Notes from August

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While avoiding being blasted by 98% humidity and 99 degree days, here’s what we were reading this month.

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A viable and cheap alternative to DEET? Hallelujah!

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Check out the native garden at Kelly Norris and David McKinney’s home (and in BHG magazine, no less! The native plant movement is gaining traction!).

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Don’t know what to do with that area between the sidewalk and the road? This might help. (Note: for those of us with a Chattanooga or Red Bank ditch instead of a sidewalk, keep in mind that the city may have the right to chop it all back).

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And finally, a reminder that a beautiful native garden won’t happen overnight, but the results are well worth the wait: a landscape architect’s own garden progress.