- Jul 13 2022
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- Landscaping, Summer
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The Secret Language of Plants
The sun bore down with great intensity, revealing every imperfection, flaw and anomaly. Like a great spotlight, she brought attention to our issues and exploited our weaknesses. With the scant amount of rain we’ve received thus far, certain problems are…
- Jul 25 2018
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- Landscaping, Summer
- 0
Promote Perennials Through Pruning
The hum and drone of the cicadas rose and fell in unison, like waves on the ocean. Their song lulled the landscape to sleep like a midsummer’s night lullaby, exhausted and spent from her good and decent work. Mid Summer, often,…
- Jul 1 2015
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- Landscaping, Uncategorized
- 0
The Secret Language of Plants
We slogged through June in hip waders amidst the leaden, gray malaise, the air largely unstable and ostensibly resentful, like a teenage girl scorned. The few sunny days provided fleeting relief, but we were wary and suspicious, and we were right…