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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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"Just the other day, I read that a Japanese gentleman paid $90,000 for an enormously large form of a non-endangered stag beetle. If this keeps up, insects might become more profitable to grow than gooseberries," Eric Gressell, Insects and Gardens