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Learn some landscape design tips from our Pearl River County roadsides – Picayune Item
By Patricia Drakett Director of the Crosby Arboretum and assistant extension professor of landscape architecture with the Mississippi State University Extension Service. On my journeys throughout Pearl River County in recent weeks, it’s been a delight to observe the developing perennials and grasses. Although I enjoy the emerging spring wildflowers, these more delicate blooms can “melt” with warmer weather, so I admit I sometimes look forward to hot summer days and the correspondingly more robust roadside displays that show up later in the growing season. Don’t get me wrong, those delicate spring flowers will bring an awesome sparkle of color to your landscape, make an attractive if short-lived bouquet on…


