A Kansas garden built around a hundred-year-old farmhouse.
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Heavenly Blue morning glories (Ipomoea tricolor ‘Heavenly Blue’, annual) catching the morning sun.

Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea, zones 4 – 8) in front of roses ‘Munstead Wood’ and ‘James Galway’

Rose ‘Munstead Wood’

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