A look inside the Willow Street garden of 90-year-old twins and how to dry flowers for later [photos, video]
As flowers bloom and plants grow through the spring and summer, they’re picked to preserve.
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As flowers bloom and plants grow through the spring and summer, they’re picked to preserve.
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Lancaster County natives and well-known gardeners Verna and Viola Mueller have given up rototilling their 5,000 square feet of growing space in Willow Street, but itâs the only gardening concession theyâve made to their octogenarian status. The twin sisters, 88, grew up on a farm in Providence Township, south of Refton. They started planting flowers and vegetables in the corners of the familyâs farm garden â where, they explained â the horse couldnât plow (they said they learned from their mistakes). At ages 5 or 6, the twins remember, they had already started to...