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	<title>Tips, Tools and Gardening Secrets for Western Gardening by Jodi Torpey &#187; Sustainable Landscaping</title>
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		<title>BBB Seed Boosts Gardening Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBB Seed is a big supporter of Colorado&#8217;s Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign.
BBB Seed is a a small, family-owned company with a big heart.
For the last two years, BBB Seed has donated thousands of vegetable and herb seeds to metro Denver&#8217;s Plant a Row for the Hungry gardening campaign.
But the company has much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Food Day 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Food Day, a national grassroots campaign to celebrate delicious, healthy, and affordable food produced in a sustainable way.
Thousands of events are planned across the country today in celebration of Food Day 2011.
Organizations like the American Public Health Association, Slow Food USA, the Farmers Market Coalition, and The American Dietetic Association are involved in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adopt a Vampire Bat for Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camilla (left) and Cocoa, two ambassador bats from the Organization for Bat Conservation, had fun hanging around during a Live Bats! program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science last October.
If you&#8217;re looking for a special way to celebrate Halloween this year, I have the perfect idea. Adopt a vampire bat.
As most gardeners know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleeze Count Your Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spending 15 minutes in your garden counting bees is a pleasant way to pass the time while helping with bee conservation efforts.
I&#8217;ve been counting the bees that land on the &#8216;Lemon Queen&#8217; sunflowers in my garden and I&#8217;m delighted at the results.
During my latest 15-minute observation, I counted 12 honeybees landing on one large flower&#8211;almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Look at an Old Vegetable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I invited our new neighbors over for a get-acquainted dinner.  The prickly pear cacti in my front garden were sporting delicious-looking young pads so  I decided to make a Nopal Salsa and serve it as an appetizer.
I cut the tender edible cactus pads, called nopales, boiled them in water and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rose Monster Blooms Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the toughest roses I&#8217;ve found that does consistently well in my Zone 5 backyard has turned into something we affectionately call The Rose Monster.
Something most people don&#8217;t know about me is that I grew up with a mom who had too many things going on inside the house to be worried about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Fountain Butterfly Bush Doing its Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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The Silver Fountain Butterfly Bush is now loaded with purple blooms and I&#8217;m not the only one to notice.
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		<title>Harison&#8217;s Yellow Rose Keeps on Blooming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about my Harison&#8217;s yellow rose a few days ago&#8230;and since then it&#8217;s come into full bloom.


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		<title>Great Ghostly Vine for Western Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the toughest plants in my landscape is a vine that has a ghostly past.
A few years ago I picked up a ‘Kintzley’s Ghost’ honeysuckle at the  Plant Select annual meeting and planted it next to an arbor in my sunny  backyard and practically forgot about it.
This spring, the hardy perennial vine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deer-Resistant Shrub for Western Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potentilla fruticosa, also known as bush cinquefoil, is a reliable no-maintenance shrub that is one of the 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants mentioned in a new book by Ruth Rogers Clausen.
The first blooms are showing up on the Potentilla in my cottage garden and I&#8217;m so glad to see them.
This shrub looked dead just a few [...]]]></description>
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