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Southern Magnolia Redux
Far from its native range, where do Southern Magnolias grow so well here? It’s not the kind of species that I would expect to grow large and have character here in the Appalachians. I’m… more →
The Garden Cowboy
Dinah's Garden Hotel
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Helleborus / Hellebore
wrote 1 month ago: Very rare and very beautiful, the flowers of this variety ‘Orientalis Smokey Blue’ … more →
Camellia
wrote 1 month ago: Camellia are evergreen shrubs with simple, ovate, glossy, leathery leaves and showy flowers with sol … more →
The Absence of Light
wrote 2 months ago: <>Each year I hit a gray wall. It starts around the middle of February and lasts until M … more →
Living Beneath a Thin Crust of Ice
wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday I stood in my backyard and noticed a huge pool of water forming on the patio walkway. We … more →
A quite Sunday morning in the park
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wrote 3 months ago: We had a brief cleansing of snow from the lake this morning. The snow slowly and steadily covered t … more →
Flowering trees even in mid-winter Tokyo
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wrote 3 months ago: 東京の真冬にも、花が咲いている木があります。中野で。 … more →
The Groundhog is 90
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wrote 3 months ago: So many of you have sent such good thoughts and wishes concerning my mother that I thought you woul … more →
: february eve :
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wrote 3 months ago: Are you as weary of the cold, gray, cheerless days as I am? Of course you are. Well, take heart: the … more →
Southern Magnolia Redux
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wrote 3 months ago: Far from its native range, where do Southern Magnolias grow so well here? It’s not the kind o … more →
The night it snowed: The context of our Mid-Winter celebration
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wrote 3 months ago: Teo Bishop recently wrote about adding context to Pagan rituals: “I wish that just once I could go t … more →
Building a birdhouse
wrote 3 months ago: Sorry homebodies, I’ve been absent for a bit. I broke down and upgraded to an iPhone when our … more →
Snow in Bristol
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That Little Black Dress of Winter
wrote 4 months ago: Calluna vulgaris “Kirby White” We’ve had a weekend of weather where you could walk … more →
Gray Birch vs. River Birch
wrote 4 months ago: For this posting, I’m borrowing images from photographers far more talented than I could ever … more →
Our Evergreens as Chess Pieces
wrote 4 months ago: Our own Tsuga canadensis sargentii Once you’ve seen that yellow False Cypress thing and recogn … more →
Hand in Hand with Southern Magnolia
wrote 4 months ago: (My thanks to Tom Leroy and his website “Gardening with Tom LeRoy”. As far as I could G … more →
DRI-190 for week of 12-30-12: Stereotypes Overturned: Race, Hollywood and the Jody Call
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wrote 4 months ago: An Access Advertising EconBrief: Stereotypes Overturned: Race, Hollywood and the Jody Call The doctr … more →
Can you picture this?
wrote 4 months ago: I saw an unusual combination today. It was Leucothoe forestiana with the Holly popularly called … more →
