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Gilles Clément’s Planetary Garden
As gardeners, we are conditioned to approach gardens “appropriately,” which means that we learn how to impose our designs on a landscape that is always in flux. For instance, it’s been my mission to keep the goldenrod out of the sweet fern, to pull up native jewelweed where I have decided it doesn’t belong.