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    OLD FLAMES AND NEW LOVES

    Feb 25, 2021 5 minutes
    —Meghan Shinn, editor

    Gardens evolve, and so do their gardeners. I asked a handful of longtime gardeners to share a plant that’s been a faithful friend as well as one that has more recently sparked their interest. Proving the point, they each replied quickly with an answer (or two) for each category. May we all keep tending our treasures and planting something new.

    Daryl Beyers: FROM GRACE TO SERENDIPITY

    Make new friends, but keep the old. Those are silver, these are gold.
    —Joseph Parry

    OLD FLAME: My old flame is ‘Grace’ purple smoke-bush ( ‘Grace’). For over a decade now I’ve turned to purple smokebush to fill the need for some foliage color contrast. ‘Grace’ is my favorite cultivar because its leaves hold their color all season, and it

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