The New Price Of Gardening

摘要

Patented orchids. Fifty-dollar hostas. Plants that "tweet." How the garden industry is trying to dig out after the downturn. AS A LONG TIME gardener, Nicki Ward knows how much work it can take to keep flowers blooming. So when she heard about Rain Bird's new high-tech watering system, she was excited to try it-even if it did cost $2,200. After all, it promised to give each zone of her garden exactly the right amount of water, automatically adjusted for the weather.