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A Little Help from Volunteers

The term “volunteers” can conjure up any number of images, including thoughts of free helpers at a library, nursing home, local fire company or a blood drive: all commendable ventures.

But maybe we can look a little closer home to draw attention to a different league of volunteers. In fact some could be just outside the back door.

Volunteers this time around are the unexpected plants, be they vegetable or flower, that pop up in the garden pathway, under shrubbery, even in the grass. Some may be a pestilence and some are welcomed by the gardener.

Be they the result of an arrant vegetable or flo...

 

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