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A GROWING CONCERN: End the year by cutting deadwood out of your life
HERE WE ARE, the month of December — now comes my favorite time of the year because of…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Tie up loose gardening ends
THE LIGHTS ARE up at the Winter Ice Village, the ice is good and frozen, and the leftover…
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A GROWING CONCERN: A ‘Green Friday’ holiday shopping list
THE SKATING RINK is up and lit, families are engaging in holiday activities, all the spring bulbs are…
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A GROWING CONCERN: It’s the right time to make time for projects
I MUST FIRST start by giving a huge Botanical shout out to Anne and Steve at Lazy J…
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A GROWING CONCERN: A ‘light’ week of gardening
SO SATURDAY, QUITE the little group of volunteers helped prep the lights for the Winter Ice Village as…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Winter is coming
I THINK MY buddy, Jackson, has just finally thawed out from the -6 degrees to 0 degree weather…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Fall cleanup? You better de-leaf it
I BELIEVE IT is safe to say the weather has changed. The fall rain pattern has started.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Plant now for years of enjoyment
EVERY AUTUMN I take a trip to our family cottage on the Wisconsin and Michigan border.
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A GROWING CONCERN: It’s the right time for the right chores
I STARTED LAST week’s article with a “weather changing” comment: Every month the weather changes.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t be frightened of October chores
OCTOBER — THE BEWITCHING month, the day of the dead, which is what your garden could turn into…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Make the grass greener on this side
FOR WEEKS NOW, my readers have been asking for more information on over-seeding and drastically changing your grass…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Fall into autumn gardening tasks
AS YOU LOOK across your garden and yard today, the last two days of summer, autumn arrives tomorrow…
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A GROWING CONCERN: No time to tiptoe around spring bulb planting
AS YOU KNOW, I am always cheerleading just how great our weather is here on the Peninsula.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Plenty to dew in your garden
CAN YOU BELIEVE this past week’s weather? Talk about gorgeous.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Thirteen ways your garden can’t lose
WELL, CAN YOU believe next Sunday is the beginning of September?
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A GROWING CONCERN: Making the most of summer’s last lazy days
ANOTHER GORGEOUS AUGUST week here in Camelot, I mean, the Olympic Peninsula.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Find harmony between home and garden
MY ELDEST SON has just been recently married in a client’s garden; the corn roast with all 400…
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A GROWING CONCERN: ‘Drew the destroyer’ — a mouse tale of battle
SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE been quizzing me about mice because this menace has descended on their gardens. With that…