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<\/a>probably not a familiar plant, but it is one of the joys of early fall. \u00a0It’s fluffy white racemes give off a scent that brings to mind gardenia and jasmine, scents of a late night drive along the Kona coast with the top down, coming back from a day exploring Hilo and Volcanoes National Park. \u00a0Yet here they grace a plant named like a weed. \u00a0If you see one somewhere, stop a moment. \u00a0The bugbane will transport you somewhere, somewhere pleasant.<\/p>\nOne more run at the creeping charlie this morning, utilizing that fall plant habit of storing food in the roots.<\/p>\n
To be outside in the morning, a cool morning, in the dying garden, rejuvenates me. \u00a0The deaths of the plants follows a long and, should I say it, fruitful life, so no unusual grief, just the bracing sense death gives to those of us who continue to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>probably not a familiar plant, but it is one of the joys of early fall. \u00a0It’s fluffy white racemes give off a scent that brings to mind gardenia and jasmine, scents of a late night drive along the Kona coast with the top down, coming back from a day exploring Hilo and Volcanoes National Park. \u00a0Yet here they grace a plant named like a weed. \u00a0If you see one somewhere, stop a moment. \u00a0The bugbane will transport you somewhere, somewhere pleasant.<\/p>\n