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A beautiful smelling trash can full of marigolds, impatients, pansies , lantana and verbena sits in the corner of one of the greenhouses at Whiting Farm in Auburn Wednesday afternoon. The early flowers are picked off “deadheading”, so that the energy of the plant goes into getting bigger and producing more flowers when they open for the season on May 7th.

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