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	<title>Plants, Passions, Photography &#187; Gardens</title>
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		<title>Birchwood Garden Club Summer Tour</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/07/08/birchwood-garden-club-summer-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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We finally got our first day of summer on July 7, right on schedule. It was the evening of the Birchwood Garden Club July members-only private garden tour, a delightful opportunity to visit four very nice Bellingham gardens. If you&#8217;re not a member of an active garden club, like Birchwood, you&#8217;re missing out on seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardens of Note</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/06/28/gardens-of-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Skagit Symphony Orchesta&#8217;s annual fundraising garden tour, Gardens of Note, was held last weekend. This is the second year I&#8217;ve headed down to our neighboring county to check out some wonderful gardens and I wasn&#8217;t disapointed. Here&#8217;s a condensed visit to the gardens.


All of the gardens on this year&#8217;s tour were on Samish Island, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Gardens</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/06/13/five-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming up next weekend is the Whatcom Horticultural Society&#8217;s 2010 Tour of Private Gardens. There are five gardens on this year&#8217;s tour. They&#8217;re all different and worth a visit if you&#8217;re in the area and interested in gardening. Since I take care of the WHS website I was on the pre-tour for volunteers yesterday and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prickly Beauties</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/05/20/prickly-beauties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 05:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I made a 1000-mile road trip to see a bunch of plants. Most were in the wild, but I stopped in Yakima to see my friend Ron McKitrick&#8217;s Hillside Desert Botanical Garden.
Ron has the most incredible cactus garden you&#8217;ll find just about anywhere. He&#8217;s been growing cactus, which are native only to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gimme a Hand</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/05/10/gimme-a-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or so ago one of the garden magazine editors I work with regularly sent an e-mail saying she was looking for photos of gardens with flea market stuff in them for a story. A couple of days later she wrote again, saying they were going to do a whole special magazine on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixing Natives in the Garden</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/04/15/mixing-natives-in-the-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using native plants in your garden is becoming more and more popular, and for good reason. They&#8217;re hardy, adapted to your climate, and resistant to many diseases and insects. Plus, we&#8217;ve got a lot of really gorgeous and desirable plants that are native to our part of the world.
Several days ago one of my gardening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cusp of Spring</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/03/16/cusp-of-spring-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;re about a week away from the official beginning of spring, but here in the northwest it&#8217;s felt like spring for several weeks now. We&#8217;ve had a warm winter so trees, shrubs, and other flowering plants are farther along than usual for this time of year. That&#8217;s a pleasant change from 2009 when it stayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precocious</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/10/precocious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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Last night as I was taking the compost out in the dark a wonderful sweet odor drifted around the corner toward the back door. The Winter Daphne, Daphne odora &#8216;Aureomarginata&#8217;, had to be the source as nothing else on the back side of our house has such a fragrance, especially at this time of year.
We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Show</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/05/garden-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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The Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle is one of the premier garden shows in the world. Every February thousands of gardeners descend on the Washington State Convention Center to find inspiration in the show gardens and purchase plants and other garden stuff from the rows of vendors.
The show is under new management this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Garden</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/01/winter-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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The Witt Winter Garden at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle is one of my favorite places to visit in late January and February. The plant collection features early-blooming shrubs, many of which are fragrant. On a nice afternoon when the sun is low in the sky the light radiates through the massed Witchhazels and [...]]]></description>
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