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    Forum: Article: Can You Take It With You?Replies: 1, Views: 18
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    gewuerze
    Stone Mountain, GA

    June 26, 2010 5:16 AM

    Post #7921529

    You are right - DON'T. Our garden had at least one blooming shrub or tree for every month of the year. Some were planted for a special occaision, like a child's birth, a friend's passing or just to salvage a beautiful specimen on a construction site. Within 4 months of moving every plant, tree and shrub was cut down - nothing remained but a dusted looking lawn. The county had a moratorium on cutting down trees and still, the 40 year old giant magnolia, chestnut trees, hybiscus and hydrangeas all fell to the destruction. The new owners used to be at home at African steppe, a fast grasland area...
    tonileland
    Clinton, CT (Zone 6a)

    June 26, 2010 6:26 AM

    Post #7921661

    gewuerze: my heart aches for you. It is too sad to see these things happen.

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