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	<title>The Xeric Gardener &#187; Beneficial Insects</title>
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		<title>UPDATE: Dance with the Swallowtail</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/992</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>High Country Gardens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beneficial Insects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agastache]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am re-running this article because the story continued with this amazing plant.  Agastache &#8216;Blue Blazes&#8217; became a national sensation after it launched in the 2011 Spring catalog.  It launched on he cover of our Collectors Edition.  It then caught national attention because this Agastache can feed Hummingbirds, Butterflies and Bees. Read original post here. I stayed home today to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Yonker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I reported earlier this year, I invited a good friend to set up a new honeybee hive at Santa Fe Greenhouses. I was hoping that the “queen and her girls” (as they are affectionately called) would among other things, improve the seed yield in my various stock plant beds (perennials from which we collect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Honeybees to Our Greenhouse</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/962</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Yonker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My home base, Santa Fe Greenhouses (home of High Country Gardens) is located in an industrial/commercial part of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Over the 28 years that I have been running my nursery and greenhouses, our location has morphed from being on the edge of town among the rural fields and prairie to being surrounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Buckwheats</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/924</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel in general that the Buckwheats (Eriogonum) are woefully underutilized both ornamentally and as important plants for providing habitat in the garden.  As ornamental perennials/subshrubs (small woody plants), they are dependable garden plants in terms of cold hardiness, ease of cultivation and reliable blooming with flowers that turn into attractive seed heads. The flowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance with a Swallowtail</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/808</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stayed home today to work on plant descriptions for next year’s 2011 spring catalog. As I was taking a late morning stretch, I stepped out back into one of my gardens where I encountered a flurry of pollination taking place on three plants of Agastache ‘Blue Blazes’. This is my second year testing this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great News for the Bees (and Us) !!</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/786</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, there is some good news regarding protection of our precious bees. This is from the July/August issue of The American Gardener, the fantastic gardening magazine from the American Horticultural Society. (If you don’t have a subscription, you’re missing a lot a great articles and information about plants and gardening.) “Federal Court Shelves Pesticide (quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health of Honeybees</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/770</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[colony collapse disorder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sick bees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is Dr. Reese Halter’s latest article on honeybees. The news is not good. Bees are the “canary in the coal mine” for our environment being directly tied to the reproductive cycle of many of the world’s plants, a very delicate process that is very sensitive to environmental disruption and contamination. I know this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Bees in the Ground</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/540</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking out in my yard the other afternoon, I was staring at the ground looking a small plant when a movement caught my eye. As I looked closer I came to realize it was something completely unexpected and intriguing; the sight of a native bee, hard at work building her burrow. The natural order of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Bee</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/12</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Blue Orchard Mason Bee is a native species found throughout the US. This mighty pollinator, doing the work of 120 European honey bees, is not affected by many of the maladies harming honey bees. To attract and build a population of these industrious native bees in your garden you need two basic elements: flowers [...]]]></description>
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