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To his loyal customers, he commended a variety of rosemary that was winter-hardy in Washington, and he introduced about a dozen varieties of herbs that he had raised as selected seedlings or mutations, including a rosemary variety named for his wife of 47 years, the former Joyce Doyle.
Thomas DeBaggio, Va. gardener who wrote poignantly about Alzheimer's, dies at 69 2011
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Plants are winter-hardy and heat-tolerant throughout most of the United States.
New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011
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I wish we could get a winter-hardy version of that glorious chartreuse!
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Now, there were only the markers here, the stones, the winter-hardy weeds.
Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007
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Well, it earned the respect of winter-hardy New Englanders, that's for sure.
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The Nor'easter earned the respect of winter-hardy New Englanders, where more than a few are still slipping and sliding.
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Hundreds of flights were canceled across the Midwest, and in Minnesota winter-hardy folks are digging out of their first storm of the season.
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You can help wildlife in winter by planting winter-hardy food resources whenever you go afield.
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New forms arose, winter-hardy in the temperate zones, desperately contentious in the tropics.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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Any and all of the nuts listed, of all species, are perfectly winter-hardy here, except that Payne English walnut was injured by a temperature of 10 below zero some years ago.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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