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MrMojoRa's avatar

My new favorite. I can usually pick out a magical sentence, set of, or a whole paragraph. My highlighter would touch every part of “A Map of a Not Imaginary Garden”.

I’ll be revisiting this one many times.

Bravo Margaux 👏🏽 🙌

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Margaux Kent's avatar

You are so generous Kevin. Thank you:)

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Charlotte Hamilton's avatar

I’m sorry about the Japanese Knotweed, I know how much you have been doing… the other trees and plants must know that you’re there to help!

Stay strong sweet Guard of the Garden.

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Margaux Kent's avatar

Ha! Thank you charlotte. I am sure I am just a little smudge to them if anything at all 🤣

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Charlotte Hamilton's avatar

Better to be a smudge!

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Margaux Kent's avatar

Agreed! I’ll take it.

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Davin Trail-Risk's avatar

Five acres must seen infinite some days. We are on half an acre after being small but jam-packed garden city dwellers for many years. Ours was mostly vast scrubby lawn with a few lovely unkempt fruit trees and a thin swathe of boggy woodlot at the end. It feels huge and not huge enough simultaneously.

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Margaux Kent's avatar

Five acres feels infinite most days! (except winter)

I have Gayla's books! Your jam-packed city garden was incredible. We also had a city garden (jam-packed with raccoons, possums, groundhogs and ferel cats who loved digging my garden up! but I never had the skills or knowledge either. I am learning so much where I am now)

I wish we had a scrubby lawn and fruit trees and a boggy woodlot -wow! Five acres feels unnavigable mostly. I have to continuously look through my little windows to do any work at all...

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Davin Trail-Risk's avatar

Oh cool! Yeah there's new things every day here which is true of most natural spaces but feel multiplied here versus the city.

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Chrisi's avatar

If we were nearer I could lend you a goat or two to put on troublesome spots. They’re the only way I’ve been able to make progress. Them and very carefully snaking electric net fence.

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Margaux Kent's avatar

That fence part sounds like work! 🤣

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Chrisi's avatar

Indeed

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Randi Triant's avatar

I’ve been battling a losing fight against Japanese knotweed for several years…it’s so enervating to see it back yet again but I am determined. How the heck it got here in the Provincetown beach forest I will never know. Loving your map posts…

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Margaux Kent's avatar

It is horrific and lines the streets near us. The township mows it leaving little starts all over the place! So brutal. Oh! I got lost in Provincetown on the bike trails and found roses growing in the sand. That was wild.

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Wonder & Whimsy's avatar

Reading this makes me want to Do.

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