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		<title>Garden spring clean-up: how much to do?</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/05/garden-spring-clean-up-how-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country garden maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring clean-up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to spring cleanup in the garden, you can save a lot of time not being so neat and tidy. Many not-so-big, low-growing plants can be left alone because their new growth will simply cover up last season&#8217;s old leaves. Of course, some plants can&#8217;t be left untouched: you do have to deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A yard sale to cure ourselves of pot addiction</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/05/a-yard-sale-to-cure-pot-addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 02:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Container gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[containers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pot addiction: for years now we have been suffering from this obsession and it is high time that we got ourselves into container gardening rehab. In our new post country-garden life*, there will not space for so many containers, and my husband, for one, isn&#8217;t keen on moving several dozen pots. The remedy for our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupied again: the barn swallows are back</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/04/barn-swallows-are-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barn swallows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The barn swallows came back this past week. We enjoy so many birds here &#8212; herons, red-winged blackbirds and ducks around the pond. Species from killdeer, robins, sparrows, blue jays, woodpeckers and cardinals to shy catbirds nest all over our 10-acres. But the birds we feel closest to are the barn swallows &#8212; they literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landscape Crimes: How not to plant trees</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/04/how-not-to-plant-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/04/how-not-to-plant-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Landscaping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poor planting practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree planting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=2684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a text book illustration of how not to plant trees. I drive past this commercial property on my way to the grocery store regularly. The poor planting practices here boggle the mind. Somebody actually paid good money to buy a dozen spruce trees, but then it all went wrong. When I see these doomed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring&#8217;s frosty disappointments: droopy daffodils</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/04/springs-frosty-disappointments-droopy-daffodils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daffodils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frost damage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=2661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, spring 2012, what a challenge you are! As one would expect after a non-winter, a March heat wave that lasted more than a week &#8212; followed by nights of hard frost &#8212; there have been casualties. We have hundreds of daffodils out in the garden, and many of them are toast. (Most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulsatilla patens: my favorite spring wildflower</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/03/pulsatilla-patens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pusatilla patens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite spring flower, which I know as Pusatilla patens, has been in bloom in John&#8217;s rock garden for more than a week. Also known as eastern pasque flower, wild crocus or prairie crocus, it is the earliest perennial to bloom in our garden. It usually starts to flower in the last week of March, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heat wave until Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/03/heat-wave-until-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[14-day forecast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heat wave]]></category>

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		<title>Heat wave in March? I thought I had seen it all…</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/03/heat-wave-in-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/03/heat-wave-in-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=2583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I thought I&#8217;d seen it all in my 20-plus years as a gardener. But I have never experienced a late winter heat wave like this. We are enjoying end-of-May temperatures in mid-March. We live across from a golf course, and it opened up for the season more than a week ago. Knollwood Golf Course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The winter that wasn&#8217;t really winter</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/03/the-winter-that-wasnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/03/the-winter-that-wasnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mild termperatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=2572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my 20 years as a gardener, I have never experienced a mild winter like this one. We&#8217;ve all been calling it the winter that wasn&#8217;t because we rarely had snow that stayed very long and temperatures were always above the seasonal norms. I even gardened on Jan 6. Never before in my life &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forced forsythia branches in bloom</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/02/forced-forsythia-branches-in-bloom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/02/forced-forsythia-branches-in-bloom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In bloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forcing forsythia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=2555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I cut some forsythia branches from the garden to force into bloom. I put them into the basement near my plant lights (where we keep our non-hardy succulents over the winter), and just waited. Now they are in full bloom, giving us a wonderful preview of spring. I didn&#8217;t do [...]]]></description>
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