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The Truth About Organic Gardening: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on March 11, 2008

I cannot live without a rose, especially a climbing or rambling rose, for just one truss tumbling in the right spot can be like that last long feather on a hat, a nonchalant sweep that lifts a perfectly acceptable design to another level, a throwaway gesture that means nothing and everything.
Marylyn Abbott

What’s Wrong with My Peonies?

by Kathy Purdy on August 1, 2006

They should look pretty together, if only my scheme comes off. Alas, how seldom do these little schemes come off. Something will go wrong; some puppy will bury a bone; some mouse will eat the bulbs; some mole will heave the daphnes and the lilac out of the ground. Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
Vita Sackville-West

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