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		<title>Hosta Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hostas are an excellent perennial plant for shade gardens. Originally from Asia, hostas, are a herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its attractive foliage. These shade perennials thrive in low light and only get better with age as the clumps get larger and the variegated leaves become wider and the coloring becomes more intense, especially in the gold-toned cultivars. While they are easy to grow, there are a few things the home gardener can do to help them along.
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		<title>Hostas Sun or Shade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With good reason, hostas are one of the most popular plants for the homegardener. After all growing hostas, is easy, and they provide fabulous, foolproof foliage that thrives in in almost any situation.
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		<title>Hostas as Potted Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One question we are asked often is if you can grow hostas as container plants? The answers is sure, why not. Hostas can be successfully grown in any well drained container. We have a number of potted hostas in our home gardens, sometimes for the visual appeal but more often because we have no where [...]
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		<title>Dividing and Transplanting Perennials in Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August and September is a great month for dividing and  transplanting.  The heat of summer has hopefully passed and there is still plenty of time for plants to recover from being moved before the cold winter weather sets in. The normal Fall rains, will also allow the plants to become established.
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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>
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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>
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		<title>The Lobster Claw</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Banana Trees in the Northern Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Our Favorite Groundcovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every gardener uses groundcovers in their landscapes even if they do not realize it. Often times groundcovers are overlooked, simply taken for granted as the green stuff growing on the hillside. When we do get around to discussing groundcovers, the first thing that pops into our minds are low spreading ivy, vinca minor, spreading junipers, [...]
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