"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.“


-Alfred Austin

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

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