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Learn how to take care of your rain garden at St. Louis Park’s Rain Garden Maintenance Workshop 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, in Willow Park, 2500 Rhode Island Ave. S.

Coreopsis, our state wildflower here in Mississippi, is getting the spotlight it deserves at Mississippi State University’s South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station in Poplarville.

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