81.   News from the national gardening front reveals near-black sunflowers growing in test gardens and black pansies coming to your neighborhood garden center.

82.   Not everyone in the garden center is amused by his discourse or his fondness for planters made of old tires and water gardens floating in cast-off bathroom fixtures.

83.   Not surprisingly, this pond artist scorns the preformed, rigid liners that some garden centers sell.

84.   Now there are perennials, annuals, bulbs, and shrubs with colored or variegated leaves at every garden center.

85.   Or ask about availability at your garden center.

86.   Or buy a pH kit at a garden center.

87.   Palm trees were dragged over from the garden center and an arch was set up, while the store remained open for business.

88.   Other squirrel deterrents are fox scent and other scents sold in garden centers and chain lumber stores.

89.   Perhaps your friend was hoping that perennials would look better than the ever-squattier, ever-duller snapdragons in garden centers in spring.

90.   Professional movers, delivery men and workers in lumberyards and garden centers routinely wear back belts because they have to do a lot of lifting on the job.