Quick, do another blooming before winter comes!
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Violets (Viola spp.), Hakim Ibn Sina’s favorite medicine. They are nutritive, cathartic, and antiinflammatory. Among other things.
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At the end of summer the white spikes of Elsholtzia stauntonii ‘Alba’ (Chinese mint bush) appear and provide a display into the autumn. This plant requires a sunny well drained site, and needs pruning back to a low permanent framework in spring.
A sea of ferns with young maple saplings coming up above, while in the back an older tree is draped with moss and limned by light from above. This was a really nice place.
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