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		<title>Choose the Right Grass When Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Tony Allen. To achieve optimal gardening, garden hobbyists and home owners should recognize the significance of grass, an object of natural splendor. The vivid green color and lush velvet feel of a lawn will enhance the look of any home. There are various options that people can take when they decide to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Ways You Can Prevent Lawn Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Tony Allen. Disease pathogens are always present in your lawn. But whether they have the opportunity to infect the grass depends on the right environmental conditions being present and the lawn being weak enough to become infected. You can’t control the environmental conditions surrounding your lawn, but if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Add Clover to my Lawn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Allen from the Natures Finest Seed website wrote to offer me a guest post for this blog. I looked at the NFS website and saw a blog article entitled Should I Add Clover To My Lawn?. As an idle gardener I would love a reason to leave clover in my lawn. The NFS article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grape vine in autumn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn leaves and sunshine provide a wonderful photo opportunity. Our grape vine has turned magnificent shades of red and gold. When I looked out of the back room window and saw the vine glinting in the sunshine I know that I must take some pictures. The vine grows on a trellis around the entrance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorgeous geraniums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were browsing around our local garden centre when I spotted some attractive clay pots at a bargain price. There were five left and they quickly found their way into my trolley. I had an idea they would look good on the wall surrounding our garden pond. But the question was what to put in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monet&#8217;s garden – the lily pond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after his arrival at his house in Giverny, Monet bought the piece of land neighbouring his property on the other side of the railway (now a road). The land was crossed by a stream, the Ru, which eventually runs into the River Seine. Monet had a small pond dug, in spite of opposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monet’s garden – the borders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We visited Monet’s garden on 10 August 2011. It is located 80 km West from Paris, France in the village of Giverny. Claude Monet, a master of impressionist painting, was born in 1840. He rented a house at Giverny in 1883, a few years later he purchased the house. He lived there for 43 years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use stacked tubs for a dazzling display</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an idea that I came across in a French town square. I plan to try in my own garden next year. These impressive towers of petunias and geraniums are planted in a series of tubs stacked on top of one another. Once the plants grow bushy they drape down to hide the tub structure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious Gazanias</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were in the garden centre choosing some plants for our tubs the brightly coloured gazania plants caught our eye. They have settled in well and continue to produce new flowers. The daisy-type flowers open when the sun comes out and close up in the evening or on a dull day. The label that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Runner beans survive blackfly infestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago the new shoots on our runner beans were covered with blackfly. After consulting the wisdom of the Internet I sprayed the blackfly with a weak solution of washing up liquid. This seems to have slowed down the breading program of the little critters. Also, some ladybirds have appeared and seem to [...]]]></description>
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