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I've been gardening here for 28 years. Plants have to be rugged to survive our wet winters and dry summers~that's why I plant Cedar Glade natives and native friendly exotics that will grow and thrive in clay and limestone. You can email me at gailtiles@gmail.com.

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Once upon a time, the sloped land that would become my wildflower garden was a rocky forest of native trees, shrubs, perennials and ephemerals. Sixty years ago the developer’s bulldozers cut streets through the oak-hickory-red cedar woodland. They built brick houses that had deep backyards and shallow front yards. They left a few trees and took out the understory. They planted grass so that boys and girls could play baseball, kickball and reach for the sky on their backyard swings. ...click for more

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