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What to Do With Those Ugly Snapdragons Now That They’re (Almost) Dead?

July 3, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Those ugly blood-red snapdragons are gone from our front yard. I pulled them out, and my rock garden is the better for it.

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