Nope, that’s not just a reflection. The water really is green. It’s also inhabited by hundreds of tadpoles at all stages of development, plus a yellow-bellied water snake. We’ve been calling it Nessie. Any tips for relocating a snake? Photo by LauraP

My second favorite daylily – an elderly man on the next street over ran a small garden center and traded me the starts for these
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Old-fashioned double daylilies grow rampant in my perennial bed. Twenty years ago, when I was laying out the gardens in the first house my husband
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