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If you have wood-chip mulch around your trees, add color with shade-loving flowers. Put the flowers in containers with drainage holes, make spaces for them in the mulch and nestle them in. This is a nice way to use pots that don't look so nice anymore. —Irene Mae Yoder, Oakland, Maryland
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