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		<title>An ill-timed Winter cold sets in&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; I mean in the air, and in my lungs, too.  When not pathetically curled up in bed with Bronte novels on the iPad (well, Jane Eyre,  at any rate, not Wuthering Heights; I remember finding Heathcliff a bit tiresome, although I may give him another try since it&#8217;s been so long), all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple in the herbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our vegetable garden, like most vegetable gardens, requires continual effort.  For the majority of these domesticated types of plants, the desert is not a &#8220;shove it in the ground and it will grow&#8221; environment. Rabbits and diggy-beaked birds are constantly helping themselves, peak summer heat (now thankfully past) and dryness make frequent watering necessary.  So, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the bird: Lesser goldfinch fressing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We planted sunflowers in the garden for the goldfinch; it seems to have worked.
Now that the flower heads are mature and seedful on the stalks, the bushes are crowded with Lesser goldfinch. There are lots more flowers in bloom, which will keep the hungry finches supplied into the fall or even early winter.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two too-hot pear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says me: few plants are more gratifying than prickly pear cactus, Opuntia spp.  At least, if you live in the desert, or any reasonably dry place.
Actually, even in not so dry places: we saw some naturalized in Aoteraroa (New Zealand), which seemed frankly bizarre, knowing how much rain that island gets (see the photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is not albino dog poop&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it&#8217;s a coil of tube-slush that blurped out of the hose this morning &#8212; yes, ICE!  So, the frost-cloth and styrofoam cups are stratigically positioned, ready to be placed over newly-planted herbs, and on tender cactus-tips late this afternoon: tonight is supposed to be the first frost of winter.  The hummers are hitting the nectar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Chimaeras in the garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go from desert Gryphons to desert Chimaeras &#8212; of course, not real chimaeras, in either the mythological or the genetic sense.  I&#8217;m talking about planting desert perennials in clumps, so that with maturity comes an exciting mixed-plant combo that combats the tedious &#8220;Plug-a-plant&#8221; school of xeric landscaping we see so much of here in [...]]]></description>
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