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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

Gardener’s Dilemma

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A terrible thing has happened.  My sister has given me a gift certificate for my favorite perennial plant vendor.  Of course I am grateful for the gift, which is enough to buy me a few new plants, but not so much that I can go crazy.  The problem is that time, that most precious of … Read more