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Every gardener has a lost garden.

Maybe it was your grandmother’s.

Maybe it was the one you left behind when you had to move.

Maybe it’s a spot you drove by last week.

Just to check.

And now barely recognize.

Lost gardens stay with us longer than we expect.

The smell of a tomato leaf.

The color of a peony.

The way the light hits a certain spot in the afternoon.

You can bring a lost garden back this spring.

Not all of it.

You don’t need all of it.

Just one plant that used to be there.

One cutt…

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