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The Full Monty

Longmeadow most days since 1992 and especially since I got my first digital camera in April 1999. All these pictures are filed by date and I use them to remind myself of details like when we planted something and what was growing alongside it. Going back over 30 years of the garden is not always easy. I often think the garden looks better in the past than it does now, but the truth is that it is a fallacy to think that a garden should get

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