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		<title>A Perfect Partnership</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/985</link>
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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>Blanketing Your Garden to Keep It Cool!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that it’s officially summer, and the heat has arrived, we’re all looking for ways to stay cool. Well your garden plants are feeling the same way. And that’s where putting a blanket down can help; a blanket of mulch. Mulching is a well practiced gardening technique of covering the soil with some type of [...]]]></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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		<title>Planting a New Stock Plant Bed in Bernalillo, NM</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/955</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 17:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy the anticipation of putting a big planting of new perennials into the ground. It’s exciting to see new transplants I&#8217;ve been growing since last summer or fall, establish and mature to their full beauty. As a critical part of the perennial testing and propagation at High Country Gardens, I spend a lot of time planting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Plants; a Global View</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/948</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was once asked, “ Shouldn&#8217;t you be doing more important things than growing plants?”  Well, that question got me thinking. And in a nut shell, here is my answer. “No, there IS nothing more important than growing plants!” You see, the bottom line is that in so many ways, plants power the planet. By harvesting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Two Favorite Early Spring Blooming Shrubs</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/935</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter in northern New Mexico can hang around way too long. Like spring blooming bulbs and other early season perennials, these two favorite flowering shrubs assure me spring is really coming and warmth is on the way. Crandall’s Current (Ribes odoratum &#8216;Crandall&#8217;) blooms with a profusion of showy spring flowers. The fragrance of those bright [...]]]></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>Front Yards without turf. What a concept!</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/841</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawn Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most if not all front yards planted with a lawn are using the lawn as nothing else but a green “placeholder”, a cookie cutter solution to landscaping the front of a house. Let’s face it. It is never used functionally as a play area for the kids or as a game court (croquet), but is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inferno Strips; Go from useless to Wow!</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/828</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the quest to make lawns more sustainable and input efficient, we need to pay attention to where a lawn makes sense in the landscape. One place a lawn most certainly doesn’t belong is in what I refer to as the “inferno strip” or “hell strip.” That useless piece of real estate created when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Has Arrived, Bring on the Grass</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/819</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Salman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that September has arrived. Just where did the summer go? Here in the high elevations and mountains of New Mexico, fall is in the air. The light has changed, with the sky turning bluer and clearer and the air getting drier and cooler. It was 50°F this morning in Santa Fe. [...]]]></description>
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