ligularia

Summer Triage

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In my part of the world we have not had substantial, soaking rain for nearly a week.  It is now officially high summer, with the kind of pervasive hot weather that makes and lawns and gardens extra thirsty.  Those fortunate pieces of earth watered by in-ground irrigation systems are much less parched, but even they … Read more

Ligularia

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I have a space in a shady part of the garden where nothing succeeds except hellebores, and a “volunteer” privet shrub that is the offspring of the line of privets that bounds the front of the garden.  This semi-dead zone is probably semi-dead because of its proximity to a middle-aged maple tree that sucks up … Read more