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<title>How Can We Culture a Magnolia Kobus in an Easy Method?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Magnolias are among the most beautiful trees, and the early-flowering kinds are near the top of the list for spring display. The Kobus magnolia is one of the most pleasing, and fortunately it is also one of the hardiest.]]></description>
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<title>Is Bermuda Grass a Reliable Grower For the Southwest?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Southwest section has had March winds but unless April showers become soon evident May flowers may be absent. Annual rainfall is below average for our entire area. So get out that hose and irrigate.]]></description>
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<title>How Can We Know About the Specimen of Hokkaido Magnolia?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 10:28:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the first and quite possibly the largest specimen of Hokkaido magnolia in this country is among the hundreds of plant treasures at Highland Park in Rochester, New York. This tree on the east side of the reservoir embankment has a trunk more than 2 feet in diameter and a rounded, spreading crown which must surpass 50 feet in spread as well as in height.]]></description>
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<title>What Methods Bring Back the Fertility of Soil After a Winter Season?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 07:50:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I sow oats for a cover crop for soil protection or leave on the ground the mulch of the previous season. Oats are used because they are Winter-killed in my latitude.]]></description>
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<title>Summer Blooming Shrubs and Trees</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 10:37:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Summer blooming shrubs and trees should be planted at once. Plan the plantings carefully, for, while the usual emphasis is on the kind of plants to use, the design for the garden is more important and should be carefully thought out and more carefully executed. Southern gardeners, especially, need to realize the importance of the garden plan.]]></description>
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<title>The Wildflower Garden</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 08:59:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[April! Even the word has a happy lifting sound! And in this country it is the month of opulent bloom.]]></description>
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<title>What Type of Peony Germinates More Rapidly Then Most?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 15:35:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When growing roses from seed the seeds may be stratified by mixing with damp peat moss and placing in a refrigerator. After the first few weeks the seeds should be examined every few days and those that have germinated should be removed and planted.]]></description>
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<title>What Annuals Can Be Grown From Seed?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 14:19:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As spring approaches we anxiously await the time to sow seeds of our favorite flowers. This may be when the soil has become sufficiently warm to cause germination or in seed flats indoors where temperature and moisture may be controlled. Many interesting pleasures are anticipated each season by those who garden as a hobby and rarely are they disappointed.]]></description>
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<title>What is the Confusion of the True Name of the Ornamental Plant Love Apple?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 09:03:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some confusion has arisen over the true name of the ornamental plant which, we grow and know as Love Apple. This perennial plant is a native of the waste lands of some of our southernmost states, but will grow in even our most northern states if treated as an annual. This means that we must start it early inside or in a cold frame, as it needs a long growing season. Even at that, care must be taken to protect the ripening fruit.]]></description>
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<title>What is the Speciality of Southern Appalachian Mountains in Case of Floras?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the richest and most extensive floras in the world is found in our southern Appalachian Mountains. It is one of the oldest land areas on earth, and the home of Shortia galacifolia, Oconee-bells. In these ancient hills grow the world's finest azaleas and rhododendrons.]]></description>
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<title>Describe the Process of Making an Asparagus Bed?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I tell gardeners to dig deep, and if the soil is naturally acid, to mix magnesium limestone with the soil in the bottom of a trench 18 inches deep. It seems like a lot of work, but when you think of a bed properly planted lasting 25 or more years, it is a good investment.]]></description>
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<title>How the Botanical Name Was Derived For Oconee-Bells</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:13:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1879, two years later, Gray himself searched for it in vain, but at last, in 1886, Charles Sprague Sargent, later of Arnold Arboretum fame, organized an expedition to search for this and other rare plants and found it growing in abundance below the point where the Toxaway and Horse-Pasture streams join to form the Keowee River, in Oconee County, South Carolina. In his party was the youthful nurseryman, Harlan P. Kelsey, who was starting on a long career of introducing native American plants to gardeners all over the world, and who was the first to make this new treasure available to gardeners.]]></description>
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<title>What Are the Things Needed to Be Taken Care of When Growing Annuals From Seeds?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:04:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When growing annuals from seeds, remember as seedlings develop, thin them out if they are growing too thickly, and keep the rows weeded. If there is any extra space in the coldframe, transplant some of the plants that have been thinned out. These may be needed for extra plants in some corner, or exchanged for something that your neighbor may have.]]></description>
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<title>How Does the Writer Explain the Establishment of the Spring Beauty in Our Personal Gardens?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:19:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The sighing of the breeze over the rippling grass, the caroling of a meadow lark and the whir of a rising pheasant's wings break the peaceful silence of the prairie as we trudge up the sunny hillside. Our eyes are already on the heights where we can see the swaying cups of Anemone patens nuttalliana, the Pasque Flower.]]></description>
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<title>If Sowing Seed Were Just a Matter of Scattering</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:24:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In an analysis I made several years ago, I found there were 112 factors which might affect seed germination. Superficially, the germination of flower seed calls for little more than the proper heat, light and moisture.]]></description>
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<title>The Energy Required For the Leafy Laboratory</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:07:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When growing vegetables from seeds and the new plants poke their head out of the soil, transformation begins. The energy required for this process in the leafy laboratory comes from sunlight.]]></description>
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<title>Important Things to Consider When Selecting Flowers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:05:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Any packet of seed labeled "Zinnia" will produce a reasonable facsimile of the flower we know by that name. But what fantastic flower might bloom from a packet of seed marked "Golden Flower of the Incas" or "South African Veldt Flower" or "Star of Argentine"? Anything can happen in such a planting adventure and sometimes does. Here is the spice of gardening!]]></description>
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<title>Strawberry Beds' Fertility Maintained in Various Ways</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:28:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fertility of strawberry beds is maintained in various ways. Animal manures of various kinds are often used before the land is plowed. They are excellent sources of nutrients and they also supply organic matter to the soil. Stable manure may be used at a rate of 3 to 6 bushels to 100 square feet, and hen manure at about 1 to 2 bushels to 100 square feet. Gardeners who do not have access to manure can get along very well by using compost or by plowing under a heavy growth of clover or some other legume.]]></description>
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<title>Bright March Sunshine Engages Garden Duties</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:44:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bright March sunshine summons us to garden duties of many kinds in Southern gardens. Clean-up comes first - a general pruning of shrubs and trees to remove dead wood. Heavy broad-leaved evergreens, which are quick-growing, need heavy pruning but should never be chopped off in a straight line at the top. Remove dead wood, take out overgrown branches and give the plants a chance to develop symmetrically.]]></description>
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<title>Knowing the Soil and the Role it Plays</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:01:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pruning is an important operation in blueberry culture. It must be done in winter or early spring, before growth starts.]]></description>
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<title>Specialties of Dahlia Plant</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:31:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like every other garden flower, the dahlia has its special pests, and renowned Dahlia grower Conrad Faust has been fighting them every year. During past seasons he found malathion spray to be very effective against most dahlia pests. He reported, however, that there was a serious outbreak of red spider in many dahlia gardens in the Atlanta area.]]></description>
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<title>The Annual Pink - A Familiar Sight</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:31:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dianthus, the annual pink, is familiar sight, but when a pink has uniformly good large crimson flowers, it is indeed worth noting. Pinks are easily grown from early spring-sown seed. One of our annual plants lived overwinter. This year we can try the new near-hardy dianthus Doubles in red, pink and maroon shades.]]></description>
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<title>200 Years of Dahlia Perfection Southern Style</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:48:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Years ago the dahlia was a second-rate flower in Georgia compared with others like the gladiolus, but it began to pick up in popularity when Mr. Faust took to dahlia culture in earnest. Being a business man, he looked to his garden for exercise and a hobby.]]></description>
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<title>African Violet Roots - The First Show</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:14:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[National and local societies formed. Following a showing by Gates Dunn and Boyce Edens of a motion picture on African violet culture on the evening of November 8, the group began organization proceedings for both a national and a local African violet society.]]></description>
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<title>The Days of Elm - A Child's Summer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The reflections of running water attract migrants readily. Shallow water as provided by the edges of streams and bird baths are essential to birds for bathing.]]></description>
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<title>Alkaline Soils - Growing Rhododendrons and Azaleas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:28:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can Rhododendrons and Azaleas be grown on the alkaline soils of the Midwest and Great Plains area? First let's define what we mean by a broad-leaved evergreen.]]></description>
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<title>Vegetables - Good Reasons For Growing Our Own</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:36:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Plan to have a vegetable garden again this year. We have some mighty good reasons for growing our own. ]]></description>
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<title>Instructions to Fertilize the Beautiful Blooms</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:31:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In January, come what may in weather, the "kiss at the gate" (Lonicera fragrantissima) blooms its perfumed small cream flowers that lure the bees from the Hives. A few warm days and the sweet olive bursts into many bunches of tiny, white, sweet blooms. A small spray of either will perfume a room.]]></description>
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<title>Identifying the Bird - An Evening Grosbeak</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:30:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What kind of a bird has a big bill, black wings and is yellow all over?" asked a seventh grade girl at Hanover, New Hampshire, who fed birds on a small shelf not more than a foot and 6 inches wide at her second-story bedroom window. I not only expected four or live such email a day but I expected to be called out of bed early in the morning or have a meeting interrupted at least once a week to make recommendations to a lady confronted with a hawk outside her window ready to pounce on the chickadees at her feeder, or to identify a strange bird.]]></description>
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<title>Living Memorials to Honor the Heroic</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:49:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Living memorials to honor the valor of our heroic dead of our wars is are being considered all over the United States and, indeed, all over the world. Parks for beauty and recreation, arboretums to furnish material for horticultural studies, gardens for cultivation of special plants like roses or camellias, and avenues of trees for shade and comfort are among the most fitting of proposed memorials.]]></description>
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<title>House Plants and Fish Tanks Growing Nature</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:32:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you compelled to stop and pick up every pin you see, and do you straighten pictures that hang crookedly on friends' walls? Or, do you, upon being introduced to a notable person, find yourself concentrating on a speck of lint on his suit instead of his conversation, fingers itching to flick off the speck? If these or other compulsions are yours, then perhaps you can understand mine - I am an incurable taker-of-cuttings.]]></description>
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<title>Growing Veggies - A Children's Education</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:33:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If possible let the child's garden be part of the main vegetable garden. It will assume more importance if he can go with the parent and work closely than if he must go in an opposite direction.]]></description>
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<title>The Care and Feeding of Grapes - Concord History</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:19:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The classic example of long life in grape culture is the famous grape vine in Hampton Court, England, known to be hundreds of years old, with a trunk six feet three inches in circumference and one branch 150 feet long. In that northern climate it is protected by a glass grapery, but because of skillful pruning and care it is still producing large bunches of luscious white grapes.]]></description>
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<title>Guidelines and Tips For Attractive Home Gardens</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:47:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Placing plants at doorways is a rather simple matter. In most cases where the front door is flush with the face of the house the entrance planting can consist simply of one plant on either side of the doorway.]]></description>
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<title>Maintaining Growing Landscape Plants in a Home Setting</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:02:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The drip line of your roof is an important factor in locating foundation plants even in regions which do not get much or any snow and ice. Falling rain should reach the plants, so, except in unusual cases, they should be placed at least a foot beyond the drip line. At first they may look as though they were sitting out there by themselves, but in time, as the branches spread and the plants get larger, they will gradually reach back to the house and occupy all the space provided for them.]]></description>
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<title>Why Plants When Your House Follows Modern Design?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:00:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The more modern a building is in design, the fewer plants are likely to be required for the front foundation planting. Most buildings of this type are attractive in themselves so the only real reason for using any plants at all is to soften the vertical lines. By keeping this in mind you will considerably reduce the cost of your landscaping.]]></description>
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<title>Suitable Plants Space and Landscape</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:54:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In drawing a landscape plan, always make the circles that indicate plants of such size that they represent the ultimate spread of the specimens. In fact, to play safe you might add an extra 6 to 12 inches of diameter.]]></description>
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<title>Using a 50 Foot Lot Space to Its Best Advantage</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:40:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The average 50 foot lot has space for at least a half dozen fruits. Take advantage of them. Use them where you would shade trees.]]></description>
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<title>Natural, Systematic and Fundamental Ways of Planting</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:36:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably no feature on the average American home grounds is more abused by being over-planted than the so called "foundation planting." There is one reason, and only one, for such a planting: to soften the architectural features of the building by using plant material at strategic locations and thus help blend the house into its natural surroundings.]]></description>
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<title>Tips and Advice For a Perfect and Special Garden</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:11:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many gardeners like to plant living Christmas trees in their yards. From the standpoint of good landscape design, these trees are too often misplaced. ]]></description>
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<title>Christmas Trees For the Holiday Selection</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:33:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Christmas trees for indoor and outdoor decoration during the Yule season remains an important tradition in America. While some artificial trees and other decorations have taken their place, the living evergreen tree or conifer is still the most important.]]></description>
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<title>One Man, One Plant For a Year</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:29:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More and more home owners are buying a choice shrub for use as the Yuletide tree and then planting it in the garden following the holidays. This must be a part of the growing "green revolution" that is sweeping the planet.]]></description>
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<title>Christmas Decorations in the Christmas Season</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:30:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Christmas will soon be here and you will be wanting to make up Christmas arrangements and Christmas decorations. It's so much more fun for most of us if we can go out into our own gardens and gather these materials. There is no reason why every one of us can't grow them. To be sure, some of the more tender broadleaved evergreens such as cherry laurel and Chinese holly can be grown only in the milder parts of this area.]]></description>
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<title>Growing Education - Producing Plants From Seeds</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:34:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most garden annuals need a long growing season to reach their full height and flowering, they are often given an early start indoors, or in the greenhouse, hotbed, or cold frame. For indoor growing, don't plant seeds earlier than six weeks before the average date of the last frost in your area.]]></description>
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<title>Peat Sand, Perlite and More - Potting Media</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:47:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cuttings don't need and can't use food while they are making roots, so rooting mediums contain no soil or fertilizer. Coarse, sharp builder's sand is the best-known type. It should be washed clean or, even better, sterilized by pouring boiling water through it before use.]]></description>
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<title>Air Layering - Simple Rooting For Larger Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:22:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Layering is a safe, sure, simple way to increase many types of plants, and particularly the climbers and danglers with which this book is concerned. The first requirement is that the plant have long, lax or drooping stems - which vining plants do. The rest is easy, because the stem is not severed from the parent until the new plant is well rooted and can survive on its own. Humidifying devices, bottom heat, and close protection are seldom called for.]]></description>
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<title>Soil Requirements and Fulfilling Plant Needs</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:48:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When growing plants such as azaleas the soil needs to be kept in a much more acid state. Different parts of the country can have a much more difficult time than others in maintaining acid soil and acid loving plants.]]></description>
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<title>Flagstone Walkways - Classic Nature</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:18:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The most practical and attractive permanent walks are made of flagstone or brick which can be set in either concrete or sand. Other materials which can be used include cross sections of tree trunks (properly treated to retard decay), wooden bricks, concrete, macadam, or blacktop.]]></description>
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<title>Driveways and Landscaping - A Challenge to Master</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:37:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Proper preparation of the permanent driveway and walk is important if a trouble-free job is desired. Drainage facilities, although they may seem costly at the start, are extremely important, especially if the soil is not naturally well drained. The better the natural soil drainage, the less important becomes the sub-surface drainage problem under your driveway and walks.]]></description>
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<title>Walkways - The Calling Card to the Door</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:25:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The question of how wide the main entrance walk should be often arises. The fact that about 99 out of 100 such walks are 3 feet or less in width does not mean that such a width is ideal, for two people cannot possibly walk side by side on a walk that narrow. The main walk to the front entrance should be at least 4 feet wide. On the landscape plan this may seem excessive, and you may wonder if the added cost of the extra foot of width is worth it.]]></description>
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<title>Success With Vines Starts With Planting</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:55:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If possible, perennial vines should be planted when they are not in a period of vigorous growth. In warm areas this means late fall, winter, or earliest spring; but if you can plant during the short time that the vine is dormant or semi-dormant (usually during December or January), so much the better. Spring planting is usually recommended for areas where soil freezes deep in winter. Plant as early as a hole can be dug and the ground can be prepared.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Vines - A Permanent Investment</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:49:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since perennial vines are a permanent garden investment, buy the healthiest specimens of the best available varieties. If you can't find the best of the variety you want, use annuals for a season or two until you can. Whether you buy perennials from a local nursery or one of many reputable mail-order suppliers is a matter of choice. Either way, be wary of low-cost bargain offers; they are often no bargain at all in the long run.]]></description>
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<title>What Does Hardiness Mean For Your Plants?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:38:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How hardy a plant is happens to be an interesting question. This important consideration in selecting varieties of plants and growing them successfully is difficult to define accurately.]]></description>
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<title>Training Vines - Going in Almost Any Direction</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Vines intended to disguise or hide unsightly walls and buildings can be left almost to their own devices, to make full and rambling growth. But others, planted for the tracery of their foliage, or colorful flowers, or to embellish an arbor or wall, should be checked regularly and tied up or pruned long before they become an unmanageable mass.]]></description>
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<title>Fertilizing Vines - Know Thy Vine</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that they grow to great lengths and cover large areas, the majority of vines in soil of average fertility do not need especially frequent or heavy applications of fertilizer. In fact, too much food may cause growth so vigorous you can't keep the vine under control, and may even stimulate development of stems and foliage at the expense of flowers.]]></description>
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<title>Moisture Control - Water and Mulch</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Landscape vine stems and trunks are long and high, and the leaves are far away from the roots that send them moisture. For lush, green growth water regularly, thoroughly, and deep, moistening the entire area around the roots. It may take several hours to dribble water from a soaker hose to saturate the soil around a large vine, less for smaller plants - but they require watering more often.]]></description>
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<title>Flowering Excitement - Greenhouse Vines and Flowers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:14:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are few sights so satisfying as a vine growing and flowering lushly up and around a greenhouse door, or along the ridge. And how lushly they do grow! I have seen Plumbago capensis, which seldom outgrows a six- or eight-inch pot in my house, with its roots in a greenhouse bed and its sky-blue flowers spread out over a hundred square feet of wall.]]></description>
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<title>Clean Plants - Healthy Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:33:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cleanliness is important to a plant's refreshing appearance and its good health. Washing or wiping leaves makes them look glossier and greener, and also prevents dust from clogging the pores through which they breathe.]]></description>
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<title>Flowers and Fruit - Rewards For Good Growing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:05:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like any other garden plants, landscape flowers, bulbs, seasonal color and vines respond beautifully to good growing conditions and reasonable amounts of care. But because of their wide variety and widely varying environmental preferences, it would be misleading to set down concrete cultural rules.]]></description>
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<title>Repotting Plants - A Promotion For Growth</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:00:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Indoor vines are usually grown in pots, in hanging baskets, or in built-in planters or similar gardens. In each case they are supplied with suitable soil - which, by the way, should be neither wet nor dry, but just moist at planting time - and replanted or repotted only when their roots are crowded or the soil nutrients are exhausted.]]></description>
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<title>Fuller Hanging Baskets - Plant Achimenes on the Side</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:27:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Decorative, watertight hanging containers are similarly safer if the plants set inside remain in their pots. But standard types of wire or redwood hanging baskets are designed for good culture. They are lined with moss - sheet moss from the florist or peeled off tree trunks in the woods, or long-fibered sphagnum moss - and filled with soil. ]]></description>
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<title>Feeding Houseplants - A Problem Causer</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:26:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Feeding plants is one of the least of the indoor plant growers problems. So much has been learned about fertilizers, and there are so many excellent and inexpensive products on the market, the selection is mostly a matter of personal preference and convenience.]]></description>
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<title>The English Holly - Nature's Creative Handiwork</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:27:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Progress in all the Arts is promoted in times of peace, and the history of gardening is an obvious manifestation of this fact. During the reign of Queen Victoria, when Brittania ruled the seven seas and the swords of war were sheathed, the gardens of England flowered as never before.]]></description>
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<title>Rose Growing, French Style</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:18:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For those who maintain that roses will not thrive in southern lands, because the mild climate allows them too little rest, have never visited the "Cote d' Azurr" in southern France. Varieties grown there are more fragrant, more beautiful in form and larger in size than when grown in colder climes. Acres of sun-kissed yellow, fields of velvety red thrive out of doors.]]></description>
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<title>Flowers in Public Areas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:15:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Earlier, we advised readers rather strongly against the use of flowers in the public area. Many, however, who have a deep and certainly understandable love of flowers, will insist on planting some there.]]></description>
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<title>Taming Vacant Lots - Go Native</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:20:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wildflowers succeed best when planted soon after the November rains start. If you're trying to "tame" a vacant lot by naturalizing it with wildflowers, this is the right time in Pacific Coast gardens.]]></description>
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<title>3 Flowering Garden Beauties - Gas of a Plant</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:09:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From the first curled stems that push through in spring to the star-shaped seed pods in late fall, Dictamnus albus (Dittany, Fraxinella, Burning Bush or Gas Plant) is ornamental. Bloom stalks rise above foliage to present spikes of long-lasting, airy flowers. Depending upon the variety, these may be white, rose with purple veining or a bluish lavender that's rare. Stiff, shiny leaves are a rich, dark green and both foliage and flowers excellent for cutting.]]></description>
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<title>Cyclamen a Joy in Autumn</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:31:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In my garden one of the joys of autumn is Cyclamen neapolitanum, a small hardy relative of the larger florist's cyclamen. Dainty, soft pink to pale lavender pink flowers appear like a flock of butterflies in late August or early September and last until hard frost. There is also an ethereally lovely pure white, C. neapolitanum album.]]></description>
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<title>November, Northwest Garden Call For Cleanup Sprays</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:08:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the coming of "winter" rains, arrival of bulbs in the stores and the beginning of the dormant season in nurseries, November becomes an action-packed month for Far West gardeners. It's time, also, to transplant overgrown shrubs and trees. In the Northwest it's time to use cleanup sprays. Wait until the latter part of November in California, though.]]></description>
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<title>Southern Lilies - Get Ready For Planting</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:06:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roses are best planted in late November, December and January. Many new varieties are not ready for shipment until after the first of the year.]]></description>
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<title>Frost in the Air Calls For Veggie Starts</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:02:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Frost is in the air in the Middle and Upper South. This is the time to think seriously about planting the hundreds of different kinds of shrubs, trees and fruits, for after the middle of November these plants make their appearance in seed and garden center stores.]]></description>
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<title>Steady Temperatures Grow Sturdy Plants</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:00:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hyacinths, Paper Whites, and the prepared narcissus such as the reds can be started any time now. The first two do well in plain water but I think the easier method is to plant them in bowls filled with fine gravel.]]></description>
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<title>Brighten the Garden With Late Blooming Chrysanthemums</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:59:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[English children chant the phrase "Remember, remember the 5th of November" - Guy Fawkes Day to them - but we could change that to "Remember, remember the chrysanthemums in November." At any rate my greenhouse is full of bloom right now and I hope yours is, too, for they bring much warm color to an otherwise drab month.]]></description>
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<title>Extra Favors For Beautiful Healthy Orchids</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:49:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you ever get the chance to watch orchid nurserymen repot their overgrown orchid plants - do it! They have a special way of ramming fiber in with a stick until the pot is full and then of ramming in still more.]]></description>
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<title>Watering Orchids - Vital Tuning For Best Growth</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:46:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The pseudobulb, a green, banana-like object at the base of the leaves, is a very interesting and vital part of the orchid plant. In it the food and moisture obtained from the air and water (the orchid's sources of nourishment) are stored.]]></description>
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<title>Orchids in Your Home - Growing the Exotic</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:41:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some say you can, some say you can't. All I know is that we do grow orchids in our living-room. Quietly defying all the people who said we could never grow them at home, we brought some budding plants back with us from Guatemala after getting permission from the proper authorities.]]></description>
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<title>Dry Brook Or Pool? A Landscape Water Substitute</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:58:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Water and Water Courses are always desired in the Japanese garden, but as it is not always possible to have a pool or river, a dry brook or dry pool may be substituted. These are exactly what the name implies - a channel in the first instance, a depression in the second, where water would flow or rest if water were present, if the little stream or tiny lake had not "gone dry."]]></description>
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<title>Where? A Question For Japanese Garden Design</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:52:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An important fact that makes it impossible to say where a Japanese garden may properly be undertaken. Wherever a garden enthusiast who is capable of fulfilling the exactions of Japanese garden design and has a bit of ground that may be set apart and hidden completely from all conflicting sights, a Japanese garden is possible.]]></description>
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<title>Japanese Gardens Each Tell a Story</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:47:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is necessary to think simply and very directly and naturally in order to arrive at such a truly naive result as is sought and intended in Japanese gardening. It is necessary to think in terms of meaning as well as in terms of appearance or looks.]]></description>
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<title>Rapid Growing Trees - Southern Style</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:14:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the south shrub and tree planting projects are about to get under way. Everywhere people are beginning to recognize the economic and aesthetic values of shrubs and trees.]]></description>
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<title>Garden Cleanup a Job For the Meticulous Gardener</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:14:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[November highlights garden cleanup for the meticulous gardener; winter protection for water-lilies; planting lilies and hardy spring-flowering bulbs; harvesting rhubarb in late winter. The garden is about ready to be put to bed. And doubtless you will be urged to clean up the flower beds, cutting back the perennials and mulching the beds with hay, straw or leaves.]]></description>
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<title>Vines As Ground Covers</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:13:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Walls and fences of all dimensions are erected for any of many reasons - to define property boundaries, to create a center of privacy, to connect two areas or levels, even to break up small areas and make gardens seem larger. Fences can be used in place of trees and shrubs as background for a flower border, with spectacular vines as accent or subdued varieties for subordinate effect.]]></description>
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<title>Supporting the Landscape Vine - Treillage to Tripod</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:34:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A highly stylized, ornamental-on-its-own design usually made of one-inch round wood or metal pipe, attached in a formal design against a wall. (This is also a specific term for the wires to which tree branches are tied, in espalier.) When small-leaved vines, like ivy, are meticulously trained and pruned in geometric diamonds, squares, fans, or other patterns, this is treillage.
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<title>The Trellis - A Vine's Support System</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Trellis - A "lath screen" used to support ornamental vines against walls and other vertical surfaces where the vine can not or should not climb on its own. If not in front of a wall or building, a trellis should be adjacent to one; it is seldom used alone.]]></description>
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<title>Supporting Vines - Consider Construction</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:46:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Which comes first - the vine, or the support it grows on? Sometimes one, sometimes the other; but ideally, both together.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Chaos - Out of Control Vines</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:45:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In spite of - or perhaps because of - the many virtues that vines hold they should be planted with discrimination and respect. Too many vines are too much of a good thing. Misplaced, they are an eyesore. Growing rampant, untrained and unpruned, their disorderly conduct creates a bramble patch.]]></description>
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<title>Landscape Vines For a Smoothing Transition</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:44:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From a kerchief-sized city back yard to the rolling hills of a magnificent country estate, there is hardly a garden or landscape where vines can't be used to give the scene graceful beauty and vitality. And few other plants serve so many practical purposes as well.]]></description>
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<title>The Science of Weed Control</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:39:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tremendous progress has been made with chemical weed control in the last 30 years. While chemical weed control has been with us in some shape or form since the early 1900's, it hasn't been until the end of World War II that chemical weed control really come into its own.]]></description>
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<title>Growing With Poor Light - Problem Spots</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:21:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shady locations pose special problems when it comes to furnishing them with plants - problems that are challenging, but surmountable; problems that for happy solutions depend upon the selection of suitable kinds of plants. Around the home, on porches, patios and terraces and in sunrooms and window gardens there, are likely to be places where light is comparatively poor, but such places really need decorative vegetation to provide a homelike, lived-in atmosphere. Wisely chosen plants provide the answer for successful decoration of such problem spots.]]></description>
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<title>Temperature - Lights Partner in House Plant Care</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Factors other than light affect the well-being of foliage plants grown in pots, tubs and other containers. To insure success you must make every effort to make the whole environment agreeable. Attention to one factor will not do.]]></description>
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<title>Garden Finals For the Winter Rest</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:52:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[hese structures, while not elaborate, can play a vital part in an active garden program. November is a good month to build or repair them. Both structures are similar in construction, but vary in heat requirements. A hot bed has some type of generated heat, but a coldframe depends on the sun.
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<title>Prisoners of Big Cities Embrace the Smell of Soil</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:25:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since I was a youngster - now many years ago - the face of Thanksgiving has undergone a great change in this good land of ours. But the spirit, under all the modern day camouflage, remains the same. We have quite as much for which to be thankful as had our forebears or the pilgrim fathers before them.]]></description>
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<title>Keep Window Boxes Bright and Exciting All Winter</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:43:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roses need to be "winterized" for the season. The bushes should be checked closely for dead or diseased wood which should be removed; competing branches that cross or rub need to be corrected; it is also wise to remove or shorten unusually long canes that might be injured by high winds or snow and ice.]]></description>
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<title>After Care of Garden Bubs</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dutch Iris are one of the most colorful of all fall-planted bulbs. They have been propagated heavily in Oregon and Washington for the Pacific Coast market. The flower is excellent for cutting and a generous crop may be expected.]]></description>
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<title>Get Growing Works For October Too!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The sooner you get something planted in your garden, the sooner it will start growing there. This applies in October as well as other times of the year.]]></description>
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<title>Fall Leaves Make Natural Mulch</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Leaves - Falling leaves keep us busy raking but don't destroy them. Leaves and pine straw can be used to advantage for mulching shrubs. Cap the loose leaf mulch with a light layer of pine straw to keep it from blowing away in windy weather.]]></description>
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<title>Southern Roses - Make a Planting Date</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:21:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lilies are making their appearance in garden center stores in ever-increasing numbers during October. The southern strains of Easter lilies are now ready for planting. These are hardy in southern gardens and produce great quantities of pure white blooms every spring. Plant them 6 to 8 inches deep in rich, well-drained soil.]]></description>
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<title>Southern Style - Bulb and Veggie Planting</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:14:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[October is the month for planting many kinds of bulbs, perennials and vegetables in the South. Lawn planting, too, is at its height, especially preparing lawns for winter color with over plantings of rye grass.]]></description>
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<title>Lifting the Landscape During October</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:29:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[October may provide brilliant color in the landscape but it also signals an end of another growing season. Let's look at some of the things needed to be done in the landscape.]]></description>
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<title>Storing the Crop Overwintering Vegetables</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:11:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[October is a time of brilliant color. Scarlet maples and yellow beeches, golden pumpkins and bronze chrysanthemums invite us to pause and enjoy the beauty around us. October is a satisfying month, too, with its harvest of vegetables ready to put into storage and a sort of "case closed" feeling about the end of another growing season.]]></description>
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