Firmly ignoring the nonsense of the world, high drama in the garden!

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Left to right: Black snakeroot*, hybrid lilies, ostrich plume astilbes, and garden phlox. The snakeroot is hitting seven feet this year.

*Better known as Black cohosh, Bugbane, or cimicifuga racemosa, snakeroot is the Connecticut term for it.