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	<title>Martin's Yard &#38; Garden &#187; Plants</title>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Butterfly]]></category>
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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>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>Banana Trees in the Northern Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yard Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Container Gardening]]></category>
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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>Our Favorite Groundcovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Growing Heirloom Tomatoes</title>
		<link>http://myg.info/index.php/2009/08/01/growing-heirloom-tomatoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Past Yard Talks we talked about the red slicing tomato such as Burpee’s Big Boy and Big Girl, Rutgers, and mammoth Beefsteak. These were the big round tomatoes of our youth, the pride and joy of our parents and grandparents garden.
We have also talked about my personal favorite, the cherry tomato. I eat more [...]


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		<title>New Daffodils in Our Gardens</title>
		<link>http://myg.info/index.php/2009/04/01/new-daffodils-in-our-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bulbs]]></category>
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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>Athyriums in the Garden</title>
		<link>http://myg.info/index.php/2007/08/01/athyriums-in-the-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Athyriums have long been prized by the home gardener not only because they were very easy to grow but, because of their color and texture. Lady ferns, particularly look good when grown in clumps or mass plantings. We use these ferns throughout our shade gardens. Actually, this is one down right spectacular plant. 
Lady Ferns are [...]


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		<title>Culinary Herbs in Our Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been growing herbs for over 20 years here in Michigan. Actually our son Geoff got us started when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska. He was in grade school at the time and was looking for something relatively easy to grow yet still rewarding. One thing lead to another and he soon had a [...]


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