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Plus, the Pacific gum plant is a coastal, ground-hugging perennial that displays a blanket of daisies this time of year.

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Landscape fabric may sound like a neat, tidy and easy solution to all your weeding woes, but, as often is the case, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

The Francis College of Engineering, Department of Plastics Engineering, invites you to attend a Doctoral Dissertation defense by Kerry Candlen on: "The Impact of Polyolefins on the Environment and ...