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VOLUME 14


CONTENTS NOTEBOOK


Lovely gate design wins award


The magic of mint: pain relief from a garden product


Good canna and bad


GARDENS The wonders of beekeeping


4


National Garden Day established 4 Rockway Botanical Garden


5 6


Gardening works it’s magic again 7 Ask Dr. Tree


7 8


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What’s new, what’s hot for 2014 12 Let’s help save the monarch butterfly


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We investigate the troubled monarch butterfly and see what we can do to help. Cover photo by Dorothy Dobbie.


Pruning fruit trees


Rain, rain, don’t go away! Making a knot garden


Five stunning spring plants The ultimate shed


DEPARTMENTS Classifieds


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29 ISSUE #5, 2014


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