BLESSINGS FROM ABOVE?: Man finds $150,000 in garden

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By Claudine Zap / The Lookout – 7 hrs ago.

FILE – In this March 20, 2009, file photo mounds of fresh …

As the old saw goes, money doesn't grow on trees. But sometimes it sprouts up in the garden. An unemployed man in northern Illinois was out working in his backyard when he came across some serious green: bags filled with $150,000 cash.

Wayne Sabaj was headed to pick some broccoli to go with his roast. The carpenter spotted duffel bags that looked like trash by the peppers -- but they turned out to be a cash crop: stacks of $20 bills that added up to about $150,000. The 49-year-old, who is living with his dad, did not exactly jump for joy.

The out-of-work carpenter told ABC7, "I could really use this money." But with this money comes trouble. He explained, "With my luck, it would be bank robbery and I'd get caught and say I'd robbed a bank."

So the honest man with money troubles alerted the police to his amazing backyard treasure.

For now, police haven't a clue to where the cash came from: There are no reported burglaries in the area, and no banks have been robbed.

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If you are looking at replacing hard-to-maintain varieties of plants in your garden, replace them with boxwood. Its various forms can be planted to form green walls, low borders or tall pyramids flanking a doorway, writes Anne Raver

Andrea Filippone loves roses, but so do the deer that pass through her gardens almost every evening. “I have 40 or 50 that come across the property every day,” she said recently, staring out the French doors that lead to her central courtyard. “I can see the hoof prints right up to the front door.” So 10 years ago, she pulled them all out, and replaced them with boxwood.

There are more than 150 commercially available boxwood varieties, which come in many sizes, shapes, leaf forms and colours. And boxwood contains alkaloids that are toxic to deer, as well as humans. It also has a pungent odour: Oliver Wendell Holmes called it the “fragrance of eternity”; others say it smells like cat urine. You decide.

“My plant palette is limited to what the deer don’t eat,” said Filippone, 50, a garden designer and antiques dealer with a degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. So she also planted hundreds of allium, nepeta, Solomon’s seal, jack-in-the-pulpit and hellebore. Having limited choices made her think harder as she designed the courtyards and gardens around this compound, which includes four 19th-century barns and a country house with open rooms and floor-to-ceiling French doors and windows.

For that matter, all native species as apposed to the foreign ones, are robust, requires less water and could be aesthetic.

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