In June, the garden often exhales a great green breath of joie de vivre. Trees, shrubs, perennials all join in, and the stage is set, the backdrop perfected, for the season's flowers. Spring almost seems a rehearsal, a dummy run for the grown-up stuff of summer. But gardening deals with living, developing plants, so it is unpredictable, subject to light, to drought and to flood. Even the most accomplished horticultural practitioner can be brought down to earth by natural forces, and even the...
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