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<title>Into the Garden: Go for the male ginkgo trees</title>
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<title>Into the Garden: Dr. Norman Borlaug saved billions of lives</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- All of the recent talk about the Nobel Prize makes me think of a Nobelist who passed away last month.  As a friend pointed out, most people havent heard of Norman Borlaug. But this man born 97 years ago in the middle of nowhere (ou...]]></description>
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<title>Into the Garden: The lowdown on popular holiday plants</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Holiday plants are appearing in the stores already -- dont get me started on how retailers skip Thanksgiving and jump headlong into the Christmas season two months early.  While it may seem lemminglike to follow the retailers, Im g...]]></description>
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Petunias and prairie orchids</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The reviews of the Wave Petunias are mixed. Libby Tolley, who works at the Department of Agriculture, writes:  &quot;I planted about five Wave Petunias in a large pot this past spring. They were blooming beautifully for a while, bu...]]></description>
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Fall garden chores</title>
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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Theres a new guide in town -- use it wisely</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  Theres a new guide for identifying wildflowers and trees in our area, and its good to use in the field when traversing our state. Its small size makes it easy to stash in a purse, pocket or glove compartment, and the illustratio...]]></description>
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Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Gardener has sunshine envy</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  THE questions and answers are rolling in. Readers are responding to my plea for garden ideas, tips, questions, suggestions ... so Ill try to use them over the next few months as we put our gardens to bed.  Debbie (who has quite ...]]></description>
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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Heading to the compost pile</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The final grass clippings. Leaves galore. All the dead branches and spent flowers that Im chopping and hacking out of the garden beds. Whats a girl to do with all of this stuff.  Head to the compost pile.  The WVU/Kanawha County Ex...]]></description>
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Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: I NEED HELP!</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The life of a garden columnist in the winter is quite dreary. Theres not much to photograph. Most people turn to indoor projects. Landscapers lay off their seasonal help. Garden centers are down to the bare bones.  In other words, ...]]></description>
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Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the garden: Some volunteers welcome, some not</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Typically, I welcome volunteers in my garden. The human type, that is. Anyone willing to help with the weeding and transplanting and pruning makes me happy.  But vegetative volunteers are a mixed blessing.  Ive written (and complai...]]></description>
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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: A tip, a technique and a trip</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- People always ask for gardening suggestions and shortcuts. In this job, I get great e-mails and newsletters and publications with all sorts of interesting and useful items. And, much to the chagrin of my teen daughter, people stop ...]]></description>
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Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: The green, green grass of home</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Temperatures are starting to cool. What should you do to your lawn to ensure a green, glorious spring.  Correcting the soils pH should be done now. Check with your county extension agent for test kits or purchase them from a local ...]]></description>
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: New Orleans is a reminder to go native with plants</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A recent trip to New Orleans brought home an important fact about gardening. Every ecosystem deals with invasive plants.  To quote an article by the University of Florida extension service, &quot;When plants grow where they are not...]]></description>
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Dress up fall containers with color and interest</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If youre looking at your pots by the front door thinking, &quot;Hmm ... they are looking pretty tired,&quot; then let me suggest sprucing them up with some plants that will take you into the fall with color and interest.  The stand...]]></description>
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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Wanted: Plants that flourish in windowless office</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I work in a cubicle. No windows. No natural light. When I want to know whats going on weather-wise, I go to a Web cam on the Internet to see if its sunny or raining.  This is difficult for a plant person. Some co-workers have p...]]></description>
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>The best-dressed plants wear Hort Couture label</title>
<description><![CDATA[              BECKLEY, W.Va. --   Look out Dior. Move over Versace. Ralph Lauren, watch your back. The House of Monroe is getting into the fashion business in a niche thats never been filled.  Jim and Jennifer Monroe, decidedly tongue-in-chic, created &quo...]]></description>
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<title>Into the Garden: Kids to help grow Charleston Gateway Greenspace </title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. --   Area children are invited to the Clay Center from noon to 5 p.m. today for the &quot;Gateway Grow Challenge.&quot;  The Gateway Greenspace is a very interesting project. Designed to soften the entrance to the city from the ...]]></description>
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Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Water, water everywhere in summer heat</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Typically, the tomatoes in the pots are the first to scream, &quot;Water me!&quot; Thats my sign to water everything, because the rest of the garden is typically not far behind on the thirsty scale.  Our wet spring has made the...]]></description>
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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Dont miss Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A trip to Webster County last week to the Camp Caesar 4-H facility for a wonderful week of church camp turned out to be another great garden experience.  Ive been going to this spot for years, and over the past few summers the ...]]></description>
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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Skip the theme park; visit a garden</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When youre on a trip with the family this summer and youre not too keen on hanging with the kids at the water park, slip away to visit a great garden. There are so many public gardens in our region that you can find one just ab...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Smells good to me</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Deer are said to stay away from strongly scented plants. Hmmm ... with that in mind, Im looking to add some aromatics to my garden.  Another secret reason (dont tell the hubby) is that hubby doesnt like scented anything -- dryer sh...]]></description>
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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Into the Garden: Squirrels, squash bugs bother home gardeners</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Home gardeners with questions are a lot like kudzu in the South: Everywhere I turn.  At least thats what my e-mail, mailbox and telephone tell me. Not to mention the casual meetings at Kroger and church and at dinner parties and --...]]></description>
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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Nonchemical pest control for your garden</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ill probably get letters from all of the chemical lawn-control businesses by writing this column, but I get questions all the time asking for alternative ways to control pests in the yard. I have some suggestions.  An environme...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Yard of grasses and yarrows of many colors</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Our front garden has been many things. Originally, there were huge grasses, which were too big for the front of the house. Those were divided and moved to various places in our yard and throughout the neighborhood.Next, it was a mass o...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Book has tips for every month of the year</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Wonderful Daisy Bennett of Ripley sent me a book called &quot;Down to Earth: Gardening and Recipes,&quot; published by the Garden Club of Lookout Mountain. The copy was a fifth edition -- obviously a popular guide. Its organized by...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>The good, the bad and the buggy</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Not all bugs in the garden are bad bugs.  Some of the beneficial insects include aphid midges, braconid wasps, dragonflies, ground beetles, lacywings, lady bugs, wasps, rove beetles and several varieties of flies. Good bugs eat bad...]]></description>
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Sat, 16 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My dogs are as much a part of the landscape as the shrubs and trees. I was planning to fence off a bed last week after they created a path right through the middle of it. Then I looked out the window and saw my sweet Lucy sound asleep ...]]></description>
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<title>Make your garden safe for Fido and friends</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My dogs are as much a part of the landscape as the shrubs and trees. I was planning to fence off a bed last week after they created a path right through the middle of it. Then I looked out the window and saw my sweet Lucy sound asl...]]></description>
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Sun, 10 May 2009 00:15:00 -0400
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<title>Revisiting Brookgreen Gardens near Myrtle Beach</title>
<description><![CDATA[    MURRELLS INLET, S.C. -- Like so many other West Virginians, our family trekked to Myrtle Beach when I was a youngster. My mom gave me an appreciation for seashells, as we would walk for hours finding the perfect one to bring back home to the mountains....]]></description>
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Sun, 03 May 2009 12:00:00 -0400
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<title>Delicious-smelling mulch may be harmful to pets</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Betty Ray recently reminded me of another type of mulch. I listed shredded bark, pine straw, cypress mulch and wood chips in a column about building a better bed.  Betty uses cocoa shell mulch bought at Greens Feed and Seed, but sh...]]></description>
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Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0400
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<title>Solutions for the shady parts of the yard</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Shade. I used to have a lot of it in one place and none in another part of my yard. Now, Ive lost several of the large oaks that created big, shade-filled beds on one side of the yard. And the dogwoods that weve put in around the c...]]></description>
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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Most amaryllis bulbs are spent by January, ready to be put into hibernation after greeting the Christmas season with trumpet-bell blossoms in glorious colors. At Jan Hargates house, its a different story.&quot;I bring them into the lig...]]></description>
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Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:50:13 -0400
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<title>To build a perfect perennial bed, ya gotta dig down deep</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Making beds indoors isnt my favorite task. Thank heavens for big ol down comforters and closable bedroom doors.Making beds outdoors is one of my favorite tasks. Here are some simple steps to creating a no-fail perennial bed.Some of the...]]></description>
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<title>So many maple choices, just one spot</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last year, we removed several overgrown euonymous bushes and some Virginia creeper around the front and side of our house. They had become unwieldy and just too darned big for the spot.Typically, when I pull something out of my garden,...]]></description>
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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>I found my new best friend online</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A friend and fellow gardener recently sent an e-mail with two extremely informative Web site suggestions. Im hesitant to include them in this column, because now everyone will know where I get all of my answers!The first is about.exten...]]></description>
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<title>Take a stroll on the Sunrise Carriage Trail, a hidden gem</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Gardener extraordinaire and all-around nature enthusiast Joan Steven will be leading tours of the Sunrise Carriage Trail starting March 21. I recently joined Joan, a Charleston resident, on a very pleasant stroll down the historic a...]]></description>
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<title>Expert likes a little wild landscaping</title>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Its like paying a nickel to see the bearded lady,&quot; explained Carol Reece. &quot;Were attracted to the unusual.&quot; Reece, a specialist in ornamental horticultural with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, talked about th...]]></description>
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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0500
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<title>Growing berries is getting easierEven though they sometimes make her itch, my daughter loves berries. I have been researching ways to include berries in my garden, and Ive gotten mixed reviews from my gardening friends.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even though they sometimes make her itch, my daughter loves berries. I have been researching ways to include berries in my garden, and Ive gotten mixed reviews from my gardening friends.Some say, &quot;Oh, dont even attempt berries...]]></description>
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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Three bloomin climbers that know when to stop</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It seems like we battle unwanted vines constantly in our yard. Kudzu, wild grape and bittersweet seem to leap across the trees and through the woods around our property, choking the branches of the oaks along the driveway.So when I tol...]]></description>
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Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>New Kanawha extension agent on board, ready to work</title>
<description><![CDATA[Theres a new agriculture agent at the West Virginia University/Kanawha County Extension Service, and hes bringing interesting and new ideas to the post. John Porter, who recently graduated from WVU with a masters degree in horticulture, is glad he found a ...]]></description>
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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:00:00 -0500
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<title>Try alternatives to salt for melting driveway snow</title>
<description><![CDATA[As the snow piled up on the driveway, I thought about all of the garden plants that would be harmed by the salt that is often spread to make driving safer. At our house, we take the &quot;put er in 4-wheel-drive and go&quot; approach, so we dont salt much....]]></description>
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<title>The trick to an early tomato harvest</title>
<description><![CDATA[Horticulture magazine suggests several early tomato varieties in the latest issue. Northern Delight, Glacier and Beaverlodge, (appropriate names!) are varieties that bear in 55 days. Heres the magazines tips for getting a head start on your tomato season:S...]]></description>
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<title>50 plants make high-impact, low-maintenance list</title>
<description><![CDATA[One of the perks of writing a garden column is the interesting stuff that lands on my desk. (I am often jealous, however, of the food writers boxes of spices and the cookbooks and the food that arrives for her review.) Timber Press of Portland, Ore., sent ...]]></description>
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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Upscaling Snowshoe Mountain</title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Country Living magazine House of the Year is a high-tech, down-home wonder, located high atop West Virginias Snowshoe Mountain. For $1,575,000, it can be yours.The magazine will feature the home in its February issue, available on newsstands this ...]]></description>
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<title>Heat can deliver a slow and lingering death to plants</title>
<description><![CDATA[The old gold standard for determining if a plant will live or die in your climate has always been the U.S. Department of Agricultures cold-hardiness map, which I wrote about last week. While its a great reference, its not the only tool in the shed for gard...]]></description>
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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Zone map generally helpful, but ...</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A new gardener recently asked me about plant hardiness zones. I assumed everyone knew about this subject, much like I assumed my son knew how to do laundry when he left for college. Wrong on both counts. For gardeners, the Kanawha Valle...]]></description>
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Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Art and Popular Culture at the Clay Center</title>
<description><![CDATA[Starting Jan. 7, the Clay Center will feature &quot;Art and Popular Culture From the Permanent Collection.&quot; Popular culture is a major influence on artists across art movements and societies. The Pop Art movement focused on consumer culture, but many ...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500
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<title>Buy native when selecting plants</title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week, I wrote about the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources Wild Yards Program, encouraging readers to apply to be a part of this network of natural spaces. Part of the program involves using native plants in your yard. Theres a wonderful li...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Make your backyard space wild and wonderful</title>
<description><![CDATA[One morning this past week, I pulled open the blinds, looked out the bathroom window and saw two bright, beady eyes staring back at me. Im not a morning person. This was a bad way to start the day. The eyes belonged to a lovely whitetail doe, and she gazed...]]></description>
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<title>If not for the tarps ...</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If youre a gardener like me, you just want to be outside, no matter what the weather. Ive been wandering around my yard, picking up a stick here, raking a bit of leaves there - just wishing there was something I could be doing. My husb...]]></description>
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