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Saturday, August 7, 2010

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WashingtonGardener

November 2024 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine –Stoke’s Aster, Marimo Moss Balls, Burbank’s Potato, the Sharp-Shinned Hawk, and much more… - The November 2024 issue of *Washington Gardener *Magazine is out. It is posted and archived online at: https://issuu.com/washingtongardener/docs/n...
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Jessica's Nature Blog

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Madras Ramblings

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Our Stories and Perspectives

Discovering Fairfax County Parks: An Intern’s Adventure (#9: Epilogue – A Summer Well-Spent) - It is hard to believe that our internship with the Fairfax County Park Authority has some to an end! We have spent the past three months exploring, learnin...
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gardentropics

Chappan Dukaan , Indore - Chappan Dukaan in Hindi means 56 shops. In Indore Chappan Dukaan is the place for delicious street food Pizzas, hot dogs and burgers stalls vie with mo...
9 months ago
The Phytophactor

Friday Fabulous Flower - Bottle brush buckeye - Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. Not only that but once establish...
1 year ago
Capital Naturalist by Alonso Abugattas

Emerald Ash Borer - Emerald Ash Borers (*Agrilus planipennis*), also referred to as EAB’s, are introduced invasive beetle that is a threat to our native ash trees. Th...
1 year ago
The Urban Gardener

When gardeners wander - 'La famille de voyageurs' by Bruno Catalano How have you been doing, my garden family? It's been years and years, hasn't it? So much has happened in the...
1 year ago
Mauve Sea

Padaivedu - During one of the trips to Tiruvannamalai, on work, my colleague and I drove to Padaivedu nestled at the foothills of the mist-soaked Jawadu range. We drov...
1 year ago
Pattu's terrace Garden

To cut or not to… - I have a tall coconut tree near my front gate. it has been blessings us with lots of sweet coconut s all these years, except some years in between. The fru...
3 years ago
Rock Paper Lizard

Unlatched. - Whenever it was that our city joined the polychromatic bin revolution, we were given a choice of 4 different green (kitchen waste and garden trimmings) b...
4 years ago
DC Tropics

A New Wave of Delaware Gardens - [image: Delaware Botanic Gardens] Meadow garden at the newly opened Delaware Botanic Gardens In October 2015, I was privileged to tour the future site of th...
5 years ago
Indian flowers and herbs

Vajradanti - Vajradanti *Barleria prionitis *is used for dental problems in Ayurveda. In Sanskrit Vajra means diamond and Danta meas tooth.. The use of this plant is...
6 years ago
Journeys and Jonquils

- An interesting article highlighting the importance of both traditional crops and knowledge and contemporary innovation: The Fonio Revival Also, a grain I d...
6 years ago
Naturally Beautiful...

I have moved - I so wanted to have this blog on wordpress. But was not at all comfortable with it. Moved to blogger http://recordingnature.blogspot.in/
9 years ago
Rake and Spade

Romancing a Tree - Yesterday, I went to *Lalbagh Botanical Garden (Bangalore)* to test my wide-angle camera lens. The day dawned beautifully; the Sun was out. But by the time...
10 years ago
Festival of the Trees

Mangroves save one Philippine coastal town from the worst of Typhoon Haiyan - From PRI’s program The World, Michael Holtz reports: Mangroves form low-lying thickets that hug the shore of coastal areas in tropical regions around the w...
10 years ago
nature rambles

Saying Goodbye to Nature Rambles - A colourful bug that I saw on the Garlic Creeper yesterday Hello everyone! I haven't been regular here for a while. Despite starting this blog with the i...
11 years ago
Terra farmer

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Red Ripe Tomatoes

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India Garden

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12 years ago
trees, if you please

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12 years ago
Elizabeth Enslin

Sweet Spot Up the Hill - After several years, we're still exploring our acreage in northeastern Oregon. We've vaguely named some places through habitual reference: The Rocky Knoll,...
13 years ago
My balcony garden

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Nature Chronicles

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