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Flame Proof, Perfect Score All Season, Leader of the Packand Top Performer are just a few of the award designations for Truffula Pink Gomphrena. It has now taken in 50 such trophies. If your state has a flower trial competition, my guess is Truffula Pink has been a winner. I also believe that as the pandemic evaporates and we achieve a modicum of normality, the number of trophies will continue to mount. If you don’t know, Truffula Pink, it is a globe amaranth. It is almost always grown as an annual that reaches about 24 inches tall and almost as wide. You can’t give it too much sun. It is possible it might be perennial in zones 9 and warmer. I live in 8a and had a patch that was perennial for me for a couple of years. I’ll explain its demise.

Well darn. My hummingbird has gone.

Local outreach classes enrich students’ quality of life

Q.My grandson told me that in school he learned the word “frindle” was another word for a pen. Is this true? How have I never heard about this before? Kudos to your grandson for being a well-read young person. While “frindle” is not actually a real word, it is the title and subject of juvenile novel that features dictionaries and words.

It’s always a good time for poetry. So, let’s have another poetry contest about birds.

Twice Blessed Consignment Shop, located at 124 West Hopkins, one block off the Square, celebrated its 20th anniversary the first week of March this year.

The Hays County Master Gardeners will hold its annual Fall Plant & Tree Sale, beginning Oct. 3. This year’s sale will once again be held in person and online.

Just when you thought the gardening world would be content, and that we didn’t need another new coleus, Mini Me Watermelon is rocking scorecards in university trials. Mini Me Watermelon is part of the ColorBlaze series and will be making its debut in 2023 and climbing the must have plants chart.