Gardening on a perceptually 100-degree day: Washington, DC is built on a swamp, and so the drill is simple–buy only tropical flowers, find a hat and generally suck it up.

A favorite pastime of Washingtonians is looking askance at tourists reduced to tears by the humidity. (To paraphrase Peter O’Toole in Lawrence Of Arabia, the trick is not minding that the air is so thick, it almost hurts.)

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