![]() lawn with all sorts of native perennials, friendly to pollinators. Like her, I've done away with sod and replaced our D.C. It took countless hours of backbreaking work: clearing her garden beds of hundreds of pounds of rock, amending the soil with compost and mulch, and turning the soil with shovel and pitchfork until she was drenched with sweat.ĭungy and I have been on similar garden journeys. In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Dungy describes her years-long project to transform her weed-filled, water-hogging, monochromatic lawn in suburban Fort Collins, Colo., into a pollinator's paradise, packed instead with vibrant, drought-tolerant native plants. And for sure, Dungy can be counted among those who do exactly that. "I love a person who talks kindly to plants," poet Camille Dungy writes in her new contemplative memoir. ![]() ![]() Camille Dungy leaves the dead stalks of her sunflowers standing for winter interest and the occasional bird visitor. ![]()
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