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Novice gardeners usually have to learn the hard way
A recent visit with a cousin, on her own for the first time, reminded me we were all novice gardeners at one time. Even those of us more experienced continue to learn and often need to be reminded ...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Backyard playsets not just a tree house
DETROIT — It is the kind of tree house that a kid could spend all day and all night inside. Patrick and Cindy Mifsud’s kids have in fact pulled all-nighters in the cedar and pine play set nestle...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy News  Service Checkerspots, a rare native butterfly, can be found at Thurston County's Glacial Heritage Preserve. They feed on the nectar produced by camas flowers.
Specialty museum almost a Fort Knox with butterflys
Don’t touch the butterflies. Don’t pick them up. Don’t try to catch them. Don’t step on them. Don’t leave with any of them on your clothes. Entering and leaving the new butterfly garden at th...
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Capture beauty of flower garden with photos while in bloom
The flowers this spring have been as beautiful as I can remember them. To remember their beauty and to remind me of what bloomed when, I have recorded some of the flowers and shrubs with the cell p...
May 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Style can truly exist in small outdoor spots
By Melissa Rayworth Associated Press Design magazines and home decorating catalogs tend to feature sprawling backyards with big wooden decks and room for everything from decorative fountains...
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New blooms, veggies debuting
By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press Whoever believes there’s nothing new under the sun hasn’t seen the plants being introduced for this year’s gardening season. Think multi-colored blooms, h...
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Chris Janne photo The entrance to the Chris Janne garden features an arbor covered with Peggy Martin rose. Janne said the rose has been in place for just a couple of years and is pruned several times a year so it can wind through the arbor. 
Mother’s Day tour features garden filled with sweet fragrances
What a wonderful treat to tour the gardens of Chris Janne this week. It was our first really beautiful spring day after so many that have been gloomy and wet. At the end of the garden, Madame Al...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Create garden color by artist’s method
Long a companion for artists, the color wheel can also be a handy tool for gardeners. Gardening author Sydney Eddison created a wheel that has 252 colors instead of the usual 12. That’s because ...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy News Service Coconut lined baskets are easy to plant and fill with dazzling color whether they are window box like or typical hanging style.
Summer baskets dazzle
Mixed floral hanging containers have become the rage across the country, and thanks to the coconut liner it  easy to jump on the basket bandwagon. It wasn’t long ago that you only saw such beaut...
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Deer can be steered away from garden
The year my son graduated from high school, we planned a big summer party in our backyard. So of course, we wanted the yard to look its best. A half dozen or so hostas grow near the back of our ...
Apr 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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