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		<title>Let’s Eat the Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many flowers have traditionally been used in many types of cooking. Native American used flowers as food and passed this information on to early settlers. Our ancestors regularly used flowers to flavor vinegars for cooking, marinades, or dressings for salad.
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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>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 ones [...]
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		<title>New Daffodils in Our Gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No other flower heralds the arrival of Spring in Southwestern Lower Michigan like the first blooming daffodil. There are a number of  Spring blooming flowers but the daffodil stands in a class of it’s own. There just is nothing like waking up in the morning with that first cup of coffee in hand and  walking [...]
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		<title>A Weed by Another Name &#8211; The Joe Pye Weed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Pye Weed is a tall, dominating upright perennial, three to twelve feet tall, with a green to purple unbranched stems, that are mostly hollow. The lance shaped leaves are eight to twelve inches long, and arranged in whorls at each node on the stem. When crushed, the leaves have a slight hint of vanilla. [...]
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		<title>My Favorite Perennial Mums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 03:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last season we tried a new hybrid mum called My Favorite Mum. The My Favorite Mums series is a joint venture of Ball Horticultural Company of West Chicago, Illinois and Anthony Tesselaar International of Melbourne, Australia, both renowned horticultural innovators.  These mums are bred for hardiness, thriving in the hot humid South as well as [...]
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		<title>Rudbeckia in the Border Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2004 03:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We find that there are some plants that you just cannot have too many of, in our case it is the Rudbeckia or Black-Eyed Susans. The showy character of this plant make them particularly useful in bold masses, especially around outbuildings, fences, and where unsightly objects are to be hidden. We find that they work [...]
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		<title>Care of Garden Roses as Cut Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2004 03:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no mystical secret in making your fresh cut garden roses last a long time. All it takes is a little planning and preparation on your part. Commercial growers do it every day and so can you.  The evening before you plan to cut your roses, water them well. This will give the plant [...]
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		<title>Growing Roses in Containers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2004 03:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our previous Yard Talk on Old Roses we mentioned that we dug up all of our Hybrid Tea Roses and moved them across the garden. We jokingly said how much easier this would have been if the roses were in containers. Faced with the task once again the joke just may be on us.  There definitely [...]
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