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December 18, 2009

Year-end bests

For those of you keeping score at home, dill is the herb of the year.

That's the vote of the International Herb Association, which chose the herb for 2010 honors.

Speaking of laurels (pun warning), the 2009 winner was bay laurel.

Meanwhile, False Blue Indigo, Baptisia australis, was named the perennial of the year for 2010 by the Perenial Plant Association.

In other news, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was Time magazine's man of the year. Yankee captain Derek Jeter was Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year.

And Tiger Woods was the Associated Press' athlete of the decade.

Bet they'd like to take that vote again.

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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