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Spring 2016 • 3 Garden Features


4 Do-it-yourself container recipes


Lessons on permaculture Growing raspberries The architect’s garden Garden shopping guide 10 less common annuals


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11 14 17 21 26


Busting common garden myths 28 10 Neat Things about petunias 29 Shady characters


Ferns reign in the shade


Ajuga: Grow this under your evergreens


Cultivating your health


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Contents Local Dirt 4 VOLUME 15 ISSUE #2, 2016


A pretty shade garden. Cover photo by Dorothy Dobbie.


Columns Buzzing around


Mad about orioles


What we love Classifieds


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Gardening with kids: Making concrete mushrooms 42


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