summer flowering perennials

Meadowsweet

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Someday I will write a garden book and the title will be My Garden in Twenty-Five Mistakes.  Each chapter will detail one of my particularly egregious garden mistakes and the steps I took to rectify it.  My book will be the perfect antidote to all those garden books that detail how the garden owner inherited … Read more

Simple is Best

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I am forever acquiring new plant species and varieties, mostly because I am an easy mark for plant merchandisers.  A trip to a good garden center—and there are several of them within an easy drive of my house—brings me face to face with all kinds of temptation and I often give in.  I am lucky … Read more