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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:38:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Variations on a Green Theme</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When garden designer Suzanna Porter is working on a design in her Berkeley, California, office, she doesn't have to travel far for ideas and inspiration. A simple 90-degree turn from her drawing table reveals her own garden...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cistus Nursery</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For most of us, moving entails packing up our clothes, hoisting our furniture, transporting it all to a new location, and setting up housekeeping. When obsessed plantsmen Sean Hogan and the late Parker Sanderson relocated to Portland, Oregon, in April 1995, their 5,000 precious plants took up far more space in the moving van than all their other possessions...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ketzel Levine</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I went public with my ambivalence about roses. I admitted that this humbling genus pushed all my buttons about conformity, tradition, and settling down (and I&rsquo;ll bet you thought roses were just high-maintenance plants). Since then, I&rsquo;ve moved again -another short-term rental -but a rose now climbs over the garden gate celebrating a future other than mine...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Golden Climate</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<strong>Near frost-free San Diego, a couple shares their tropical dream</strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Call of the Wild</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After seven Job-like years of gardening, a group of tried-and-true plants remained steadfast through deluge, drought, wind, hail, record-breaking heat, and subzero winters. These became signature plants of the garden&mdash;I planted more, eager for dependable beauty. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Award for Garden Excellence</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Award for Garden Excellence, given yearly by the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) and sponsored by <em>Horticulture</em>, honors the public garden that best exemplifies the highest standards of horticultural practices and that has shown a commitment to supporting and demonstrating the best gardening techniques. The APGA and Horticulture are proud to honor the Chicago Botanic Garden, in Glencoe, Illinois, as the winner of the 2006 award. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Field Notes: Texas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THAT ARMAGEDDON COMES TO TEXAS, not just at the end of the millennium, but every August, endows gardens here with much of their uniqueness. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gardeners in the Deep South</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gardeners in the Deep South face some 		challenges unique to their region. Well known are the discomforts of 		outdoor work in the heat of summer, and the persistence of weed and 		insect pests due to the long growing season. Another problem is the 		extreme vigor of climbers and vines...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spreading the Joy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Joy Creek Nursery is all about people, plants, and a strong sense of place. Knowledgeable and friendly nursery employees welcome customers with a map of the site, a current catalog, a clipboard, and an exhortation to have fun exploring the six acres of gardens, trial beds, and retail offerings...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tips for Visiting a Daffodil Show</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ll always remember my first time walking into a daffodil show. As the door opened, cool air laden with the smell of daffodils rushed to greet me...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Well-Behaved Bamboo</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&quot;The borindas are coming on as a big deal,&quot; says Jackie Heinricher, proprietor of the wholesale bamboo nursery Boo-Shoot Gardens. If you can picture a 35- to 45-foot-tall, noninvasive timber bamboo with powder blue canes, you'll have an idea why Borinda boliana will storm the market when it is released in 2006. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Photo Finish</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is fascinating when an artist&mdash;a painter, a sculptor, or a photographer&mdash;turns to garden making, and translates his or her well-honed principles of composition to exterior design and planting. Clive Nichols is one of the best known garden photographers, with images featured in countless books, magazines, and calendars around the world. His own garden blends his mastery of composition with the plant knowledge he has collected through his work...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Flashes of Color</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have seen the future of siberian irises, and it's in Carlisle, Massachusetts. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Life of Riley</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Although the Big Apple prides itself in all avenues of the offbeat, Michael Riley is quite possibly one of a kind. He tends ferns, begonias, and orchids in his apartment on the Upper West Side, but you'll find few potted plants there. Michael's collection scales two cork bark-covered walls, floor to ceiling, a living wallpaper for this urban gardener...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Transplant Shock</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To summer visitors, the Adirondack Mountains of northeast New York offer warm, pleasant scenes at every turn. Rustic lakeside camps, where log cabins nestle amid colorful flower beds and boast overflowing window boxes, suggest living (and gardening) here would be so easy. But year-round residents like Pamela Dore, a landscape designer in the small town of Au Sable Forks (near Lake Placid), know this setting's challenges...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A West Texas Oasis</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In case you've never been there, Texas is <em>big</em>. From San Antonio, where the last vestiges of the South drop off, it is still five hundred miles west to El Paso and six hundred miles north to the top of the panhandle...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Town Transformed</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gardens are not just about plants; they are about the people who create them. Gardens need a personality and a vision to be successful. These things are especially crucial for public gardens&mdash;without them, they are only background landscape. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Adventurous Addictions: A Collector's Garden</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is          only upon close inspection of the broad, curving borders          embracing the house and front and rear lawns that one          appreciates what a vast assortment of plants they contain          and realizes that, however tastefully subdued the          surroundings, this is, nevertheless, the domain of an          adventurous &mdash; make that obsessive &mdash; plant addict . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Idylls of Innisfree</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It came within a heartbeat of being just another English garden. Walter and Marion Beck were well on their way to putting in something very traditional, European, and floral when they began work on their Millbrook, New York, property in the 1930s. Then the land spoke to them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The New German Style</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[PICTURE THIS: Orange 'Fire King' lilies standing between mounds of <em>Euphorbia griffithii</em> 'Fireglow' and scattered tufts of cream-plumed dropwort (<em>Filipendula vulgaris</em> 'Multiplex'), all set in a low silver and violet-blue wash of catmint, stachys, and sages, and speared by the fat rockets of apricot foxtail lilies (<em>Eremerus</em> Ruiter hybrids). . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Call of the Wild</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In our July/August 2004 issue, contributing editor Lauren Springer describes the challenges she faced when gardening in the foothills west of Fort Collins, Colorado, and lists the plants she came to find success with. Here, we bring you Springer's expanded plant lists &mdash; those listed in the magazine, as well as a number of additional choices. . . .]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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