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#12: Buried Treasure & Other Garden Mysteries

#12: Buried Treasure & Other Garden Mysteries

Secret garden collaborators, antique marbles and portals to the past

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Boaz Frankel
May 22, 2022
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I was digging in the backyard last week when I struck metal. I tried to pull it out so I could finish planting the dense blazing star (Liatris spicata) but this chunk of metal wasn’t going anywhere. I dug around it for a few minutes and discovered that this metal square was mounted to the top of a pole. I made it nearly a foot down and the metal pole wa…

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