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GARDEN BLOGS: Once and future community gardeners
ITEM: We are officially members of the Woodlawn community garden. If that is even its name. There is no sign, no contact information, nothing formal about it at all, so getting in was a matter...
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GARDEN BLOGS: First snow, Chicago
Saturday. Fortunately it melted so that on Sunday I could plant the 20-odd Iris histrioides bulbs that I relocated here and that did not desiccate on the kitchen counter. ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ will be a welcome...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Shards of fall
The radiators in this 115-year-old house are cranking, the drizzle is drizzling, weatherman says it feels like 27 F outside, and temps are trending downward into December. It feels like we just got here, but...