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Afraid of the garden? Here's how to get over the fear of killing your plants.
Byline: Kathryn Loosli Pritchett
"Brown thumb" is a malady well known to garden nursery staff. Customers, convinced that they cannot grow plants, throw themselves on the mercy of these experts, looking for the miracle worker who can cure a debilitating case of "hortiphobia."
"It's very common for people to feel they can't grow things," says Sandy Morrill of Smith & Hawken's Berkeley, Calif., nursery. "They'll usually come up to me holding a flowering plant and say `This is really pretty, but I kill everything I try to grow. Can you help?""
These are the troubled gardeners whose watsonia inexplicably wilt; their forsythia fail to flower and their dahlias, to put it bluntly, die. One might ask why anyone so afflicted would be wandering the verdant isles of a garden nursery.
"People are drawn to the beauty of plants, and the memories they evoke," says Morrill. "They'll talk about what…
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