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(Photo: Denise Yeager) Composting is the ultimate act of green frugality , turning unwanted organic material into rich humus for use in the garden rather than sealing it in plastic trash bags to spend eternity in a landfill. But for some of us, composting is something even more special — a hobby, a passion, almost a religion . I’ve even named my beloved compost pile; “Gomer,” as in Gomer Pyle (get it?)
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How to compost almost anything
I have found a special place in my garden, a spot where I can stop and rest of an evening and look across the lawn, Or gaze up at the sky, Or see up close the plants around me. This place was always here, waiting to be discovered. Like a diamond cutter studies the rough, unimpressive rock before making the first cut and revealing the beauty of the diamond within, my garden designer studied
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Discovering the Garden Design Element of "Placeness"
After a day of working in your garden, where you have managed to cover yourself from head to toe with dirt, mud, grass stains, and other stains, how “cleaned up” do you need to be to make one last mad dash to the garden center to get that last (fill in blank here of what you ran short of)? We have already established that most serious gardeners wear some of the goofiest outfits while out working
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How Clean? A Giveaway Sponsored by Botanical Interests
Repent, ye gardeners, repent! Repent and pay your penance with hours of weeding for planting, once again, a plant that you had no business planting, that took hold in your garden and while you weren’t looking, spread and smothered and self-sowed and destroyed all that was in its path. Repent for all the plants around that thug, that monster, that invasive hog-plant that seems to know no bounds
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I read a Dale Carnegie quote earlier this week and my thoughts turned to gardening, as they always do. Before you read the quote, take a minute to answer this question: Would you rather be an excellent gardener or a successful gardener? I suspect most of us would like to be a successful gardener but how would that success be measured
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Would You Rather Be An Excellent Gardener or A Successful Gardener?
One does not lightly pass up a book with a note on the cover that says “Gardeners owe all to William Robinson” – Henry Mitchell. Nor should one take lightly a book that uses the word “copse” in it, as in, “My object in The Wild Garden is now to show how we may have more of the varied beauty of hardy flowers than the most ardent admirer of the old style of garden ever dreams of, by
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The Wild Garden: A Book Review
You might be a gardening geek on a rainy day if… You contemplate buying one of those temporary shelters, the kind with the tent roof but no sides, to set up in strategic locations in the garden so you can continue weeding and planting, section by section, in the rain, in the garden.
I spent yesterday outside gardening in the garden, and only took one picture showing Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokova’ with bits of Snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum, growing with it. The snow-in-summer is the one with the grayish-green narrow leaves. In the lower center are the tips of the maroon leaves of Hecheura x villosa ‘Mocha’ (more on that later).
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Garden Design Update: Making Plant Choices
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Woo hoo! I’m on vacation for a week to work in my garden. “Having a great time, wish you were here.” Then you could help me weed and mulch and plant up containers. I’ve already got a good start on weeding the vegetable garden beds, getting them ready to plant
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Dear Friends and Gardeners: May 10, 2010
I was lured out into the cold, sunny garden early this morning by Baptisia australis, selected as the 2010 Perennial Plant of the Year™ by the Perennial Plant Association. Baptisia australis ‘Purple Smoke’ has been a nice anchor at the end of the perennial border between me and my neighbor for many years. For awhile, I had some other plants growing around it that I thought were keeping it
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Baptisia
Once upon a time, Jo Ellen, the Hoosier Gardener, came to see my garden and asked me why I had “caged” my Clematis integrifolia ‘Alba’. She suggested I free it and let it just grow up and around the plants near it. I decided she might be right, so I wrote a post about it and then proceeded to set it free
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The Tale of the Four New Clematis
We haven’t been formerly introduced yet, this lovely Chamaecyparis and I, but I think once we are, we will get along quite well. I never thought I cared much for Chamaecyparis, as a general rule, but I do like this one, and think it is a great addition to the garden. I probably wouldn’t have planted something like this on my own, so I’m glad the garden designer pushed me a little to think again
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Garden Design Update: Greeting New Plants
Meighan posted a photo: Yay my Richters order arrived!! – Pesto Perpetuo Basil ( Ocimum ‘Pesto Perpetuo’ ) – Grape-Scented Sage ( Salvia melissodora ) – Dwarf Pomegranate ( Punica granatum ‘Nana’ ) – Lion’s Tail ( Leonotis leonurus ) – Society Garlic ( Tulbaghia violacea ) – Clove Pink Carnation ( Dianthus caryophyllus ‘Grenadin’ ) – Mojito Mint ( Mentha x villosa )
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Richters Order
From Bev Doherty (IEG) Dear Inishowen/Derry friend, and others who would have an interest in this matter. You may be aware that Grosvenor Exploration and Mining Services (Ireland) Limited is to be granted a prospecting licence to search many townlands in Inishowen for minerals such as gold, diamonds and other gems. Please see press articles below
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Inishowen Environmental Group meeting about mining
Tuesday morning, the garden designer will return to oversee the majority of the installation of the new garden design in the front yard. I will go off to work and when I return, there it will be… new plantings, fresh mulch, a new beginning in the front yard.
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Garden Design Update: Stuff Is Showing Up On My Driveway
Author Alexandra Zissu offers some thoughtful, out-of-the-box Mother’s Day gift ideas that your mom won’t soon forget. Zissu writes the Ask an Organic Mom blog on The Daily Green and is the author most recently of The Conscious Kitchen . Plant Mom a garden We all want to be growing vegetables, and now’s the time to be planting
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Seven waste-free (and free) ways to celebrate Mother’s Day
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Is it just me or do the weeks pass more quickly in the spring? Or maybe it feels like last week went fast because this weekend was a repeat of last weekend – rainy. I don’t feel like I’ve done much in the garden so far this spring, but I feel like I have a lot to do
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Dear Friends and Gardeners: May 3, 2010
All year I dream of the days of May when the sun is warm, the sky is blue, the grass is green, and the garden is all new again! Welcome to the month of May at May Dreams Gardens. Welcome to a garden that is nearly fully awake now with new blooms, new leaves and even new weeds nearly every day. I enjoy this month in my garden to the fullest extent possible, as I watch the transformation from
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Happy May 1st
The logistics are a bit complicated, but they involved two twin mattresses, my truck, some passalong hostas, finding a window of opportunity (WOO) to haul the mattresses from my sister-in-law to my sister (in my truck), plus finding time to dig up some hostas I had, recently dubbed the “Martha Hostas” because they originally came from a friend of my sister-in-law’s named Martha who passed away
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When A Flower Blooms That You Just Don’t Like: Happy Ending
By guest blogger Sharon Halkovics I went to a Sprouting and Microgreens workshop last Saturday in Denver. It’s pretty simple to grow these items, but there are certainly tricks to successful growing that make the process much more enlightening and this workshop was chock full of tips and facts. Three jars of sunflower, broccoli, and pea sprouts are now growing in my kitchen and I’m amazed at how simple and quick it is to grow these highly nutritious little gems. And for pennies at that! As spring progresses and new flowers continuously sprout up and bloom, I feel more and more compelled to eat greens….any and everything green including crunchy little sprouts. I’m in love with ‘greens’ at the moment and I can’t seem to get enough. I’ve been playing with recipes and finding ways to come up with new green tonics (smoothies are easy and fantastic). But I made this one simple recipe the other night and was so thrilled with the flavors and simplicity it seemed like great recipe to share. The trick to this soup is to blend it really well so it gets super creamy. It’s extremely satiating and healthy to boot
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Kitchen Farming 101: Sprouts