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May 18, 2013
Connie Bank Garden Tutor

Going Native at Home

A “garden tutor” touts natural yards.

by Mary Beth Lewis

posted 10/14/2008

Sitting near the butterfly garden of Connie Bank’s home in Webster Township on an August afternoon is like being transplanted into a Disney cartoon. Monarchs dance through the spiky milkweed, sunflowers, and Technicolor blooms. A perky chipmunk crawls to the top of a rocky waterfall fountain. Birds twitter from crowns of bordering pines. A ruby-throated

 
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