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Wisteria seedpods dangle from my arbor now

10:23 AM Mon, Jul 28, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

American wisteria seedpods with raindrops I'm growing American wisteria, entwined as part of a crowd of clematis and morning glories on a wooden arbor. As I walked under it, I bumped into a giant green bean (or a small......

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 Tags  late July   seedpods   wisteria  

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Earn your lawnmower beer, the old fashioned way

5:17 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Paula Constantine    Email

Maybe I'm really looking forward to the return of "Mad Men" on Sunday. Or maybe I'm stuck in a lawn mower loop from last week's entry. But I can't get the distinctive whirring sound of a manual, reel lawn mower......

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 Tags  environment   Gardening   Lawn mowers   product research  

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Hornworms - they're probably eating your tomatoes right now!

11:30 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Beth Heaney    Email

I wish I could be as effective in evoking a response from people in my day-to-day dealings as a hornworm is. Rhode Island gardeners, while bragging about the height of their tomato plants and the premature appearance of a green......

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A daughter's love is cordless and rechargeable

5:41 PM Fri, Jul 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Paula Constantine    Email

My mom loves few things more than her lawn. She loves me more. I think. She's a -- woman of mature years. That's as far as I'm willing to go with that, if I still want the occasional shirt ironed......

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 Tags  cordless electric mowers gardening  

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Full speed into summer flower shows, here and there

6:01 PM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Paula Constantine    Email

This might just be the best week of the summer to go to England. If you're me. Not only is it the Goodwood Festival of Speed, it's also the Hampton Court Flower Show. (When I'm not editing the Home section......

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 Tags  Gardening   Goodwood Festival of Speed   Hampton Court Palace   projoCars   Royal Horticultural Society   Thai floating market   Wickford in Bloom  

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Gardening's memory benefit

1:44 PM Sun, Jul 06, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have noticed that my memory has improved since I started gardening. I believe the brain cells have created more synapses as I have tried to memorize all the Latin names that I was not familiar with before. I......

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Garden first, ask questions later

6:28 PM Thu, Jul 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

Like most Americans, I like bad behavior. Oh don't be like that. This country was founded on bad behavior. Burning the Gaspee, taking unsporting potshots at the Redcoats, throwing all that perfectly good tea into the harbor. Declaring our independence......

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 Tags  city gardening   community gardens   garden books   holiday  

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