Sage & Songbirds Garden Tour

SAGE & SONGBIRDS PREVIEW: NIGHT-TIME GARDENER REAPS RARE REWARDS

 

This garden and others will be on view at the Sage & Songbirds Garden Tour May 2-4 in Alpine

Story by Maureen Austin, CHIRP

Photos by Mendi Wyatt, CHIRP

April 15, 2014 (Alpine) - Laughingly labeled as a “plant hoarder” by a friend, Pete Swoboda prefers the title “plant collector.” He says he never met a plant he didn’t like, and although he has hundreds of different plants growing in his near-acre garden, he purchased less than 20 percent of them.  The balance were gifts or starts he propagated from cuttings.


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