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With colder temps coming, time to winterize perennial gardens

Some gardening material best left in place until spring

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Dorene Weinstein
Oct 20, 2025
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Dr. Sara Malchow loves flowers.

Blossoms decorate the outside of her Brandon home from spring until frost.

When fall rolls around and the summer containers become scraggly Malchow switches out the faded plants for mums and pansies or anything that strikes her fancy. “I must have flowers,” she says.

But this year was different.

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