{"id":27930,"date":"2021-12-11T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnps.org\/?p=27930"},"modified":"2021-12-19T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:02:14","slug":"gardening-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnps.org\/gardening-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other people who started home projects during the quarantine of 2020, Cathy Payne began gardening with native plants on her 3\/4 acre lot in Athens. By the summer of 2021, the sun perennials were quite showy. The front yard is landscaped with purple coneflower (<em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em>), butterfly weed (<em>Asclepias<\/em> tuberosa), wild quinine (<em>Parthenium integrifolium)<\/em>, wild bergamot (<em>Monarda fistulosa<\/em>), scarlet beebalm (<em>Monarda didyma<\/em>), and Smalls penstemon (<em>Penstemon smallii<\/em>). 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