Show A gardeners’ market is inherently a practical place gardeners selling their excess fruits and vegetables buyers seeking fresh produce at a good price Last Saturday though the beauty of flowers infused the practical nature of the Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market Bright orange calendulas and deep pink cos-mos lit up Rulon Bingham's space at the mar-ket The Amalgs resident often sells vegetables there too bunches zinniu sunflowers Other fresh-cand more joined dried arrangements and pot- ted blooms at tables throughout the market A couple of tables over Virginia Nelson filled a picnia table and its attached bench with dried and fresh flowers Bunched stalks of wheat farmed out above their gauze ribbon ties along with a dazzling variety of Nigella (love in a mist) seed pods: spiked and striped and plain Fresh gladioluses red orange and yellow attracted browsers k too Nelson recalled coming to the market "eveI since we were on Federal Avenue years ago“I love to garden” she said T love to 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