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"Nothing lasts." (Well, that 100-year-old apple tree, above, is doing a pretty good job, a real inspiration to me each day we share here together.)
But the Eastern-style philosophical message of impermanence is also what the June garden teaches. What was just all about fresh color and foliage and newness can suddenly looks like a whole lot of big brown deadheads on things like lilacs, with floppy, gone-by perennials beneath them, waiting for you and your trusty shears to make it all better.
Are you up for the task, and for insuring the vegetable garden keeps on producing by doing some succession sowing? Here's how to do all that and more, in the June garden chores.
a cicada video not to miss: wow!
I've confessed my fascination for the emerging 17-year periodical cicadas already, and that was even before being treated to this trailer for an hour-long documentary by filmmaker and timelapse specialist Samuel Orr. Now do you believe me that the genus name of these creatures who possess the master plan of all master plans - Magicicada -- is no accident? Magic!
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