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Talking Plants in South Africa

Spring in the western Cape of South Africa is like nowhere else in the world, Ketzel Levine finds. On Morning Edition, the Doyenne of Dirt checks her sanity at the gate and reports on the three weeks she spent in a floral fantasy.

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Ketzel Levine
NPR Senior Correspondent Ketzel Levine reports for Morning Edition.
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