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	<title>Plants, Passions, Photography &#187; Native Plants</title>
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		<title>Pocket Camera on the Easy Pass Trail</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/07/25/pocket-camera-on-the-easy-pass-trail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I made a trip up the North Cascades Highway to scout out locations to take my Pocket Camera Wildflower Photography class at North Cascades Institute on Tuesday. The trail I used the last time I taught the class, Heather Pass and Maple Pass, was reported to still have a lot of snow. So [...]]]></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>Paint the Hills Red</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/05/26/paint-the-hills-red/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Painted Hills in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in north-central Oregon are an out-of-this-world landscape. Layers of colorful bentonite, formed from ancient volcanic ash, change color with the light and moisture content. Each spring they pick up golden highlights from two endemic plants. The taller of the two, Golden Bee Plant [...]]]></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>Amelanchier Malus Rubus</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/05/03/amelanchier-malus-rubus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try saying the title three times fast. If you&#8217;re not up on your botanical Latin maybe the words don&#8217;t quite roll off your tongue.
Anyway, what do these have in common? They&#8217;re all members of the rose family, Rosaceae, they&#8217;re all in bloom right now, and they all have tasty edible fruit later in the season.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanapum and Whiskey</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/05/01/wanapum-and-whiskey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 03:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I was over to Ellensburg for the semi-annual board meeting of the Washington Native Plant Society. It&#8217;s an all-day business meeting dealing with important affairs of the organization, but not near as much fun as getting out and poking around among the plants.
The next day Don Knoke, one of 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>Early Bloomers under Big Sky</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/04/02/early-bloomers-under-big-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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Thursday I drove across Washington from Bellingham to Spokane to speak on wildflowers at The Inland Empire Gardeners Club meeting. I could have stuck to the freeway and made it across in about six hours, but I chose a more leisurely route and spent about 9 hours. The photo above was made just east of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and the Single Pseudotsuga</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/03/22/sex-and-the-single-pseudotsuga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex was in the air all over Pass Island and West Beach at Deception Pass State Park this weekend. Bright red female Douglas-fir cones standing tall on branch tips were calling out to the pollen-laden male cones hanging below. &#8220;Hit me with some of your dusty golden pollen,&#8221; they seemed to be saying. And with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Camas</title>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/28/first-camas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll get to the Camas in a bit, but that was a surprise find, not what I went looking for today.
Last weekend when I was down to the Columbia Gorge searching for Garrya I spent a few minutes at Catherine Creek to check out the earliest flowers, including Grass Widows, Olsynium douglasii. Today Natalie and [...]]]></description>
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