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<\/a><\/p>\nI understand the impulse. We’ve been promised a solid day of rain, but so far it’s only been a fitful one.
\nPossibly more tonight. Euphorbia cotinifolia, Caribbean Copper Plant, in this case a 15-foot tree, pleads
\nwith the clouds for more. <\/p>\n
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Still, it’s been a good winter for rainfall. To me, there’s nothing more dispiriting than drought.
\nBeyond the implications of drought for a desert city of over 10 million people, my garden and I
\ntake a lack of rain very<\/i> personally. All we ask for is just the average rainfall, 15 inches a year.
\nWe’re not greedy.<\/p>\n
And if grey is not your first choice for color, just shift your gaze downward, where Scilla peruviana is taking shape,
\nlittle turbines of green and a color still so dark it’s only dreaming of blue. <\/p>\n
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