Article: Sharing the bounty: a dream garden comes to life with passalong plants.(Brief Article)

You don't need a fat wallet to have a grand garden. Just ask Michele Smith, a single mother living in La Conner, Wash. (pop.: 760). With limited financial resources but ample human ones, Michele created a one-acre showplace that just keeps getting better. Fiery montbretia (Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora), a gift from Michele's sister, Sharon, who split off the corms from her own plant, echoes the rich red hybrid lobelia (Lobelia x speciosa 'Compliment Red') obtained by trading eggs from Michele's Rhode Island Red chickens. Nearby, several clumps of two-foot-tall pink turtlehead (Chelone obliqua) started life as a single root division (a gift from a friend), and snowy white ...

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