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October 27, 2010

Scary plants

There's the spider plant, of course. But that is only scary if you are afraid of the idea of spiders, because the plant itself is pretty tame.

And there is the Venus fly trap and the pitcher plant. Carnivores both. But they have nothing on Audrey, from "The Little Shop of Horrors." She was the scariest plant of all time.

If you are looking for more plants suitably scary looking for Halloween, check out this photo gallery from Garden Design magazine.

P.S. This photo is from the 1930s, the decade that brought you Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, King Kong and The Bride of Frankenstein.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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BOO!

Posted by: Michelle Brown | October 27, 2010 8:03 AM

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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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