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

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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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Gardening's memory benefit

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have noticed that my memory has improved since I started gardening. I believe the brain cells have created more synapses as I have tried to memorize all the Latin names that I was not familiar with before. I......

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Pansies, after a rescue mission

4:03 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | | Write a comment
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My next door neighbor offered me all of her moribund pansies. They were once grown in small containers, placed on her front steps and front porch. I said, “ No, but thank you anyhow”. A week later I found......

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Anthurium -- flower for celebration

9:59 PM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
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I could not help thinking about flowers for celebration again, as today happened to my No.2 son’s birthday. We celebrated his 13th birthday at the Biltmore Hotel in June 1982. By then, we had made several trips to Hawaii......

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The Oriental Poppy

4:27 PM Sat, May 31, 2008 | | Comments (7)
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Among all the flowering plants in my garden, there have always been the oriental poppies – the classic reddish-orange and the salmon colors -- at both the front and the back of the house. When we had a graduation......

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Flowers for celebrations: A wedding

8:43 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | | Write a comment
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As the wedding season is approaching, I look back at my only daughter’s two weddings with nostalgia. Leila met Chaka at Brown, back in 1989 -1990. When they decided to get married on the beach in Marina Del Rey,......

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Memorial Day's flowers: the Bridal Wreath

8:59 AM Fri, May 23, 2008 | | Write a comment
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For 21 springs, the Bridal Wreath at the lower level of my backyard never fails to bloom as the Memorial weekend approaches. I still remember the first spring after I moved into my East Side home. A former client,......

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