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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) 
Alene Neilson plants the flowers she chose at The Petal Pusher in Layton.

Layton nursery helps patrons get a jump on summer pots

LAYTON — It’s a good guess that not too many people are worrying about planting pots of flowers in the recent Utah April weather.

However, one group of ladies spent a recent rainy morning planting pots full of flowers at a class held at The Petal Pusher in Layton. They hope their flowers will be full-grown and ready for their yards come June.

The group’s reason for the early start is because nursery owner, Linda Ashment, will baby and care specifically for their potted plants in her nursery for the next month.

Photo courtesy Sheryl Starkey
Ann Dare's Layton garden.

A bonanza of blossoms: Layton gardener refuses to rest on her laurels

LAYTON -- Playing in the dirt is how Ann Dare spends a good portion of her summer.

There are flowers to plant and then flower beds to weed, vegetables to plant and vegetables to weed. It's plenty of work, but also plenty of pleasure.

"I just like doing it -- it's therapeutic," says Dare. "You just go out there and you're alone and you can dig in the dirt and plant things and make it look nice."

(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Ron Gleason throws snow into the air for his dog, Mick, to catch at Snowbasin Ski Resort on Thursday.

Top of Utah gets first taste of winter this season

Utah has gotten its first taste of winter this season.

NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner
Teacher Kevin Bruckman helps his Gramercy Elementary School third-graders plant tulip bulbs in the Gramercy Giving Garden on Tuesday. Thanksgiving Point, in cooperation with the Utah State University Extension Service, provided bulbs to Utah schools.

Gramercy Elementary students plant tulip bulbs in Giving Garden

OGDEN -- The sky was gray and threatening Tuesday morning, but Terri Ashment's Gramercy Elementary School fourth-grade class assessed the cumulus clouds and moved forward with their mission.

They made a run for the Gramercy Giving Garden, planted last spring and still providing tomatoes and onions for salsa, but their focus would be tulip bulbs called Red Emperors, an early spring variety able to survive winter's final flurries.

Residents may enter Brigham City flower show

BRIGHAM CITY -- All area residents are invited to enter floral arrangements in the annual Peach Days Flower Show, sponsored by Spade & Hope Garden Club, at the Community Center.

(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Volunteers are preparing flower beds for the season at the Ogden Botanical Gardens.

Not coming up roses in many Top of Utah gardens

OGDEN -- More than 30 volunteer master gardeners were busily weeding and cultivating the Ogden Botanical Gardens on Tuesday morning, but they ignored the centerpiece of the gardens, its wide-ranging and much-photographed rose beds.

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