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April Fools
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A Cottage Garden Valentine
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All America Selections for Cottage Gardens
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Raking Leaves
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The Ghouls In My Garden
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Plant More Bulbs! Please!
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The Duckeys' Swim Adventure
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Cottage Garden Sensations
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Gardening on the Internet: Bookmarks to Keep
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Mulching: Mimicry or Murder?
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Voyeurs on Tour: Garden Tour Rules
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YES I Bonsai NOT
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Terrariums and Dish Gardens
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Set It and Forget It!
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Garden Catalogs: A Tall Order
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Bulbs of Afghanistan
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Restoring the American Chestnut
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Serendipity and the Smokebush
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Piggy's Favorite Playground (Part II)
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Memorial Garden to Diana, Princess of Wales
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Piggy's Select European Garden Tour:
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Live Butterflies Before Your Eyes
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It's Juneberry Time!
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Cottage Garden in the City
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Weeds, Be Gone!
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Upside Down Tomatoes
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My Spring Garden
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Grow A Giant Pumpkin
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Spring Flowering Trees
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Annual Bedding Plants Old and New
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A Wading Pool Garden
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Speed Cleaning the Garden
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Warm Up With A Coldframe
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More Salvia for Your Garden
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SAGE: HERB OF THE YEAR
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The Well Rounded Herb Garden
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Got Shade? Plant Hosta!
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Spring: Feed the Need
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May the Force Be With You
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Follow Your Heart: Cottage Garden Design
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Cottage Garden Design, Part III
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Cottage Garden Design Part II
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Cottage Garden Design
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Your Garden Journal is Forever
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Garden Tool Tips
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Garden Railroading: A Great Hobby
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Cottage Garden Fudge
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The Ice Garden Cometh
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Greenhouse Envy, the Iguana & Me
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Edible Christmas Trees
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CELEBRATE POINSETTIA DAY
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GOBBLE GOBBLE
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Table Top Topiary
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EIGHT HUNDRED BULBS
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WICKED PLANTS
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Small Garden Dreams
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Welcome, Frost
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Ten Fall Garden Chores
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Apple Head Dolls
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Fall Foliage is Eye Candy
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Snowbank in September
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From Ponies to Pumpkins
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Piggy's Garden Tour
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Takin' A Break
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Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 3 of 3
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Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 2
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Make Mosaic Step Stones
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Daylilies to Bring Home
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Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden
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Find the Right Daylily for Your Cottage Garden
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Daylilies For Your Cottage Garden
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Cottage Garden Style Today
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How To Show Off With Big Plants
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Setting Up a Fountain in the Garden
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Quick Easy Mini Pond
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XERISCAPE: Beyond Cactus and Rocks
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Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
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TENT CATERPILLARS DENUDING TREES!
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Rosemary: Herb of the Year 2000
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Container Tips, Tricks and Techniques
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Theme Gardens: The White Garden
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Garden Sayings, Quotes & Poetry
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Just Look at Those Vegetables!
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Control Those Bleeping Weeds
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ACK! ACK! SNAKE!
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Herbal Beginnings
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Companion Planting & You
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Put It On Paper: Garden Plan Part Three
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Thinking: Garden Plan Part Two
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A Garden Plan That Works
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Walking to the Other Side
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Winterize Your Garden
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It Ain't Just Horse Hay!
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Terror At Ten!
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Flirting the F Word
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RED ALERT!
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Revenge of the Purple Cabbage Hater
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In A Child's Garden
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Mulch: More than Meets the Eye
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Be Bold With Your Bulbs
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Gorgeous Gourds
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Enjoyment By Design
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On Strange Ground
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A Flock of Baby ... Hummers???
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Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
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"Rain, Rain, Go Away ..."
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Drive-By Echinacea
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Tackling the Tiger!
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The Best Garden Party Ever!
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Great Garden Party FOOD
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Garden Party Planner: Start Here
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Soft On Iris
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Cut and Dried
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Shady Riches
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Those Golden Moments
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Garden of Weedin'
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Caw-ing All Scarecrows!
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Love That Lavender!
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Scratching the Itch
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Tree Assassin!
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Garden Whimsey
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When Pigs Fly
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Compost Happens!
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Luring the Garden Fairy
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Simplicity in Herb Garden Design
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Ewww! Slugs in the Garden!
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It’s Earth Day: Bring On The Worms!
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Cloves, Picotees & Sops-In-Wine
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The Bartram Franklinia Census
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A Foxglove for Every Garden
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A Valentine Garden Design
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Earliest Spring Blooms
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Winter's Triboluminescence
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Luminescences
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Part Three: Put It On Paper
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Is Your Refrigerator Running?
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Feng Shui Gardening: A New Year, A New Spirit
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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Winter Damage: Is Your Garden At Risk?
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Holiday Trees Are for the Birds!
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Children's Garden Gifts and Treasures
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Simple Garden Gifts and Treasures
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Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
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Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines
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Just Some Quiet Little Tool Talk
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Say Hello To Easy Winter Bulbs!
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Grow An Indoor Herb Garden This Winter!
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Chow Time!
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What Still Looks Good?
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Shadows of Doom in the Sunny Border
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Fall Comes To the Cottage Garden
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Worried About Weather? Zones and Frost Dates
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Think Dirty - Plant Bulbs!
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Hardy Bulb Facts
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Listening to the Lotus
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Grab Your Scissors And Go!
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Containing Fantasy
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Take Me to the Salamander!
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Rose-of-Sharon: When The Rose is Not A Rose!
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Shady Highlights: Summer Shrubs Part Three
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Summer Shrub Hit Parade Part Two
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Summer Blooming Shrubs Part One
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A Garden in the Jungle of Weeds
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A Loving Father's Day OUT of the Garden
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It’s Hummingbird Time!
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Haunted By Honeysuckle
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Hankering for Honeysuckle?
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Roses? I Don’t Grow No Stinkin’ Roses!
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Should You Plant By the Moon and the Zodiac?
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Planting Your First Culinary Herb Garden
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The Things Mothers Grow For Love!
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Garden Design Is Theater: It's Show Time!
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Catch That Bunny! Hide Those Eggs!
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Gardeners Know the Best (and Worst) Dirt!
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The Perfect Perennial Garden
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Equinox? Solstice? Move the Furniture!!!!
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1998 Herb of the Year: Mint
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Bewitched By Lilac: Magic Memories
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How to Get the Cutting Garden You've Always Wanted!
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Growing Forsythia
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ECO-GARDENS! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!
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Garden Labels and Markers: Find Yours Here!
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Summer Flower Champs
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"Om! Mani Padme Hum!"
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Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
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Resolved. Keep Garden Journal. Label Plants.
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Celebrating Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines!
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Bye-Bye Bambi: A Battle for Keeps!
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Landscape and Garden Design On A Budget: You Can Make It Happen In Six Easy Steps!
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What’s Your Garden Landscape Style?: Cowboy? Edwardian! Eccentric!?
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Garden Design Basics: The Step By Step Process
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Garden Design Basics: Fitting It All In!
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Face Down in the Fish Pond: Dry Garden Design Basics
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Garden Design Basics: Setting Ground Rules
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The Holiday Gardener’s "Handy" Reference
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Back Seat Gardening: The View From the Garden Bench
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The Front Walk: A Garden Design Basic
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Hunting in the Garden: Where Plants, Animals and People Cross Paths
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The Contemporary Garden Journal: Readers, Writers and Publishers
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Garden. Sculpture. Garden. Ever the Twain Shall Meet!
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CHIPMUNKS: Friend or Foe? You Decide!
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Facts of Life In the Natural Garden
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POLITICS IN THE GARDEN: LIBERALS UNITE!
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Flower Essence: Making Sense out of Non-Scents
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Savvy Gardener's Guide to Fall Color
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Wash Your Hands With Soap Before You Eat! And Other Lessons From The Garden
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Permaculture: Gardens for Body and Soul
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Ecobabble or Ecopsychology? (Organic Gardening Part Three)
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The Garden Observer! (Organic Gardening Part Two)
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Healthy Plants Don't Get Nits! (Organic Gardening: Part One)
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Pssst! There’s a SNAKE in the garden!
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Weather Weather Everywhere! What Are We to Think !?!
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COMPOST! The Quick and Dirty Net Trip to Humus
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WHOLLY BATS, BATMAN : DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA- NOT!!!!
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? On Daylilies and Woodchucks
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This One’s For the Birds! Gardening With the WiId Neighbors
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Get Wild! Garden Parties to Attract the Neighbors!?!
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TICK TALK: Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Tick Control
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Herb Recipes for Eco-Gardeners: The "Real Thing"
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Knock Off the Old Knot Garden? NOT!
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The No-Fail Herb Garden: Informal Recipe for Success
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On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
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When Hugs Just Aren't Enough: Trees Need Care, Too!
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Hug A Tree? Give Me A Break! It 's Arbor Day Again
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Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!
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Of Ladybug , Virgin's Cow, and ... Devil's Chicken?!?
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Al Gore's Gone Native -- And On His Very Own Lawn, No Less!
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Home Lawn Care: The Softer Touchstone of Suburban Living
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
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Add ANOTHER Water Feature! Just Do It!
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Add Another Easy Water Feature! The Second of Three
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Add A Water Feature! It's Easy and Fun! The First of Three
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What Makes A "Good" Garden Design?
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Discussions
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Set It and Forget It!
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What plants?
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Re: What plants? LOTS!!
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A new use for my old fish tank?
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Re: A new use for my old fish tank?
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Bottles
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Re: Bottles
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Re: Bottles
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Plants For Dish Gardens & Terrariums
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Re: Re: Bottles
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Re: Re: Re: Bottles
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April Fools
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Spring ?
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Re: Spring ?
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Re: Re: Spring ?
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Re: Re: Re: Spring ?
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April First Photo: FIesta Time!
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April 2 Photo (smaller file)
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Re: April First Photo: FIesta Time!
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Re: April First Photo: FIesta Time!
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Re: Re: April First Photo: FIesta Time!
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April 3 Photo
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April 4 photo pussy willow
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Busy in the garden?
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Re: Busy in the garden? SNOW!!!!!!!!
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Re: Re: Busy in the garden? SNOW!!!!!!!!
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Re: Re: Re: Busy in the garden? SNOW!!!!!!!!
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April 4b POtting UP Seedlings in Shorts
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YES I Bonsai NOT
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I didn't realise it involved so much!
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Re: I didn't realise it involved so much!
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Re: Re: I didn't realise it involved so much!
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My potato bonsai
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Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Re: Re: Re: Re: My potato bonsai
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Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
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How big is your stack?
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There is a great discussion
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*grin*
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Stack?? What stack?
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My favorites are the ones that aren't even mine!
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Thanks Wen!
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Stacks?
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Good idea, Marcella!
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Stacks and stacks
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Old catalogs
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Old Catalogs
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I have old gardening magazines, too.
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old cataloges and mags.
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How do you keep track of what's what/where?
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Re: How do you keep track of what's what/where?
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Re: Old catalogs
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Garden Catalogs: A Tall Order
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They are fun, aren't they?
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Plain or Fancy? Pricey or Cheap?
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Re: Plain or Fancy? Pricey or Cheap?
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Mulching: Mimicry or Murder?
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Good article, Barbara
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MULCH VOLCANOES!
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Re: MULCH VOLCANOES!
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Re: MULCH VOLCANOES!
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Re: Re: MULCH VOLCANOES!
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Cottage Garden Sensations
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Article cottage gardens for all
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Cottage Garden Sensations
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Re: Cottage Garden Sensations
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Dagnabbit! Those Phantom Pix!
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Dagnabbit! Those Phantom Pix!
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A Cottage Garden Valentine
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Have a good day!
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Re: Have a good day!
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Happy Valentine's Day!
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Hey Barbara
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Hi
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Just in case
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WHO *IS* THAT??????!!!
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I Think I got her from one of your pages
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just stopping by
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Hi Moose!
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morning
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Hi Moose!
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a little something
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Just too cute
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DizzY!
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Oh good grief
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So hey Barb
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Detective Mr Moose
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Surfing through
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Well hey!
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iced tea
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just me
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Barbara
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Mr Moose!
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Hi Barb
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Re: Hi Barb
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It's that snowdrop time again!
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Hi Barb!!!
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Re: Hi Barb!!!
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A cottage garden
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Re: A cottage garden WOW!!!!
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Carol and I
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More than a garden!
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well son of a gun
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FABULOUS NEWS
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Hi Barb
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Raking Leaves
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Jojo's leaves
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Re: Jojo's leaves
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Re: Re: Jojo's leaves
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Re: Re: Re: Jojo's leaves
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Jojo's leaves
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Re: Re: Jojo's leaves
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Re: Re: Re: Jojo's leaves
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Garden Labels and Markers: Find Yours Here!
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What's your favorite style of marker? What works best in your
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I have a few methods I use for marking things. For my seed start
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A few years ago, my neighbor decided to put a fence down the mid
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Milk jugs and laundry soap jugs cut into strips work too -- some
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Barb, That is why I like the aluminum tags since when you write
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Anybody using copper? Any idea how it compares to aluminum? Any
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I bought copper plant tags last year. (I wish I had bought in-th
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Well, if the laser ink doesn't fade, the computer generated tags
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Brett, All I know is that the growers I've heard from claim tha
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Only recently I discovered quite a 'secret' to having marking in
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Now that, Lady B, is a trick worth knowing! I usually take my ma
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label markers
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Re: Brett, All I know is that the growers I've heard from clai
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Re: label markers
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Re: Re: Brett, All I know is that the growers I've heard from
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Re: Re: Brett, All I know is that the growers I've heard from
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All America Selections for Cottage Gardens
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Which Ones Will You Try?
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Re: Which Ones Will You Try?
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Rudbeckia
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Re: Rudbeckia
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Re: Re: Which Ones Will You Try?
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Re: Re: Re: Which Ones Will You Try?
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yes
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Plant More Bulbs! Please!
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those critters...
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Re: those critters...
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Planting Bulbs
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Re: Planting Bulbs &CRITTERS
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Re: Re: Planting Bulbs &CRITTERS
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Re: Re: Re: Planting Bulbs &CRITTERS
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The Ghouls In My Garden
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Rose Thorns
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Re: Rose Thorns
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Re: Rose Thorns
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Re: Re: Rose Thorns
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Re: Re: Re: Rose Thorns
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Re: Rose Thorns
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Rose Thorns
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Re: Re: Rose Thorns/Leeches
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The Duckeys' Swim Adventure
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Natalie
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Re:To Natalie
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Re: Re:To Natalie
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In response to
Re: Re:To Natalie
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Re:To Natalie
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Re: Re:To Natalie
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Re: Re: Re:To Natalie
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Duckey Collection and Re:To Natalie
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Re: Duckey Collection and Re:To Natalie
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Floral FLAG 2002
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Floral Flag 2002
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Cute Link
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This is a cute link.
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Re: This is a cute link.
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Re: Re: This is a cute link.
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An invitation
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Dear Squish
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Re: Dear Squish
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Re: Re: Dear Squish
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Re: Re: Re: Dear Squish
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Dear Squish
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Voyeurs on Tour
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Thank you
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Re: Thank you
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Re: Re: Thank you
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A FLOWER A DAY
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Re: A FLOWER A DAY
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Site Seeing With Squish
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It's Official!
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Porko? I mean Porno?
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Yes, quite so.
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FUDGE! Chocolate lovers unite!
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Fudge?
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No liqueur --
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Split the recipe in half and make half pig friendly...
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Wish here
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Well, Ok. . .
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peapoo
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Speaking of Wish
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porno
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Re: porno
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Re: porno
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Re: Re: porno
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Re: Re: Re: porno
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Children's Garden Gifts and Treasures
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If you try one of these, please let me know how it goes!
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Trying them out?
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YES!!! How could you not? They're too much fun!
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My mistake....
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Topiaries
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This season has been warm enough so far
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Barbara, what a great...
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Sounds like fun to me!
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Cabin Fever ideas
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Re: Cabin Fever ideas
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Revenge of the Purple Cabbage Hater
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Fess Up Now! Am I the ONLY one?
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I kind of like the stuff
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"Well!"
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They are for the table
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Funny!
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Re: Funny!
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Follow Your Heart: Cottage Garden Design
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Helpful?
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Re: Helpful?
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Re: Helpful?
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Re: Re: Helpful?
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Re: Re: Helpful?
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Re: Helpful?
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This is my kind of garden.
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Bravo!
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Re: Bravo!
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Bulbs of Afghanistan
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great article
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5 Star Article
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Great photos
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Bulbs of Afghanistan
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Re: great article
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Re: 5 Star Article
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Re: Bulbs of Afghanistan
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Notholirion thomsonianum from Afganistan
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Bulbs and Plants of the World
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Re: Re: great article
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Carrots et al
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Re: Carrots et al
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Serendipity and the Smokebush
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This is a beautiful bush
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Re: This is a beautiful bush
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Re: Re: This is a beautiful bush
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Re: Re: Re: This is a beautiful bush
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How to say it
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Re: How to say it
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Re: Re: How to say it
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Re: Re: Re: How to say it
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Spring Ahead, Fall Back!
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Clocks
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WICKED PLANTS
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You misled me.
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Re: You misled me.
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wicked indeed!
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African Violence
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Re: African Violence
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Pumpkins
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Re: Re: You misled me.
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Re: African Violence
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Re: Re: Re: You misled me.
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Re:now Halloween
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Re: Re: Re: Re: You misled me.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You misled me.
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Halloween
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Belated?
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European settlement in Aus.
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Re: Belated?
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illusion was Re: Belated?
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STUMPTED
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Re: STUMPTED
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"New" Methods for Carving Apples & Pears into "Humanoid Faces"!
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Carole's Granny Apple head Dolls
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Re: Carole's Granny Apple head Dolls
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Question/
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Exchange article links?
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Re: Exchange article links?
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Piggy's Favorite Playground (Part II)
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Princess Diana's Memorial Childrens Play Garden
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Re: Princess Diana's Memorial Childrens Play Garden
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Re: Re: Princess Diana's Memorial Childrens Play Garden
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Re: Re: Princess Diana's Memorial Childrens Play Garden
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Piggy's Select European Garden Tour:
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Tasmanian Piggy
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Tasmanian Piggy
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Tasmanian Piggy
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Re: Tasmanian Piggy
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Re: Re: Tasmanian Piggy
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Seeds & Tasmanian Piggy
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Re: Seeds & Tasmanian Piggy
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Ladybells confusa!
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Re: Ladybells confusa!
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MECONOPSIS!
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Re: MECONOPSIS!
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Live Butterflies Before Your Eyes
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Very interesting and helpful
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Re: Very interesting and helpful
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very informative...
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Used Garden Books
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Used Garden Books
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More Information
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I have a request
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Two Books for Beginners
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Used Garden Books
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2 books for trade or sell
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Rose Book
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Seed Starter Sold
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Shipping Costs
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cottage gardening
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School teacher seeks books
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Have and Want
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Re: Used Garden Books
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Roth: 4 season landscape
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Tasmanian visitors
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Photos soon!
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Re: Photos soon!
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Re: Flying Pig
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It's Juneberry Time!
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Looks yummy
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Serviceberry
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Re: Serviceberry
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Re: Looks yummy
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Howie's Surprise in Store for MOI!
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Juneberry Wine
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Re: Juneberry Wine
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Tree Information Re: Looks yummy
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A Garden in the Jungle of Weeds
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What's your favorite ornamental weed? Barbara Martin
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Queen Anne's Lace. I love it as a filler with cut flowers, too.
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Me too, Carol. But what is a weed? I have heard our granny-knigh
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A weed is any plant in the wrong place. Barbara Martin
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Yes - and my Queen Anne's Lace always grows in the wrong place -
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Am I the only one with self-sowing perennials which act like wee
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Well, up until this year I had only one echinacea - 'White Swan'
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My malva is not zebrinus, it is the straight pink one about thre
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Well, as I said, I had only the white coneflower until this year
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That's interesting. My White Swan (or was it White Lustre) didn
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Barbara, Echinacea and malva (zebrinus, even!) are both pests
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That is interesting. I have tried for five years to get larkspu
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I don't know. I get columbine, too, but it's always the red/yel
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I thought the Music series was pretty, too. My favorite, though
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That blue and white is my favorite, too. Unfortunately something
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When the foxgloves reseed at my house it is usually in the pathw
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Ah - that's where my Nicotiana alata seeds.
Do you move it, step on it/around it or pull it out? Barbar
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Does any one have Lady's Mantle as a "pest" reseeder perennial?
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If I didn't weed out the foxgloves, my garden would be over-run
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Do you have acid soil un your garden Kirk? What type is it? B
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Nepeta reseeds for me. Not to the nuisance point - but enough. F
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Barbara, Your article took me back to my childhood days when I
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Hi Keith! Sounds like a good possible guess to me. Also, man
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Today I found a huge beautiful bloom on my BlueBird hardy Hibisc
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It seems early for hydrangeas, doesn't it? And the Oriental lil
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Has anyone noticed that the daylilies and the Oriental lilies, e
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Yes! The daylilies are glorious this year!!!! My chives are re
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Clay, My Orientals are in bud but not yet in bloom - those th
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Carol, Did you say Chipmunks are invading your Oriental lilie
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Although daylilies are often listed as drought tolerant, in my e
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In the case of the Oriental lilies next to the gazebo, Barbara,
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By the way, Clay - that disapearing act is typical of voles. Min
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Carol, maybe you need to stop feeding your cats. ;) Barbara
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Carol, and Barbara, It turns out that you both were correct.
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Oh Clay, how unfortunate! Perhaps planting the bulbs in wire ca
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Clay, I've alwalys had vole problems with my lilies, too. So
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Marge, Agreed. The moles made the initial tunnels under my m
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Well, in that case, how about trying snakes? Barbara Martin
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Chipmunks, voles, moles, mice
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RE: Chipmunks, voles, moles, mice
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Got Shade? Plant Hosta!
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Got shade?
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Re: Got shade?
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Re: Re: Got shade?
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Re: Re: Re: Got shade?
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Re: Re: Got shade?
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Re: Re: Re: Got shade?
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Nocturnal Plants
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Nocturnal Plants
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some thoughts
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Night bloomers?
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Moonlight Madness
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Re: Night bloomers?
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Re: Re: Night bloomers?
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Cottage Garden in the City
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I just had to subscribe to you
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Re: I just had to subscribe to you
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Weeds, Be Gone!
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Pretty Weeds
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Spring Flowering Trees
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Flowering trees
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Re: Flowering trees
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Re: Re: Flowering trees
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Re: Re: Re: Flowering trees
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Flowering trees
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Gardeners Know the Best (and Worst) Dirt!
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What's the best (and worst) dirt you've known? Barbara Mart
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I guess it depends on what I am trying to grow. I am very new t
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William, you are talking mostly about container plants, correct?
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Barbara, I sometimes wonder if good soil is for the plant or the
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Marcella it sounds to me as though you have become an expert at
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Barbara, being in my fifties I love playing in my wonderful well
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Your garden sounds wonderful! Which region are you in? A f
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Barbara, My garden is located in Eugene, Oregon the southern end
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How do you locate good garden soil for raised bed, you ask. I w
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William, you are welcome to get rid of that dirt here. I repleni
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Marcella, I used to replenish my beds yearly with soil (it's am
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I am leaning toward Carol's solution, I will put more into the g
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William "finished" compost is not hot any more -- does that help
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Marcella you are so right! There is only ONE chance to get the
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Here is another interesting point about buying soil. In my area
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I guess I should have said compost instead of soil. When you ord
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When you order soil here, no matter how reputable and accommodat
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OOOH! That's a new one on me, and I live in dairy country. Wh
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Probably cleaner than unwashed manure (LOL) We get a pretty goo
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Washed dairy manure, what is it? Danged if I know. I can't imagi
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sterilze dirt
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Re: sterilize dirt
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Worms/Vermiculture was Compost Happens!
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Hey, Mz Martin!
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Worms and Vermicompost
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Lady Barbara's Woim Box
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worms, banana peels, and compost
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Thank you for the recipe --
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Compost tea
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Recipes for Compost Tea
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Toronto Tea!
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Tea Barrel
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worms
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Just one more reason
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great information
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Re: great information
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Speed Cleaning the Garden
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I loved the article
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Re: I loved the article
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Re: Re: I loved the article
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The Well Rounded Herb Garden
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Photo Illustration
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Please suggest flowering plants for shady places...
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Please suggest flowering plants for shady places...
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Re: Please suggest flowering plants for shady places...
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Flowers for shade in New Zealand
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Flower Shows
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Flower Show Impressions
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Spring: Feed the Need
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You can see the ground?
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May the Force Be With You
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May the Force be with You
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The graphic.
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Snowdrops NOW!
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Snowdrops blooming
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Re: Snowdrops blooming
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bellis bruiser!
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Re: bellis bruiser!
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[No title]
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help
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Re: help
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Cottage Garden Design, Part III
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Mulch
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Re: Mulch
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Re: Re: Mulch
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Re: Re: Re: Mulch
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Mulch
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A Flock of Baby ... Hummers???
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Doubletake!
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Hummingbirds
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Hummingbird Animation
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Buddleia
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Knocked my socks off!
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Great PIX!
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Barbara, what a...
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Re: Barbara, what a...
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MY NEWEST SNAKE STORY
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Snakes
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LOL
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Snakes
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Remind me
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You have no clue how right you are!
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Snakes alive
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What tricks
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thank you
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Ewwwww!
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Thank you
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Looking at those last two signatures.
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Laughter is A Good Thing
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Snakes alive
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Barbara, this article...
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Humor?
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The Ice Garden Cometh
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The Ice Garden Cometh
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Re: The Ice Garden Cometh
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Winter
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Re: Winter
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Re: Re: Winter
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Ice Storms
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Beautiful Pictures
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Re: Re: Re: Winter
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Banana Belt
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Digital Pictures
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Hardy Bananas
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Re: Hardy Bananas
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Barbara, your pictures...
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Still snow, but no ice!
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Cottage Garden Design
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Garden creation
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Re: Garden creation
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need help with planning my garden
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I need help planning my cottage borders
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Re: I need help planning my cottage borders
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Re: Re: I need help planning my cottage borders
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Re: Re: Re: I need help planning my cottage borders
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Your Garden Journal is Forever
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GARDEN JOURNAL
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Re: GARDEN JOURNAL
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AVERAGE FROST DATES
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Average Frost Dates Handy Map
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New Year Resolutions
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
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Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
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Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Re: Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
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Re: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
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Garden Railroading: A Great Hobby
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Any garden railway hobbyists among us?
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Cottage Garden Fudge
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What? No chocolate lovers?!
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ENJOYING SNOW
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Do You Enjoy Snow?
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Re: Do You Enjoy Snow?
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Re: Re: Do You Enjoy Snow?
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Edible Christmas Trees
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My sisters' edible tree
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Re: My sisters' edible tree
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NoBake Cookie Tree
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Re: NoBake Cookie Tree
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Greetings!
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Greetings!
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Re: Greetings!
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Re: Re: Greetings!
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Got links?
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re: Political Humor on the internet
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CELEBRATE POINSETTIA DAY
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The "new" poinsettias
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EIGHT HUNDRED BULBS
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doing the math
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800 bulbs on the wall
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Re: 800 bulbs on the wall
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Poet
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Re: Poet
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Re: doing the math
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Re bulb emergency was doing the math
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bulbs
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Internet Photos of My Garden
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Internet Photos of My Garden
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PIG FLIES!
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The truth rules.
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Re: The truth rules.
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Small Garden Dreams
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Favorite Small Feature
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Re: Favorite Small Feature
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Small Herb Gardens
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testing what's new
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Cottage Garden Featured in a Flash
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Barbara
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CG in Our Story FLASH???
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Marie B. Grambell Please Stand UP!
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Marie, Are You Out There?
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Irony
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Re: Irony
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No results for Grambel
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Found Gambrell
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Welcome, Frost
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Two edged sword
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Frost removal
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Did you save some?
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Gave up on that
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growth pattern
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Re: growth pattern
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Re: Re: growth pattern
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Ten Fall Garden Chores
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Did I catch them all?
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Helpful "to do" list
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ritual
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Plant Thousands of Bulbs
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1001, 1002, 1003
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From Ponies to Pumpkins
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Barbara, this is...
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More memories!
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Barbara, we had...
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Barbara
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Hello!
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Garden memories
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Good ones!
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Snowbank in September
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OOPS IT DID IT AGAIN!
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boltonia report
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Luring the Garden Fairy
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I believe in fairies
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Do you believe?
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
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Hi from shade garden
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Shiny things are very important!
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In the fairy garden!
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Barbara, another ...
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NEVER pitch a half barrel!!!!!
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Piggy's Wonderful Day
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Piggy dear,
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Next stop on your tour?
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Thank you Piggy
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Piggy says thank you!
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How do you do
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Wish is still looking lovely!
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Hello Wish!
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If she
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Well....
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Tee! Hee!
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ummm
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1st Annual Cyber Daffodil Show
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Winner's Are In!
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Great idea!
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Takin' A Break
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Flying Pigs
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Break time's almost over
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Daylily
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Daylily
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Daylily Fan Club
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Need Daylily Help
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Daylily disappointment
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Growing Conditions FIRST
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Daylily garden
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soil improvement
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Daylily border
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New daylilies
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Hit Those Sales!
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Mosaic Tiles
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Got To Try This!
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Stick With Me!
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Making Step Stones
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Making Step Stones
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Stained Glass Paths
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Colorant and Molds
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Stepstone Path/Patio Installation Tips
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Quikrete has Free Brochures!
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Better Homes and Gardens
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Dry Shake Colorant and Stamping Designs
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Building Gardening Stuff
-
pavers
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Thanks for all the great tips!
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Concrete step stones
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Easy Stained Glass/Mosaic/Collage Stones
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Out of curiosity
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Try it and see!
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Complete how to make mosaic step stones instructions
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Takin' A Break
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Takin' A Break
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Barbara
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Daylilies to Bring Home
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It's working!
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Stella
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Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden
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Blue and Pink daylillies
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I'm with Barbara
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Let's be fair
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Not one little inch.
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Don't do it!!
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Pig Headed
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Daylilies For Your Cottage Garden
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Cool links!
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Cool links
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Like This one
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Salt tolerance
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Another list
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More trees
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It does too exist! Sorry!
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one more try
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more from Minnesota
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Salt?
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Finding Just the Right Daylily for your Cottage Garden
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I'm shocked.
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Good grief.
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Stella's
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Barbara
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OH
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OK Toad
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Treeman!
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I'm partial to the pinks, too
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Ok Barbara
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Snooty about being a toad?
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I LOVE Chorus Line
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No brown garden, yet.
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update
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I'll go look -
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Found one!
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EEK -- aPOLOGIES
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Apologies
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Has Industrialisation affected the family structure?
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family structure
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Off the cuff and before coffee
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oops need more coffee
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Industrialization
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Daffy did you cheat and have your coffee first?
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farms
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History Repeats
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Love That Lavender (was Lovin' La Lavande)
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Too much lavender
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Believe it or not
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Container medium?
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Herb of the Year?
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Lavender
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Sure.
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Fountains You Can Make
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Have you ever ...
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Barbara
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Blushing
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Your
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the animation
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Quick & Easy Mini Pond
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Neat
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Neat Ponds
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Ponds and FOUNTAINS
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Poison Ivy and KOI
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electric fence
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This sounds like fun!
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It IS fun -- easy, too!
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Cottage Garden Style Today
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crones fairies voodoo
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Lily Pons Festival
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Be there! LilyPons
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LilyPons
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not to worry
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RECALL:Pull'N Spray Roundup & Home Defense
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Pull 'N Spray Recall
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Home Photos and etc.
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Home Photos and etc.
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Daffodils in Swampy Woods
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eek
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A walk in the park
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Check it out!
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Guess!
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And NOOOO
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Loved the photo
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EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!! leeches
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Not Cherry Pie
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Poison ivy
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Hey I've got a fishy tooo
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Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
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What does it smell like to you?
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I found one !
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Atlanta!
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Become Invisible!!!!
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Invisibility
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Atlanta
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Patent + Netherlands made the clue!!!!
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Makes sense
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Ah! that smell
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Ah! that smell
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Heliotropes
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escapees
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Winter H. or Petasites?
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Cats!!!
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Cats
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You are not alone!
-
Cats
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Thank you Phal.
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Oh vey, reads both ways!
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Motion detector sprinkler
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Trimming Cat Claws
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Thank you!! People clipper!!!
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TENT CATERPILLARS DENUDING TREES!
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The Seven Year Cycle
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Tents
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Yes!
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Yup, our crabapple got hit too....
-
SCARY
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Ah Sawflies
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They say
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I just sent....
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We still use that torch system
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birds
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That Naturally ...
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fungus
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Oh, No....
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ok
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Rosemary: Herb of the Year 2000
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Two questions!
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Container Tips, Tricks and Techniques
-
Any favorite tips to share?
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Another tip
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Platic
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Drainage
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More plastic!
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Theme Gardens: The White Garden
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Wonderful article Barbara!
-
Just half an hour later everything worked.
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Hi Herb!
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Garden Sayings, Quotes & Poetry
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Did you find it?
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Too many good ones for a favorite.
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Good ones! Keep 'em coming!
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Sorry Barbara
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Sure, why not!
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Thanks! More!
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Just Look at Those Vegetables!
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Favorite veggie?
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Favorite vegetable for LOOKS!
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Great photo!
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Control Those Bleeping Weeds
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Flaming weeds
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Herbicides
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Ah, the weeds......
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Weeds
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Darn, I near forgot!
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fabric
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vinegar
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Hand pullling
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I want one of those flame throwers
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Herb, if you use wood chips, why do you also use the fabric?
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Herb's torch
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The plain old torch!
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weeding weeding weeding
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Jojo-- it's cold-blooded is all
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Broom in PNW
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Coments about an "Environmentally Responsible" garden site.
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Your article links
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I don't mind dandelions too much but
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Lawns and xeriscaping
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ahem
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broom puller
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I have an ancient tool that is a most effective weeder.I
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Triangular
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No picture
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More favorite tools
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Add A Water Feature! It's Easy and Fun! The First of Three
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Barbara, I swear, you've found some of the most entertaining
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Carol, per Sierra Madre, "Bird bath heaters? You don't need no s
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Bird calls
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mixed results
-
I found some!
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Terror At Ten!
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Scary Monsters
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You never can tell!
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Maybe the possum was hungry, Barbara!
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Possums
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Cute and hungry
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Possums on the roof!
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Dumb and dumbest--
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Try the Cookbook?
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possums
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the possum picture!
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Well HEY!
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Possums
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Interested in Critters
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If you think they look scary, wait until you hear one!
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Raccoons I've got in quantity...cute as the dickens
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FIFTY #?????
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Fifty punds, oh, Herb!
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Terror at 11
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THOSE THINGS
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The Bartram Franklinia Census
-
Do you know of a Franklinia anywhere?
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Altamaha or alatamaha?
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franklinia census
-
Thank you
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Contacting Bartram
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Census Update
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Herbal Beginnings
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Plastic imitations
-
Oh my!
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Herb Gardening
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Everyone should grow a few herbs!
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Cottage Garden Marks Third Anniversary
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Cottage Garden Marks Third Anniversary
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Congrats
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Great question!
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Companions
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Companion Planting
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Does the garlic work better than the soap? For some reason bunni
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Bunnies at bay, deer in the hay.
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Rabbits
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OH NO NOT POSSUMS!
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Garlic
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How To Repel BUGS
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oops "If I had a brain I'd be dangerous"
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Australian possums
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Garlic
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Companion Planting & You
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my secret of organic gardening
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The test of time
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Tackling the Tiger!
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If anyone wants some
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On the other hand
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No joke!
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My Tiger Lily
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Virus
-
bulb tiger lily
-
She's right, Clay
-
Happy Camper Here
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Those are "tiger lilies" all right
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Voles!! No doubt
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Tigers
-
Well! Hey everybody!
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Login/Logoff Problems
-
Complaint Sent
-
Thanks Barbara
-
Blank Brick!
-
I just wanted to say...
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Tiger art
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Toier Lily Virus Update
-
edible lilies?
-
yum
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garden beds
-
i wonder if anybody has some advice for me.
-
Lots you can do!
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garden unity
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Any southern gardeners out there?
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pix
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need space?
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back to the drawing board
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oh yeah...
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You sent pix!
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winter work
-
spider lillies
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Flower Essence: Making Sense out of Non-Scents
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Barbara, *Now* you are giving me a whole new level of design
-
But Barb! THEY DON'T SMELL!!!!!!!!!!!! This amazes me, but t
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Barbara, They must be missing their noses. ~mug shot~ Seri
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Water is the carrier, I believe. I used "snake oil" in the fig
-
WHOA! I just realized something... maybe I didn't make it clear
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Barbara, I believe that there can be some non-volatile part
-
Exactly! Barbara Martin
OK now... they capture the essence of something by scooping up t
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Sure would save on postage! Barbara Martin
...And save recycling time or space in landfills. But Ec, I'm
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OK, I confess. A friend once sent me a small vial of flower ess
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Yes but have the plants taken over the conservatory yet? Are yo
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EC is overcharging. I'll do it for $18, plus shipping and handl
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Spiritual over physical? Or just chemical imbalances? DOn't yo
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Barb, What I said was I don't believe in
this
. It wasn
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Travis, I don't think I believe in this either. I am concerned
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I've been looking at some aromatherapy books. Essential oils ar
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I must admit, Barb, that yesterday I bought a lottery ticket (I
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You can't win if you don't play! Barbara Martin
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Trav -- you mentioned homeopathic medicine. That is perhaps a s
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Barb! Thank you for the clarification! If I understand it righ
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Nutritional imbalances?
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Either nutritonal imbalances or perhaps a need for spiritual gui
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I think the people who really go for the essences that have no e
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ec -- that may well explain many of the dessert recipes for "la
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Barbara, May I call you Barb? ;-) I just did it before, and
-
Naturopathy? Homeopathy? Hmmm. Well, I resorted to the old fa
-
Maybe Neal (Microbiology) or one of his readers can help us out.
-
I asked Katie at Women in Science, too! Now I wonder what
ot
-
Also Michael at Medicine .... Barbara Martin
Just to clarify the name bit....I use Barb because that name all
-
The definitions Barbara Martin gave for homeopathy and naturopat
-
Did a little research. Found
Thanks for the clarification Neal. {Gulp} I had it backwards so
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SPA! Yes but which one? Here to help you select the *best* spa
-
Barbara, you're a surfin' machine! I hear there's a 12-step p
-
I cheated on that one -- saw it in the new Oct. Yahoo Internet L
-
Calling on my memories of physics classes, I browsed the discuss
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Hi Dan! The frequency is I only surf when I'm procrastinating a
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Did I say something wrong? Barbara Barbara Martin
<
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Hey all! Interesting discussion you have here. I was planning
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Thanks Mike! Be sure to let us know when you write that article
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LOOKING FOR A GOOD AROMATHERAPY BOOK
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A Garden Plan That Works
-
Happy New Year
-
A "job" to know????
-
Design is always
-
A Valentine Garden Design
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Red, white and pink color scheme
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By accident
-
I think the idea is lovely
-
My valentine garden
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Red, White, & Pink
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Mica -- what a fun idea
-
The dangers of mixed pinks
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A spike of blue (or yellow)
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bleeding hearts
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Would they get enough sun there?
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we have very mild summers
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Mild summers or endless spring????
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Bleeding hearts
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Dicentra
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Good question
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Vancouver sun
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Hey Mica!
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Ha ha ha... I've never heard that
-
Next time we hit a week or so of temps over 95 ....
-
Uh huh...
-
love the picture
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It was a joy
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TAKE THE POLL!!!!
-
DO YOU...OR DON'T YOU?????
-
Martha Barbara
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Dilemma
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OOOOPS TAKE THIS POLL!
-
For real?
-
Never crossed my mind
-
OK, but...
-
Cemeteries
-
;-)
-
Plastic flowers/foliage wins garden contest
-
How Beautiful
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Your message
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GMTA!
-
Badly written
-
HELLO WISH!
-
Wish
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OOOOOOOOHHH! (from Squish)
-
Of Course!!!!
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Hear hear!
-
delightful article
-
Weather
-
Last article of the CENTURY
-
Have fun
-
Your welcome page . . .
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Flirting the F Word
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The F Word
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We got frosted, too
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Skin of my teeth
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We had two nights of it in a row
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Don't hate me cos i live in the deep south...
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That heirloom cloth you were kidding about
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Caster Beans?
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Pretty Catchy Title
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Castor beans
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Caster Beans
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Heat lovers looking bedraggled
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Frosties
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Osteospermum
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It's worth a try!
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My Osteos
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Let us know how it goes!
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Winterize Your Garden
-
SNEAK PEEK
-
Moving my garden
-
Moving
-
Should be interesting!
-
RED ALERT!
-
Hi Barbara
-
KEWL!
-
Daffodil 'Polly Anderson'
-
Polly as in 'Polly's Pearl'
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Polly again
-
Polly also
-
Ask a simple question ....
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Mulch: More than Meets the Eye
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Is mulch your mantra?
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Be Bold With Your Bulbs
-
Wow, Barbara!
-
Glad to hear the article is helpful!
-
A rumor I've heard
-
Six inches
-
Rose-of-Sharon: When The Rose is Not A Rose!
-
Giant rose bushes? Rose of Sharon is in full bloom here in south
-
Sounds wonderful Barbara! I'm also seriously thinking about a mo
-
Nicotiana (alata or sylvestris) are marginally good here in PA z
-
Arum or Calla Lily and Night-scented Jessamine. I'll add the Ni
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Amazing but the flower looks so similar!!! Barbara Martin <
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Barbara, I am a lover of roses, and I have just a few in my g
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Some years ago a non-gardening friend drove up my driveway and
-
Barbara, I'm feeling a little left out. The Rose of Sharon are i
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Marcella, there should be one with the right color for the right
-
Marcella, there should be one with the right color for the right
-
Juanita Klepper Can anyone suggest a cure for my problem: I
-
Hi Juanita! While I'm not sure what is wrong with your shrubs,
-
Juanita Klepper Dear Barbara: Thanks so much for the tips
-
Rose of Sharon not flowering
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Roses
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Non flowering
-
Signature
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Hornworms and silkworms
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Rose is not a rose
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Rose by --
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rose of sharon
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Althea for Puerto Rico
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Seed Saving
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posted for Sara: Dear Ms. Martin, I'm sorry to bother you
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Hi Sara! I think the current thought on this one is to put the
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harvesting morning glory seeds
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Morning glory seeds
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"Rain, Rain, Go Away ..."
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NOAA Drought Information
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Rain Report from the Home Front
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Loss Estimates Begin
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On Strange Ground
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Inspirations
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Accidental inspiration
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What fun!
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Risky
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Getting a bit adventurous!
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Hot borders
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Heating up risk
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Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
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New Ideas
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Ideas!
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A few more easy keepers
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Are they blooming now?
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All but one flowering
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Heat differences
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Hosta fans!
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THIS is the kind of weather
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Cosmos
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I hope so!
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Need Help With Dying Boston Ivy
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Boston Ivy
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help on the way!
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Need Help With Best Vines for Brick Walls
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Posted by Barbara for a reader who is searching for information
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That sort of depends on whether the walls in question are shady
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having lived with ivy on brick for twenty years, i can speak fro
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Hey Robert - I'm going to be in Boston this week - maybe I'll dr
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A little more information: this is in Halifax and possibly for
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Well, I'm a big ivy fan, too and there are
so
many variet
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marge, does boston ivy have berries? i think that is what i hav
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Virginia Creeper?
Back to the original question.... if you are wondering which pl
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In my experience Virginia Creeper and in fact all of the parthe
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Robert, Yes, it has berries and from your leaf description, s
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I have a yard full of Virginia Creeper and I'm constantly havein
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interesting......i entered "virginia creeper"in the gardening.co
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Parthenocissus tricuspidata is Japanese Creeper or Boston Ivy.
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I went there and searched simply for "vine" and on the last two
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Well, rats, this is the second try here. Got a server error and
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Boston Ivy Problem
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good question!
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International Hummingbird Month
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International Hummingbird Month
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Drive-By Echinacea
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purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
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Fuzzy dice?
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Caw-ing All Gardeners!
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Scarecrow contests
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scarecrows are unique
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Scare crow Contest
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Any more contests?
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Dusty agrees.
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Scarecrows and Crows
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Now Dusty,
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Oh phooey Clay!
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Crows
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Crows
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Crows and Crows
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Crows and the world's largest scarecrow.
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Vacationland Greetings!
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Vacationland Greetings
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Welcome home!~
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Garden Party Planner: Start Here
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Best and worst of the garden party scene?
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I did it once
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Oh my!
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Garden Party
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Garden parties
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Garden weddings
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Weddings
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Garden weddings!
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Garden Weddings
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Nothing like a bit of tension
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Soft On Iris
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Iris
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Some just are hardier!
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Looking forward
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You can order them, too
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If it were up to me, I'd toss all of mine
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Comet
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Scratching the Itch
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Do you start new gardens
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It depends on what you call "handle."
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my favorite digging tool
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Short or long handled?
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I forgot
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No weeding tools for me
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Pictures
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I do pull most weeds by hand
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It's a little red shovel
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Digging
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Love that spade!
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Make them into a mobile or something
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Shady Riches
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Does money grow on trees?
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Those Golden Moments
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Love it or hate it???
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Golden/Senior Moments
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Senior Moments
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Seniority has NOTHING to do with it
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lololol
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I got the ajuga
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Garden of Weedin'
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Funny stuff, that definition of
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So do my nine zillion maple seedlings!
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Weedin' in the Garden
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Vinegar works pretty well,
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I thought of boiling water
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Try the torch
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Vinegar???
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I used it straight....
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Applying round-up
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What kind of bristles?
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A squeeze bottle
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1998 Herb of the Year: Mint
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Do you grow mint? Is it in a container or in the ground? Do yo
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I grow chocolate mint in the stone wall around my raised bed whe
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I have all my different kinds of mint in containers. Most of th
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Here is a very useful recipe. Chocolate Minted Melon Balls:
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Carol -- aren't those spots sort of dry for mint? And yes, I su
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Barbara, yes those sites are dry for mint. I suspect that's what
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William -- do you collect mints? I am wondering if some of
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Abby -- that sounds delicious but what size balls are we suppose
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Barbara, It may be that Corsican mint simply isn't hardy for us
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No, I have killed it faster than that. Within a month of purcha
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Too much drainage? Mine is planted in clay. Carol
That's one possibility. Is it in sun or shade? Barbara Martin
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Well, Bar, I do have a melon-baller. Maybe New England is
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My Corsican mint is in almost full sun, on a sloped area around
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I kept trying to grow it in morning sun thinking my soil wasn't
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Abby, maybe one could manage the effect using a small spoon? My
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I grew chocolate mint a couple of years--it never seems to make
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Diana which zone are you in, a cold one if I remember right? Wa
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Diana, I'm in zone 5 (central MA) and I've had chocolate mi
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Abby -- I would "prefer" not to cross-contaminate garden tools w
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Secret to Corsican Mint is to plant it in a container or in th
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But William -- aren't you in Texas? Zone 9 or something? I am
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Yes Barbara, I am in Houston TX. I do have the Corsican Mint on
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Plants never read the book! I guess we'll be seeing some more/n
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Golly!
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Is Lavender Overrated????
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Lavender: Is It Overrated???
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Quip Me If I'm Wrong
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Ya know
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I would venture to say that English lavender is underrated here,
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Ah - there is that!
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I planted English lavendar in completely unimproved soil - sand
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Over-rated?????
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All that chopping
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Garden Furniture You Can Make
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Garden Furniture You Can Make
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Potting Bench
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Potting Bench Number 2
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Flying pigs not furniture
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Tree Assassin!
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Are you planting trees this year?
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OUTED
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In just one year????
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Bare rooted - best buy
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Weepers
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Weepers
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tree gif
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Gary
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Gary
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Sorry.
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thanks for looking
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pruning cherry
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Definately an assassin
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Flame thrower? Chain saw? Glyphosate?
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Pruning
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tree planning
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Gay do you have a favorite tree?
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!!!GARDENING FREEBIES!!!
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Free Seedling Tree
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oops Tree Assassin Article
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Vegetationally Yours
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Do you have a favorite whimsey project?
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there are no rules
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Did you mean this?
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Groombridge Place Gardens
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Eccentric!
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Siitin' Pretty
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The Past Steps Out?
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When Pigs Fly
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Pegasus
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Pigasus
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Spring Maintenance
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A little spring care
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Yes
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Spring?
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PLAY TIME!!!!!
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Shorts???
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Shorts
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Two sweater day
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Too early? No Way!
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Too early
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Gotta Go Bare!
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Well,
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How about sprouters?
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COMPOST/was Mulch problem...
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....bet you've talked about mulch!
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Hi Art! Compost happens!
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Compost
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The cans and the globs
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Hmmm...I keep my "can" covered.
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Well, it would help.
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Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio
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More on Compost
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Cardoons
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Cardoon?
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Cardoons
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Thanks Marcella!
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Cardoons
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Good thing I asked!
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That big
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Orrr......
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RED Cardoons
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cardoons
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Hi Julie!
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IPM redo
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Garden Structures You Can Build
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Plans and Ideas
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Cottage Gardens
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Cottage Gardens
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Carnations?
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Great links -- thanks!
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Carnations with scent!
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Pinks
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Mats
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One problem with pinks
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Heirloom Pinks/Carnations Pix!
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Thanks!
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That would help!
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Dianthus
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Dianthus for cold climates
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Step Stones
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Garden Furniture You Can Make
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Catalogs
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Mail Order
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Fall catalogs!
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Fall catalogues are much more civilized
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Deprivation and specialties!
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???????
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All we have right now
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Bulbs
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"If ya snooze you lose!
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Still baffled
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LOL Mica!
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ordering
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Nothing like ....
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Simplicity in Herb Garden Design
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Herb Garden Design
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Thank you!
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Valentine Event
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Cloves, Picotees & Sops-In-Wine
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Favorite Dianthus
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Flashing Lights
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The Colour Pink
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Favorite Pig & Frog Jokes, by Squish
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Squish asked me to post this. QUESTION: What do you get when
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Frog Joke Answer............................... A Hamphibian.
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GROOOAAANNN
Now that is really a wonderful riddle
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Thank you! I knew somebody besides me would enjoy it. LOL!
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Here's another one, courtesy of Squish: Where did the farmer
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Squish's next joke answer................ On a pignic. Bar
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Knock, knock. Who's there? Thumping. Thumping who?
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Squish asks: What did the farmer use to count his cows?
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Squish answers..............................................
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Heres one my daughter told me today A chicken went into the l
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Hi Betty! Squish loved it! Thank you! Barbara Martin
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Stretching on to fish here: Squish asks .... How do you comm
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Squish answers..................................................
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What does a frog say when it sees somethin' great? Barb in S
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Showstopper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! Squish
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Does that mean we can't tell any more jokes?
I hope not, 'cau
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What witch?....................................... Barbar
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Or is that which witch? LOL Barbara Martin
Whichever witch you've insulted, of course. <vbg> Whoev
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Well, how do you apologize to a witch? Barbara Martin
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It's Hinky Pinky Time! (Thank you Barb in Southern Indiana!)
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Or is this a Stink Pink? Anyway, Squish says it's..............
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Seasonal riddle. This is new to me -- and Squish likes it just
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Still don't have it? ............ A watermelon. Enjoy the
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Why did the frog say meow? Indiana Barb
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Hee hee!
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Squish says "Bravo!" yet again. Perhaps the accolade is indeed
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On a Taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff." (courtes
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What is a frog's favorite time? Barb in Southern Indiana &nb
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Quality frog joke for sure! Thank you!
It's been a while since we had a joke, so here's one: What d
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"Time's fun when you're having flies." Barbara Martin
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What did the frog order at the local take-out burger joint? B
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WHAT? TELL!! **ecwrite, mostly-absent-since-becoming-employe
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Are you sure you really want to know? French flies and a di
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What is the thirstiest frog in the world? Indiana Barb  
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Ya just gotta love that frog! Barbara Martin and Squish et al
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What did the frog say to the fly?
ooooh -- great animation!!!! Barbara Martin
You just keep putting those frogs in there. You're never going
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This isn't exactly frogs, but it is close to pigs -- guinea pigs
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Clay -- don't you have any favorites to share? ;) Barbara Ma
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Barbara, No sayings to share. When I was last in Vietnam, du
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Red, white and blue frog (plus a little green)-- fab photo right
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What does a Romulan frog use for camoflage?
AHEM.
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AHEM - Also
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Ahem too. LOL
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Poor frog!
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Poor poor frog!
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Frogs
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Not the hospital, I hope!
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Okay, one more.
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errr frogs' legs?
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What happens when frogs park illegally?
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Here is a sight.
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Pig Joke
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Name something that has more lives than a cat.
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Squish's Favorite Joke (For Now)
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Squish
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quishSay
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Do you recognize it????
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Recognize it?
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*Best Kept Secret*
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Toads make national news!!!!
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Yup!
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HAMSTERDANCE
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A Foxglove for Every Garden
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How Do You Stake Foxgloves?
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Stakes
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Only 18 inches???
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I don't stake
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Sheltered
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Staking is an art
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An alternative
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No!
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I use broken ones in bouquets, too.
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staking
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Cut flowers
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Foxgloves - prohibited weed?
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weedy foxgloves
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By the way -- daffodil contest
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email problems
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email problems
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TICK TALK: Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Tick Control
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Missouri Ticks
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Outdoor Tick Activity
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My sense is that
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Ticks
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Yeah, well, Lady B NAILED it...
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Yup!
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Earliest Spring Blooms
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What is your earliest spring favorite?
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Iris reticulata
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Helleborus niger
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December and January blooms sound fabulous --
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That's why I treasure the winter blooming heaths
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Spring in Vancouver
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Glorious!
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Showers
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First of Spring
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Having fun with your Iris's
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LOL
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Iris
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Thank you!
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AHAHAHAHA
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Winter's Triboluminescence
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Zamboni time in the garden
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Ice
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The rain is running under the ice
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Snow????
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We still have selected snow
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Daffodil tour
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Daffodil tour
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Thanks!
-
Now!
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And a grand tour it is!
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Luminescences
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Ice Pix
-
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beautiful
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The Arboretum
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Cure for Cabin Fever?
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More Winter Garden Pix
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wow
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You bet -- just fine by me!
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Is Your Refrigerator Running?
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Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
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Check
Feng Shui Gardening: A New Year, A New Spirit
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Happy New Year to All!
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Been redecorating, huh??
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Don't miss the poll! Did you vote?
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Let's see if this works! The Poll!!!
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Out with the old and in with the new!
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Always amazed
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Did you say so
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Kick back relax and enjoy the garden!
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Barbara
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Me to you
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NEW Cyndi Johnson's Catalog of Garden Catalogs 17th ed.
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New Edition Available NOW by Autoresponder
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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Merry Christmas & Enjoy the Holiday!
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Winter Damage: Is Your Garden At Risk?
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How do you protect your most tender plants?
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House?
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OK, so I lied.
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Yeah, well, I lied, too
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If it works - yeah.
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I would expect plastic to overheat
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No problems
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Can you stack strawbales around it?
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Holiday Trees Are for the Birds!
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Does anyone use suet in warm weather?
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I use it all year.
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Suet
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One set of recipe instructions
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Suet melting
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Suet
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Warm Suet
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Do birds choke on peanut butter?
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SUET
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Quite true
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Hunh?
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Winter Topics
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Computers
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Don't worry!
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Mt. Vernon
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Christmas in D.C.
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White House Christmas
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Thanks!
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Visits
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Grow An Indoor Herb Garden This Winter!
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Has anyone actually tried digging up herbs to bring them indoors
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Don't forget -- The site will be down on Nov. 1 and 2 while we m
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I used to dig up a small bay tree every year and bringit in for
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Bay Trees
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Dragging in the pots!
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bay trees
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Indoor Herb Gardening
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Thanks Jojo!
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About repotting: the forever potbound
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Thanks for the tips Barbara
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Let's hope you have better luck now!
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Simple Garden Gifts and Treasures
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Are you ready for a break yet?
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Interesting article
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Hi MaryEllen --
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Just A Quiet Little Tool Talk
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Do you have a tabletop garden? Would you have one?
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Indoor Windowbox Plans
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If I'm going to give up a tabletop
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How about the Living Wreaths?
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Tarragon
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Does anyone have any experience with growing tarragon? I'm curio
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It doesn't seem too fussy, Alan. Mine is growing quite well in p
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Hi Alan! Tarragon isn't too fussy as long as the drainage is go
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I knew I could count on you guys!
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Home grown is sooooo good it's worth a try!
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Go for it, Alan!
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Tarragon
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Thanks Patty!
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Say Hello To Easy Winter Bulbs!
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Treating Bulbs With Force
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forcing question
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Forcing Is Inexact
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Open Forum Join IN!
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What's going on in your garden lately? In other words: What
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I saw something lovely today, in my own garden in the city. A hu
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I'm trying to decide what to mulch with hay and what to mulch wi
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Barbara, It's strange. In my garden has appeared the most lo
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Suzanne, I'm wondering what the mormal practice is in your area.
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Gay that sounds like Easter colors! Yum! Barbara Martin
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Clay, was it supposed to be a remontant iris? There are a numbe
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Suzanne, As per Barbara's comments, you have to be careful mu
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Suzanne, I think Barbara, pretty much covered it. The only tim
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Travis I remembered what you said once before about slugs and I
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Marcella, I'm glad someone besides me believes in Ruth Stout, to
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Suzanne, it finally occurred to me to ask you what it is that yo
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Don't forget -- The site will be down on Nov. 1 and 2 (that's Su
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I wrote *another* huge long message that was lost. Maybe I'm hit
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Barbara, you are right in that our natives are well adapted to t
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BTW Suzanne, if you're worried about your fruit trees: most comm
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So you don't mulch trees at all, Travis? That bare dirt just loo
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Some people use the old traditional mulch of alfalfa hay or a li
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Thanks, Barbara! You were correct earlier in that our PNW native
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Suzanne, I have mulched fruit trees, but not for winter protecti
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Mulching Fruit Trees cont'd
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Fall Wonders
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Odd Happenings in the Garden and Out!
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Strange things in the garden
-
Off topic, but:
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OOPS Vegimanic strikes again!
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YUP My Stuff Member Options Change Alias
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If you right click on the green 'post message' button you can
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Left handed mice do the opposite!
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Good question
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Good Question...
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Little Green Thingies
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Green Thingies
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seeing past messages
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Carpal Tunnel here we come!
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I have a better idea!
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Chow Time!
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Barbara, I agree with you that nothing grows under a bird fee
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Hi Clay! You forgot to mention the mice and rats. (yuck) One y
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Barbara, I took a hint from Marge Talt and have several feede
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Barbara, As a second thought, after reading about the loss of
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Interesting thought -- I don't suppose the stuff would stay "hot
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Interesting thought -- I don't suppose the stuff would stay "hot
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Barbara, I've seen the heated bird baths. However, I'm old f
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I don't have one, either. LOL Truth be told, I don't use bird
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Barbara, The bird feeders belong to my wife and her mother.
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When we last lived in town we had some feeders, too. We could w
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IBarbara, I didn't make the watering rock, my late father-in-
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Barbara, I have had a bird feeder on the side of the house for s
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Those euonymous things will grow anywhere!!!! LOL Here's wha
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Howard, don't you have a cat? Are the euonymous rooted right th
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Barbara, I concede. You not only overwhelmed me with links t
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Do black oil sunflower seeds have the same "stuff" in them as th
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There's probably some difference in the 'stuff'. I think the m
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Barbara, the Euonymous plants are directly below the bird feeder
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Howard, Feed them tiny vole nuclear bombs, know as pressed po
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Gee Clay, between your vole strategies and your deer fencing a p
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Only the ones that "destroy" my gardens. I can tolerate a littl
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Don't the squirrels rob your birdfeeders? I've heard some avid
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Barbara, Believe it or not, I use the commercial bird feeder
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When you find one with teethmarks do you let it dry a bit and re
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Don't forget -- The site will be down on Nov. 1 and 2 (that's Su
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Bird Baffles
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Baffles
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article: Testing Again As Requested
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The old articles are in the old format -- very confusing to move
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Beware the gremlins and knights. Please ignore this thread. Th
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What Still Looks Good?
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Thanks for your great suggestions on adding some sizzle and pop
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Very nice article Abby - and helpful! Thank you for pinch-hittin
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Traute Klein, Editor of
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Carol, we all live and learn, I guess. I make up for Abby's tr
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Clay, are your Tasmanian bred daffs as hardy as most? It would
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Barbara, Tasmania is closer to the south pole than I am to th
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I never thought about the turn around time! (But I'm glad to hea
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Barbara, I finished my fall bulb planting, daffodils that is.
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What fun! What kind of labeling system do you use to make sure y
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Barbara, In general, I don't label, I plot plan. That way, w
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Gotcha! One fall I planted about 80 lilies and made a plot plan
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Barbara, The wind was really blowing this weekend. I have my
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Do you have a program you use or how do you do the plot plan on
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Do you make the plan first? :) Barbara Martin
Barbara, I don't use a sophisticated or scientific method to
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On those occasions where I did plot a garden I used Corel Draw -
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Carol, Here's my punishment. I spend a paycheck on new intro
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Clay, I think it helps if you have the "organized" gene in your
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Clay, do you then recognize the results by their coordinates? As
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Barbara, It's much more simple than it seems. The problems b
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Shoo Fly Pie (or Shoofly Pie) Recipe
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A long while back I promised to find some Pennsylvania German Sh
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Shadows of Doom in the Sunny Border
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What's usually the very last flower in your garden? Barbara
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Barbara, Living in the P.N.W. there is always something coming i
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Believe it or not, it's usually a rose - although I'm not sure i
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Pansies...they bloom off and on all winter long, during the gent
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Marcella, I'm with you ... my climbing aster is the very last f
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Marge, Yup. It's the same plant. It definatly grows in the So
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We always have last roses too, Carol, especially "Iceberg" which
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Hi all! Sorry I've been so quiet. I have pneumonia and can har
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Fall Comes To the Cottage Garden
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Are the turtles crossing at your house yet? Barbara Martin
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I saw two today over about 100 miles of driving: one crossing th
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A couple of years ago I spotted a large snapping turtle slowly c
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The only turtle I've ever seen around here is the one my husband
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Several years ago we were shoveling mulch and accidently hit a t
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Last summer I was driving down the interstate coming home from a
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Soup? That's one thing I have never had occasion to eat. Ba
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Barbara, Jonathan was a little harsh on the turtle "mom," was
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More like truthful I suspect -- they're only turtles, after all.
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Is it too early to plan cold weather activities or are we plotti
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Barbara, the turtle you unearthed in the compost heap was probab
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Worried About Weather? Zones and Frost Dates
-
Barbara,
I dunno. It's only an average! :) Depends what you have out
-
Barbara, you missed the the typo for Zone 4.
FRISTFROST ALERT!!! LOL! DUH! I am holding my head in my hands
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European Zones are surprisingly warm! This map is available at
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Barbara, You should have a contest to see who can supply the
-
I find that chart pretty inaccurate for the midwest. I grow rose
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! for saying what I have always found to b
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Are you beating your average frost date so far? Barbara Mart
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Hardy Bulb Facts
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What's your favorite tulip? I think mine is Maureen. Tall, lat
-
Angelique is many a gardener's favorite -- but it keeps remindin
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Do I WISH I could remember the name of it! I planted just 5 bulb
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Bulb Insurance sounds fabulous -- wonder if it is itchy to inhal
-
Barbara, I nearly cracked up when I saw that your favorite Tu
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Red and yellow tulips mixed in the same bed, Clay??? I have
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Well okay. Make the red maroon or is that moran, and have them
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That's ok, Clay - I'm the one who thinks dandelions in the lawn
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Carol, If that is a color combination that you dislike, don't
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Well. Call me a snob if you like, but I LIKE red and yellow tul
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Carbara, How about in front of azeleas that are late June blo
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That would be fine -- I meant simultaneous bloom. ALthough too b
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Barbara, I just posted a message to Carol about new "entrance
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Widows was a typo, right? Think "up" not out and hey -- what an
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The "n" is missing. Clay Higgins, Editor:
OOOps. I knew that I knew that I knew that I was bein' head smac
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I've GOT it!!!! The name of the fantastic creamy-pink tulip I me
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Hope they were on sale! They sound exquisite -- thank you so mu
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Nope, the only things on sale were big bags of red and yellow mi
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Are you SURE you didn't snap up a couple of sacks to take home f
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Barbara, I'm a different personality than you, and not that l
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Know what my problem is with LOTS and LOTS of glorious spring bu
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Clay your secret is safe with us! Actually, I think you are t
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Lady B, the worst is planting them in the snow. And breaking th
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Barbara, I think you are right. Even if I had said it tongue-
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The most perennial patch of tulips we have was planted on a Chri
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For real. Tulip planting has been part of too many Thanksgivings
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It fall planting time for bulbs. Even when it is still too dry,
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Because we know the best sources for all kinds of gardening info
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Is Clay the only person planting daffodils this month? Somehow
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Think Dirty - Plant Bulbs!
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My daughter would love to plant a kaleidoscopic mix of tulips th
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Here's a quandary: our local Agway (farm/garden/pet and 4H anim
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Barbara, On keeping the squirrels out of the tulip when you p
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Barbara, I had to post again, after I read this article and y
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You are such a pro (!) -- I wish it would rain here, too. We a
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Thanks Barbara. In the daffodil world, I'm a "rank" amateur, wi
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And you really don't plant Walmart bulbs? Oh well. LOLOL. H
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Barbara, I made this decision a couple of years ago. No "com
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Well then. That explains it. Were the late planted ones ext
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Yeh! I won the Green Ribbon in Morristown, NJ., this year with
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I was just curious to know if I had been imagining that phenomen
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Clay, Barbara, I just dropped into your discussion about prize
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Thanks Marcella. Actually I use the same joke. The plumbing ne
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Peony Root Rot/Nematodes
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Recently someone (I think it was Clay!) asked somewhere about p
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It was me. Wish that url had been a link. Typing these things
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Here you go, Clay - a
Thanks Carol -- sorry Clay! Barbara Martin
Cottage Garden Q&A
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Barbara, I'm glad that you are not "totally" disappearing on
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Sandra Tatro
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Thank you. Great links coming up this week -- let me know i
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"Om! Mani Padme Hum!"
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Barbara, Will you need a bigger stock tank to comfortably sup
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Actually, I've been considering planting it directly in deep soi
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I thought about your Lotus today as I went shopping for a new ap
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Ummm... that is MOAT, nost most, or "MOIST", I mena, "MOST".
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That moat sounds like the mostest. I would move there just for
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Oh! Yes! You can put up with anything to have gold fish and Lot
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Calming? I'd say amazing and exciting and surreal. But I live i
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I think the lotus at my house may be slowing down for fall; eith
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Barbara: The lotus stuff is great! Mom and Dad
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Thanks!!! Every writer loves fan mail. :) LOL Barbara Martin
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Barbara I always want whatever you write about! No wonder I'm so
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Containing Fantasy
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Have you planted any enchanting containers for fall? (Or spring
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I don't know about enchanting, but I do have a few containers ar
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Oh,oh, you guys have my competitive instincts up on this one. Y
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Don't feel bad Marcella. Some of my late spring purchases are s
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Barbara, Oh yeh, I have some of those too. I just found a reall
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Yes, I have a similar spot next to a redbud tree on the sheltere
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A dwarf pink canna with burgundy leaves sounds gorgeous! What w
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A couple of years ago when both gardenes were open for a weekend
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Barbara, This past Friday, I got my competitive spirit up for
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Clay, your "eye" sounds like it's doing just fine, with or witho
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Gay, don't plants just do that!*! Once a garden club came to
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Isn't that the way great combinations are born? Accident??
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Not always! :) What's the best one you have seen or made thi
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Purple sage and sedum 'Vera Jamieson'. They look like they were
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Barbara, I agree that Nature sometimes has the best imagination.
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I have to agree with you there, Gay. These happy accidents keep
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A single Purple Ironweed popped up blooming in the middle of a p
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Happy accidents. Sometimes I get so annoyed when after all my h
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Spoken from the heart! :) Barbara Martin
Barbara, Talking about accidents of nature. I have discovere
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Clay, sorry for the delay. Are you really talking about peonie
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Barbara reading your article made me feel much happier with my g
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A Happy Plant? What is that? Sounds like something everyone nee
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It's whatever grabs your eye and makes you smile every time you
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Wild Chicken Gizzard? I'm beginning to feel a bit like a parr
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Not the free range kind ! Barbara Martin
Free range parrot? Or free range chicken gizzard?
The plant. The plant looked like a Joseph's Coat on steroids --
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Now that
does
sound like a happy plant - one bound to mak
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Made a lot of other people giggle, too -- see, it's STILL doing
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Dracaena massangeana is well known as Happy Plant here in Aus.,
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Mary, I'm not sure! I did a bit of a search and came up with th
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I wonder if you can find some -- it would look pop your socks of
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Clay, awhile back you asked about root borers in peonies. I sti
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Barbara, I think they are borers. I have a couple of differe
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Clay, if you really think that's so then you need to think in te
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Great idea Barbara about underplanting the Happy Plant with Ires
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Barbara, Thanks for the discussion on the peonies. My bearde
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Clay, scorched earth is right! Have you talked to the County Ext
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Mary -- did you find the one called Chicken Gizzard? Do you th
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Barbara, Our County Extension agent is a part time Professor
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Oh Dear. Can you try the one for PG County? It might be interes
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Barbara, He's really a nice guy. He's the one that put me on
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Listening to the Lotus
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Are you growing water lotus? How is yours doing? Barbara
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I have no water lotus. But they have them in the formerly coo
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How eerie, ec! Bathtub is big enough, it might do if there
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My lotus only did so-so. I had two last year, and the bass some
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Lotus are heavy feeders, especially in pots. Could you reach wi
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I wouldn't dare. This is my fifth lotus, and the first to someho
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Is the edge of the pot above the surrounding water level by any
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Nope - edge of pot is about 2" below the surface- and about 1 fo
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I guess I'm in trouble now! :) Maybe you could do a foliar f
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Wait a minute -- you have a BIG pond -- all you need is a little
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Hey - that sounds like fun!! Maybe I'll take a trip to the army/
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Try one of those long handled jobs on the water lilies -- they a
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Well? Did it work? Did you try it? Barbara Martin
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No I haven't, since I've been pretty well housebound with a viru
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I'll tell you what worked. The threat of me buying a raft and la
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I hope you feel better soon -- and I still really want to know i
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"Where the Wild Things Are" (Chic Heron Pukeballs?)
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Friday's Wall Street Journal ran an article "Where the Wild Thin
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Take Me to the Salamander!
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Has anyone ever actually been to The Salamander? Or found one i
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Barbara, I don't do salamanders. I visited the web site on y
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I don't grill 'em or keep 'em as pets, either! BUT: the Salama
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Barbara, I tried your link to salamander longevity in hope of an
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Howie I think I read somewhere in my surfing travels last week t
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Barbara, I used the Encylopedia Brittanica to first type my crit
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I have a record. I went back to the longgevity page with the new
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WOW!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!! That's fantastic!!!!! Is i
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Unfortunately, no. In eft years it must have rivealed Methusalah
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Barbara, Let's serve up those salamanders, over easy if you w
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Thanks, Clay! And to think I am the "couth police" here (edit
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Barbara, You don't have to worry about me. I've been as "unc
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Clay, I'd be more worried about
me
. LOL Theory is goo
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I am still drooling over the Salamander Menu -- we can't pop out
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My daughter sent me this link for a great page on geckos --
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Clay, I think you have maybe touched on something important. I
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Barbara, Yes it does make sense. I'm glad for the "room" for
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Barbara, Since I am also "La Chef" in my house, what the heck
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Barbara, I tried to post this one before and it didn't seem t
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I'll have to ask around for a really goooooood recipe -- give me
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Oh -- the posting mechanism has been slipping today -- duplicate
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Slippery Pot Pie here we go! These are all supposedly Pennsylva
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Barbara, That's service above and beyond the call to duty. I
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Cheat! Cheat!! LOLOL!!!! and you wonder why I didn't have a
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Shoo Fly pie might take longer for a good one -- the recipes re
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I was introduced to Shoo Fly pie many a year ago when I took a s
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Clay, I sort of suspect it started as a waste not want not kind
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Grab Your Scissors And Go!
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Do you dry flowers or make potpourri? Any favorite tips? Ba
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Hankering for Honeysuckle?
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Would you recognize the fragrance of honeysuckle? Barbara Ma
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carol tombro Where in the world do you find honeysuckle to get
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Hi Carol! You can probably find a source for Lonicera japonica f
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Barbara: Our property borders the woods where the honeysuckle g
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Kim, that's in all probaility Lonicera japonica, the one that is
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Oh -- multiflora rose is also on the bad bad bad plant list in m
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I have had so many private emails about where to find or how to
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Barbara, In your message to Kim, you stated that honeysuckle
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Clay, there are several different kinds of honeysuckle vine.
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Virginia Marin - Invasive!? I'd take it any day to Kudzu!! My
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Many ornamentals become "thugs" in Australia but I have never he
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A Grackel sounds something like a crow's caw. It has been so
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I just hope it didn't do that at two A.M. ! :) Barbara Marti
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Gay, you have so many unusual and interesting plants there... bu
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It has naturalized around the wooded areas of my yard. I'd kind
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Akin to kudzu. Barbara Martin
And my forsythia. ;-)
Maybe even my dwarf nonrunning bamboo which for once I had the s
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Yes, we have very strict plant restrictions, even from state to
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Barbara, After all the commentary on Honeysuckle, I took a wa
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Clay I hope you washed promptly and carefully with soap and wate
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Marge Talt, our Shade Garden editor, is doing a great series on
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Speaking of kudzu and other somewhat vigorous plants - have you
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Barbara, you mentioned the variety I had was most likely japonic
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It still does! :) Barbara Martin
Just came across another reference on Japanese honeysuckle. App
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Invasion of the Garden Snatchers is another fine look at exotic
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Egads -- here's another industry take on the issue:
Garden. Sculpture. Garden. Ever the Twain Shall Meet!
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Barbara, Do you define sculpture as purely ornamental or symb
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Good question! My favorite addition to the garden this year is
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Sculpture would be a three dimensional thing, sculptural qualiti
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Barb, as a more serious answer to your question, yes, trellis an
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Thanks, Barbara. I needed that. : )
surachada bowra I am interested in sculpture garden. I want
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What a feat -- rainforest in Surrey! Thank you for the thumbs-u
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Member Recommended Sites and Products
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cher smyers: I know a site for gardening fun, http://www.sexyblo
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Hi Cher! This is the second time you have plugged this company
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Come visit me: EGADS! And visit us and join in our discussion
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Readers, this discussion thread exists as a convenience for memb
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There is also an area at Suite101.com specifically for classifie
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Billie Allen Hi, Barbara. I'm not endorsing a product, but I
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Billie, I've read the first two, and am thrilled to find out th
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Thanks Billie! They sound great! :) Barbara Martin
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Death of A Political Plant? Does anyone else remember the Ol
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Unsolicited Commercial Messages
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cher smyers: FYI: The Internet Perennial Plant Dollar Store.. is
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If you have a message such as the above, please feel free to pos
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Readers, this discussion thread exists as a convenience for memb
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There is also an area at Suite101.com specifically for classifie
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Squish on NOVA of PBS Fame
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Barbara Martin
Barbara Martin
This evening my daughter and I were watching NOVA about veterina
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I am sure you would know your own darling Squish. It is like an
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In a heartbeat --it was the ODDEST thing -- it was Squish for s
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Shady Highlights: Summer Shrubs Part Three
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Do you have a reliable and easy care favorite to add to the list
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Pacific Northwest Garden This is a hard one unless you consider
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Marcella, I would certainly consider the hardy fuschia as a bloo
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That will teach you, Barbara. You picked a hard one for high su
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Well, Barbara, since you're the funniest mom on the web, I doubt
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Kim, it varies. Actually I'm only one of three equally honor
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Marcella, I have not tried butterfly bushes in full shade here;
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Great article, Barbara! But how come no roses other than Rose of
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Hi Alan! Glad you enjoyed it. ROSES? Well, check here to fi
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For the scoop on the "roses" I do grow for high summer,
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Of Ladybug , Virgin's Cow, and ... Devil's Chicken?!?
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Once again, I must commend you on your Title. I don't know ho
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Thanks Elise! Mother Nature teaches gardeners to have a good sen
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I think they're marigolds. Or calendula. Carol -- virtually
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If you ask me, I think the picture looks like Coreopsis. Maybe y
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Name this plant contest! Now we're talkin' serious! Doronicum
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I don't think it's Doronicum because the leaves in the picture a
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The Lady bug article was truly fascinating. You really out did y
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"Off the wall" is right -- especially if they (the lady bugs) ha
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FYI, source to order ladybugs has moved to www.biconet.net
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Help! Need Boxy Plants
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I am designing a little boxy shaped fenced in garden for myself.
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So far the best I have come up with is a flowerbox full of four
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Summer Shrub Hit Parade Part Two
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Did I miss any favorite smaller summer blooming shrubs for sunny
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Barbara....do you know of any shrubs (besides elder, witch hazel
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Welcome Pier! What a great question! I do not consider mys
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Barbara, I would like to plant some shrubs along my fences. I w
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Yup, I think I have a pretty good idea why. Is your heat index
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I wanted to use the shrubs to "decorate" the fences.....lots of
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Drought is a frightening thing. I spent a summer like that in A
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Barbara, I read Pier Jones comments and your reply with inter
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That's one of the best ways to garden. That's mostly what make
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Do you count roses as a summer-blooming shrub? And for me mock
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Clay, I only hope I'm as successful as your mother, because I b
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Well, Barbara, you hit a nerve with Spirea! I'm quite fond of t
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Carol, Good luck on the cuttings. I've been fairly successfu
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About these spirea cuttings: Carol, if you don't want to risk lo
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Marge, I visit Michael Moore's site often.....and have printed l
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Barbara--First, forget the paint, my husband would have a heart
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Pier, this is an interesting time for you and your garden. You
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Barbara, I will make notes today....I really bad about thinking,
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Pier, one other thought -- the forsythia may not actually be dea
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Well, Barbara, you may have hit on my problem..."plenty of sun".
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Check Your "Old" Roses NOW!
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Barbara Martin
If you are growing old or antique or English or heirloom roses,
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The test results are back -- read Mark's excellent follow-up rep
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Summer Blooming Shrubs Part One
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Have you ever smelled a Calycanthus bloom? Did it smell as repu
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Yes, Barbara, I've smelled one. I've got this shrub (which BTW i
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Barbara, coincidentally, I am using a photo of a chimonanthus pr
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Marge, I don't grow it. I am waiting to find one with excellent
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Gay, that is quite something! Chimonanthus praecox (Fragrant
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this is slightly off-topic, but speaking of plants surviving zon
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sorry, i forgot the link for the article....it is http://www.geo
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Barbara, Yes it smells fantastic!!! Read all about it in my nex
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Robert, sounds more like read it and weep! LOL Thank you! W
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Gay I am getting confused. Are we talking about the summer bloo
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Barbara, the Winter bloomer. I was confused when you asked if i
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Barbara, I think the scent may be stronger on more humid days
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I have read several articles on scent and it is amazing how diff
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Barbara, I enjoyed this article, and specially the part about
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Thank you, Clay. Really, most shrubs are easy care if you put t
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Gay, it is colder than that. We have lows in the 20's every win
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Thanks Marge! I may take you up on it when I get my new shrub b
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Barbara, Just let me know and some is yours. You know, I've
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Gay, glad to find another who finds Houttuynia a disgusting scen
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Barbara, Are you sure you're in Zone 6? -20°F is on the cusp
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Marge, there seems to be a snow and "weather" line at Thurmont M
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Barb, the zones are done on averages. So we are zone 6b except
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I can't wait to see the heat index maps!!!! :) LOL Barbara
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Barbara, I've hit that weather line, actually. Last winter w
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I guess I am spoilt. The lack of water is a killer. In the cou
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Gay, how does your rainfall pattern work? Barbara Martin
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Marge, that's it exactly. When my husband worked in Frederick I
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It’s Hummingbird Time!
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Are there hummingbirds in your garden? Barbara Martin
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No, Barbara, we have honey suckers but that is not the same. In
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I thought I saw one today, but it turned out to be a dragonfly i
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I haven't seen any yet, except for the early bird scouts. Ju
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I love hummingbirds too, but I haven't seen any here in NC yet.
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I saw one last evening. We had a terrible storm rip through in
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Laurel, are your mimosa trees in bloom yet? You are so much fur
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Gay are honeysuckers birds then? Barbara Martin
Barb, Have you ever found a nest? Our storm came from the south
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Barbara, they are birds. The birds that live on honey, Australi
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Gay our hummingbirds are very tiny, about 3 inches long. So sma
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No, Barbara, I've never found a nest...I just see the newly fled
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You've seen baby ones???????? Barbara Martin
They aren't really babies by the time I get to see them...almost
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Do you have a feeder in a special spot or a favorite plant spot?
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Barbara, We have a hummingbird feeder in our entrance and dri
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Hi Clay! Wonder if that has anything to do with the trees remov
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A Loving Father's Day OUT of the Garden
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What kinds of garden gifts do you give or receive on Father's Da
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Barbara, In answer to your question about gifts for Father's
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Poor thing,maybe you could have a belated father's day ;-( Ei
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Well, at least you had a little break, Clay! LOL My husband
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My dad got a cool gif via email -- dunno if he had chores to mak
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Eileen, did you make any "gifts from the garden" to give this ye
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Barbara, Congratulations on being the funniest Mum in the Wor
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Thank you Gay! It is my most treasured Internet award. ;) H
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Replacing A Weber Kettle Barbeque Grill ?
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Here's the thing: this year we are giving a Weber kettle as a
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Squish Talks Tacky
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Need hints from last year's winner? Ask away here! Barbara
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The Tacky Yard Art Contest is a Suite101.com phenomenon. Use th
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Remember that Squish and Wish are official judges. I know Squish
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Wish here. I don't know about advice, Carol, some of them may b
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Gay I think the idiom here would be covert ? Or at least under
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Wish here Well, I don't mind tucking into that as long as it
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Carol
didn't put in the tacky platypus, Wish - Gay did.
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P.S. Wish and Squish - I'm so glad to see you back!
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Thank you, gracious lady. I am glad to be doing something usefu
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Squish knew it would be impossible to stay away for long! Chat
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Haunted By Honeysuckle
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Do hummingbirds like your "good" honeysuckle? Barbara Marti
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No. Hummers don't seem to like much of anything in my yard, whi
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Well, I have a helpful Hummer article coming up next -- maybe to
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That variegated ampelopsis sure does look cool in the catal
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hi Abby! Great to hear from you again! I haven't seen "Cedar L
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Barbara, I never thought to plant something to attract hummingbi
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Alan are you looking at the wrong time of day? They run by sche
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I really did go ahead and publish an extra article this week. <
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I expect you have more varieties of honey suckle than we do in T
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Historic Cottage Gardens
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Virginia Marin - I like Old English Cottage Gardens!
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Hi Virginia! Do you have a favorite one or is it just in genera
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Nick Twight I am a student of Landscape Architecture at Univers
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Great question! Can you tell based on your research so far what
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Thanks Barbara for responding! Mare Island is now a defunct nav
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Gardens, even if temporary home base, can reflect the person in
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Here is the CA reference I was thinking of: California referenc
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Thank-you for the contact info. I will write to Thomas Brown for
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Smack me over the head -- must be a holiday weekend -- but you m
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Nick, what is your time frame on this project? If it's due on Tu
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Gertrude did design some American gardens, Barbara - just none i
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I prefer the local vernacular whenever possible. The English inf
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NORMA HOLLAND IHAVE NO IDEA ABOUT COTTAGE GARDENS PLEASE TAKE M
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Oh Norma how awful to be getting mail you don't want!! I do
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I currently have Favretti's recent book on recall at Davis’ Shie
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I currently have Favretti's recent book on recall at Davis’ Shie
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Carol general plant lists would be helpful, and thanks for joini
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Nick, I think you need to look into Garrett Eckbo and also exten
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You are right! My thinking on the last three periods that I stat
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To find all of our 30+ gardening topics, including California a
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Nick, You cannot forget the influence W Robinson had on Engli
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Here are some links you might find useful as you prepare that pr
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Gay you are so right about finding the catalogs and walking the
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sorry closing tags
Barbara Martin
Thank-you Both! All of your input has been very important to my
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Nick, in preparing my next article I found another link by happe
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I will certainly be happy to keep you up to date on the project
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Another
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Gay you are a veritable surfing machine this week! I may have t
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Thanks Nick! We love fan mail! Barbara Martin
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Barbara, I hope you don't mind! It was a bit quiet on my discuss
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Nick, I finally managed to unearth my book on Victorian gardens
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Carol, if it would not be too much trouble I would love to recei
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Nick, I found three old rose contact names and addresses in Cali
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Here's a site I just found - a center for Landscape history rese
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Sunset Magazine is celebrating their centennial this year. Perh
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What Is A Cottage Garden?
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Barbara, What is the definition of cottage garden? I had a g
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Hi Clay! Your post literally made me laugh out loud. Thank y
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Is this a bull frog? I'm not sure, but as our Garden Adventures
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Clay, Historically, a cottage garden was one that began with
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I didn't know what a cotttage garden was... even though i someho
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Welcome back ec! In a sense they are one and the same, eco and
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New Cottage Garden book out -- read a review
Since I started all this with a question, and have now done some
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Bite your tongue! The deer at my house eat daffodil foliage in
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I think we are getting closer to having a major league cottage g
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But William! Cottage Gardens aren't major league -- they're jus
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Roses? I Don’t Grow No Stinkin’ Roses!
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I planted three roses this spring. Did you plant any? Barb
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Beat ya! I planted 5. Which ones did you plant? I put in 5 of
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Barbara, Carol, I planted 52 rose bushes this spring! I gather
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William, I could swear that I read somewhere in a discussion th
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I planted three striped roses. (It was deep dark winter when I o
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William, I suspect your idea of benign neglect is a lot stricter
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Carol, I'm sure moving a sucker counts just fine. Did it take i
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Rosa Mundi is lovely! From a distance the flower color sort of r
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So far it has buds and a slew of aphids. :) Barbara Martin
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So go aim your hose at it. Hard. ;-) I had an outbreak of aphid
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My hose doesn't reach that far, Carol. I live in the country an
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Well, when I was trying to stretch my hose to reach (with no luc
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Barbara, I moved that sucker in the spring when it was still fa
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Carol, I don't even try to stretch my hose to reach. New trees
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The blooms on my Damask roses are rotting because of all the rai
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A friend of mine from Corvallis just told me it had been raining
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Hey, tell me about rain and Roses! Mine are balled up and cover
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I am about to buy a sp. rose that I have tried to get in Austral
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Gay, what do they mean, R. rubrifolia is hard to propagate?? Is
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Carol, Kiftsgate is offered by the Rosearaie at Bayfields in Mai
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Carol, I can't remember the exact quote nor can I remember her n
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Rosaraie at Bayfields lists it, but also rates it as hardy only
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Um, their 1998 paper catalog and on-line catalog say this: "Min
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I'll be really curious! They benefit from the ocean, often allo
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The rain has finally let up, I was able to spray the roses this
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Kirk, are you spraying your Albas for blackspot or something els
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I don't spray my Albas at all, except that some spray gets on th
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Barbara, Enjoyed your attitude in the article about "You don'
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Kirk what a clever idea! I have often jokingly thought about ca
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Clay! Cool soil is something I never thought about. Dry in sum
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The trouble in Tasmania is that by the time the daffodils are in
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Barbara, Certain daffodils do like hot summers, e.g., tazetta
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Barbara, I forgot to mention in my previous post. In "line"
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Good grief! If you do all that no wonder you don't want to mes
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Barbara, I'm not into the scientific arena of growing daffodi
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Wow, the discussion of Roses really took off! I do like to make
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Landscape and Garden Design On A Budget: You Can Make It Happen
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I am wondering if anyone has had good results using "faux" finis
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I have. Did you want to know anything else? ;-) Actually,
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Barbara, your six steps are RIGHT ON! Especially the part about
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Carol, thanks, that's the type of project I had in mind. Do you
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Thank you Marge! I have moved so often I really do sympathi
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Barbara, the verdigris calls for a mix of paints: gold spray pa
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Hey are you guys referring to me??? (grin) I think I resemble th
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Ah, Debbie, you're a junker!! A woman after my own heart. My hu
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Okay, here's a question. I have a huge round stocktank I am usi
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Exactly how raised is it? How far off the ground and how big (ap
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Carol, it is a watering trough for stock animals -- about 5 fee
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So you want it to continue to be a raised pond? I was going to
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It is so flat on that section of lawn where it is, I don't think
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I haven't had any experience with it personally, but have a frie
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I have made troughs and stones but without some of the additives
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Has anyone had experience doing mosaics for out door use in cold
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Debi -- sounds like you have true talent... do you have favorit
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Barb, Construction sites where old buildings are being torn down
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Architectural salvage! Half my house was done with that. And y
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Barbara, Talk to me about moving a lot. Last time I totted i
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WHOA! Ask this crowd for ideas and stand back! WAAAAAAAAAY bac
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If you like brown flowers, can I recomend a Northwest native to
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Since we're talking flower color, what other good silver-leafed
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Brett -- that sounds interesting! Does it require acid soil lik
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Carol, gray foliage is usually sort of blue, to my mind. Silvery
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Would calycanthus flowers count as brown? Barbara Martin <
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Carol. there are some lovely "Verbascums" now in the shade you w
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Barbara, A mix of blues and silvers would be fine. I had alrea
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Barbara, there are a few daylilies now in brown tones. And I hav
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Just coming in from the garden I spied Ajuga 'Metallica Crispa'
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Debra, metallica crispa may be evergreen here too - under the sn
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Carol, a possibility for your burgundy foliage might be the dwar
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Barbara, The Evergreen Huckleberry has a fine texture similar
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Barb, Raintree nursery carries the Evergreen Huckleberry, I know
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PNW gardening must be a lot of fun -- no wonder you have so many
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Nancy Remmers I am looking for a substitute for boxwood. The
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Hi Nancy! First off, let me stress there is really no such t
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Silly Over Fowl
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Oh - nice bonus! The way Gay's picture sort of drips into my pos
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Carol, you may have the peacocks anytime you give me the word! W
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The man who gave a home to our rooster also has peacocks. My hus
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Carol, two are really beautiful to have around the place! You w
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Editor's Note: I moved and retitled this portion of the thread
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But Gay, they pop up so beautifully! I liked them -- I was read
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Probably, also chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, and doves. But
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Big aviaries made in scultured iron and wire, beautiful bird cag
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Somewhat like the empty bird cages i have just because they are
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How about the moveable arks of permaculture fame? Much more in
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Should You Plant By the Moon and the Zodiac?
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Have you ever tried this? Does it work for you? Barbara Ma
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Barbara, I've never tried this. I've often wondered
why>
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Proximity to oceans and the poles -- that type of locational di
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Yes. There's a small book I really liked, by the Borland (??)
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That takes some of the magic out of it, but none of the charm.
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Maureen & Bridget Boland wrote one of my favorite books: "Old W
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Same book, even. I like it...especially the section about rose
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I guess dogs who live in town have better manners. :) Barbar
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...Or small town gardens are easier and cheaper to fence than ex
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Zodiac gardening? Is anyone using that method? I would love to h
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Ummm... given that the moon passes overhead every day, and given
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Hi Trav! I guess YOU don't plant by the moon OR the zodiac eith
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Hi Barbara, My point was the plants experience that same grav
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Oops, wasn't gonna use that sig until the new veggies editor cam
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I don't usually call in the OBGYN to check out my garden, but ap
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Savvy Gardener's Guide to Fall Color
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sheila steimer hi i have live here 4years and i have clay dir
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Hi Sheila! Working with clay soil can be very discouraging but
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If you can get the sol loosened by breaking it up with gypsum, r
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You're right, Gay -- I have four roses growing in the part of my
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The use of gypsum is not instead, use earlier before the organic
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The gypsum is supposed to make the clay flocculate I think. The
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Gay is black frost a killing frost? I have never heard that bef
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Gypsum is supposed to make clay flocculate, where it turns into
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Don't get me wrong, I am the biggest advocate for organic matter
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Gay that could be freezing rain or an ice storm or hoar frost or
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Barbara, Gay may be talking about cold snaps combined with ki
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I,m a little muddled. I wrote about rime because I was writing
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Gay, interesting what things are called in different places! I
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Have you ever seen your Rhododendrons droop their leaves when th
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Gay, is this the picture you meant for me to
Barb -- that really is a nice article on soil. I know it says gy
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If gypsum is being used, the soils are usually very alkaline to
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Good thing I'm not a physicist, either! (big grin) That's much
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Barb? If you know that then the next thing I'd ask is if you wo
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Barbara, Sorry, I missed this discussion's update. I think
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Nothing like giving you a choice between a rock and a hard place
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Barbara, Cations are positively charged molecules or atoms.
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Yes. Better you than me! :) TIA (GD&R) Barbara Martin
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Planting Your First Culinary Herb Garden
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Did I leave out your favorite? I hope not! Barbara Martin
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What was the first herb you planted? Barbara Martin
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My first herb plants were Rosemary and Parsely. I have containe
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How big and tall does that parsley get for you? Can you grow
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My first herb was basil - lots of it. I wanted to make pesto. I
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Carol, My Italian parsley gets about two and a half feet. The
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Here in my part of zone 6 we can have winter lows of 20 below ze
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Speaking of parsley, last summer I toured a local herb farm with
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Many herb gardeners grow Rosemary in a pot and bring it in to a
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Me, I've got mint. I planted mint because my father said it wou
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Mel., just wait til it comes in (without knocking) and takes roo
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Okay that's three votes for growing mint in a pot! Rosemary does
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susan kolberg Hi new toy your group. Was looking up info on knot
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Hi Susan! Thank you for the kind words. Your project sounds li
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Which culinary herbs do we use the most? I know or at least I
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Sapphire: When Blue Really Means Blue!
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Any true blue flowers? Off the top of my head I vote for plumba
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Add delphinium and flax. Barbara Martin
Barbara, How about adding Chinese forget-me-nots
Cynogloss
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Campanula? Gentians? Carol
Plain old myosotis has been looking me in the face this week, to
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I have a veritable lake of them in the side yard! I've been
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My favorite blue flower is Salvia Patens. I grew my from seed a
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Does Salvia Patens also self sow for you? At one time I had a v
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How about meconopsis? They do vary but a good meconopsis betoni
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That's the rumor I hear, Gay -- but in the US it is very difficu
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How about Lithodora (or Lithospermum) and Ceanothus thrysifolius
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That sounds familiar Josephine! Just give a link to this thread
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Electric blue?? Sounds wonderful! That deep blue pansy with the
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Yeah, I dragged home a couple of really pretty viola seedlings -
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Siskiyou Pink? I just planted that, too. Does yours have reddis
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The foliage looks kind of sickly to me, actually, but the flower
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Siskiyou gaura just looks sick naturally. Are you talking about
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Most gauras have that sickly-looking blotching, don't they? The
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I have never tried meconopsis because I figured they just wouldn
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Marcella, Meconopsis - Yes they are a little difficult until the
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The problem with blue poppies here (in coastal B.C.) is the abun
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Josephine, when the soil is too acidic, it can drain some elemen
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The Things Mothers Grow For Love!
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Any one else growing assorted rakes and brooms? Barbara Mar
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What a nice article. No I don't have a barrel of rakes, etc. bu
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Thank you Mona! Are you *sure* your garden hasn't relected your
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reflected oops Barbara Martin
Actually, Barbara, I think you're lucky that your daughter enjoy
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This spring she is deliberating over a selection of annuals for
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A Victorian
clubhouse
??? Is she leaning toward the hot c
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I took pictures the day we cut down a blooming Sugar Tyme crabap
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Barbara, your frog doesn't seem to be getting anywhere.
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No, but he hops good. LOL! Barbara Martin
ORANGE Impatiens! WOW!
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What do you think will look good with these new impatiens for sh
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Edging lobelia?? Or how about some of the coleus that is gold wi
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I've been thinking about this some more. Is this a space where y
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Hot and bronzy colours in the shade are great -- that's what mim
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Carol, I definitely think lime would be a disaster with these, a
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Josephine, I just can't get into them either. But I really like
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Mottled? With what?? Eeuuw!! I haven't seen them, so I was gue
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It's a sort of you have to see it to believe it sort of thing, C
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From the sounds of it, I think I'll disregard these as well. ;-)
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Carol, They are really strange-looking plants. I thought the
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Somehow I suspect they will be drop dead spectacular in the righ
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Well, I just had to see what you were talking about, so I waded
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Geraniums are awfully popular. Also petunias and marigolds. Al
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True, true. And sweet allyssum and pansies and that annual brigh
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Ummm, we bought sweet alyssum in three colors, I have to go back
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You need to
buy
sweet alyssum?? I planted some the first
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Carol I use the Easter Bonnet alyssum in containers in full sun
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Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
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Do you have a favorite purple flower? I never considered myse
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Hi Barbara,I think my most favorte purple flowers have to be my
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Hi Eileen! Glad your lilac is still kicking! I love lilacs, to
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The only purple in my spring garden is from the lilacs, a few cr
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Am I allowed to brag about my white Lunaria with white varigate
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Barbara, I have purple but I pair it with white, Aquilegia a
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Hi Barb! Campanula glomerata is definitely in the purple groupi
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Do African Violets count? I just love their colors. Have four
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Hi Mona! You bet African violets count! (Thank you for remindi
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Hi Marcella! This is the place to brag!!! Your white varie
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Barbara, I did wonder a bit about about your purple redbud cl
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Barbara, different Miss Kims? I had no idea. Well I guess I ha
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Barb, there is a redbud called "Pansy" that is purple. I wanted
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Redbuds in the wild vary from what I call a soft medium pink to
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Marcella, Miss Kim is sometimes described as growing to 3 x 3 fe
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Barbara, That must be my problem with redbuds: my nearsighte
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Barb, actually I suspect your local redbud population may verge
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I have Red Bud "Forest Panda." It's what I would call a rosey p
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Deep rich soil? Maybe that's why mine have little buds! LOL
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Other, later purples? Lots of good daylilies. Liatris? Some col
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Have you forgotten your own native flower
Later purples: Salvia "Purple Rain" is a good purple, the "Blue
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I forgot this. It is more purple than in the photo -
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Gorgeous photo Gay! Do you know which one that is? :) Barba
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The closest blue rose I grow is "Velchenblau." It grows over an
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Here's a bit of name dropping - No, it was given to me as a cutt
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Gay -- somehow elementary doesn't seem adequate but the cuttings
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Marcella, are we doing blue or purple? If we are doing blue I'd
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Gay, if you don't start collecting thses stories into a publish
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Well, let's all help Josephine out by adding to this thread on
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Carol, I WAS heading towards a book, then along came Suite101.co
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I know, I now Gay -- I'm sorry. But look at it this way -- thes
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Carol, Thanks for the offer. My
Gay, please be sure to let us know when the next chapter is read
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Gay, I will certainly buy that book when it's published. I hav
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Marcella, what fun! You must be sure to tell us as soon as the
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Barbara, My garden will also appear in Better Homes and Gardens
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Best of luck, Marcella. Wait until the TV people come. Not goin
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Gay, do you mean your next article here or are you in an upcomin
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Marcella, I don't suppose you would consider sharing some of yo
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The house [historical town house]and gardens have been published
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Gay, what a poignant story. I can just see you out in your gard
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Marcella, if you make them up and keep a straight face most peop
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Gay what a wonderful tribute! Barbara Martin
Ewww! Earwigs! HELP!
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Sugs are quite tasty with a nice Riesling. Anybody have any sugg
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Hi Wayne! I know you meant slugs can be tasty! ;) Since earwi
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Wayne, I'm no wine connoisseur, but if you need an informed opi
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No, no, no, you've all got it wrong. Slugs go best with a nice
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I have found that earwigs in the garden soon end up as earwigs i
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Just think about soapy water! On second thought, don't. Bar
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Ewww! Slugs in the Garden!
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Has any one tried the new slug product from Gardens Alive? I wo
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No -- but I did find a great remedy for slugs. Buy a rooster! Ca
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A rooster? Somehow I thought you brought home a baby chick and
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Well, yes -- that's how it usually goes. Cute little baby chicks
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I get an unbearably cute magazine here at Glynwood called Birds
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I have never seen a hot dog sized slug, thank God. Barbara do y
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Lady B! I used to hurl slugs into the road and watch the birds
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Kim, it FELT like a hotdog. It was in a suburb of Washington D
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theresa beerman I have found orange peel to work well as a slug
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hi Theresa! This is interesting. Margaret's
I feed dry kibble, and yes we have snails too, we didn't used to
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ANTS?!? I thought Hawaii should be a gardener's paradise, but .
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I was thinking about one of your earlier posts, Barbara, and I t
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Don't you also now have a lot of birds and other critters, too?
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Tons of birds -- and new interesting kinds each year. Partly I c
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Have you added many native plants with that in mind specifically
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Its not so much that the ants eat the roots as they set up farmi
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Well, both. I've added dogwoods, and other berried bushes. Learn
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I have tried organic stuff like bioling water on the ants but it
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Theresa that is so similar to how I decided to use the slug bait
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Here is an recipe for ants. 1 ts. sugar 1 ts creme of ta
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Hi Mona, I'm going to try that today. When I pulled out some of
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Hi Theresa! Let us know how it works on yours! Barbara Mar
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Purple Tulip?
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Does any one have a favorite purple tulip? I am looking for one
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I like Queen of the Night, the alleged black tulip which is actu
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14 years! How deep did you plant them??? Barbara Martin
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Six inches -- just like the instructions said. Other tulips that
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Maureen has come back again and again here in heavy soil. But
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Garden Design Is Theater: It's Show Time!
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What is your favorite "special effect" in gardening terms? One
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I have a rather large garden, so I am fond of perspective effect
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I'm not clear on where you're oputtingthat mirror, Barbara, but
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This is a good trick to use in a tiny garden. The mirror would
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Kirk it must be nearly impossible to navigate without depth perc
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Carol I like to use "what's around the next bend in the path", t
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Daylily Questions!
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Posted for Mercia: I recently discovered daylilies. They a
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Hi Mercia! I love daylilies, too. They are addicitve. Not to
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Daylilies are a great flower for the gardener! Easy to care for,
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For a nice introductory piece on daylilies -- see
I managed to find out something about 'Royal Mountie' -- it
i
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Ah -- my sources once again come through! Here's the scoop on 'R
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Mercia Ayers
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I am so excited about the information I received from Carol and
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I am so excited about the information I received from Carol and
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Uh oh -- sounds like you are really hooked! Enjoy! :) Barba
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It’s Earth Day: Bring On The Worms!
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Do you have worms? Barbara Martin
Yup, I have worms (well, not me, but my soil does) and they're a
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Kim thanks for the tip -- I have been so busy actually gardening
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Well then, I can't think of any better celebration of National G
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I wrote about Arbor Day last year and decided to do Earth Day th
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Well I'll be darn Arbor day is also my birthday. Worms. Great
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Am I the only one here that actually has worms? My aunt offered
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Happy Birthday, Marcella! I'm sure the lady bugs are very happy
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Jessica, that's interesting. I don't think I would have been ab
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I used a under bed sice rubbermaid and made holes all along the
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.. lively music playing in the background.." worm you come home
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Hi Lynn! What fun! Please keep us posted! :) Barbara Marti
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Arbor Day: Think before you plant that tree!
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Treees can be wonderful additions or horrible inheritances. PLE
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Are you planting trees for Arbor Day? Barbara Martin
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Add ANOTHER Water Feature! Just Do It!
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Cynthia Vorce I build Water fountains out of Lava rocks and S
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Hi Cynthia! What a fabulous endeavor! I suspect power tool
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Cynthia Vorce Hi Barbara! Thanks for responding so quick
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Cynthia, I checked with my husband, Mr. Fixit, and he tells me t
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Cynthia Vorce Thanks for all the ideas. I have a drill and I
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Kim, Cynthia -- this is great! Thanks for finding some resource
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Cynthia, just an odd thought here, but could you possibly mold t
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Barbara, That is a very good idea, but I know nothing about
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Cynthia, here's a thought (although I have no idea if it's a goo
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Kim I think it would work with some experimentation. You could
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They make fake diamonds, too, but I can't tell the difference.
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Catch That Bunny! Hide Those Eggs!
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Happy Easter! How's the gardening weather holding up in you
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Rain, rain and more rain. It's putting a real damper (so to spe
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Kim, was it really that many? I'm glad you enjoy it. I cheat.
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I'm planting roses today, to cascade down the wall os the secret
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I have been sick so I haven't had to go out into the storm. We h
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Easter Eggs!
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Joke of the week. While researching my current article I found
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Planted Squill but it never came up?
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I planted a bunch of different bulb plants this January includin
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William, generally squill is a little later than the other bulbs
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William - another thought. If the planting area is fairly remov
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As this is a brand new house (July 96) it gets pretty much full
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William, why leave the minis in pots?? They might make a perfec
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William -- my apologies I missed this earlier in the scroll! M
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I will have room for them in the front bed though it is not a ra
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William, do you consider yourself to be a collector? What is yo
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Not a collector, just a
HARJ (Houston Area Rose Junkie)
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William, that's great! And I just love your new signature!!!
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The wish list is a reality. I ordered them yesterday and they w
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William, Wait til next year -- or until you hit a great sale.
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HEHEHE That's what they all say! LOL!!!! :) Barbara Marti
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What
ME
get more
ROSES
. I don't think so!!
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The Perfect Perennial Garden
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What would be the perfect perennial garden for you? Barbara
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Well, I've got color pretty well nailed down now. But I'd like t
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My perfect perennial garden would allow mass-planting of all my
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Which means you can *afford* all your favorite plants, right??
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My perfect perennial garden is getting smaller all the time! :)
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The "perfect" part of mine is pretty small. Small enough that I
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Just like the magazines do! Vignettes are great! Panoramic sho
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I didn't think that you were supposed to till the ground for per
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So they tell us, Kirk. I prefer to till, then build a raised be
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Kirk, I don't do either one. I just sheet compost. Barbara
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My favorite way to start a perennial garden is lay lots of newsp
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The newspaper method does not work for kikuyu grass which sends
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I kill the grass with black plastic for a couple of months
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theresa -- did I miss something or are you not using soil amendm
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abby -- may I ask why you bother with the plastic since you end
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Debbie -- do you find that the six inch layer of bark mulch is s
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Kirk, so far we have no double diggers, or at least no admitted
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Barbara, Almost everyone except Ruth Stout
says
we're sup
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By the way -- I used to use the newspaper method. A lot of tapro
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The British gardening books told me to double dig, so I did it.
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Let's trot over to
While we're all waiting to hear what the "uptown" (huge grin!) g
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Barbara, I have not found any noticeable problems with the ba
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Debbie you have raised so many interesting points! I am beginni
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Why so defensive Debbie?
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Barbara, After having said all that, I must say that I have b
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The purpose of double digging is many fold... let me share one o
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Ummm... I could have sworn that double-digging came out of the "
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I am also influenced by the French intensive method. Actually my
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We crawl on our hands and knees to weed all the gardens and use
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Any more passionate testimonials out there? So far I think we h
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No one has mentioned raised beds. That's another good solution f
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It taks at least four cups of tea to get the motor started in th
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Gay, Since I do keep my chiropractor and his family well fed,
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That's pretty much what I thought, too. Every garden I have had
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Somehow I doubt that mixed borders are any less of a perennial g
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Did you know that tea is marvellous for Camellias? I have an old
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Theresa and Gay! That tea must help ward off the iron chlorosis
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Isn't it odd that for some people plants can grow like weeds an
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Theresa, the collector garden is always a challenge! Sometimes
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I have. Or more correctly, I made an unconscious choice. I can'
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I have lots of space, I live on 15 acres. It is mainly forest an
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Barbara, the iron may help but the tea is still good for the Cam
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I don't have an iron kettle or pot, at least not one without a h
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Theresa -- probably depends on how much they rust (or not)and sp
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In the olden days when I was pregnant every year, the Aussie Gov
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Gay, when you talked about massing plants above, would you say t
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Equinox? Solstice? Move the Furniture!!!!
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Spring fever gotcha yet? Barbara Martin
You bet! I finally got out today and finished pruning all the r
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We had a dull and dreary kind of day so I went out and bought my
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A cupola??? Where is it going??? Are you gonna enter it in this
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I'm not giving away any clues about this year's tacky yard art c
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Do people get to win two years in a row??? I'll have to check th
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The cupola is in my garden. It is a rescued historic artifact
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Where were you rescuing artifacts?? And did they happen to have
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I bought a really nice iron gate at the same place yesterday. T
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Hmmm. I guess I won't be traveling in the snowstorm we're predi
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I heard on an American TV show that your Spring's official date
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I think it has to do with the position of the earth relative to
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Historic York Inc. operates a warehouse style recycling center
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Gay, it was really and truly the actual vernal equinox. The sci
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Here's a nice brief discussion of the seasons -- full of links t
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Believe me, I have checked -- we have no architectural salvage p
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Carol, if you email me the measurements I can check when I stop
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That sounds like a good uidea, Barbara. Thanks! I just wis
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We have LOTS of daffs (and crocus and abeliophyllum, plus scilla
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Gay, You might be interested to know that in Hawaii we have what
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Theresa, how long does the dry season last? Do you use laundry
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Aloha Barbara, the interesting thing about this island is that y
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Microclimates are incredible! (I thought I had some interesting
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Soil? In my garden I do actually have soil. This is not unive
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Theresa I'm sure people would be interested in hearing about gar
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Interested, Theresa?? I was fascinated enough to read your post
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TSK tsk! That Carol! Always encouraging new editors in the Gard
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Did you see the rabbit drop the eggs?
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Did you see this animated gif in my article this week? Watch f
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What Makes A "Good" Garden Design?
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Hi Barbara Welcome to Suite101! I'm the Perennials editor. I
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Hi Amber! Thank you! I'll do my best. Barbara
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Hi Barbara and a huge, although belated, welcome to Suite101!
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Glad you found me, Marge! This is fun! Barbara
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Hi Barbara, I enjoyed your article about the "right plant for t
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What a great idea! Did you make an actual pond or did you do a
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Barbara, I dug a tiny "pond" and used a plastic liner, and put
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Laurel it sounds wonderful! I have a suggestion though. If the
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Hoorah, Hooray, My Azaleas and Indian Hawthorn finally bloomed.
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We moved into our new home in July 1996 and for the first time t
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It sounds wonderful! So far we only have violas crocus daffodil
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Bah, humbug! All I have are Helleborus niger. Although I see o
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Which is worse: bare dirt or snow? Barbara Martin
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Is it traditional to give plants as housewarming gifts? People
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Answer to question 1: bare dirt. Snow is at least living mulch.
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Bewitched By Lilac: Magic Memories
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Bar-- I, too am a reluctant lilac fan. In this climate, unle
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Michael Dirr calls the odor of Syringa reticulata (Japanese tree
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Miss Kim and a lot of the other very small lilacs are Korean, ar
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Carol -- most of the small leafed lilacs are ostensibly from Chi
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Barbara Martin
Oops - I also meant to mention these smaller lilacs don't seen t
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Patricia Thomas Hello, I dry Lilacs! I do dried flower a
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Maybe I'll have to get one of these legendary Japanese tree
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Maybe you'd better stick some cuttings! In a few years you'll n
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Um, I have a feeling inkberry from cuttings would grow Very Slow
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I would consider some of the dwarf species of lilacs but I need
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William, the lilacs need a chilling period in order to bloom, so
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How to Get the Cutting Garden You've Always Wanted!
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What are your favorites for cutting? Barbara Martin
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Whatever happes to be flowering! ;) Seriously, right now one
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I don't cut flowers anymore unless I'm entering them in competit
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Keep the cats! Just cut the bouquets to give as gifts -- pe
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For many years, I always filled all rooms in the house with vase
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Gay, What do you mean when you say "soaking"? Are you immers
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Linda, after cutting the flower [always cut on a slant as this h
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Gay, does it help to recut the stems? Barbara Martin
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Barbara, Been to country so sorry re delay. Yes, it does, a
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Barb, I grow larkspur (for fresh and dried), oriental lilies
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News Flash! Garden Catalogs!
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Latest update to the ultra on-line
Watch out for Gecky! Coming Soon!
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Editor's Note: Watch out for Gecky
Starting an eco-garden
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Posted by Carol for Kevin I am planning on moving into the ar
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I have a little more information from Kevin. He will be gardenin
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Thank you for a very tough (broad and open-ended) question! I
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ECO-GARDENS! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!
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Welcome to Eco-Gardens! Ideas for articles in 1998? Favor
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Happy Anniversary Eco-Gardens! I have enjoyed your articles and
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Thanks Debbie! Hi from Epcot. Be back late next week! CIAO!
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ECO-GARDENS GUESTBOOK
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You'll need to become a Suite 101 Member to post here, but that'
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ECO-GARDENS TALK BACK!!!
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This is a great time to tell me what you think -- I'm on vacatio
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Snowbirds and Wannabe Snowbirds!
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Okay, it's winter at your place and you'd rather be someplace el
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LINKS for Eco-Gardens!
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Know of a link I should include? Tell me about it here! Ba
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Resolved. Keep Garden Journal. Label Plants.
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Barbara, My garden journal is really 3. One for taking outsi
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I've always been a fan of the looseleaf binder as a way to keep
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Which categories do you find the most useful in your garden jour
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I don't know about useful, but the thing find myself looking up
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Categories? Lists of plant varieties, their growth habits in
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I'm not even going to describe my journal (or lack thereof) ;-).
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Labeling is my great failure, Linda. Using the ones that come w
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I also have a Garden Journal of sorts- actually kind of a multi-
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Another interesting journal idea is using a video camera. I have
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I think black and white photos or Polaroid photos are the most r
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Brett uses a computer record, is any one else using one? Barbar
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I tried. I even bought a computer program called Journal that au
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I am going to start a separate thread on computers in the garden
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Black and white photos tend to make you look at the structure of
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That sure sounds like the voice of experience! Great tips!!!!
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Computers in the Garden ?
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Do you use the computer for your garden? Do you have a favorite
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Barbara, I may not have been too successful with a garden journ
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Echinacea Bravado and Magnus?
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Does any one know if the purple cone flower Echinacea purp. call
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I think Bravado's claim to fame is a deeper purple color. If I r
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I just checked my favorite nursery -- with Magnus the features a
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That's what we remembered about Bravado and one of us vaguely re
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All I can tell you is that the catalog for my local nursery list
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Tom Clothier just sent me a note saying Bravado is listed as pur
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I have heard that the two are very similar, but they were sepera
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Brett -- I am finding conflicting descriptions in catalogs offer
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Barbara, This often happens when a named clone is treated the
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I finally thought to check with the source and visited the Peren
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For the Children.
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Hi Barb, I'm happy to see your article here. My first grandchild
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Emma, how wonderful!!!! Barbara Martin
Suite 101 Kids is a newly designated grouping of Suite 101 topic
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Tell Me About Your Garden This Month: 1/98
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Bluebirds came through in a glorious band today -- about two mon
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Can the Verbose 10% zip up for two weeks? How about two days?
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Barbara Martin on Jan 13, 1998 at 08:15 PM
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Actually, Michel, I would prefer to skip the 17th and 18th becau
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What’s Your Garden Landscape Style?: Cowboy? Edwardian! Eccen
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Hmm. I might be an eccentric gardener. Who else would have a ga
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I have to say eclectic since I saw myself in many of the styles,
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Great Links. Thank You! Mary Ellen Bradshaw
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Mine? Immature, varigated, playful, and expansive. My current
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How much is your garden style influenced by the style of your ho
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The funny thing is that the one extra plant will always fit in s
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How about a garden to charm us with surprise and delight? G
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I have to agree about the topiary. I have one, bought at a plant
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Barbara, Oh! Yes! I would love it if people described my garden
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Gay, this will make you smile. My newspaper column and some oth
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Read my thoughts on peafowl at my home page
So they're not door prizes during open gardens? :) I hope an
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Maybe they could be prizes for the theme garden contest? Carol
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Would require an appropriate theme. Barbara Martin
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You started that one. Look under the cats and dogs and hens and
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I couldn't do it to anyone!!! Beautiful things.Of course our si
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PS Barbara, thanks for kind words re home page and also for that
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I kind of liked "enchanted" myself, Gay. That's how your gardens
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Carol, anytime but it has to be a Roman orgy. Apparently, accord
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Gotta add Roman Orgy Staging to the garden style lexicon. Step b
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Gay, I read your entire series of pages in one sitting from star
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Ok, OK we'll do a Roman Orgy. I must say that your surplus of p
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Believe it or not, there is an application sitting in my editors
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Ah! You two make me coyly blush. Carol, the rose petals I can
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And to think I've been missing out on this fascinating discu
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Hi Linda! I don't know where *you've* been, but I've been tryin
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Pie in the Sky!
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And what is the most pie-in-the-sky item on
your
dream ga
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I want, I want, I want...... :) What I really dream about i
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May Santa at least bring you a nice shovel. (and a real pretty
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I'm with you,Debbie. Ever since we built this house, I have want
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Maybe a partridge in a pear tree plus a bulldozer or two for sta
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I want the big slope beside the house graded with stone terraces
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Maybe you'll get rocks for Christmas! (And I don't mean
coal
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I got a lump of coal one year. My mom syas she's regretted it ev
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Carol, Re: Good Gardening Loot. The "kids" gave us (me?) a
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My gardening present I received this year was a gift certificate
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Visions of Paradise................ Barbara Martin
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Hey Debra, I am curious, where were you planning on getting t
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Debbie, I've had the chance to get koi for my pond several time
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Brett and Carol, I actually haven't thought that far ahead! T
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Garden Design Basics: The Step By Step Process
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Wishing you the merriest of holidays! Barbara Martin
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Deck Solutions
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What's your suggestion for our hypothetical suburban deck?
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Face Down in the Fish Pond: Dry Garden Design Basics
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Okay, so who measures with a tape and who does it by eyeball? (
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Depending on the size of the space I sometimes use feet (my own
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Hi Abby! Are they metric? Barbara Martin
Sorry, I shouldn't be flippant, but it is great to see you in th
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Well, Barbara, being in the architecture business, I always meas
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this all too hard. just go to store and spend more than you s
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Yes but ec you gave a lot of thought ahead of time to what y ou
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Marge, it is interesting to see how people think differently and
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Abby! You come back here! teeeheee. Abby is my little sister.
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Yes, I'll admit it. I am Barb's BIGGER little sister. And yes,
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Barb, I do it mostly by eyeball. Or even more casually. My hus
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Abby, thank you. I will keep the forsythia article in the works
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I also use the eyeball method. Last year though I measured the l
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Nothing like using what's close at hand! :) Neon paint help re
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Yes using body parts to measure with is always at hand. :) Altho
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teehee my family once lost me in the garden -- nothing like Ma
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Bar, what plant was that you were weeding in? I want it.
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Whatever one we have a lot of -- feverfew was it this past year!
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I think Genna's got a tutu she's outgrowing...
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My flower garden is usually so full of bright colors and tall pl
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Lord, Barbara, don't tell your clients you don't have to draw it
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About an eighth, Marge. And as you can see it's not even very g
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What is this -- family photo time? Barbara Martin
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Well, Carol, find I don't have a long shot that does it justice,
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no. i prefer going to the grocery store in muddy Madras incognit
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Enjoyed the greenhouse tour! :) I just let my imagination fill i
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If we have more photos to share, it may be time to update the ga
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lumber in composter
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I was wondering if you knew what a gardener's to do if she inh
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Well, let's see. Treated lumber gives off bad fumes when burned
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Well? I can't believe I did *that* great of a job on such a con
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Garden Design Basics: Setting Ground Rules
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How irresponsible *are* you? We'd ALL like to know! That wa
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I'm usually totally irresponsible when it comes to ordering seed
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Hi there Eco-Gardeners - People who order plants by mail alot ar
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Free plants always do present a dilemma, don't they? I have frie
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I remember asking "How much do I owe you?" on payday when I work
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It's nice to know that I am not alone.
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Well, Barbara, not having dug my pond yet, I haven't fallen in t
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Marge, I bet your garage is full, too! I may seem fixated on th
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OVER THE BACK FENCE aka RANDOM THOUGHTS
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Helpful tip of the day: I found not one, not two, but THREE cof
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Welcome to the back fence! What's on your mind? Barbara Martin
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Barb, I chuckled when I read about the coffee cups. A proble
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Coffee cups ARE important. Is it possible it's genetic? My Dad
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Like we do with our gardening hand tools, we should paint our co
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We could put cup holders in appropriate spots.
...a tastefu
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Did someone mention tacky yard art? I love yard art. And I lov
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I just dug up a tacky garden ornament! Where do I enter the cont
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You'll have to wait until the next contest, Debbie. Which will p
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Wasn't it over 4th of July? (I need more timne to prepare! --
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Ok, I will try to be patient! Barb, but I think I have the conte
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You bet! If it's yard art to you, then it's yard art for me. T
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Debra. If you want to enter now, you certainly can. Just descr
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I just checked and the Tacky Yard Art article ran on May 30. So
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My husband or the pig? A contender, I mean. ROTFL! Barbara Mar
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Well, Barbara Searles (Cats editor) was going to enter her husba
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Anything is possible. Barbara Martin
In that case, I may enter my rooster. He's an especially valuabl
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More live tacky yard art! WOW!!!! This is opening some serious
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Here's live yard art, although not particularly tacky. The seed
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In honor of the season, perhaps we should invent a new category
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Hello Love the idea of Back Fence chit-chat. It's Thanksgi
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Those are Kentucky style beans? I would have guessed California
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Now that we are all stuffed this should be appropriate to post.
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I guess you ate a big dinner! :) Diet strategies any one? B
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Barbara, What about constant attendance at dinner parties? N
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You should see the roving waiters drop the hors d'oeuvres trays
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Debra You must send this little gem about cold and fat burnin
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ec, I believe the bit about the hand models. I remember watc
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ec, Squish seemed to go a little flat. Then I found another var
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EC~ I can't take credit for it, my husband sent it to me from
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I want to know what some of you are doing to help ease the garde
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I slam doors at this stage, myself! Also sleep a lot extra. An
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Painting murals on the wall! Debra, that *does* sound fun! I us
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Barb, I am not painting murals on the wall, although rereadi
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I didn't *really* think you were drawing on the walls, I just ki
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Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!
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Barbara, Okay, my favorite Latin name is Sanseveria (not sure
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Well yes--I have to admit that I usually use the Latin names. I
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This conversation is funny. I keep running into the problem of
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Diana, Check Dr. K's Guide to pronunciation in the article.
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What with the recent bestseller about Venus and Mars, maybe it's
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Barbara! Not "pussytoes" or "cats and kittens"?! Not even "catn
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OK, so this is not my arena--but if it ain't mums, what is it.
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"Mums" is what us lazy typers and talkers call a chrysanthemum.
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Hey -- Mum's the word here -- I didn't pick out the picture and
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"MMMMmmmmms's" the word here! is what I *meant* to say. The fl
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Okay it's late but I'm going to risk it - call me crazy, call me
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Y'know, Karen--I was about to say the same thing myself. Carol
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OK. I couldn't bear the suspense any longer. I spent an hour se
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That dandelion picture goes to prove that a weed is just a plant
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Sunny, thank you -- it may be a dumb dandelion, but I kinda like
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Name That Plant: I found this
Hi Karen! Epithets!!! What ARE you sending us? Actually, it i
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If you all couldn't tell those were dandylions, you need to get
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Taraxacum officinale
for all those who are still actual
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Yes and there are few blooming at my house despite the fact it i
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The Holiday Gardener’s "Handy" Reference
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Barbara, I tried that trick of using heavy duty cleaners bare
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Skin wasn't tough enough when you started! That or not dirty en
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Barbara, I loved this article and can really identify with th
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Thanks Mary Ellen! To be honest, I have no idea if the stick wor
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Garden Happy Talk
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I would like this to become a Garden Bulletin Board where we can
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WINTER IS COMING! THE S WORD! Here is the extended forecast
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Maybe I should get out there and rescue the tropical waterlilies
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My dwarf papyrus is out there scratching at the door through the
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Most of my dahlias bit the dust. Too late, to late. Why is it
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Carol, It may not be too late for your dahlias. I've had the
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With all the snow on the ground here (14 inches), my Schneewidke
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Snowbunny? Barbara Martin
Oh Barbara! Now I wish I'd consulted you before naming my house
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That's all the German I could remember -- but it sounds like a d
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I may have misspelled it--try Schneewidchen. I know you can do
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wittchen would do it, but I had to dig out the old Langenscheidt
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But have you figured out yet what it is? Hint: its common na
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Give up? It's the
What *some* people will bring into the house! Snowy weeds! ~si
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Snow White of fairy tale fame is what I was thinking of -- I rec
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Several of mine are in bloom now and one of our student employee
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Is it hardy? Or is it really a container plant? The picture lo
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I tried to winter one over here in zone-5-sometimes-4, but had n
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In the meantime, how did you get the original? Barbara Martin
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I cannot answer that question on the grounds that it may incrimi
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OT Turkey Day Dining With A Difference!
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Thanksgiving Dinner is a big tradition and most of us have favor
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Sometimes we have goose instead of turkey. I stuff it with slig
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Two years ago I made No-turkey Turkey for our main course. It's
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What's the torta part? And Lee Ann, watch out for those mushroo
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Carol -- can you approximate the recipe for filling made with po
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Barbara, I'm one of those people who cooks by eye, not recipe,
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Carol -- You start with raw rice, correct? I LOVE the freezing
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Carol, How much garlic do you put in a goose? Barbara Martin <
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Barbara, The freezing idea was my mom's. Thew worst part of tha
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WOW! Reckon it would work on a torched chicken, too? (The garli
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Sure it would. I torch my chickens at 450 F the whole time -- do
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Torta Rustica is a rustic Italian pie; I'll list the ingredients
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Speaking of garlic: peel off the skin and alternately dunk fo
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Lee Ann, That sounds heavenly! And to both you and ec, I'm gla
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Garlic is great. It is definitely a household staple here. My da
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Celebrating Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines!
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Barbara, Have you heard anything about a new dogwood called "Fl
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It sounds wonderful, as do many new introductions. I have not y
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Back Seat Gardening: The View From the Garden Bench
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Barbara, Garden benches are nice, but I like to carry chairs
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Isn't it amazing when you discover how much of your yard and hom
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Razorback herb gardener
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Kimber Standridge Hello everyone. I'm new to this so bear with
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Razorback calling -- BIG WELCOME! Whereabouts are you from?
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Tick Control?
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I recently received a question about tick control and posted it
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Veggies and Wild Flowers on a NY Hillside
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I received a very interesting question about gardening with ter
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The Front Walk: A Garden Design Basic
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How often do you use your front walk? Do your guests use your f
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Seems to me than when people don't use the front walk, either it
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Judy! At least I didn't ask what your measurements are! Big Gr
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Hunting in the Garden: Where Plants, Animals and People Cross Pa
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The hunt is on! If you've had frost in your garden, what still
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*If* I've had frost? We had snow flurries yesterday! If we fol
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So far we are frost free. I still have nasturtiums 'Alaska' vari
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Frost... I have a vague recollection of what that is... the loo
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Hello Hollywood! No! Frost is something people do to their hair
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I'm not doing it to my hair. My hair is doing it without my help
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The ornamental grasses are blooming big time here. They are col
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The Contemporary Garden Journal: Readers, Writers and Publishers
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Journal schmournal. I suspect we are just plain nosey and that'
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Barbara, I really enjoy reading gardening journals. One I've rea
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That's one I haven't read yet! THanks for the tip! I'm hopin
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Judy, Could you tell us what's special about Page Dickey's bo
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Here's one of my all time faves -- but does it count as a garden
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CHIPMUNKS: Friend or Foe? You Decide!
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As far as keeping the chipmunks out of the crocus, I like the su
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I'm not sure platic would stop our crazed critters -- actually,
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I think chipmunks could get through the plastic, too. After all
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I suspect a household cat or dog might be a pretty good deterrre
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Facts of Life In the Natural Garden
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What's moving in your garden this week? Barbara Martin
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My plants moved in my garden this week! I have most of my best
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My garden movers today: Crickets and hoppers and dogs, oh my!
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In my garden today? The chicken, after an absence of three days
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Not THAT chicken! Think he'd do under a corn stalk in lieu of a
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My husband, who has been threatening to eat that poor chicken si
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Actually, the titmice are back, and the finches, and more chicka
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Today we saw (among other things in our yard) 6 deer at once, in
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Try a two pointbuck as a part of a separate herd of seven. Toda
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POLITICS IN THE GARDEN: LIBERALS UNITE!
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Liberal or Conservative? Which one are you? Barbara Martin
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Well, I do confess to having one spiral topiary. But the shaggy
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Barbara, To be fair to gardeners everywhere, I think Ms. Need
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I take it you didn't actually like the great manipulation of spa
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Barb! You can pick any label you like. As I tell my students an
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Perhaps Needleman is a "victim" of a neighbor who has done a nat
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Well, maybe. So often that type of a radical departure from the
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Guys, I think you're wrong; I don't think she meant it in ter
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Travis, Needleman (and that name, that name...) said that gar
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My first impression of her article was that she'd hit on a nifty
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I know she used garden
terminology
, but I felt like she w
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My Momma always taught me it's not polite to bring up religion o
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Deb, you forget I was at one of your parties, and I heard you ta
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Hmmmm must have been rebellious that day! Last time I invite YOU
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And I always thought gentlemen didn't tell! Barbara Martin
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I tend to agree with Marge that this article was, at least, a ra
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To be honest, the more times I read the article the less I could
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Then and again -- I think it would be intructive if Ms. Needlema
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Barb Dorsett, How on earth can you accuse Gertrude Jeckyll of be
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Jeckyll and Lutyens kept a firm grip on the design basics -- sca
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And Lutyens drew the straight lines...for Jekyll to fill with dr
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Carol, Her echinops don't qualify as topiary forms? She used
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Barb! WHAT have you been reading lately?!? (big grin!) B
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Susan Hill & Rory Stuart's
Reflections From a Garden
. (b
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Summary? Pretty please? Sounds wonderful! Barbara Martin
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I'll tell you when I've read enough of it to know. So far, idea
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Oh. THAT kind of book. Well, think of it this way. If you don
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Barbara, At that scale, if I have *any* of it there won't be
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I'm of the hairy armpit school of gardening, myself. LOLOL, B
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Thank you. Barbara Martin
Thank you. Barbara Martin
Thank you. Barbara Martin
Were you really thrice grateful, Barbara? ;-) Carol (virtual
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I love love love fan mail. Barbara Martin
And....she also wants to have the gardening discussion string wi
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I especially love fan mail from people who are not gardening edi
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Seriously, though, in answer to the question about grand scale o
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Seriously, though, in answer to the question about grand scale o
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(I apologize if this results in multiple posts -- I am having tr
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Violas! Who else fell for violas this weekend?!?
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Please don't tell me I'm the only one to succomb to their charms
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Barb, I did! I like their bright blooms in the depths of winter
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Mine usually get buried under snow for weeks at a time, then pop
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Bush blocks
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John Harman Well, the 'bush' is just about anywhere outside the
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Australian gardeners must be tenacious! My daughter will be v
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Just about to do the inevitable Spring article.Yes Spring has sp
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FAB! SEND PIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Barbara Martin
Yes, John -- pictures!! Send them for the garden tour! Carol (v
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Wash Your Hands With Soap Before You Eat! And Other Lessons From
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Oh LOL, did I fall for that one! Tell your Dad he's my kinda g
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Hi Barbara, I loved your article on modern herbs. As a Pharmacy
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Hi Emma! Glad to hear your plants are doing well for you! Do
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Permaculture: Gardens for Body and Soul
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Win a free book! Did any one enter that fun contest? Be sur
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Ecobabble or Ecopsychology? (Organic Gardening Part Three)
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Why do you garden? Barbara Martin
Because I can't help myself. I'm addicted. Carol (virtually ga
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Carol, we all knew that! (GRIN) But what got you started? What m
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What got *me* started? A Shepherd's seed catalog. It arrived on
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Those Catalogs! I think a Breck's catalog is what got me sta
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Hmm -- when I got *my* first Breck's catalog I made a list of $8
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I STILL could order $800 worth of bulbs... often and alot ... n
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I garden cause you guys enticed me into it!!! Now I LOVE it.
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ec, when are you going to send me pictures of your garden for th
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Hi ec! I bet you could grow some bulbs in pots! Lots of the no
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Growing bulbs in pots--that was one of my early activities in ga
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If you really want to make a statement--grow the Bengal Tiger ca
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Diana -- AROIDS?!? What are aroids? Please don't tell me they'r
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Lee Ann, I just knew somebody would ask something like that!
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Aroids include these genuses: Acorus (looks somewhat like grass
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No kidding! You better post over here and give us the heads up
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My continuing problem has more to do with carpentry than gardeni
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ec: How about sturdy hooks and pulleys? Fewer holes in the wal
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Obesity in plants?
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Is there such a thing? If so, I hope you will add to the FAT!
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Yes, plants can be obese! There has been quite a discussion on
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Yes, plants can be obese! There has been quite a discussion on
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Have you ever seen scape blast on a daylily? It literally drink
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Hi ec! Overwatered plants can drown or as Carol pointed out, ex
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The Garden Observer! (Organic Gardening Part Two)
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Does anyone keep a garden journal? Record weather or other data
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I start journals and use them for a month or so. Then they get
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I keep a journal. A huge three ring binder with dividers and poc
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Thank heavens I'm not the only disorganized one! I've tried sev
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Glad to hear too, that I am not the only one disorganized! I
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I think I'd just settle for an organized garden....organized for
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The closest I've gotten to a reliable journal with regular entri
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Winter -- yes! That's when I do most of my journal writing, too.
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Carol, Do you actually draw out plans for things? Or do you jus
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Barbara, I drew out an elaborate plan for the very first garden
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I don't map out my own garden any more, either! But I used to do
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Healthy Plants Don't Get Nits! (Organic Gardening: Part One)
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Huh. I get it now... The morning glories I planted are the on
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I'm with you, Barbara! I generally don't use chemicals, but wil
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Ec -- maybe the morning glories needed bigger pots -- the bigger
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Hi Marge! Just curious, but what all do you keep on hand to use
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Well, actually, Barbara, I don't keep much in the heavy chemical
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Barbara, It sounds like you and I have pretty much the same phi
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Hi Marge! As far as a suggestion for what to do about leaf mine
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Yah, Barbara...big help! But, (whine) I
want
to grow Hel
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Is THAT what's been chomping on the anemones!?! Something munch
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Marge, Maybe you can grow something as a companion for your H
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Barb, That's a thought I hadn't come up with! I'll have to g
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Pssst! There’s a SNAKE in the garden!
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Barbara, Those milk snakes are
common
? I've never s
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The first snake I saw in my garden here in Pennsylvania was a mi
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Snakes! The garters are great in the garden. Eating slugs twice
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Hi Debra! Do you have a picture? I could put it up somewhere be
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My goodnesss... first bats, now s-s-s-snakes????? PANIC!!!!!
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Well, I really learned something from that living color snake li
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Well Barb, unfortunately I don't. I should have photographed the
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Sluggo is almost Kewt. Does this mean I have to "do" slugs next
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Hi ec! Timber Rattlers live around here, according to the maps,
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Carol! Were you out in the sun for a good long while before you
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My worst nightmare, turned into an article. I'll probably have
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Kim! Here are my SNAKE TIPS FOR WIMPS! Bad dreams and snakes
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Ok, I'll take your tips... Talk to myself and jump around lik
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Weather Weather Everywhere! What Are We to Think !?!
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Do you use moles or toads or daylilies to predict the weather?
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Actually, daylilies tell me more about what the weather *was*. I
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Barbara, I use the Murphy system. Leave out a favorite too
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I use the watering method. If the drought is long and extreme
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Well, Barbara, I sure wish your system worked for my garden! If
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Dry as toast hmmm... hasn't rained here since March... April???
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Do you live in a desert? Barbara Martin (Eco-Gardens)
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No Barbara, it's that wonderful Mediterranian climate. We had al
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Speaking of car muddied, my Murphy's law is wash the car and it
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WHOLLY BATS, BATMAN : DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA- NOT!!!!
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Barbara of eco Very wonderful and batty (har har) article.
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Barbara, I like your article. I have bats living in the woods
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Hi EC! Hi Darcy! Thank you! We have some bats by our house,
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We have at least one bat in the house every summer. My husband
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Carol, how do bats get in your house? Darcy, Oregon
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Darcy, The house is over 100 years old. It has cracks and holes
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Hi Darcy! Some of my relatives had a huge old rambling house on
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Bats can even get into newer buildings. We get them in the libr
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Hi Lee Ann! What a great technique! I use a similar method for
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Really, I am astonished with these tales of bats in the house an
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Hi Darcy! What a memorable event! I suspect you are correct
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Barbara, Your 'just in case' reminded me of my son's kinderg
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Hi Barb! LOL! Thank you! If only our "in case" were so hypot
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And they say it's not healthy living in the city. This country
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Kim, maybe it would help you overcome your aversion to bats if y
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Lee Ann, I wish it were that simple. I know about the benefit
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Kim, I tried to track down Dr. Anderson today, but got sidetrack
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Lee Ann, that's hysterical! But what luck for your mom that 7 p
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Carol, I think she might have prayed for hummingbirds to grace t
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Hi Kim! I have a lot of respect for the pioneers and settlers
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Kim, You know you were surprised and scared. Think of that poo
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Um, snakes are the ones that make me all but scream. I really do
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Kim, I was REALLY scared of bats too until about two weeks ago w
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In case you didn't see the recipe in Virtually Gardening
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Yes, I have finally put this page together for everyone! Thanks
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Sounds great! Thank you! Barbara Barbara Martin (Eco-Garde
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Gardeners who like to Bake, I've just made the Biscotti recip
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? On Daylilies and Woodchucks
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Saw your garden "art" photos. I really thought you were kidding
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ME? JEST? Well, I never! (Very Big Grin!) Have you ever
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I have a quality bat story. But I was saving it for your articl
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Barbara, I can sympathize totally. I felt the same way when I c
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Foxes eat baby rabbits, so do mink owls and cats, among others.
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We live in an area which is into agriculture in a big way. Peop
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Hi Kim! This is interesting! For the record, I do not own a
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Barbara, I'll bet my bottom dollar it's Bambi who has munched
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Hi Marge! On the whole I cerainly agree with you about the li
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Maybe it's time to inquire about squished woodchucks... **ec
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Hi Ecwrite! I've never seen a squished woodchcuk (aka groundhog
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Barbara I think you touched on a very important point when you m
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Thanks, Kim! Barbara Martin (Eco-Gardens)
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This One’s For the Birds! Gardening With the WiId Neighbors
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Barbara, You absolutely
must
play those bird calls wit
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Catbirds? Are you sure you want them around? Don't you
like
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Really? These seem pretty friendly. At least they're not in the
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Yup. Maybe they were defending a nest or something. Took a tuft
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I'm just getting my feet wet with bird watching and I have to sa
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Hi Kim! Maybe I should expand into books here! Thank you fo
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I think books are a great idea! Speaking of birds -- do chick
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Hi Carol! Last time I checked, chickens were domesticated anima
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Yup, Barbara, I'm going the orange routine to try to encourage m
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I don't know anything about chickens either except to say that B
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Carol, your description of your little chickie (called "peeps"
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Lee Ann, I can certainly understand why they're called peeps! U
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This reminds me of the local nursery I frequent. They have chic
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Carol! Next thing you know there will be a sign at your front d
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Shoes with tassles, huh, Kim? Maybe I should haul mine out to a
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Hi Carol! And I almost believed the old saw about the bird in h
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WANTED: Favorite Birding Links
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Do you have a favorite birding link to recommend? I'd be glad to
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Barbara, There's always the
That's Pet Birds, right? I meant more the wild outdoor kind. B
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Barbara, I'm afraid all of my own favorite bird links came from
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Actually, since the sub-group is Pet and Animals, these Birds ar
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Thanks! Honestly, I figured it was only per birds so I never loo
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Thanks Carol! You're very kind. Maybe I'll just do a compendiu
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Barbara - the birds topic is more about birds-birdwatching than
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Thanks Lily. I took a look at it and it seems I have already in
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Get Wild! Garden Parties to Attract the Neighbors!?!
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Wild yard art wins award! Check out the discussions under Suite
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Barbara, Hope you'll do part of this series on how to attrac
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Bats are on the way! Thanks, Amber Barbara Martin (Eco-Garden
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Barbara of eco-- your photos are just lovely The gnomes, in p
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ec--spike heels will do a decent job of aerating, but if you can
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Carol! Nobody said they (hummers) were smart! Barbara Martin
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hi ecwrite of the web! Next thing we know you'll be keeping a j
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Barbara, ec not only has a camera but a Polaroid scanner and ha
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Carol? What are pothos?? ec
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They're kind of like philodendron. I thought that was what you
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Ah... I get it! The plastic ivy is INSIDE my house...stuck be
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Which leads to another interesting question. How many of us use
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Lobster whirligig. Used to have one of those concrete seahorse b
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Well, speaking of indoor garden decor and attracting wildlife, i
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Well, Barbara, I can see why you won! My copper frog just didn'
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I *want* that piglet! Does anyone know if being managing editor
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No, No, Carol...I've got first dibs on the piglet :-) Please, P
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No, Marge--he would *not* go well with your tasteful verdigris f
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Hi Karen! Don't you ever feed that cat? I planned to write my
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Carol! Marge! Money? What money!? It's a looong way from hom
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Barbara, he is 18 pounds... some of that is not muscle, most peo
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Tell him that if you can find him in the garden, without any cap
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Yup. Right next to the squished piglet. Barbara Martin (Eco-G
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More like, on top of the squished piglet... :-) How do you think
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Karen, It's nice to know I'm not the only one with fat cats. Ca
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Well, Carol, I *could* put the pig under a different plant than
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Squashed piglets don't come cheap. Virtually speaking.Barbara M
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Use the piglet as the icon for the suite 101 virtual garden tour
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OK, so what exactly IS Plant Food?
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Now that the Garden Goddesses of 101 have turn me into one of th
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Elise, Plant food is normally basically fertilizer--a mixture o
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Hi Elise! Ain't no such animal as plant food, technically speak
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Elise, Barbara, I agree that most plants do get sufficient nutr
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Hi Carol! Sorry --I didn't mean to imply plants don't need fert
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Just a small warning about using Osmocote "time release" fertili
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Yeah, the Impatiens didn't like the hamburgers at all. Actual
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Whew! Thanks, Karen. I'm glad the only thing did this to was t
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Long-term fertilizers are formulated two ways. Some brands rele
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Elise--Your impatiens may be curling because they are getting to
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Hi Elise! Now we're all worrying about your impatiens -- either
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Bye-Bye Bambi: A Battle for Keeps!
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I've never had to do battle with deer in my neighborhood althoug
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Hi Diana! Let's be real clear here. I/we do not own a gun. My
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I finally get it!
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Okay, my back hurts and my hands will never be quite the same. B
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You are in trouble now, Barbara. First comes those gift plants--
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And now you're recruiting your neighbors to go plant shopping wi
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Clean clothes, Diana? To go play in the dirt? Carol (virtua
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Hey-- I don't like to travel with dirty clohtes. Settled for s
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Hi Barbara! Welcome to the club! Enjoy! (Membership is always o
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Glad to hear the pop bottle terrariums worked out well for you!
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Thanks everyone for your best wishes and warnings too! I'm down
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Barbara, an easy way to make a semicircle is to use your hose a
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Hi Barbara! Hint on marking the shape you want to dig: spray p
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Ahh! I've heard about the hose trick, but frankly didn't feel li
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Barbara -- if you want a true semi circle, tie some yarn or stri
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If you tie the spray paint can to the end of the string you have
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Hi Karen! Yup-- you explained it exactly -- although I've never
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Knock Off the Old Knot Garden? NOT!
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Thanks for bringing back fond memories of the Museum of Garden H
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Barbara, I've always wanted to do a knot garden. Originally I p
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Hi Judy! Yes, I have always loved them, too, but never planted
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Hi Carol! Three suggestions for coping with the number of plant
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Wow, a whole article just for me! Aren't you nice. After all th
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Yes, Judy--I'm afraid you'll have to plant one now. And then wri
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Well, Barbara, now I know what to do with the 120 little lavende
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Hi everyone: I just found this neat on-line magazine edition
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Hi Diana! Thanks for the tip! Barbara Barbara Martin (Eco-
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The No-Fail Herb Garden: Informal Recipe for Success
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Hello Barbara Eco-Gardening I was reading your current articl
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Hi Elise! She *is* fabulous! Have you seen her on tv? I don't w
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Barbara of eco, I think I HAVE to do the frog lady for my next
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Hi ecwrite! So you're hooked, hunh? Glad you enjoy it--some of
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On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
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Hi Barbara, Guess I am dense after all, or just can't read.
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Hi Pat! Who's dense? I just thought you loved my articles! LO
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Hug A Tree? Give Me A Break! It 's Arbor Day Again
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Age old connection was discussed in my classroom on Arbor day an
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Delightful! Did they learn it all from you or did they just lik
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Hi: This reminds me of the time I asked a bunch of middle sch
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I can't take credit for most of what they knew about trees. We s
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Deborah! How clever! Hope you don't mind I copied that out to
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Yes, I have done this in music. BUT I must explain that for abou
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Deborah! TIA--Sounds great! I usually teach grown-ups but I ke
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Sure thing, Barb! It'll be next week before I can get anything t
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Ok, Barb! I've got the goods now. I found the manuals that have
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Hi Deborah! Welcome back! Thanks for the info. Both Project
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Excellent! I'm glad you shared the official PLT site and I have
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When Hugs Just Aren't Enough: Trees Need Care, Too!
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Trees! You gotta love 'em! Or am I the only one who thinks "top
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Barbara, No, I do too. By the way I love this article, not o
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Photo
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I enlarged your photo to a full screen but there were not enough
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Pixels and Frogs -- Howard, I can't believe you did that -- ju
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Al Gore's Gone Native -- And On His Very Own Lawn, No Less!
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Bravo, Barbara! I've been fighting with my husband for years bec
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Barbara-- Great title, great article. YAY team!! all the
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Barbara Loved this article! Great job! I'm just glad I don't
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From the mouths of babes and small children who ask about the em
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Home Lawn Care: The Softer Touchstone of Suburban Living
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Barbara, I can't wait for next week--although now I'll have to d
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Butterflies and Gardens:
Making the Perfect Match
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Barbara, Beware!!! You asked for my opinion, and I'm even goi
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Do you do books for a nickel? (If that was "only" your .02 cent
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Karen, I'm glad to see your reply--maybe you'd like to critique
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Barbara - You asked whether I checked the intro section before I
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Cryptic? ME? LOL! Better cryptic than a cipher! ;) Karen, I
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