Article: GARDENER BLOOMS IN THE COUNTRY.(Living)

Byline: Susan E. Tomer Staff writer

Coming home to your own garden can be a gloomy experience after a morning with Patricia Thorpe. Her backyard in this Otsego County hamlet is what seed catalogue shoppers fantasize about in the dreary depths of February.

It's hard to know where to look first. Bright and subtle splotches of color dance in the damp sunlight: brilliant scarlet poppies and monarda, blue salvia and delphinium, lavender globes of allium, Popsicle-orange butterfly flowers and glowing cosmos, towering purple thistles on silvery spines, golden marguerites, lilies in yellow and pink, tiny rosy dianthus poking through rock crevices, tradescantia ...

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