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| Four O'clock flowers |
Our family lives in a historic neighborhood of Chico, California called the Barber Neighborhood. Our neighborhood was named after O.
C. Barber, the founder of the Diamond Match Company, who had a factory built nearby to process lumber for matches at the turn of the twentieth century. Our home was built in
approximately 1909. Because of the age of this neighborhood we have found in
around our property an abundance of old trees and shrubs of what many this day would
consider cottage garden or great-grandma plants. One of which is the Four O’clock growing prolifically near
our garage and Mandarin tree. Not many people go out of their way to buy and
grow this plant in their gardens anymore. Why? I couldn’t say as I’ve found
it is a really interesting and beautiful plant with a long history of cultivation.
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