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		<title>Hen and Chicks: Protecting Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DJ Wilson</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a yardful of squirrels and chipmunks. They love digging anything remotely herbaceous or planted in a container. Aware of the problem, my son sent this photo of a potful of hen and chicks (Sempervivum sp.) on display at Quail Botanical Gardens in San Diego. Someone had covered the plants with snugly-attached chicken wire [...]<br/>
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		<title>Birds and Fun and Flora: Ijams Nature Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[With all its wildlife and plant abundance, my own yard feels like a nature sanctuary. It&#8217;s always changing, and I just walk outside to get there. But on lush, cool days in May, I&#8217;m ready to meet friends and family to experience the outdoors in a different setting. Last week, it was Hatcher Garden in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Hatcher Garden: A Place for Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Chilling out was high on my agenda Wednesday as I drove to meet blogging friends Janet (Queen of Seaford) and Julie (Growing Days) in Spartanburg, South Carolina. We arrived from points north and south to walk through Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve, a small community garden not far from downtown. Hatcher Garden was originally part [...]<br/>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: A Chilly Day at the Botanical Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DJ Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Ornamentals Arrive at the Farm Stand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Craving fresh strawberries this week, I stopped by a favorite local farm stand to stock up. As you&#8217;d expect this time of year, shoppers were everywhere. Some were there for produce, but most were on a different mission: looking for garden ornamentals.  The parking lot was full of people grabbing annuals and hanging plants,  perennials [...]<br/>
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		<title>Out in the World and Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DJ Wilson</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today has been a lazy, rainy, indoor Sunday and the first day for a blog entry in several weeks. You&#8217;d think with so many photos in reserve, I might muster an image or two, at the very least. But no. Procrastination has prevailed. Like many, I&#8217;ve found it hard to process the harrowing events of [...]<br/>
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		<title>April Bloom Day: Seven Favorites, Native Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DJ Wilson</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll find the usual spring bloomers here now: quince, viburnum, and pieris; purple flowering scilla and phacelia; &#8216;Jane&#8217; magnolia; celandine poppy; stinking hellebore; variegated solomon&#8217;s seal; various azaleas and epimediums; many wildflowers. There&#8217;s so much color, scent, and new life, it&#8217;s hard to decide what to include in this month&#8217;s Garden...<br/>
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		<title>What’s In Your Yard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some days, you really need to be outside, looking at real plants instead of pixelated ones on your computer screen. Some days, nature (and whatever&#8217;s out there) beckons. Just get out there. Don&#8217;t resist, or you might be sorry!<br/>
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		<title>Unfurling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DJ Wilson</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[These are the days a gardener waits for. Every day &#8212; every hour &#8212; there are new offerings from the earth. It&#8217;s like a time-lapse photo in real time. Everywhere I look, things are unfurling, emerging, bursting with color and chlorophyll. In the backdrop, birds are gathering leaves, twigs, and bits of ornamental grasses in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Buffet for Chipmunks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no need for a weather report around here. Just look out the window for chipmunks on the stone wall. Chipmunks: warm. No chipmunks: cold. Chipmunks don&#8217;t actually hibernate. They sleep much of the winter and, supposedly, wake up every few weeks to eat. They mate in early spring and usually have one litter a [...]<br/>
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