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      <title>Mid-Atlantic: May Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Virginia Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pacific Northwest: May Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A May &ldquo;to-do&rdquo; list for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest United States<br />]]></description>
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      <title>Upper Midwest: May Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A May &ldquo;to-do&rdquo; list for gardeners in the Northeast United States<br />]]></description>
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      <title>Midwest: May Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Kansas Master Gardener shares spring tips and local news<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lower Midwest: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Kansas Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Northwest: May Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Idaho Master Gardener shares spring tips and local news<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Northeast: A Landscape Reclaimed</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As any seasoned gardener knows from repeated weeding, a garden&mdash;or any landscape for that matter&mdash;changes very rapidly without the constant vigilance of a caretaker.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mediterranean Plants for Texas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These Mediterranean plants do well in hot, dry Texas.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Midwest: Private Arboretum</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is strictly unofficial, but my garden has become an arboretum&mdash;a one-sixth-acre collection of small trees and shrubs suitable for a tough climate and a tight spot.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southeast: Michael Dirr</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Michael Dirr is one of those rare, driven individuals who make the rest of us look like we're mired in Jell-O.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fire-Wise Landscaping</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plants and design for a garden that defends against wild fires.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southwest: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Arizona Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Interesting Suburban Garden</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Creating an interesting suburban garden that reflects its native surroundings.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fall Brings Celebrations of Chrysanthemums</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dates and details of 2008 mum shows across the United States.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A GARDENING LIFE: Neil Diboll</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A prairie ecologist and nurseryman, Neil Diboll has worked ceaselessly to raise awareness about prairie plants and ecosystems and to further the cause of prairie restoration.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Upper Midwest: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Midwest: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Illinois Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Field Notes: Honeybee Plight</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The honeybee is in trouble. I first began to suspect this one sunny May afternoon in 1996, when my husband and I were accompanying friends on a picnic on a farm in south-central Tennessee.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Berries for the Northeast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These berries grow well in Northeast gardens.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Northeast: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Rhode Island Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Early Spring in the Rockies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These wildflowers are the first to bloom in the Rocky Mountains.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southeast: Southern Sizzle</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I first started gardening, I didn't care a speck about foliage size. Itsy-bitsy leaves were fine with me as long as the flowers were pretty. (Prime example: asters.) But as 1 delved into garden books and magazines, I discovered that size matters, at least when you're a leaf.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Northeast: Ephemeral Love</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gardeners everywhere greet spring with enthusiasm, but the duration and severity of New England winters encourage those of us who garden here to regard with a certain ardor the first plants to emerge from the still-cold ground.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trailing Plants</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These plants have an excellent trailing habit, making them good for walls and hanging baskets.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mid-Atlantic: For the Birds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2002, our two fields were planted with warm-season grasses, legumes, and wildflowers in an effort to create a wildlife habitat.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Alocasia 'Hilo Beauty'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This elephant ear's heart-shaped, apple-green leaves are generously dappled with large creamy yellow blotches.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Editing the Garden</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[All gardens need to be revised from time to time. Here's why and how.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Great Lakes: January/February Gardening</title>
      <link>http://www.hortmag.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6746</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A Wisconsin Master Gardener shares current tips and news]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mid-Atlantic: Digging History</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pieces of the puzzle of renowned colonial botanist John Clayton's life have been turning up in the soil where his home once stood.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mid-Atlantic: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Maryland Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Green Roofs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Green roofs are becoming more mainstream. Here's why.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interior West: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Las Vegas Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sassafras albidum</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Its excellent autumn tones, fantastic textural foliage, appeal to birds and butterflies, and elegant winter framework encourage us to do more than simply appreciate it in the wild.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Red-Branched Moosewood Maple</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The branches of moosewood maple ( <em>Acer pensylvanicum</em> &lsquo;Erythrocladum&rsquo;) turn a glowing salmon red once the weather gets cold.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Viburnum xbodnantense</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Container Bog Garden</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here's how to make a bog garden in a container.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Field Notes 34</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[BY EARLY JANUARY, several freezes usually have singed lawns and prairies around Austin to various shades of straw.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Midwest: January/February Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Chicago Master Gardener shares winter tips and local news]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Midwest: Play Ball!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The baseball season and the gardening season coincide in Kansas City, Missouri. Early spring is a time of warm-ups and optimism on both fronts.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Show Goes On</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THERE IS NOTHING like the fantasy of full-blown, flowery gardens in the middle of winter to reassure us that the earth is again spinning toward springtime. What else but a flower show offers daffodils blooming beneath spires of June-flowering delphiniums or the luxury of inhaling lily perfume five months early?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interior West: Hardy Pardners</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Who's native and who is not carries weight in the ever-more-populated state of Colorado, and the least favorite arrivals seem to be Texans. Fortunately such attitudes are irrelevant in the garden. Ours is brimming with Texas plants that are much hardier than we might have guessed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Summer Gardening in Texas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here are some ways to make the garden look lively in Texas's hottest time of year.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mid-Atlantic: Gardens of the Spirit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nature has supplied us with a multitude of incredibly powerful scenes that are capable of rejuvenating the human spirit, but I believe that a well-designed garden right outside your back door can stimulate a similar positive experience.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interior West: January/February Gardening</title>
      <link>http://www.hortmag.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6743</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A Las Vegas Master Gardener shares current tips and news]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gardening Together</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A husband and wife find compromise in the garden.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Blue Poppies in Alaska</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Blue poppies grow better in Alaska than anywhere else in the country. Here's an expert's take.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southwest: Ocotillo Loco</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The ocotillo <em>(Fouquieria splendens)</em> has become the darling of Southwestern gardeners shooting for a bold look.]]></description>
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      <title>Northwest: March/April Gardening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Idaho Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Wyoming Plant Research</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A test station in Wyoming helped determine hardy plants for the rugged west.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southeast: January/February Gardening</title>
      <link>http://www.hortmag.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6741</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A Louisiana Master Gardener shares current tips and news]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Northwest: Star Magnolia</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oh, the blessed climate of California, where frost rarely if ever threatens the magnolia blossoms.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southeast: Escaping Shapes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When it comes to containers, sometimes thinking outside the box means finding&hellip;a box.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[These houseplants do well in Texas homes and gardens.<br />]]></description>
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