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Scanning the past

COVID changed the lives of all of us. Although everyone had to find a way to get through the various lockdowns, safe and sane, garden owners knew themselves to be unusually blessed. Yes, we missed the opportunity to visit other people’s gardens and nurseries, but our own gardens were always there for us. Rain or shine, at every time of the day, I walked through my own woodland garden, listening and looking. I compared my happiness with the fate

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