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		<title>Planning The Pots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[container planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit Garden Works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annual container planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annual planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[designing annual pots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer annuals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Reluctantly, I planted my first pots, this past Friday..  I was reluctant, as the overnight temperature was 46 degrees.  At 9am, just 52 degrees.  But this particular client spends most of the summer on the east coast.  She needs an early planting, so I am happy to oblige.  She knows there could be damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At A Glance:  Enjoying The Spring Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[strawberries and phlox espaliered apples spring pots dogwoods and azaleas spring basket tulips spruces and hellebores bok choy late tulip new hosta leaves]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers For Cutting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Detroit Garden Works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arranging garden flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cut flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day flowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I arrange lots of cut flowers for clients intended as Mother&#8217;s Day gifts. It may be old fashioned or expected, but I do believe the gift of flowers or plants is so appropriate for a Mom.  My Mom was a scientist.  Her view of the world had to do with experiments, statistics, dispassionate reasoning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Opinion:  Freezing</title>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/monda-opinion-freezing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our weather forecast called for 27 to 33 degrees overnight Sunday.  The prediction for 33 degrees is for downtown Detroit-my yard is 30 miles due north.  I must have stared at the Accuweather frost zone map for at least 15 minutes.  It appears that my yard is in the center of a frost warning zone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At A Glance: In Bloom</title>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/at-a-glance-in-bloom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[spring basket apple tree parsley, pansies and alyssum crab apple spring container planting redbud swiss chard, pansies and alyssum tulips in the pink galvanized trough May blooming lavender redbuds &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The Magnolias</title>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/the-magnolias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 23:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woody Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[galaxy magnolia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magnolia Butterflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magnolia Galaxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Savage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saucer magnolia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saucer magnolias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring blooming magnolias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In most every year I have written this blog, there is an essay about magnolias.  I have a big love for them.  The flowers are dramatic and showy-I so welcome a gesture of this magnitude after a long winter.  A good bloom is never a certainty.  They bloom early in my spring-which also means they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impatiens Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/the-impatiens-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[container planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impatiens disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impatiens fungal infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impatiens substitutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shade annuals for Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shade tolerant annuals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a big love for all of the annual plants that are available to augment my garden.  Many of them come from tropical climates.  One of the most popular annual plants of all time is impatiens walleriana.  This plant grows readily in the heat, and covers itself with self cleaning flowers in a wide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spring Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picture This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/?p=31890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to pick a favorite, but the spring season has an aura like no other.  Any plant, whether it be a tree or summer flowering shrub, a bulb or a perennial, responds to nature&#8217;s call to break dormancy, and grow.  From the biggest maple to the smallest hepatica, the plants are growing.  There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Opinion:  White Bread</title>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/sunday-opinion-white-bread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strictly Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[White bread-I am sure you know what I am talking about.  That bread that is made from wheat flour from which the bran and the gram has been removed by milling.   Not Italian peasant bread.  Not French baguettes.  Not 6 grain whole wheat bread.  Not rye or pumpernickel. Not panetta, or flatbread, or pita [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At A Glance: Spring Purple</title>
		<link>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/at-a-glance-spring-purple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/at-a-glance-spring-purple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Silver</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picture This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring flowering plants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[pansies rhododendron Forest Pansy redbud in bloom, from Brooke Run tree farm violas grape hyacinths and clear sky pansies primula denticulata purple hyacinth Queen of the Night tulips anemone blanda purple, from Wikipedia mixed sweet alyssum primula obconica pjm rhododendron palibin lilac pulsatilla vulgaris, from wikipedia.  So many pictures of purple spring flowers!  I think [...]]]></description>
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