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Staring at a blank linoleum block, knife in hand, is a rite of passage for any aspiring printmaker. Before you even make your first cut, here’s a confession: my earliest botanical linocuts looked more like fossils than fresh blooms—broken stems, chunky petals, a graveyard for good intentions. What
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Bigleaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) are notorious for being both garden celebrities and heartbreakers—sometimes in the same season. If you’ve ever wondered why your neighbor’s plant flaunts electric-blue blooms while yours sulks or refuses to flower, rest assured: you’re not alone, and there’s nothing “simple” about
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If you’ve ever watched comfrey dominate a messy corner of someone’s garden and wondered whether it’s friend or foe, welcome to the real gardener’s club. I’ve lost – and then won back – more patches of comfrey than I care to admit. Let me share what years
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If you’ve ever stood in a garden center, cradling an impossibly cute succulent and thinking, “This can’t be that hard… right?”—welcome to the club. I still remember my first jade plant. It cost $3.99 at Home Depot, sporting a plastic sticker that promised it was “un-killable.