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A gardener's profile - some personality traits

8-22-end-result.jpg 5:58 PM Sat, Aug 23, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have become much more aware of my personality traits -- namely some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, propensities (due to anxiety, insecurity, poor self-confidence) toward being worried and feeling guilty when many things are not done properly or done in time,......

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A rebellious splash of pink in Providence

5:25 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

When I came into the parking lot this morning, the Downtown Clean & Safe Team gardeners were replacing the colorful summer flowers we downtowers have been admiring, and replacing them with chrysanthemums. I'm not ready for this. I'm choosing to......

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A gardener's confession: It's not only me any more

8-17-front-yard.jpg 1:16 PM Sun, Aug 17, 2008 | | Comments (6)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Dahlias in my garden. If you are, like me, a person with a full-time job (or equivalent to a full-time job), with very active social and family commitments, and still having to take many trips away from home and......

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How I spent my summer vacation: At the landfill

5:06 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Paula Constantine    Email

There's not much going on in the garden right now. In fact, some people are ready for a little vacation from weeding and cutting and garden chores. My grandmother used to say "a change is as good as a rest".......

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My new red menace steals a summer pleasure

7:22 PM Fri, Aug 01, 2008 | | Comments (3)
By Paula Constantine    Email

In case you haven't heard, there's a big bad little red guy headed our way. The rapacious, voracious lily beetle is eating its way south in little hippity hoppity -- hops -- as fast as its articulated legs will carry......

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 Tags  lilies lily beetle uri parasitic wasps  

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