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		<title>Some favorite plants from my garden- Spring 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a very wide range of interests when it comes to plants. Perennials, trees, shrubs, succulents, rock garden plants, native plants, South African plants; I’m fascinated by all these plant groups and many more. Having lived and gardened in New Mexico for the 30 years, one group of plants I have been growing since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring at Last; two early blooming native shrubs you should be planting.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwarf spreading Sand Cherry (Prunus besseyi ‘Pawnee Buttes’) Spring is a long time coming to the high country in northern New Mexico.  By late October our gardens have been frosted back and the deciduous trees and shrubs have lost their leaves. In no time, the snows come and winter is here to stay for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no, there’s snow on my new transplants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many folks are hesitant to plant perennials and other frost hardy trees and shrubs before the last average frost date of the spring. “What if it freezes”? “The cold weather will kill my new plants.” And so on. But the bottom line is that many perennial plants (as well as trees, shrubs and evergreens) prefer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Late Winter Snow and the Bones of the Garden</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1203</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Winter is often the forgotten season when it comes to landscaping. I love a beautiful perennial border in the summer; the colors, the flowers, the interesting foliage and textures. But in winter, when all the perennials have gone dormant and  lost their summer glow, there is not much to look at and enjoy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 Part #8</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1196</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tri-colored Ice &#160; Delosperma Firespinner® (Firespinner Cold Hardy Ice Plant) About 25 years ago, Panayoti Kelaides of  the Denver Botanic Garden brought the first cold hardy iceplant, Delosperma cooperi into cultivation. This magenta flowered beauty was a revelation. Who had ever heard of an Iceplant that could live in a cold winter climate?  Since that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 Part #7</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1186</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ornamental Grasses Muhlenbergia emersleyi  El Toro™   (Bull Muhly or El Toro Muhly Grass) This large growing native is one of my favorite warm season grasses. Found growing in AZ, NM, west TX and northern MX, this grass is both very heat tolerant and winter hardy (USDA zone 6; -10° F).  In flower, El Toro™ stands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Little Joe’ &#8211; A New Dwarf Ponderosa Pine is Brought into Cultivation</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1174</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>High Country Gardens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unusual species and forms of conifers have been long sought after by collectors and landscapers. These woody, evergreen beauties are indispensable in any well designed landscape or rock garden.  And as far as rock gardeners are concerned, the smaller their mature size the better. My buddies Scott Skogerboe (head propagator of Ft. Collins Wholesale Nursery) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Spring 2012 Part #6</title>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1168</link>
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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>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1160</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>High Country Gardens</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://blog.highcountrygardens.com/archives/1145</link>
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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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