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		<title>New Native Plant Info on our Website!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re pleased to announce some new additions to the Gardening Articles on our website, all designed to encourage customers to grow native plants.  Click here to find all of our of articles about regionally native plants, a resource we hope will encourage more customers to grow more of them. Or go directly to:  How about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex&#8217;s Favorite Native Plants on DC Lawn and Garden Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Alex Dencker, well-known native-plant enthusiast and our Potomac manager, is making a guest appearance today on the wonderful local blog Metro DC Lawn and Garden &#8211; check it out.   And no surprise, he&#8217;s recommending his favorite native plants for the garden, including the ones you see here. Thanks to Betsy Franz, editor/author of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Attract Birds to your Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howard County Master Gardener Natalie Brewer has compiled a terrific resource for gardeners who are also nature-lovers &#8211; and that includes all gardeners, right?  Click here to learn all about nesting boxes, tree hollows, what plants provide the most food for birds, and even how healthy soil makes your garden more inviting to birds. Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Alex Dencker on Native and Invasive Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Groups & Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Dencker, manager of the Behnkes Potomac store, will be sharing his knowledge of and enthusiasm for native plants (and the invasive plants that threaten them) this coming Thursday at the monthly meeting of the Darnestown Garden Club.  Y&#8217;all come! WHEN: Thursday, January 13, 2011 &#8211; 10:00-11:15 a.m. WHERE:  Darnestown Presbyterian Church,  15120 Turkey Foot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staghorn Sumac, Hardy Orange and Osmanthus &#8211; My Favorites for Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shrubs and Trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Randy Best Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina) &#8216;Tiger Eyes&#8217; Native throughout the Eastern United States, Staghorn Sumac survives in the most inhospitable conditions in large thickets.  But unlike other Staghorn Sumacs, the selection &#8216;Tiger Eyes&#8217; is compact and slow spreading, a medium-sized shrub of 6 to 8 feet tall and wide, with lacy fern-like foliage.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Hawthorn Trees? News to Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Master Gardener Natalie Brewer has a great profile of the native green hawthorn tree (Crataegus viridis), especially the variety &#8216;Winter King&#8217;.   I&#8217;d never heard of it before, but it looks like a great size for small gardens.   And now I want one. Now who&#8217;s going to tell me what to get rid of so I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain Gardens for Blog Action Day 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening How-To]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Blog Action Day 2010!  It&#8217;s a worldwide collective action of thousands of bloggers focusing on the same topic on the same day &#8211; October 15.  In 2008 the subjectwas climate change, then poverty in &#8217;09, and this year it&#8217;s a huge topic for us gardeners &#8211; WATER.  And here in the watershed of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling for Dogwoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New on our website:  Great article about native dogwoods by Master Gardener Natalie Brewer, so check it out.  I did and learned a couple of things &#8211; that there are at least 90 birds that eat dogwood berries, and that it&#8217;s primarily the red fall foliage that attracts birds to them.  Plus, some super-useful tips [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall-Blooming Asters</title>
		<link>http://blog.behnkes.com/tears-of-a-goddess.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie Brewer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alma Potschke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aster]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Purple Dome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite season is autumn. The weather is cooler, the sun shines abundantly, and I love the autumn colors of red, yellow and orange… and blue, purple and pink. Yes, that’s right, blue, purple and pink, and you can add to that magenta, rose, red-purple, royal blue, lavender and sky blue. These are all the true colors of autumn here in the United States due to one of our most glorious and prolific wildflowers, the aster.]]></description>
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		<title>A Walk on the Wild Side &#8211; Part 4</title>
		<link>http://blog.behnkes.com/a-walk-on-the-wild-side-part-4.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miri Talabac</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Falls National Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Explorer’s Journal of Native Plants in the Landscape Great Falls National Park – September 9 &#38; 11, 2010 By Miri Talabac, Woody Plants Buyer/Manager On the 9th, I’m back on the VA side this time to revisit the River Trail, to see what the season would bring. The trail is part woods, part rocky [...]]]></description>
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