HeyJaredKathy Purdy's Gardening Life
Life viewed through the lens of gardening in rural New York, USDA Hardiness Zone 5
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Is My Garden Too Big? (opens the original)
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Lilies From Seed (opens the original)
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Gardening as Therapy (opens the original)
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Coping with drought (opens the original)
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My North Hill Garden Obsession (opens the original)
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On February 9, 1964 I sat in my grandparents’ living room to watch the Ed Sullivan Show, as my family often did. Grandma would let us eat our dessert1 in the living room as we watched. That night I viewed over 700 hysterical teenage girls screaming as the Beatles performed in the U.S. for the first time. It was my introduction to obsessive fandom, and I didn’t understand why those girls were screaming. I was five years old.I lived through my teen years without falling for a movie star, a music g
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