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It would be hard not to notice them, because they're everywhere. Succulents, including many Sedum and Sempervivum and other less-familiar faces, seem to be trying to tell me something this season, as in: "We're all the rage."
At garden shows and nurseries, and even in my own garden where a few pieces fell out of a pot and planted themselves as if to say, "I belong right here, Margaret," I feel as if 2013 is the Year of the Succulent. I'm paying heed by starting a succulent wall planting; using them in pots, and more. Some succulent inspiration (including links to a vertical succulent garden how-to -- that brilliant boxed design above, that's meant to be hung).
an eye on dragonflies (and a field-guide giveaway!)
Some species migrate to warmer wintering grounds, and oh, how deftly they do fly -- whether on their way south, or on the hunt for supper, or perhaps to meet up and mate in mid-air. But I'm not talking about some feathered creature with a mere single set of wings; I'm talking about dragonflies -- as I did last week with a leading American expert on the subject. Share in the four-winged wonder (and maybe win the Princeton Field Guide for yourself).
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