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GARDEN BLOGS: Mulch Can Kill Trees
Mulch can kill trees–that sounds kind of extreme, doesn’t it? But it caught your attention, right? I suppose it would be more accurate to say improper mulching can kill trees, but as I look around...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Time: The Essence of a Garden (Garden Notes, No. 5, 2011)
Herbert Butterfield’s essay (The Whig Interpretation of History) was an attack on liberal triumphalism [i.e., the 'Whig interpretation']…Whig history purveyed a concept of progress as the central theme of English history…It has become common among...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Two Plant-Related Children’s Books
I have pretty high standards when it comes to children’s books. I don’t like them to be preachy or didactic or otherwise disrespectful of the reader, who may or may not be a child. Last...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat
Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat via The Wired Gardener http://bit.ly/bvVLTi. The Wired Gardener is a newsletter, now become a blog, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s McClean Library. It almost always has a link to...