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		<title>Designing a Perennial Garden to Bloom All Summer part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without further ado, here&#8217;s the first video in the two-part series on designing a perennial flower bed to bloom all summer.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/designing-a-perennial-garden-to-bloom-all-summer-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Three Simple Steps to Garden Writing Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the key concept in the &#8220;new&#8221; Internet business model for garden writing. 1) Become a serious garden expert. 2) Share everything you know about gardening. 3) Make money by selling something &#8211; be it space, premium services, repackaging of material you&#8217;ve already written, books, speeches etc etc. You pick. There &#8211; now what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/three-simple-steps-to-garden-writing-success/</link>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re purchasing compost or manure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re purchasing your compost or manures (or even top soil) do be aware that herbicide residues do exist and can create conditions that restrict the growth of plants. For example, aminopyralid is registered for a wide variety of crops and has created enough problems in the UK to have its registration pulled (technically Dow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/if-youre-purchasing-compost-or-manure/</link>
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		<title>Perennial Flower Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick note &#8211; here&#8217;s a link to the start of the perennial flower course This one is just starting with this link going to the main course-development page where readers ask questions and I organize and get ready to provide answers.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/perennial-flower-course/</link>
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		<title>Semper Ubi Sub Ubi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some things in life that should not be tampered with. Period. I get up early in the morning most days &#8211; early dawn and it&#8217;s still dark in the bedroom. Too dark to see well and in the winter, too dark to see at all. (What I&#8217;m doing up at that ungawdly hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/semper-ubi-sub-ubi/</link>
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		<title>Links to Articles of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some links to useful info I dug up or wrote about this week. Virtual landscaping and free garden design software. This isn&#8217;t for everyone but if you&#8217;re a bit of a designer or graphics person (or don&#8217;t mind a learning curve) then the free software over here is for you. I have it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/links-to-articles-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Gardening and the Younger Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a few trade-type magazines and blogs and one of the regular angst-laden themes is how to involve younger people in gardening. This question by the way is asked every 20 years or so &#8211; it was ever thus. The technique now &#8211; as it has always been &#8211; is to talk to them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/gardening-and-the-younger-generation/</link>
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		<title>Gardening on a Staircase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my experience, gardeners approach their gardens as we approach a long winding staircase. We climb easily onto the first landing where we pause and marvel at the landscape. For the first time in our lives, we see flowers and vegetables &#8211; we now know we want some but we have absolutely no idea how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/gardening-on-a-staircase/</link>
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		<title>Why I Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the delights in my life is my morning ritual of sitting outside &#8211; barefoot &#8211; with pen and notebook &#8211; drinking my morning coffee &#8211; in the garden. I can watch the sun change shadows from deep purple to gold to bright sunlight. I can hear the loons and gulls out in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/why-i-garden-2/</link>
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		<title>Backyard Panic Ensues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In happier times&#8230;. ****** It was noticed quite easy this morning there was a crisis in the back garden of garden writer Doug Green. Outraged birds from near and nearer clicked and twittered, buzzing with indignation at Doug while he was making his morning notes. Green tried to explain to these very unhappy birds that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/backyard-panic-ensues/</link>
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		<title>Butterfly Garden Plants Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick video on some good butterfly garden plants for the perennial flower garden. You can get a more complete list of plants here. ;]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/butterfly-garden-plants-video/</link>
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		<title>Advanced Gardening Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a mini-series of advanced gardening tips for you. It&#8217;s a 3-week (free) series of tips delivered right to your inbox. I&#8217;ll look forward to hearing whether you like them or can use them. Japanese Iris]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/advanced-gardening-tips/</link>
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		<title>Garden Design Series of Articles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to tell you that I&#8217;ve just uploaded a series of garden design posts from a few really good garden-writer friends. Let me suggest you check out the articles (links below) and make comments there using the links below the articles. You may be surprised when the author responds. Yvonne Cunnington has a marvellous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/garden-design-series-of-articles/</link>
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		<title>In the scheme of things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the scheme of things, mice have more of a role to play in world-wide ecological balancing than an elephant. And bacteria more than a mouse. I&#8217;ll let you put everything else into this chain and figure out which is more important in your garden.  I&#8217;ll simply ask if you are putting your garden energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/in-the-scheme-of-things/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s going to remember you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the &#8220;old days&#8221; we&#8217;d write a book and it would live a very long time. I have books in my working garden library from the early 1800&#8242;s and not only are the books alive, so to are the voices of the authors. My 8 paper books live in the library of the National Library [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/whos-going-to-remember-you/</link>
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		<title>Why Purple Poop on the Front Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; here&#8217;s a gardening / bird question I have no answer for&#8230;. do your best/worst with this one. I have several mulberry trees that are over 75 feet from the front door of the house. The birds eat the mulberries and then fly to the front steps to purple-poop. Why? It&#8217;s one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/why-purple-poop-on-the-front-steps/</link>
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		<title>Coloured Mulch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My take on coloured mulch is simple. Don&#8217;t. If you can see the mulch on a mature garden, the garden design is a failure.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/coloured-mulch/</link>
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		<title>A Crowing Victory Song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the back porch, watching a furtive squirrel slowly advance out of the tree line towards my apple orchard, I was reminded that this was only the second squirrel I&#8217;d seen on the island in five years. They do live in the small well-treed village but open fields and year round attention from hawks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/a-crowing-victory-song/</link>
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		<title>When You Really Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking at a renewal in the creative process that feeds me and keeps me young in mind. And having made decisions, having taken action, I find myself facing the immense wonder of having to make a serious decision about this. Facing the freedom, of a blank space and the terror of having to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/when-you-really-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Extremism by any other name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up post World War Two where voices of extremism had been a cause of the war. And there was a sentiment that tolerance and equality were important &#8211; at least they were in my family. Now &#8211; extremism, of right and left political philosophies, harsh intolerance of Christianity, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu believers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/extremism-by-any-other-name/</link>
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