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  • GARDEN THUGS

    One gardener’s thug is another gardener’s bonus.  A gardener friend of mine cautioned against planting any purple shiso (Perilla frutescens) in my garden.  “It will self-seed everywhere and soon be a pest,” she admonished.  She, of course, was ...

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"Digging up a mature clump of perennials, separating it into segments with new stems and roots and discarding the old core is an effective way to keep plants vigorous, free-flowering and disease-free," Adrian Higgins, The Washington Post Garden Book