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5 Ways to Garden Together

1 I am a private person, but my community garden plot allows me to share a bit of myself with passing strangers. For the benefit of riders on the local commuter train line, which overlooks the garden, I plant a showy, dramatic border of flowers: cascading “love lies bleeding” amaranth or tall

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