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		<title>Four-square garden: Part 3 &#8211; Renovation complete</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country garden maintenance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part three on the evolution of the four-square garden. To start at the beginning, go to part one. The trouble with gardens is that plants grow. That is a good thing, of course, but no garden stands still, and before you know it is overgrown. I think the problem with the four-square garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of our four-square garden: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four-square garden was gloriously romantic in its heyday. In spring, clumps of tulips and daffodils and Euphorbia polychroma would start the show. The early bloomers were followed by peonies, which bloomed at same time as my favorite ‘Purple Sensation’ alliums. We also planted Siberian iris and used English lavender, plus catmint and ladies mantle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of our four-square garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a three-part series about our four-square garden. Most gardens aren’t planned: they just evolve with the seasons and their owners’ growing confidence. The layout of this garden was actually planned: first it was a vegetable garden, but then we transformed it into a perennial garden, which it was for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorgeous country garden property for sale</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2012/01/garden-property-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As disappointed regular readers will have noted, I stopped blogging some time ago – in mid-July of last year. I received a comment today from a reader named Steve, who said, &#8220;Please don&#8217;t stop blogging! I still check in for new posts and beautiful pictures.&#8221; The reason for my silence: what happened is that last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancaster gardens evening garden tour</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2011/07/ancaster-gardens-evening-garden-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are participating in the charity garden tour, Blooms for Africa, which features 10 gardens in the Ancaster area. Ancaster is just outside of Hamilton, and the unique thing about this tour is that it is an evening garden tour. The event is on for next Friday and Saturday evening, July 22 and 23, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 garden tours &#8211; come and see us</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2011/05/2011-garden-tours-come-and-see-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2011/05/2011-garden-tours-come-and-see-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 01:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tis the season for garden tours. This year we are participating in two tours. The first is the Carnegie Gallery Secret tour on Sunday June 26th, featuring 10 beautiful gardens in and around Dundas and Ancaster. Tickets: $20. More information: Carnegie Gallery garden tour. The second tour is called Blooms for Africa and it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our wettest spring in 35 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 01:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spring of 2011 has been the wettest spring I have ever experienced in my 20 years as a gardener. According to Environment Canada, in the Hamilton area we have had an amazing 259 mm of precipitation in the past two months – breaking a long-standing record of 247 mm, set in 1976. A headline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My speaking engagements this spring</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2011/02/yvonne-cunnington-speaking-engagements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada Blooms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stratford Garden Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring brings lots of garden shows and events and that means I have speaking engagements. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing in the next couple of months: Yvonne Cunnington spring speaking engagements: Mar. 6 at 12:30 p.m.: speaking on our country garden at the Stratford Garden Festival Mar. 16 at 12:30 p.m.: I&#8217;ll be at Canada Blooms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed-starting: annuals we like to grow from seed</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2011/02/seed-starting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annuals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The days are getting longer and so seed starting is on my mind. Today I went to my favorite local seed company, William Dam Seeds, and bought three types of petunias. We used to grow a lot more plants from seed when we were starting out and needed to populate our gardens with plants. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our garden featured in Canadian Gardening</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2011/01/cunnington-garden-in-canadian-gardening-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my first glimpse today of the Canadian Gardening Magazine Annual Great Garden Guide for 2011, which has 28 pages (4 feature articles!) on different parts of our garden. Last year, the magazine sent a photographer to our property to capture it from winter to spring and summer through to fall. The result is [...]]]></description>
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