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The
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| In 1990, I inherited a
curmudgeonly matron. She was unkept and unruly, disheveled
and untidy, unwanted and forgettable. But to me, the garden
was irresistable! That September, I literally began at the
front edge focusing on one plant at a time, pulling and
discarding weeds,
keeping long-suffering but truly valuable plants, and flattening
the area to a blank canvas. I would work every weekend on
the project until it was too cold to work any more. The
following Spring, my little rototiller in hand, I began the
reconstruction of the garden and what is now a sixteen year
long love affair with a little plot of green space in the center
of Madison. |
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Picotee
Dahlia |
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My garden sits quietly near the
intersection of three very busy streets. It is a triangular,
sunken plot of ground, sided by a long garage wall, a street, and
a sidewalk. If you don't look closely, you will not see it
there.
It has four primary elements: the mixed
perennial border,
the center circle, the three-tiered rocky area, and a shade
bed. It has a foundation planting of roses,
perennials, and bulbs; and it is changed every year with the
addition of new perennials from nurseries across the
country and annuals bought locally.
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Summer,
2009: Variegated Physostegia
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