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		<title>Northwest Flower And Garden Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I had a call last week from Bruce Bailey, the owner of Heavy Petal Nursery in Washington.  He is one of a group of featured speakers at the seminars which will be offered at this year&#8217;s Northwest Flower and Garden Show.  This is a very well respected and well attended event.  Their seminars will be given by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Terra Cotta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had notice from my customs broker today that the first of our two containers from France is in customs.  This is such great news.  This July 2010 photograph by Bertrand Kulik of the Eiffel Tower during a storm perfectly describes my anticipatory excitement.  French garden design, French garden pots-what is not to like?  Rob&#8217;s trip to France was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=25046</link>
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		<title>Sunday Opinion: Apple-icious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will admit to more than a little long standing prejudice against Apple.  Years ago, I tried diligently to get Rob interested in the computer.  How about a PC, I asked.  Unlike my project specific large slotted screwdriver, or my trowel, a computer enables a person to engage in a universe of activities only limited by one&#8217;s ability to ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=24879</link>
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		<title>At A Glance: More Normal</title>
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		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=25011</link>
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		<title>Rob On The Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no complaints about the weather here.  The temperatures are steady right around 32 degrees.  Today we have had light wet snow, party sunny skies, heavier snow and firece winds, and sun-depending on when you are looking out the window.  But I am a little envious of the picture Rob took outside a flower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=24973</link>
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		<title>Seeing The Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lighting the landscape is not my forte.  Everyone does a better job of it than I.  Fortunately for me, the light lingers in the summer.  All it takes for Buck to abandon the yard is the warning buzz from one mosquito-he is through with the garden once it gets dark.  When I am working the landscape season, I am up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=24928</link>
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		<title>New Dirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a much easier job to keep Milo clean than the shop.  Once he dries, the dirt falls off.  Once a month, he gets the works from Lexi from the Aussie Pet Mobile.   The shop, however, is 10,000 square feet that is likely to get very dirty-daunting, this.  My work life grew out of a love for dirt. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=24883</link>
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		<title>At A Glance: Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boston ivy in January &#160; repainting the shop new paint rim of 19th century antique English cast iron urn new paint grapevine deer &#160; shop wrecked grapevines and wagon wheels tall space milkweed seed pods Belgian hazelwood twig planter boxes]]></description>
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		<title>Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The winter is a perfect time to discuss what goes into a coherent landscape plan.  If you have a mind to make some changes, plan now.  Draw now.  Search for the right clematis now.  Read the seed catalogues now. Be ready, when the season turns. A hard and thoughtful look at a landscape now is perfect-most of all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=24810</link>
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		<title>Buck At Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buck has been plenty busy at Branch.  What exactly are you looking at here?  This is a fountain urn commissioned by a client in California for a project in Texas.  This fountain has a bowl assembly and a base, designed and specified by the landscape architect on the project.  Buck stacked the two pieces upside down, to check [...]]]></description>
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