Finally, I took a good photograph of blue false indigo by taking a picture of a bee for my children.
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Most if not all of the people denying climate change exists really don’t know, yet they plant the yellow flag and oil refineries for us all.
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Looking like a character straight from the pages of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the man appeared, singular and alone, along with a…
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Named after the city of Athens, Georgia, this yellow-flowered sweetshrub is a rare beauty.
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Oxeye daisy’s golden disc surrounded by white rays is a flower form familiar to us all.
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I’ve wanted to grow Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, for a long time. I asked my favorite nurseryman where I might find it. He laughed and told me to be patient.
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Rare in my garden are annuals, their uniform sameness unrelenting through summer. The common poppy is an exception I am happily willing to make.
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Magnolia grandiflora is a big tree and somewhat out of fashion these days. If a gardener has a large garden and room and the need…
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My mother loved foam flower, Tiarella cordifolia. My wife Angela likes it too. I was always cool towards this native perennial. I seem to be…
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Buff beauty is a Hybrid musk rose introduced in 1939 in the United Kingdom by Ann Bentall. I ponder what it must have felt like…
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I was seventeen the first time the fragrance of Calycanthus floridus hit me, standing in the Georgia woods. I’m glad this memory is written down somewhere,…
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