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“A garden is so much like a church. So much care and feeding. Such competitiveness among the plants \u2014 some of them literally choke each other to death if you don’t get out there and put a stop to it. The big gorgeous ones get lots of attention, but then one comes along that looks almost dead all season and suddenly, almost overnight, blooms splendidly forth. Never write anybody off completely. You just don’t know. ”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Barbara Cawthorne Crafton in Let Us Bless the Lord, Year One
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