Lavender looks effortless in photographs. Rows of silver-grey foliage topped with fragrant purple spikes, buzzing with bees, requiring nothing more than sunshine and a light trim.
In practice, lavender kills itself quietly in gardens across the country every year — planted with high hopes, declining gradually through the season, dead before the following spring.
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