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What Does That Have to Do With Gardening?



Mary Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.

This well known nursery rhyme leaves the reader with an image of beautifully flourishing garden full of lilies, ivy, roses, and of course an abundant supply of spring butterflies, but sorry to say this image of loveliness is far from the truth behind the meaning of this gruesome poem.
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures". ~Frances Bacon

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