Horticulture

EARTH VERSE

FOR MANY OF US who love gardens and gardening, planning the spaces we “plantify” and working outside among plants are potent forms of creative expression.

From year to year, we may decide a certain corner of the garden needs more blue flowers, so we might seed some bachelor’s buttons () or . Or the area near the side door would look good with a greater variety of textured foliage, so we propagate some or peppermint geranium () from a friend’s garden to address that fancy. We might plant jasmine near a fragrant wisteria to take advantage of the aromatic blend when both plants are in bloom.

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