in The Life Cycles of Butterflies, by Judy Burris and Wayne Richards (Storey Publishing, $16.95). Lots of photos, field notes, life cycles and breeding ranges help you identify and attract these lovely creatures. Far from the beaten pathWhere to find seeds for rare and old-fashioned plants? Visit www. fragrantpathseeds.com, a Nebraska-based supplier of the unusual and hard-to-find. We love the names - Tall Boneset, Queen-of-the-Meadow, Nottingham Catchfly. Not all will grow in this climate, but the catalog should be as much fun to read as the plants are to grow. Compiled from staff and wire reports by Homes Editor JUDY STARK
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