Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by
being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms,
such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming
cereus, usually can't be found in neighborhood garden centers;
about the only way to obtain a passalong plant is to beg a cutting
from the fortunate gardener who has one. In this lively and
sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art),
Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving
particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and
horticultural requirements. They present this information in the
informal, chatty, and sometimes humorous manner that your next-door
neighbor might use when giving you a cutting of her treasured
Confederate rose. And, of course, because they are discussing
passalong plants, they note the best method of sharing each plant
with other gardeners. Because you might not spy a banana shrub or
sweet pea in your neighborhood, the authors list mail-order sources
for the heirloom plants described. They also give tips on how to
organize your own plant swap. Although the authors live in and
write about the South, many of the plants they discuss will grow
elsewhere. from the book Amid the clamor of press releases touting
the newest, improved versions of this bulb or that perennial, what
keeps people interested in old-fashioned plants? Nostalgia, for one
thing. It's hard not to feel a special fondness for that
Confederate rose, night-blooming cereus, or alstroemeria lovingly
tended by your grandmother when you were a child. Such heirloom
plants evoke memories of your first garden, of relatives and
neighbors that have since passed on, of prized bushes you
accidentally annihilated with your bicycle. Recall the time you
first received a particular plant, and you'll recall the person who
gave it to you. |Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost
black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of
this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor,
social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has
inspire
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