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Article: Tiny plants won't dwarf a garden's beauty
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 1987
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David Thompson leans over and rubs his hand over a fuzzy little
pine tree the size of a curled-up cat. "Nothing in this garden has
ever been pruned," he says. "This is just the way it grows. That
juniper back there is 12 years old; that one over there is 8."
He is standing amid a forest of evergreens in back of his home
in Harford County, but the tallest tree in this forest barely tops
out at his knee. It is a garden of dwarf plants: tiny conifers
interspersed with heaths and heathers, small perennials, alpines and
delicate spring bulbs.
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of varieties of plants here -
the plant list would warm the heart of any English estate gardener -
but it fits in the ...