![]() ![]() Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. I had been tricked by those pictures before. The pictures showed a scene of rolling hills and dales, an area about the size of Georgia and Alabama combined, covered solid as far as the eye could see with billowing drifts of lupine and phlox.īut I wasn't born yesterday. “A garden in a can,” the seed catalogs said. I don’t know whether it was the pictures on the seed packets, or the vision I had of myself, dressed all in white, strolling through an endless vista of poppies and daisies. ![]() "About six years ago, like so many romantic gardening fools, I fell for it: The wildflower meadow. ![]()
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