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Got Garden Ornaments?
Google images for "Garden Ornaments" Does a well planted, well designed, garden need ornaments? You could say that gardens are pretty enough. In fact, we refer to aesthetically pleasing gardens as being “ornamental” in themselves. No artificial embellishment [...]
Cincinnati Zoo has Baby Hippos and Great Landscapes, Too
If you know anything about the famous Cincinnati Zoo, it may be thanks to its photo- and video-genic baby hippos, like Fiona and Fritz above. I follow the Zoo on Twitter, where fans get to know them and dozens of [...]
Divorcing my Mistress
My Mistress and I have had a loving relationship for well over thirty years now. I could not have imagined life without my soulmate and my one true love. But now, the time has arrived to detach from her, letting [...]
My House Is a Death Trap Because of My Houseplants. Yours Might Be Too.
Yesterday, a friend in the UK turned my attention to the type of sensationalist tabloid online article that we should be trying to turn our attention away from. No, no politics involved. Just that old chestnut of how terribly poisonous [...]
“One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustier corners.”
– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
TLDR: Too Long Didn’t Read Culture makes idiots of us all – even gardeners.
3 minute, 22 second read. It’s difficult to chew and enjoy an aged, grass-fed steak when you’ve been living on a diet of McDonalds cheeseburgers – or a sautéed portobello when you’ve got a freezer full of [...]
ISO Potted Annuals for Pollinators
Every year I notice one plant in particular that people seemed to like above all the rest, at least enough to comment on it, and this year it's the common houseplant Persian Shield next to my front [...]
Houseplants are just fine—they don’t need to clean the air
So just stop with the claims. I thought this—well, let’s call it an exaggeration rather than a myth—had died down, but no. It cropped up in a recent enewsletter from a source I’d have thought knew better: [...]
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