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You Should Grow This Rare Giant Walking Stick Kale In Your Garden

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Welcome to Digging In, a column for the horticulturally curious. If you’ve ever entertained bucolic fantasies about starting a farm or lingered around the seed packet display at the hardware store thinking about the things you would grow if you could, this is for you. Whether you have massive tracts of land at your disposal or just a few square feet of fire escape, every gardening endeavor starts with a pile of dirt and a dream.

Walking along the windswept limestone cliffs on the coastlines of northwestern Europe, you’re likely to come across an ancestral plant amid the crumbled

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Fascinating fasciation: Roanoke Island garden experiences rare phenomenon – The Coastland Times

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Gardens have long been regarded as breathtakingly beautiful sanctuaries full of life and abundance. Cared for tenderly by the hands that first planted their seeds, gardens have always had a special place in the hearts of those who tend to them. Plants and flowers seem to have a mind of their own, at times, and can surprise us with just how full of life they become.

For Jule Scarborough, this is the case. Her garden was built along the driveway toward the front of her home at the northern end of Roanoke Island. Three years ago, Scarborough and her husband

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