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Make a nesting bundle for the birds

4:22 PM Mon, Mar 31, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Paula Constantine    Email

In the spring, when my mom gives my dad a haircut, she puts his snowy locks out for the birds to use in their nests. I know because she calls me to tell me this, as a sign of spring.......

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Stunning flower photos to get your sap rising

10:22 AM Sat, Mar 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Hyacinth, Arkadiusz Kotlewski Stunning gallery of flowers (and some mushrooms) by Polish-born photographer Arkadiusz Kotlewski, now living in The Netherlands and working as an aerospace engineer at Delft Institute of Technology. It's obvious his real passion is photography. Start......

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Daffodils and crocuses bring back memories – and remind me that life goes on

10:35 AM Fri, Mar 28, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Beth Heaney    Email

While hanging a birdfeeder on a tree over my little pet cemetery behind the house one Saturday a couple of weeks ago, I noticed the daffodils starting up through the soil over the spots where I laid some of our......

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I set in pansies yesterday

5:01 PM Mon, Mar 24, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (12)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

When I started gardening, some 20 years or so ago; a gentleman at a nursery I frequented told me not to put any plants in the ground until Easter. I tried to adhere to that cardinal rule (cardinal came......

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Garden-catalog search launches at Mother Earth News

1:20 AM Sat, Mar 22, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Mother Earth News magazine has launched a handy tool, a Seed and Plant Finder It's a Google-based specialized search of more than 150 garden catalogs, with an emphasis on vegetables, to start, although flowers and herbs turn up, too. It's......

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Goodbye warm winter, hello spring

11:51 AM Wed, Mar 19, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Paula Constantine    Email

On my daily round of world media reading, I found a lovely slideshow of harbingers of spring at guardian.co.uk Too bad it’s weeks too early. The slideshow, which is a beauty, offers compelling evidence of climate change. It appears the......

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The white lily, a symbol of Easter

11:51 PM Sun, Mar 16, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

The beautiful white, trumpet-shaped flowers, Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum), symbolize purity, hope and life – the essence of Easter. Beauty, grace and tranquility emanate from this time-honored flower. White signifies purity. In early paintings, the angel Gabriel extended a......

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The long, quiet game of science pays off

6:18 PM Fri, Mar 14, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

Why aren’t our flags at half-staff? I found this obituary on our news wire, from the Washington Post’s Joe Holley: William Carson Paddock, a plant pathologist who developed a disease-resistant strain of corn high in Vitamin A and who wrote......

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Spring -- and helleborus -- in Providence.

3:40 PM Tue, Mar 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

The clock has turned to Daylight Saving Time and the sun is shining brightly this morning. Crocus and snowdrops are sprouting up everywhere. Helleborus suddenly appeared. (Thanks to the projo garden blog; I, for the first time, wanted to......

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Spring is here: First crocus blooms

11:14 AM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Spring will not arrive for two more weeks by the calendar; but spring is here, according to the crocus, one of the first flowers to bloom in spring. I have just spotted my first two crocuses, in bloom. Crocus......

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Signs of spring in Providence

5:25 PM Tue, Mar 04, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

I know it’s raining right now, but spring is coming. I have proof. This morning I went out into my back yard in Providence and saw one snowdrop. Then, while I was walking to my car, I saw a bee......

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