Anybody who has tried to keep a row of planters alive through a Mississippi July knows the arithmetic. You water twice a day, you lose a few anyway, and by Labor Day the display out front looks more tired than welcoming. Then winter arrives with an ice storm like the one that snapped limbs across Clinton last month, and whatever survived the heat gets a second test it was never built to pass. That cycle is one reason a quiet change has been work…
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