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		<title>Monday Opinion:  Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day falls in early May, just as the garden and their gardeners are waking up and working hard bringing on the new season.  Like tens upon thousands of countless other kids, I was brought up, nurtured, and loved by a very special Mom.  By this I mean a parent whose unconditional love helped me to be.  A Mom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At A Glance: Early Purple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[purple pansies Cathedral Sky Blue salvia lavender bicolor violas and lettuce lavender lisianthus lime leaved coral bells and lavender streptocarpus wisteria Blue Moon  Opal Moon escheveria, angelina, and sweet alyssum lavender clematis purple pansy mix spring planting carmine pansies and alyssum purple violas and angelina purple columbine]]></description>
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		<title>A Vase Full Of Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would imagine that there are lots of gifts, in the form of cut flower arrangements, exchanging hands today.  Though a vase full of flowers is a traditional Mother&#8217;s Day gift, it is a thoughtful and appropriate choice.  In the interest of keeping those fresh cuts fresh as long as possible, I take the time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Don&#8217;t Like Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I shouldn&#8217;t take it personally.  They don&#8217;t like much of anyone who gardens in my zone.  Why should they?  If you look at a map that details where rhododendron catawbiense in native, you&#8217;ll see the Appalachian mountains from West Virginia extending as far south as Alabama.  I do not garden in the mountains, nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Frost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There may have been little in the way of winter weather in my zone, and the 80 degree days we had in March were disturbingly unusual-but the winter weather we have had this spring has been devastating.  Every bloom on twelve magnolias in my yard-and lots of other yards- was summarily frosted off at the end of March.  OK, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have written before, my job for a client is best described as a conceptual plan.  A schematic plan.  A few broad strokes, an idea.  All of the details, which make a landscape project, are all about a relationship.  The strength of a designer/client relationship makes all the difference in the world.  My client was discerning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming To A Close</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I have written about this lakefront landscape project several times before.  We have been working on it since last September.  All of last October and half of November was a wash-literally.  The relentless rain made it impossible to work there.  In late November we finally began planting the evergreens.  We managed to finished by the holidays.  After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lots Of Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This piece of paper does little justice in describing the size of this property, but perhaps if I say that every square inch represents 400 square feet, you will  get the idea.  Transforming what was a field with an occasional box elder, lots of buckthorn and plenty of quack grass into a home with a landscape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Opinion:  Depth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Roy H Williams:  &#8220;According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that creates the four dimensions you and I call height, width, depth, and time.&#8221;  I know, it takes time for a sentence like this to sink in.  Should you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At A Glance: The Other Version Of This Sunday Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had temperatures in the upper twenties last night-my butterburrs at home, and the tulips at the shop, were not very happy.  oh my We ran the irrigation, in hopes that only the surface water would freeze, and not the flowers. &#160; The first rays of the sun started melting the ice. &#160; Frozen tulips-not such [...]]]></description>
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