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The Beauty of Snags
Dave's Garden &bull Feb 5, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. I am fortunate to live adjacent to woods. However, not all the trees surrounding me belong to those acres of woods. A few are on our property. Additionally, some of them are dead or dying. The question, at some point, becomes what to do about them. A majority of my adult life has been spent living in suburbs where most of those locales had codes or… Full Story »
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Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
Dave's Garden &bull Feb 3, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. The miniature garden hobby is a rapidly growing subculture among garden enthusiasts. Interest has grown enough over the last decade to warrant specialty shops and plant nurseries to spring up everywhere to supply the demand for miniature plant varieties and tiny accessories. Dollhouse collectors and model train hobbyists, possibly with an interest in gardening, may have catapulted this craze once miniature live plants became readily available to add even more realism to their scaled model scenes. Structures and tiny embellishments designed for dollhouses… Full Story »
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Spring tease
Blithewold &bull Jan 30, 2012
It's still January for at least for another day or so, but it looks strangely an awful lot like mid-February - or even March here and there, and feels about the same. My brain thinks that means that May is… Full Story »
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Adapting To The Shadows
The Gardens of Petersonville &bull Jan 30, 2012
A few years ago I planted a number of trees in the back yard in SJC. I was replacing lawn and adding some much needed shade in a hot, sunny area. Because I was limited as to the size of… Full Story »
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Of Gnomes and Dragons - 45 Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford, England
Ledge and Gardens &bull Jan 27, 2012
This week's Flight of Fancy takes us to the town of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In June of 2011 the garden at 45 Waterhouse Lane was visited by twenty plus avid American gardeners. The busy street in front of the house was a challenge to negotiate for those of us used to looking to our left for oncoming traffic. With the help of one of our own, we all managed a safe crossing to the saucy salmon colored home situated between two lovely but less distinctive dwellings. In addition to the color, the front garden of our destination home also stood… Full Story »
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How to Determine the Amount of Sunlight Your Garden Gets
Urban Organic Gardener &bull Jan 25, 2012
Since we are living in urban environments, we have other structures that we are dealing with as well. Those can be adjacent buildings, over hangs and walls. A simple way to figure out how much sunlight your space gets is… Full Story »
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Finca Filidelfia- Coffee Farming in Guatemala
Flower-Brained &bull Jan 24, 2012
Finca Filidelfia was an unexpected highlight to me and my sweetie pie's honeymoon to Antigua, Guatemala last summer. My favorite part, actually. So I figured, what better way to celebrate such an essential part of my creative process (coffee) than to share with you what I learned from this amazing place. Brace yourself, because this is a big, long post. Finca Filidelphia has been a coffee plantation since 1874, part of a plan to bring the region out of economic… Full Story »
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5 Favorite Trees That I Grow In My Garden (The Friday Fives)
The Home Garden &bull Jan 20, 2012
Birches are great trees for their bark, but I also enjoy the dappled shade they provide. Their leaves are much smaller than that of a maple but the fast growing nature of the birch allows them to get to a… Full Story »
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Our Nursery
The Vermont Gardener &bull Jan 16, 2012
Already almost 7 AM here on the mountain. The sunrise over Peacham Pond is very nice but the morning light deceives one about the temperature and occasional wind. It's -15.9 right now but the puffs of wind push it to… Full Story »
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Hellebores bring color to shaded areas
SF Gate - Pick of the Week &bull Jan 15, 2012
Gardeners are always looking for interesting plants for shade, and in that search it is easy to overlook tried-and-true stalwarts. One of those is helleborus, commonly known as Lenten rose. Before you say, "Oh, aren't those the ones with the… Full Story »
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12 plants for a full year of blooms in the Sacramento Valley
Sacramento Bee - Home and Garden &bull Dec 31, 2011
This assortment features a different family of flowers for every month. Each one has proved to perform well in Sacramento, tolerating both winter chill and summer heat waves. With this group, your yard will always be in bloom. The skinny:… Full Story »
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Good Year for Heuchera (Coral Bells)
About.com - Gardening &bull Dec 29, 2011
The National Garden Bureau (NGB) chose Heuchera as their Perennial Plant of 2012. Heuchera have gotten a lot of attention lately, especially from plant breeders. What once were pretty green plants with Corel Bell flowers now come in purple, rose,… Full Story »
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A shrub made for the shade
Dallas News - Home Gardening &bull Dec 29, 2011
For winter landscape interest, it is hard to beat the Japanese aucuba. Few people know the evergreen shrub can produce such a stunning winter look, with its grape-size, cherry-red fruits. If you have an aucuba and wonder why you do… Full Story »
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Trees in my Landscape
Commonweeder &bull Dec 24, 2011
As I look out my window today the ground is a tapestry of beige, green and white. The meadow grasses have died back, but the lawn is a brilliant green because it has loved this long cool, but not frozen, autumn and there are still patches, large and small, of the snow that keeps tantalizing us. Winter may be coming, but it is shy this year, stepping out and then retreating. The winter garden can be a challenge for gardeners, but today I… Full Story »
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7 Sisters
The Vermont Gardener &bull Dec 22, 2011
The rains have stopped, leaving walkways and dirt roads polished up enough that I could hear the town truck's tire chains slapping long before it slid past our driveway trying to make the corner and head for Peacham Pond. As… Full Story »
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- Writing
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A Pretty Seedy Garden
The Home Garden &bull Dec 19, 2011
Crape myrtles produce some neat little seed pods. These lavender purple crape myrtles produced a bounty of seeds this year. Maybe I'll be gifted with a few free crape myrtles next year! Garlic chives look great even after their flowers… Full Story »
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Dragon Wing Red Begonia: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 2011
Cold Climate Gardening &bull Dec 15, 2011
I planted them three to a twelve-inch pot, and they grew beautifully in the light shade of my Juneberry tree with scarcely any attention from me. It helped that we got regular rainfall this summer because I often forgot they… Full Story »
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Hypertufa trough tapestries identified
Blithewold &bull Dec 9, 2011
The best thing about hypertufa troughs is that they give us a place to plant tiny fragile things that might otherwise be lost, trampled, or overtaken in our gardens. They are also especially perfect for anyone interested in alpines who… Full Story »
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T Magazine: The Happy Houseplant | Indoor Gardening with Richard Chai
New York Times - Home & Garden &bull Dec 8, 2011
What Richard Chai calls his orchid cemetery is a narrow, north-facing window sill in the kitchen area of his Financial District loft. There, five flowerless orchid plants in uniform terracotta pots are getting indirect sunlight and enough water to keep the soil moist most… Full Story »
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Zig-Zag Plant
Cactus Blog &bull Dec 7, 2011
Pedilanthus tithymaloides is also known as the Zig-Zag Plant for obvious reasons, but did you know that another name for it is the Devil's Backbone? Maybe because it's poisonous? It's in the Euphorbia family (Euphorbiaceae) and recently some have tried… Full Story »
