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	<title>The Xeric Gardener &#187; David&#8217;s Favorite Plants</title>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 Part #6</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coreopsis integrifolia (Fringe Leaf Tickseed) A native species from the deep South, Fringe Leaf Tickseed  is a plant with exceptional potential.  And to add to its appeal, this is a very rare perennial plant in its southern Georgia /northern Florida habitat. It is just now finding its way into cultivation. The plant spreads slowly by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 Part #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarlet Monardella  (Monardella macrantha ‘Marion Sampson’) This unusual native plant has to rate as one of my best plant acquisitions of the past year. Belonging to the genus Monardella, a small group of  plants native to the Western US,  Monardella macrantha is found in chaparral, woodland and forest habitats in mountainous regions of southern California. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 Part #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Outstanding Native Shrubs for the Western US Native plants are a passion for my staff and I, particularly western native plants. And yet many of our great Western natives are virtually unknown among amateur and professional gardeners and landscapers. Such is the case with these two species native to the Great Basin of UT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Favorite Herb Over the many years that I have gardened in Santa Fe, at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, I have become infatuated by lavender , intoxicated by its beauty, its fragrance and entranced by its toughness and adaptability in the landscape. &#160; OK, I know my prose is a little over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New HCG Plants for Spring 2012: #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Kintzley’s Ghost ® Vining Honeysuckle (Lonicera reticulate ‘Kintzley’s Ghost’) Vines are so useful in our landscapes. They provide coverage for fences (especially unsightly ones) and make a wonderful trellis plant to cover walls and narrow upright spaces with attractive foliage and colorful flowers. Kintzley’s Ghost is a very unusual native vine that gives us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Couple of Magnificent Fall Grasses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ornamental grasses should be the highlight of any fall landscape. Few plants can provide so much beauty for so little effort. There are two types of ornamental grasses; warm season and cool season. Cool season grasses grow most actively in the fall and spring with flower spikes coming in late spring-early summer. Warm season grasses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall Beauty of New Mexico Privet (Forestiera neomexicana)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think New Mexico Privet is the Rodney Dangerfield of native shrubs; it doesn’t get any respect.  Well that’s not entirely true as it is often specified in commercial landscaping jobs. But many homeowners and gardeners hear “privet” in the name and think “boring” and walk right past it in the nursery yard. &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The glory of a fall garden</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1017</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking through my rain revived gardens these past couple of weeks, it finally hit me what makes the fall in the garden ,its most beautiful time of year. For one, many of the plants are much larger than those that bloom in the spring. Instead of sheets of blooming bulbs, phlox, cold hardy Delosperma and [...]]]></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>Bold Colors in the Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a western gardener my whole life, the brilliant skies and intense sunshine have had a profound influence on my plant choices and the colors I like to use in my gardens. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s the bright, bold, saturated colors that my eyes enjoy the most. I was just up [...]]]></description>
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