1 day ago by Pam/Digging

We’re parachuting into spring here in Austin. This is white potato vine ( Solanum jasminoides), a dainty little climber for shade or part shade. I had two of these until last summer. The survivor is perking up for a spring show. Chinese fringeflower ( Loropetalum chinense) marks the landing zone wit ...

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2 days ago by Alice Fox

I've had a couple of days of meetings, which have been really useful and stimulating. One was about the development of a new collaborative project (more on that another time) and the others were about my main project this year. As a result I have renewed hope about possible funding. I know I keep be ...

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2 days ago by fholin

Researchers evaluate grass farming’s potential in South Dakota Loretta Sorensen Grass production may become a new agricultural wave in southeastern South Dakota if a five-year research project yields positive results. Since 2008, South Dakota State University (SDSU) researchers have been growing, ha ...

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2 days ago by Christopher C. NC

I woke to a light frosting of sleet. It wasn't pretty enough to take a picture. Too bad. The fact that some of it was still here when I got home meant it didn't get very warm up here today. Our week of winter is beginning. There is more snow in the diagnosis for Saturday morning and again on Monday ...

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3 days ago by Carol Keene

"On the Way to Rockford" 6" x 6" Oil on canvas panel This little stream shone with rippled excitement in the autumn light as I drove the back roads toward Rockford. The scenery is much more appealing along this route than the Interstate. This small piece was a warm up for a larger landscape I'm work ...

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5 days ago by emilyscout

Hulled Barley - Four Star Farms From the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates, to the coast of the Mediterranean and down into Egypt stretches the Fertile Crescent. Aptly known as the “cradle of civilization,” this land bore witness to many of the earliest human settlements. Historians have documen ...

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5 days ago by By JIM WITKIN

The Bay checkerspot vanished from a park in Northern California after nitrogen pollution from road traffic encouraged the spread of nonnative plants. Now, conservationists are hoping they can bring it back.

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7 days ago by KJK

Fresh Picks this week on Etsy! Glowing Tails on Etsy! Apple Green on Etsy!

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8 days ago by Marilyn Cornwell

If we look closely, winter's garden is full of delights. Here are 2 that you can easily experience - the moving grasses as the winter wind blows them, and then fruits and berries on trees and shrubs -bright colours against the darkness of winter.

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9 days ago by paws2k3

its amazing how something as complex as these grasses give joy long after they are done growing for the year. yet as we bulldoze another field, destroy another habitat, we never think of the inherent value measurable in simple non 'stuff' happiness that its capable of bringing to any human willing t ...

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