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		<title>Taro in the Northern Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taro, is widely grown in the tropics for food. In Hawaii, Taro is usually grown in pond fields, known as loʻi where the cool, flowing water yields the best crop of edible corms. The edible tubers are used in Poi and the young shoots are blanched and used as a winter vegetable.

Although, native to tropical Asia and Polynesia,  Colocasia has given us lots of pleasure all Summer. With its huge, velvet or glossy, dark green, heart-shaped leaves lined with darker veins, Taro adds real drama to our shade garden.

We grow them in containers with little thought given to eating the stems or beating their roots to a pulp to make something that taste like bland wallpaper paste. Taro really work well around a garden structure or up against a stone wall. We like to use them with banana trees and potted palms.


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		<title>Wildflower Gardening for Wildlife</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wildflower Gardening is a must for those gardeners interested in attracting wildlife. Whether your interest lies with butterflies, moths, birds or other critters the surest way to attract them into your gardens is by planting what is familiar to them. No self respecting White-Tailed Deer would be caught dead in a bamboo cane break. Also [...]


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		<title>Our Favorite Peony “The Intersectional”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 08:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Summer we planted our first intersectional peony and fell in love with it immediately. Intersectional peonies are supremely satisfying plants – breathtakingly beautiful, rugged, deer proof, drought tolerant, and trouble free. The intersectional peony is a stunning hybrid that goes dormant to ground level and buds like a herbaceous peony but has flowers and [...]


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		<title>Landscape Mulches Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the home gardener probably the most important task they can perform each Spring, is applying a good mulch to their garden. This one project, if for no other reason than the time it will save you,  will lift your garden to the next level. We have talked about this before, but we just [...]


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		<title>The Hawaiian Lei Flower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plumeria or Lei Flower is the most beautiful flower that you will find in Hawaii. It is used in most leis that are given to visitors as they arrive in Hawaii. It is, however, not native to Hawaii but to Mexico like the Monkey Pod Tree. The flowers are found in colors of white, yellow, [...]


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		<title>The Lobster Claw</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife’s favorite tropical flower is the Heliconia bihai, better known as the  ‘Lobster Claw’ which she first saw at the Allerton National Botanical Gardens on the island of Kauai during our 2005 trip to Ha-waii. This widely cultivated variety grows from 5 to 16 feet high in full sun to light shade. The [...]


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		<title>After Christmas, What Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have been following Yard Talk over the years know how special Christmas Time is at Martin’s Yard &#38; Garden. It is a very special, magical time, a time for sharing with our friends and family old and new. 
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		<title>A Christmas at Martin&#8217;s Yard &amp; Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have been following Yard Talk over the years know how special Christmas Time is at Martin’s Yard &#38; Garden. It is a very special, magical time, a time for sharing with our friends and family old and new. We welcome you once again into our home and gardens.
Our Christmas season begins [...]


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		<title>Banana Trees in the Northern Garden</title>
		<link>http://myg.info/index.php/2009/11/01/banana-trees-in-the-northern-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Summer, while making a quick trip to Lowe’s to pick up some lumber, we happened to notice a display of small potted banana trees. We could not believe they were trying to sell these tropical plants in Michigan. What a joke, we thought, with our cool Spring weather much less our early Fall. There [...]


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		<title>Selby Botanical Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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