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		<title>Easy Fall Gardening with Brown-Eyed Susan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brown-eyed Susan is a native biennial plant that acts like a perennial because of its prolific self-sowing.

I&#8217;ve been talking about my vegetable garden a lot lately, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t appreciate the flowers in my cottage garden. One of my all-time favorites is the Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba) because it brightens up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lemon Queen Gardening Causes a Big Buzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attracting bees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Great Sunflower Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for a way to attract more bees to your garden, plant a patch of Lemon Queen sunflowers and join The Great Sunflower Project. 
In May I planted a packet of Lemon Queen sunflower seeds so I could be one of the citizen scientists counting bees for the The Great Sunflower Project. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sneak Peek of New DBG Greenhouse Complex</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denver Botanic Gardens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Better Denver Bond Campaign&#8211;and Denver voters&#8211;the new Denver Botanic Gardens Greenhouse Complex is almost ready for its debut. This morning, the Gardens hosted members of the media to a sneak peek of the shiny new facility. 
The Denver Botanic Gardens Greenhouse Complex opens to visitors on September 4, but if you&#8217;re a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enter the Zone 4 Container Gardening Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hypertufa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a floriferous container you&#8217;re especially proud of this  year? If so, you may want to enter the Zone 4 Magazine container  contest. But hurry&#8230;the deadline for entries is September 1.
In June I posted a blog called Plant a Hypertufa for Small-Scale Gardening and I showed how to create a container [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native Plants for Colorado Gardeners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colorado Native Plant Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have an interest in Colorado&#8217;s native plants like this Pasque flower? Then the Colorado Native Plant Society annual meeting is an educational event you&#8217;re sure to enjoy. (Photo and information provided by Autumn Hummel, CNPS)
The Colorado Native Plant Society&#8217;s (CNPS) annual meeting is taking place September 10-12 on the Auraria Campus in Denver and all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Tomato Gardening Yields Big Flavor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good things do come in small packages, especially when talking about miniature tomatoes. These gems may be small in size, but they&#8217;re big on flavor.

When I planted my crop of mini tomatoes in May, I was looking forward to harvesting a big batch of small fruits in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes.
Now I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on the Great Potato Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May, I started my Great Potato Gardening Experiment when I planted a plastic trash bag and my compost bin full of seed potatoes.
&#8220;I sure hope there are some potatoes growing in there,&#8221; I thought to myself as I took some pictures of my backyard potato garden.
It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve tried to grow spuds&#8211;and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening Provides 4th of July Craft Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fourth of July is just around the corner and the celebration calls for some good old fashioned craft-making fun.
I had such a great time making a Fourth of July wreath for my front door, I thought you might like to try making one, too.
Most of the materials were found in my own backyard, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Pollinator Week Salute to Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 21-27, with a WesternGardeners.com salute to pollinators. Today we proudly salute bees!
Thanks to the efforts of the Pollinator Partnership, pollinators are being celebrated across the country this week. As part of its mission, the Pollinator Partnership works to protect pollinators&#8211;like bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles&#8211;through conservation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Plant a Charming Cottage Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cottage gardens are filled with old-fashioned favorite flowers, like shrub roses, hollyhocks, lilies and honeysuckle, with garden structures for them to climb on. 
For nearly as long as cottage gardens have been growing, artists from Claude Monet to Thomas Kincade have tried to capture the beauty of these charming landscapes.
Their paintings depict rambling gardens framed [...]]]></description>
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