Petunias | Focus on Flowers - Indiana Public Media

In the summer of 2011, I visited Bill Larkin's garden in Loogootee, Indiana, and saw 30,000 colorful annuals in bloom.

Plants go in and out of fashion, and Coleus seems to be making a fashion comeback.

And so we snip away with our shears - cutting off what is now brown and dreary - but musing about the flowers of summer.

"Whatever a man's age he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole."

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