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• a nod of thanks

  Published: September 3, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  It’s Labor Day weekend. This is a good time to acknowledge all the garden and farm workers who toil in the sun, who are for the most part invisible, but who in large measure tend the plants, harvest the plants, pack the plants (or meat/produce) that will arrive in uniform, unblemished form in your grocery store for you to take home and put

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• SALE-SALE-SALE, this just in……

  Published: September 3, 2007, 2:06 pm

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  Draggin’ Wing Farm Annual Fall Plant Sale Saturday, September 8, 9 am to 3 pm Hill Road at Castle Drive–Look for signs! Large selection of native and xeric perennials, shrubs, trees, grasses and groundcovers. View demonstration garden! Fall is a great time to plant! For more information, phone Diane at 345-4199

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• Ode to a Woman Gardening

  Published: September 1, 2007, 4:42 am

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  Ode to a Woman Gardening by Pablo Neruda, translated by Jodey Bateman Yes, I knew that your hands were a budding sprout, a lily of silver: you had something to do with the soil, with the flowering of the earth, but when I saw you digging, digging, pushing pebbles apart and guiding roots I knew at once, my farming woman, that not

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• It’s a busy busy day

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:44 am

  Tags: Journal Entries

  I spied with my little eye………………………the bulbs at Costco! The whole shipment was there and nary a package was out of place. But wow, the price is really really up…..from $7.99 in 2005, $8.99 in 2006, to $12.89 this season. There ARE 60 tulips in a bag or 50 daffs or 120

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• A hale and hearty shout out to one of our own!

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:28 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  The intrepid Karen Bussolini, a long time member of Garden Writers, made the New York Times a couple of weeks ago! You rock, sistah! Read all about Karen and her garden in Anne Raver’s column here. Karen has a book of her own, featuring her photography Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden,, Timber Press, 2005. I have watched

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• This will piss you off……..

  Published: August 29, 2007, 8:44 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  Today, from Treehugger.com. The city of Toronto ripped out a woman’s native plant garden, in the parking strip. No warning. And she is the former prez of the North American Native Plant Society. This kind of thing makes me nuts. The Larry Craig thing just has me cackling. No, I didn’t vote for the goofball. But I am now going to

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• Up and coming events at the Idaho’s own jewel in the crown, the Botanical Garden

  Published: August 29, 2007, 2:28 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  Here’s a sampling of the goins’ on at IBG in September. Take a look at the new events calendar to the right to see what else is happening around here……..garden wise. September 11 - 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. $4 members & non-members. Pre-registration limited to 60 people. Harry Orchard's place in Idaho history was defined by

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• It’s not WHO you know, it’s WHAT you know about who you know.

  Published: August 26, 2007, 11:41 am

  Tags: Journal Entries

  Alright, one giant leap for me. Thanks to my mentor, Miz Kathy Purdy at Cold Climate Gardening, I have discovered the beautiful and bountiful Library Thing widget for blogs. Just so you know up front, I am a complete book/plant/color/art ‘ho. There. I said it. My good friends know it. They mentioned it as recently as yesterday. I

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• Little Red Pill

  Published: August 25, 2007, 11:19 am

  Tags: Journal Entries

  YOWSERS! Here’s a look at the Sustainable Table publicity tour as written by one of my fav-o-rite columnists, Mz. Schlegel over at the New West Daily News. The article, is here. I have not seen the Meatrix but it sounds like a clever idea. If you already have issues about safe food, beware of this article,

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• War and Peace

  Published: August 24, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  Well, I never! Never knew there were two kinds of borscht, hot and cold. Now I do. A small group of wild women gathered at Raspberry Ranch the other day to discuss their summer reading mission, War and Peace, by Tolstoy. Or as one of them said, War and War. To celebrate this undertaking, and to give ourselves a pat on the back, we decided

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• By Jove, I did it!

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:29 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  After reading all about HRH The Prince of Wales and his little undertaking at Highgrove, his sanctuary in the Cotswalds, well, I clicked my heels (actually my mouse) and there I was at Amazon snapping up a copy of The Elements of Organic Gardening by HRH and Stephanie Donaldson. A shout out is due here to Adrian Higgins of the Washington Post and

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• Yes, there were survivors

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  But I forgot to write about them. I have been dilly dallying around the countryside - first in Seattle for the U of W/Boise State game on Saturday and now in Walla Walla checking out the gardens, wineries and grounds of Whitman College. Here is a partial list of what made the cut this summer in Boise ID with a gazillion days over 100 degrees, no

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• Garden Writers

  Published: September 11, 2007, 10:46 am

  Tags: Journal Entries

  Smeone reminded me of this e-mail I sent to my garden club last year and asked me if I would post it. I just re-read it, realized that sometimes I am grateful for hot and dry, and decided to share it with you. Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:37:48 -0600 Subject: Home again. Eleven days is about 6 days too many for me to be away from home. I know, no

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• Garden benches

  Published: September 15, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  These are functional garden benches. I loved sitting on the one in the red flower bed. It was at Chanticleer. The other one was at Stryer’s garden center near Valley Forge PA. I would have bought it if I could have gotten it home on the plane. Thanks CF.

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• Not in my garden

  Published: September 15, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Journal Entries

  Kim, aka blackswampgirl, over at A Study in Contrasts, challenged us to come up with a list of things you WOULD NOT find in our gardens. Oh boy, this is a good one. Here goes: Absolutely no ‘volcano’ water features or ones that look like a pile of rocks with water spewing from them. I mean, really. And that means no rock necklaces

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