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Playing Favorites: Upland (vs common) boneset
Boneset is great. Upland boneset? Dreamy!
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Playing Favorites: Common white yarrow
... as excellent as it is ubiquitous.
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Playing Favorites: Bowman’s Root
What a pleasant surprise this unassuming beauty turned out to be.
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Playing Favorites: The serviceberry
As in the plant, amelanchier, not the book. (Although I love that too.)
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Playing Favorites: The unfairly maligned Lady Violet
She’s beautiful, assertive, even edible — what’s not to love?
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Playing Favorites: Pride of Madeira
This bit of garden nostalgia is also a cautionary tale.
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Playing Favorites: New York Ironweed (Vernonia Noveboracensis)
Last year I fell head over heels in love with a plant I’d unknowingly already been in love with for years.
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Snapshot: The little oakleaf that could
Valiant heroine, late bloomer, or both?