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Easy summer border

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This collection of summer favorites has done well in a garden border that receives mostly shade until the late afternoon, when a hot west sun illuminates the coneflower, perilla, daylily, hardy begonia, and sweet alyssum. In the far background behind the stone wall is a very old Korean dogwood.

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