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<title>What Are the Planting Methods of Different Types of Lettuce?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lettuce is a hardy, cool season crop that thrives best in the early Spring. It will grow on practically every kind of soil, so long as that soil is not too acid.]]></description>
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<title>Can the Branches of the Wintersweet Be Cut and Placed Indoors?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 15:06:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The are many shrubs that are unknown to many persons and are frequently overlooked in the race to travel the roads of the average plantsman. May and June are the months when the greater number of different shrubs come into flower, when they combine to make Spring a joyous season for the gardener. But there is a fascination about those that flower at odd times.]]></description>
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<title>What Describes the Plant Bacterial Diseases?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 08:22:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fire-blight is a bacterial disease that attacks a number of different woody plants in the apple family. Affected are apple, crabapple, pear, mountain ash, hawthorn and cotoneaster, to name a few. The disease is often spread by bees during pollination. It can be carried by moisture and may spread to other trees or parts of trees through splashing rains. New growth seems most susceptible.]]></description>
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<title>Why We Like to Try New Things</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:53:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some of us - perhaps because we're adventurers at heart, like to try new things for no other reason than that they are supposed to be new. Many of the "new" things we've tried in the past, of course, have proved to be new in name only, and others have been new only in that they were inferior to something we already had. ]]></description>
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<title>April Lures Birds</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:20:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Spring arrived officially a few days ago, March 21, and now with April at hand we find Nature moving so fast that it is impossible for an ordinary mortal to keep pace with her. A number of birds returned North in March, but April lures them back in droves.]]></description>
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<title>Where Do Tropical Plants Grow Better?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:14:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are now approaching the time when it will be much easier, as well as less expensive to run the greenhouse. Cold winds will be less in evidence and surely, very low outdoor temperatures will be a thing of the past until another fall.]]></description>
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<title>What Are the Birds Which Feed on Sunflower Seeds?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 09:13:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The health of our gardens depends so much on the birds that we should do everything possible to attract them. This may be done with but little effort by planting certain flowers that attract them. ]]></description>
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<title>Can Calanthes Be Divided to Produce New Plants?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 07:02:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Just now Oncidium splendidum is beginning to show color as its yellow flowers unfold in an upright spray a yard or more above the thick dark green leaves. Its blossoms also resemble butterflies but are larger than varicosum and the bright yellow blossoms are marked with chocolate brown spots.]]></description>
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<title>Should I Use Loam With Manure When Transplanting Peonies?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 10:56:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Digging and dividing an old Peony clump properly is an art and something to be learned by practice. If possible get someone who knows how to show you. If not, cut the tops close to the ground, then dig carefully, resisting the impulse to pry it out and perhaps breaking it in all the wrong places. Do not wash the soil from the roots for that makes it more brittle.]]></description>
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<title>Which Month Does the Gloxinia Plant Stop Flowering?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 08:34:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gloxinia enthusiasts sometimes employ widely divergent methods of caring for their plants. If you have been getting satisfactory results from your particular routine, then I say by all means adhere to it no matter how unorthodox it may sound when compared with another.]]></description>
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<title>Can You Name the Substitution of the American Elm and Native Oak?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 09:44:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Substitutes for the American elm and native oaks as shade trees are being sought by many plantsmen because of the ravages of diseases such as oak wilt and the Dutch elm disease occurring in some sections of the country. These diseases are destroying many valuable and prized shade trees on both public and private properties in several midwestern states. Observations in many parts of the United States and Canada indicate that the honey locust has most of the characteristics needed for shade and lawn purposes.]]></description>
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<title>What is the Best Soil to Grow Asparagus?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:33:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I saw a bed of asparagus that had been growing and supplying food for table for over 50 years. The person's grandmother took a local man's recommendation and located the bed on heavy clay soil, out of the limestone area, because it was more fertile and the moisture supply was better.]]></description>
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<title>How Do Americans Prepare For Various Flower Shows in Spite of the Inclement Weather?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:52:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[March, for most of America, is usually the most miserable month of the year. Ice and snow, rain and mud, cold and gloom, just about anything meteorologically bad can and usually does happen to us during the third month. Yet, with characteristic initiative and confidence, we select this very month to put on parade the glory, glamour and grandeur of our great spring flower shows.]]></description>
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<title>When Was My Earliest Plant Recollection?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:54:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of my earliest recollections brings to mind the raw mid-March day when I saw my first Hepaticas in bloom. They grew on the south side of a deep ravine a few rods east of the house, and I remember scrambling about on the half perpendicular bank plucking a bouquet to show the folks. Winter still clutched icily at the countryside, but here were flowers in bloom!]]></description>
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<title>When Are the Flowers Picked In Bud For Bouquets?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:02:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are always hearing about "good blues" and "pure whites" and "striking reds" but little is said about truly pink flowers. There are such lovely ones. The pink Larkspurs are beautiful sow the seed very early as Larkspur seed does not germinate well if planted too late. It is one of the seeds we can sow on the snow. Keep the plants with dirty pink or off colors pulled out. The clear pinks are so sweet in vases.]]></description>
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<title>To Whom Are Spring Flower Shows A Great Source of Wonder?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:23:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To our European friends, Spring flower shows are a great source of wonder, especially when viewed for the first time. Our traditional flower shows vary greatly from those on the Continent where great gardens are planted in the open in the early Spring to provide a succession of bloom and a series of ever changing pictures until late Fall.]]></description>
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<title>How Many Buds Does a Mature Elm Have Each Spring?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:49:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Observing tree buds in Winter can he adventure. Each is a miracle of nature. Each has been packed with care - next Spring's flowers and leaves in miniature meticulously folded and sealed. Each contains just enough oxygen and moisture to keep alive until the miracle of Spring unfolds them.]]></description>
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<title>Where is the Wild Flower Trillium Nivale Found and What Are the Ideal Conditions to Grow It?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:19:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The thrill of finding in my area a wild flower that is not commonly found therein is in no wise lessened when I learn some time later that it is a very common item with you. Perhaps I am well aware that the plant in question isn't really.]]></description>
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<title>Considerations in Selecting Background Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:52:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For tall background plants we tried cleome Giant Pink Queen, an improved hybrid in a better color than the old-fashioned spider-flower. Graceful salmon pink flowers with long spidery stamens continue to open at the top of the 3. to 4-foot stalks. Beneath the blooms seed pods form on long slim stems.]]></description>
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<title>Soil Break Down - The Race of Bacteria</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:47:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As soil breaks down over time the race of bacteria must be noticed - the beneficial nitrogen-fixing type that live on the roots of legumes such as peas and beans. If you pull up a flourishing pea or bean plant, you will notice a number of little nodules or lumps on the roots. Here the bacteria are at work making more nitrogen than they need for themselves, and on this surplus nitrogen the plant depends for supplies.]]></description>
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<title>The Magical Growth of Seed and the Baby Plant</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:25:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have not grown vegetables before or have not had much success in past attempts, it will prove helpful to consider some simple basic principles essential to the raising of full-sized, full-flavored, vitamin-rich specimens. What do vegetables need for full development? Let's see how they grow; then it will be easier to understand their simple requirements.]]></description>
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<title>Important Things to Consider in Caring for the Little Glads</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:19:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The little glads - with florets not over 3-1/2 inches across - are coming back into favor. Formerly shows glorified the towering 6-foot gladiolus spikes with 6- to 7-inch florets to an extent that made it well nigh impossible for a small glad to win a ribbon or any sort of recognition from the judges. Recently. however, the different sizes of glads have been more clearly defined.]]></description>
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<title>Preparing Plants Before the Weather Warms</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:39:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the Northern garden during march sow grass seed on level or near level areas, especially if your lawn was made last fall. This will help build a thick stand of ground and may be done whether the grass has thawed or is still frozen. The seed will germinate early. Plant food, if needed, can be applied later. Rolling may be done later, also.]]></description>
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<title>Important Steps to Combat Harmful March Winds</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[March winds can do more damage in Northern gardens to some plants than the hard freezes of winter. Plants are now moving from a dormant to an active state. Growth impulses take place not in the roots, but in the buds, which are exposed to all changes in temperature.]]></description>
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<title>The Time For Planting of Strawberry Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:06:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Strawberries may be planted at various times. Home gardeners often plant in August, but this is not the best time. Commercial growers, who must obtain high yields, usually plant in early spring, as soon as the soil is workable.]]></description>
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<title>The Crown - The Secret of Success With Strawberries</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:25:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The secret of success with strawberries comes in planting and getting the crown (the solid center portion from which the leaves arise) even with the surface of the soil, and the soil packed firmly about the roots. This is done by pushing a spade or large flat trowel vertically into the soil and inserting the roots in the bole behind the tool with a downward flip so that they are spread out in a fan shape.]]></description>
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<title>Tips to Grow Blueberries in a Home Garden</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:09:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people have the false impression that blueberries can't be grown in the home garden. Since the high-bush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, is commonly found growing in low, swampy places, gardeners believe it thrives best in such locations.]]></description>
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<title>Seasonal Flowers - Hybrid Brooms and Lily-Turfs</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:57:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have room in your garden for more shrubs and want a splurge of spring color, grow some of the named hybrid brooms, which are handled by several nurseries in the Fog Belt. They do well in this area. Try to see the brooms in bloom before making your choice, for they vary in color, size and vigor.]]></description>
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<title>Southern California - January is Guacamole Planting Month</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:20:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Southern California. Next month being, avocado planting month, January is the time to place your order and decide where your purchase is to go.]]></description>
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<title>The South and the Dahlia Garden</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:53:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Famed Dahlia grower Conrad Faust when planting his Dahlia garden each year makes sure he selects tubers with good eyes or sprouts. Each tuber is set horizontally at a depth of 6 inches with the eye just a few inches from the stake. At first the hole is filled in only to a depth of 3 inches, and it is filled in to ground level later as the new plant develops.]]></description>
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<title>Plant Diseases - The Fungi Fight</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:48:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most plant diseases which may be caused by fungi, bacteria or viruses are far more easily avoided than cured. Fungus and bacterial diseases breed in unhealthful conditions of atmosphere. ]]></description>
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<title>Simple Pest Control For Sweet Peas</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:51:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is a real advantage in using a mulch of straw or similar material to preserve moisture in soils that are inclined to dry out. The mulch should be several inches thick and spread when the vines are about 6 inches tall.]]></description>
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<title>Garden Soil Basics - Buffering Capacity and Organic Matter</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:41:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Acid plants are peculiarly children of the forest glade, where the spongy leaf mold under the trees provides conditions to their liking. Or they may grow in pockets of woodsy soil on the side of a mountain. One condition they won't tolerate is dryness, whether of root or leaf.]]></description>
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<title>Interest Grows For Plants Developed For Climate</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:08:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reading garden magazines and books, browsing through catalogs, getting acquainted with new plants are pleasant and profitable mid-winter pastimes. The average gardener does not have time to indulge in them at any other time of the year.]]></description>
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<title>Trees - A Perfect Match For Humans, Birds and Nature</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:38:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The trees that produce fruit or seeds which are useful in attracting birds include the apples, cherries, mulberries, mountain ash, Intwthornes, crabs, hack-berry, sour gum, buckthorne, box elder, birches and hollies. Many of the annual and biennial weeds of the garden and the borders of the flower beds produce the greatest crops of acceptable food for the seed-eaters.]]></description>
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<title>Honeysuckles - Species, Origin and Wonderful Wildlife</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The large group of cultivated honeysuckles could easily supply this column with interesting subjects for discussion for a year or more. While the genus Lonicera to which they belong includes almost 200 different species, less than half of these have found their way into cultivation and only a dozen or so are commonly seen.]]></description>
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<title>Collecting Wild Plants For the Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a gardener asks me how to collect plants in the wild I'm apt to say "Don't do it." This answer is not prompted by any view of conservation, but one of dollars and cents and labor.]]></description>
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<title>Seed Starting Begins in Peat Pots</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:57:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Peat pots should be on hand for starting annual, biennial and perennial seedlings; for vegetable transplants; for cuttings, divisions, house plants and tubers. Plant maturity at the most opportune time is your reward for starting plants early.]]></description>
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<title>Proper Timing Suitable For Street Tree Planting</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:41:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Augustine elm is well adapted to street tree planting. Its compact, deep root system lets it flourish and support itself in a limited area. At Winnetka, Illinois, several trees which were planted in a four-foot square of soil chiseled out of solid concrete have made satisfactory growth during the last five years.]]></description>
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<title>Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grapes</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:22:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Grapes are one of the surest small fruit crops for the home garden. They bloom late enough in spring to miss even unusually late freezes, but have a short enough maturing season that they ripen before frosts in the fall. For a long period of enjoyment of grapes as a fresh dessert, kinds ripening at various times can be chosen which will prolong the season.]]></description>
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<title>Knowing Growing Woody Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:32:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our biggest single problem is all but ignored completely - early fall and late summer drought. Moisture isn't a problem as a rule up to mid-July because the soil keeps giving off moisture. Mid-summer, when we run into really dry weather that hurts, is when winter killing really begins.]]></description>
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<title>Window Boxes - Artificial Watering Required</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:14:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Window boxes can become a definite part of a foundation planting as can soil wells or raised beds (also called "planters") that some architects include in their building designs. It is wise to avoid soil wells if possible; they usually require artificial watering. The drainage problem in some instances may also become serious. In regions where the winters get quite cold, the plants growing in soil wells are likely to freeze and will have to be replaced each spring.]]></description>
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<title>How to Protect Plants From Melting Snow</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:47:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The old-fashioned snow catchers that used to be seen on many roofs have practically disappeared from the American scene. As a result, there is nothing to stop snow from sliding down on to the foundation plants and crushing them, in many cases so badly that they will never recover. So take special precautions both in placing the plants and in selecting the proper kinds.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Ways to Use Your Property</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:41:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have ample property on one or both sides of your house, extend the corner plantings so as to improve appearances even more. You might call this "adding living architecture" to the house in order to make it look lower and wider. With geometric figures and illusions created by horizontal lines breaking vertical lines.]]></description>
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<title>Architecture Styles in House Design</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:54:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If the door is close to the corner of the house, there may not be room for both a corner group and a door planting. In that case the thing to do is to arrange the corner group so that it will also form half of the entrance planting. The half on the other side of the door would be very low as determined by line drawn to edge of the house.]]></description>
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<title>How to Plant, Care and Grow Beautiful Flowers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:43:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For color and beauty in the garden, Hibiscus cannot be beat. Mine are the giant strain of rose mallow, tall-growing, well-branched plants that produce many enormous five-petalled flowers ranging from red to rose, shell-pink to white with crimson eye.]]></description>
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<title>Suggestion For December Planting of the Christmas Rose</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How much effective garden work can be done in December depends upon where you live. East of the Cascades in Washington, for example, the best thing to do is to curl up alongside the fireplace and confine garden activities to planning on paper. ]]></description>
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<title>Winter Gardening and Related Garden Christmas Gifts</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:36:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the coming of winter most of us are reminded of our experiences of when the South was hit with one of the worst freezes in its history. Throughout the summer months many gardeners were still counting their losses from shrubs whose cambium layers were injured by low temperatures and biting winds.]]></description>
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<title>Best Plants for Decoration</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:42:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Christmas trees are often shipped long distances before they reach their destination. Usually they are cut several weeks before Christmas. Some of these trees travel more than 2,000 miles before they adorn the home of the purchaser. Montana trees may travel as far as Oklahoma. Texas or California. In fact, in 1955, Montana shipped trees to 27 states and Cuba.]]></description>
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<title>The Art of Making Gardens Healthy and Beautiful</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:39:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most plants that were potted and brought inside last month (November) will need some attention now. Do not disturb the inactive ones as they are probably in a much-needed resting stage. The active ones, though, should have the soil loosened on the surface, should be fed, and encouraged to grow. ]]></description>
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<title>Best of the December Plant and Garden</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:47:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[December is a month of many activities for all members of the family. The spirit of the season has been present in all of the stores since before Thanksgiving.]]></description>
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<title>Houseplants - Daily Care For Survival</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:52:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I hope you are not one of those who were just too busy to get all their spring flowering bulbs planted. If you have some left and the ground is not frozen there is still time to get them in.]]></description>
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<title>Root Pruning - Solutions For Vigorous Roots</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:39:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether the plants are left in their pots or planted directly in soil, avoid placing them so close together that they will be overcrowded when mature. A few plants growing and flowering profusely are far more attractive than many that must fight each other for their very life.]]></description>
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<title>Cuttings - The Popular Production Method</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:29:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Growing plants from cuttings is the most popular method of increasing stock of most types of plants, vines included. Of the many different kinds of cuttings, there is usually at least one by which each variety will propagate readily. As far as possible, these are indicated with the varietal descriptions in Part Two.]]></description>
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<title>Stem Cuttings - Many Makes and Models</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:24:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Simple stem or shoot cuttings are terminals or pieces of stem with the lower pair or pairs of leaves removed. For some types of plants, they may include a heel - a sliver of the main stalk. Mallet cuttings have a section of the parent stem still attached.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Design Tips From the Past</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:33:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fruits and flowering trees and shrubs grow side by side in this little garden just off the Duke of Gloucester Street at Colonial Williamsburg. There are also flowers for cutting and grapes for eating. At one time, perhaps, the lawn was given over to neat vegetable rows.]]></description>
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<title>Growers Fantasy - Dreaming in Garden Catalogs</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:03:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Modern seed and nursery catalogs hold a great wealth of information for gardeners. They are much more than a listing of items for sale. More time should be devoted to becoming better acquainted with their contents.]]></description>
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<title>Garden Jewels Found Online and in Paper</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:20:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For years I had been searching for Valeriana olenea. All the minor lists which reached me from European and Asiatic collectors, dealers and botanic gardens had been carefully read. The small Valerian became an obsession.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Rocks to Mark Driveways</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:53:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In those parts of the country where deep snow is a common winter occurrence, it is desirable to have some means of marking the edge of the driveway so that a car can break through the snow in the proper place without running over and injuring the lawn. One easy way to avoid marring the appearance of the property with huge boulders, etc., is to drive lengths of scrap pipe 15 or 20 feet apart and flush with the ground along the edge of the driveway.]]></description>
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<title>Driveways and the Landscape - Erosion Issues</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:42:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gravel driveways are best suited to comparatively level areas. Rainstorms will probably cause serious erosion on steep inclines. Another disadvantages appear in areas where snow must be shoveled in the winter.]]></description>
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<title>Walkways and Driveways - Landscape Necessities</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:16:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Driveways and main walks to the front and other doors are necessary utilities. As such they may not be things of beauty. Therefore, they should be handled so as to attract the least possible amount of attention. To do this, devote as little area to them as you can, and that will also lower the total cost.]]></description>
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<title>The Disappearing Front Walk in the Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:11:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the change from the horse and buggy era to the age of the automobile, and the improvement of the automobile to the point where it is no longer considered a fire hazard, the trend has been away from the garage placed in the farthest corner of the property to modern attached garage or carport. Such a trend has left its mark on the landscape scene.]]></description>
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<title>Nut and Fruit Trees - Landscape Issues</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:36:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But for the necessity of spraying fruit and nut trees to control diseases and insects, this group would without doubt be one of the most important for use in home landscapes. Unfortunately, in order to keep their foliage in good condition throughout the season and to insure a crop of even fair size and quality, it is usually necessary to spray nearly all the fruit trees several times a year. They, therefore, seldom find a place in landscaping the average small home grounds.]]></description>
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<title>Blooming Windows Come Alive With Gloxinias</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:49:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[True Gloxinias, charming plants for window gardens, the home greenhouse, or protected shady spots outdoors in the summer, may be started from tubers, young plants, leaf cuttings or seeds. Growing gloxinias from leaf cuttings makes pleasant window gardening. Select green, robust leaves while the plant is still in bloom or in bud. Sever the leaves as close to the main stem of the plant as possible, where the leaf-stems are hard, and insert in a mixture of sand and peatmoss or vermiculite.]]></description>
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<title>20 House Plants For Tropical Winter</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:48:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shop for those with distinctive foliage since they lend needed color to winter living then choose those suited to your decor with an eye to size, form, color and texture. Dracaena deremensis warnecki - requires moderate moisture and strong, indirect light. A sturdy plant, it will reach several feet in height.]]></description>
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<title>Tips Hiding in the Gardener's Notebook</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:29:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Despite occasional criticism of its social qualities, we like the black walnut - both the tree and the nut. It is the only nut we know, that retains its special flavor after cooking. The tree has been charged with all sorts of heinous crimes, such as shooting out a special toxin which kills everything around it. Some of the claims amuse us because we have had experiences which do not jibe.]]></description>
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<title>Watering Houseplants - A Learned Art</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:24:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Plants need water to help carry food from roots to the leaves and stems, and to keep leaves from dehydrating. On the other hand, there is serious danger in too much watering. If pots or roots stand in water, rot may be a quick result. Generally it is best to let soil dry out moderately, but not completely, between waterings - with some give and take at both ends of the scale for dry growers like cacti, and a few moisture-loving bog plants.]]></description>
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<title>Houseplant Soil - Building a Basic Mix</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:24:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are three basic elements of a soil mixture for indoor plants, each available in different forms, and each needed in varying proportions by different types of plants. The following is a basic recipe that should be varied depending on a plants requirements. For example, for plants that like soil "rich in humus," you would double the quantity of humus. For a "sandy soil mixture," double the amount of sand.]]></description>
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<title>House Plant Buddies - Water and Humidity</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:24:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What can you do to increase humidity for your houseplants? There are several ways to increase the relative humidity around indoor plants.]]></description>
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<title>The Value of Container Vine Growing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:12:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The same inherent virtues that make vines so useful for indoor decoration and in the landscape make them nearly necessary in container gardens. Their soft, fluid curves counteract straight lines,blend container with setting or plant with container, or unite all three into an artistic whole.]]></description>
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<title>New Part Time Job - Cleaning Up Leaves</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:01:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[November, in much of the West, with the last of the colorful chrysanthemums and roses, can be quite pleasant. In the Inter-mountain areas and the colder parts of the Northwest, temperatures have dropped steadily and it's time to switch to winter gardening.]]></description>
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<title>Planting Small Shrubs and Trees in the South</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:57:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Local laws affecting planting of trees around the home - Before planting trees in a new development, one should become familiar with municipal restrictions on the types of trees that may be used and where they may be planted. Some recent regulations stipulate that trees of certain species must not be planted within a specified distance of the property line.]]></description>
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<title>Designs Run Wild With Container Gardens</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:25:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many container gardens are planted like a small-scale flower border, with tall plants in the background, lower ones in front, medium growers to fill in between. It's important here to avoid a hodgepodge of too many different varieties without restricting the choice so severely that the result is monotonous.]]></description>
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<title>Containers - Man's Draperies For Indoor Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:25:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a pure sense, "container gardening" connotes a completely new concept created for, or evolving out of, contemporary architecture and its bold use of clean lines and unadorned space. These settings both benefit by and set off a display of plants, bringing many principles of modern interior decoration into play outdoors.]]></description>
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<title>Modern Gloxinia Gets Their Start</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:25:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Albert Buell hardly knew a petunia from a pansy. Today, he's the proud father of the modern gloxinia judged by experts to be among the finest available anywhere in the world.]]></description>
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<title>Camellia Plantings Come to Life</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:30:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sowing annuals and wild flowers - One way to enjoy more California wild flowers - and it doesn't matter whether you live in Oregon, Washington, Montana or any other place in the West - is to broadcast seeds of these beautiful wildlings. Seeds can be sown in the open ground now for bloom along in March and April.]]></description>
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<title>Perennial Borders Wonderful Bets For Western Gardens</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:30:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Caring for perennials - Though perennial borders are not as popular now as they used to be, members of this clan are undoubtedly wonderful bets in most Western gardens. Their ability to yield blooms for so many continuous weeks endears them to most gardeners.]]></description>
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<title>Soil a Living Organism For Living Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:45:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Soil for foliage plants falls into three chief types. Ordinary potting soil should be porous and well drained.]]></description>
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<title>Watering House Plants Calls For Judgment</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:45:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Overwatering the soil does not compensate for lack of atmospheric humidity. When I advise people who bring me samples of house plants grown where the relative humidity of the air is too low, the common reply is: "But I water the plant every day." This is undoubtedly true but unfortunately has little bearing on the issue.]]></description>
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<title>Terrarium - A Miniature Greenhouse</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:44:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the hottest months of the year even the most tropical plants may be used outdoors. The exact time when you may safely place them on the terrace, porch or patio and when you should bring them in depends upon where you live and upon the kind of plant. The temperature ranges will suggest when these moves should be made in your locality.]]></description>
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<title>Keeps Gardens Safe Starts at the Border</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:44:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At several keys ports in these United States groups of devoted federal employees put in long hours of detective work to protect American gardeners, nurserymen, florists and farmers from insect pests and diseases coming from foreign lands. Their job is to keep any undesirable plant pests from entering this country.]]></description>
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<title>November Chores For the Midwest Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:25:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pruning and spraying trees and shrubs can begin now that deciduous trees and shrubs have lost their leaves. Of course, spring-flowering shrubs such as lilac and forsythia should not be touched now; they should be pruned after they flower.]]></description>
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<title>True Identity Found in Botanical Names</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:11:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is the only practical way to identify plants. Botanical names are specific, and each plant has its own name which it shares with no other. Popular names may be more colorful and easier to remember and pronounce; but they are anything but specific and exclusive, and they vary widely in different parts of the country.]]></description>
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<title>Made in Natural Vines and Windows</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:47:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Vines and windows just naturally go together; each helps the other to brighten a room and give it a garden air. And most windows are so light and bright, you're not limited to the trustworthy foliage vines. You can have flowers. And you have a wide, wide variety of vines to choose from. Even a shaded window is the best place to display some sun-loving plant you've grown to full flower in other, more suitable quarters.]]></description>
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<title>Indoor Design With Vines</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:49:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are some ideas for using vines and hanging plants in indoor planters and gardens of all sizes and types. For an airy, open screen or room divider, find a grille, or similarly patterned felt material, frame it, and set a planter garden at the base.]]></description>
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<title>Houseplants Have Many Design Jobs to Do</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:48:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ideally, permanent planters are part from an architect's plan and are less costly to install while the house is being built. But planters can be built into existing buildings at any time, to serve the same decorative or functional purposes.]]></description>
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<title>Define Design With Vines and Hanging Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:30:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every variety of plant used in a design fits inside an imaginary line that defines the limits of the plant material pertinent to the kind of indoor and outdoor decorating where it will be used. Strictly speaking, vines are plants that cling to, or twine around, something that supports them as they grow upright. Their natural habit is vertical.]]></description>
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<title>House Plants - The Indoor Line Softener</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fresh, garden feeling that comes from living with plants indoors is never more marked than when vines are part of the picture. Their graceful, curving lines seem more natural than stiff, upright plants; they give more flower and foliage display per square inch of root space; and they are more adaptable, without unnatural strain and distortion, to many desirable effects. Vines and hanging plants create vitality and motion, actually seem to "breathe life into a room."]]></description>
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<title>Design Principals in Vine Landscapes</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Vines are available in an endless variety of size, texture, color, and form, and they can be trained to any shape, line, or curve. Name the decorative purpose your planting should serve, the effect you want to achieve, and take your choice of suitable vines or hanging plants.]]></description>
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<title>Balance and Rhythm in the Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:51:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This principle is less ephemeral than unity and more easily defined, and can even be set down in nearly precise mathematical terms. Essentially, the elements or areas of a design have a visual weight; and these weights achieve balance like that of the old-fashioned scale, or seesaw.]]></description>
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<title>Vines - The Maestro in Unity and Harmony</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:48:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is easier to understand what unity does than to explain what it is. Any design - a small dish garden, cut-flower composition, living-room decor, patio planting, landscape - has unity if the whole hangs together to make one pleasing picture. Without unity a design "goes off in all directions," has a restless, disorganized, discordant effect.]]></description>
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<title>Vines - Versatile Decorative For Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:28:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you step into a living room - your own or someone else's - where a vine softly frames a large window with green leaf tracery, you feel an effect of gracious living and the pleasant kinship of the room with its outdoor view. When you entertain - or are entertained on a terrace or patio with the family or friends even with the smell of the  with the BBQ smoking away and the natural way vines spill down from containers along the edge or up and down the steps, your eyes dwell on the refreshment in well-planned design.]]></description>
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<title>Wing Plantings - How to Use Them</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:44:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If your house is rather wide or your lot very narrow and there are only a few feet left between the end of the house and the property line, you will not be able to do much more planting to soften the architectural lines. However, when there is more space available on either or both sides of the house, you should extend the foundation planting in order to add "wings" of plant material to the building.]]></description>
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<title>Hawthorns Bright Fruit - A Comfort to Migrating Birds</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:23:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Indian currant or coral-berry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) is well worth any gardener's attention. With mathematical exactness the brilliant and abundant fruit is arranged in close and regular clusters along the branches. When the leaves fall the bejewelled plant gleams enticingly for birds. Like the bitter-sweet, it attracts the attention of the migrating birds that are flying overhead.]]></description>
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<title>June - A Happy Month For Birds</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:23:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To the neat gardener mulberry might be a nuisance with its messy berries dropping on the ground and purple mulberry splashings on the bird bath, but it is a joy to birds. At least fifty-two varieties of birds delight in the fruit of the mulberry, which lasts from June until September.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Services - Birds For Insect Control</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:22:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Insects are the aggressors in any garden, so the insectivorous birds are ever on the lookout for creatures that crawl about the flower cup or creep in and out of crevices of bark and foliage. However, the seed-eaters do not overlook an insect that gets in their way, and even the hummingbird, intent on sipping nectar from deep-throated honeysuckle, does not neglect the ant that is also lured by the feast provided by the honeysuckle.]]></description>
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<title>Garden Unison - Plants and Flying Fowl</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:26:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the garden where the trumpet-creeper flaunts its showy, deep-cupped flowers, the dazzling ruby-throated hummingbird is almost sure to come, for red is his favorite color and the trumpet-creeper his favorite flower. And in the garden where the sunflower raises its plebeian head above the exclusive dahlias and roses, the American goldfinch most likely will flash his eye-catching black and yellow plumage and sing his canary-like song.]]></description>
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<title>Risky Business - Fall Planting of Roses</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:24:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Storing soil, sand and peat for the winter - Before frost gets into the ground, dig a bushel or two of soil for use during the winter. And don't forget to have on hand a bushel of sand and another of peat or humus.]]></description>
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<title>Protecting Roses For the Mid Western Winter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:21:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are still flowers to enjoy in the garden in October. Unless there has been an unseasonable freeze, chrysanthemums are at their height, calendulas and verbenas are colorful, and roses are among the best produced all year.]]></description>
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<title>Western Solutions For Fall Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:39:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[October weather is very unpredictable. Many Western horticulturists maintain stoutly that all weather here is just as temperamental as an Eastern spring and that, on occasion, it has been known to baffle many self-respecting plants.]]></description>
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