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Matt Mattus on Holiday Blooms - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec 8, 2025

Matt Mattus on Holiday Blooms - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec 8, 2025

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 If I say: quick, name a holiday flower, you might first answer poinsettia. But the poinsettia wasn’t always synonymous with this time of year, today’s guest tells me – like once upon a time more than a century ago the Chrysanthemum took center floral stage from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, surprising as that might sound. Whether historic or cutting-edge modern, horticulturist Matt Mattus reminds us there are many choices of festive blooms – including various ones we can grow ourselves indoors, and he has tricks for perfecting even the most familiar of those, your Amaryllis, for instance. Matt Mattus... Read More ›
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