UNEARTHED!
THE 2020 GARDENING season in New England was particularly challenging, especially in Rhode Island. By August, parts of the Ocean State had received 10 or 11 inches less water than usual. Plantings of all kinds were stressed out, as were some plant caretakers trying to save them. I watched many weather radar projections promising heavy afternoon thundershowers for my area, only to see them dissipate before arrival or track much too far north or south to do any good.
Passing the state’s Scituate Reservoir one day, I saw bushes growing on “islands” that should not have existed; normally they’d have been sandy shoals five or more feet below the water’s surface. I longed to hear an afternoon rumble in the heavens, but it never came. I dwelled on how
