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		<title>Miri&#8217;s 12 Favorite Shrubs (11 are Natives!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Behnkes Woodies Buyer Miri Talabac Have enough Azaleas? Roses? Bored with yews? I always yearn for the different when it comes to my garden, and these shrubs are some of my favorites. Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) I love this shrub! It&#8217;s native (they pop up from between the rocks at Great Falls), attractive to pollinators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miri&#8217;s Butterfly and Hummingbird Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behnkes buyer and well known native-lover Miri Talabac has lots of tips for people who want butterflies and hummingbirds in their gardens.  In her recent talk about these popular critters she started with making a pitch for WHY to include them:  To contribute to ecological diversity, to teach kids about wildlife, and for our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First New-Garden Report!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Private Gardens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I moved from Takoma Park to Old Greenbelt almost five months ago and though my house and back yard are still messy, dirty construction sites, I finally have something  to show off &#8211; the front* garden.  I could show you a &#8220;before&#8221; photo of it but trust me &#8211; it was all lawn, nothing but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Dronenburg on Roses, his Favorite Topic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shrubs and Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Austin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Dronenburg is a long-time employee of Behnkes who also runs the Four Seasons Garden Club and is a certifiable plant nut and amateur rosarian, but claims no formal training in roses.  To my mind, he&#8217;s grown enough different roses &#8211; at least 40 varieties &#8211; over enough years that I want to hear what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Myths about Native Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of my summary of landscape architect Thomas Rainer&#8217;s talk about native plants at the Lahr Native Plant Symposium.  Part 1, covering design, is here.   Thomas&#8217;s myths about native plants: 1. That native plants are drought-tolerant, requiring less supplemental watering, a notion Thomas calls total &#8216;hogwash&#8221;.  Au contraire.  In this region the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Low-Maintenance, Organic Way to Deal with Pests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edibles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening How-To]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carol Allen may be a plant geek, horticulturist and organic gardener, but she&#8217;s also a self-professed LAZY gardener.  So when she teaches her favorite ways of dealing with garden pests, you know it&#8217;ll be the most effective, easiest to do, and also the easiest on the environment. Here are the highlights of her talk at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brookside Gardens in Peak Spring Bloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Gardens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We love Brookside Gardens, but especially this time of year.  Who wouldn&#8217;t?  Photos taken April 13 of this year. And one last shot showing nothing in blooms &#8211; just some faded tulips.  But this evergreen for shade is at the top of my must-get list this year.  It&#8217;s the variegated Osmanthus &#8216;Goshiki&#8217; and it looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry&#8217;s Favorite Native Ferns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently visited the garden of Behnkes&#8217; perennials buyer Larry Hurley, shown in this blog story.  But there&#8217;s another whole group of great shade plants that I admired in Larry&#8217;s garden &#8211; ferns! &#8211; so asked him to share with me and blog readers some of his photos of them, with his own notes on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing with Native Plants</title>
		<link>http://blog.behnkes.com/designing-with-native-plants.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.behnkes.com/designing-with-native-plants.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Native Plants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Northern Virginia landscape architect Thomas Rainer (whose blog Grounded Design I&#8217;m a big fan of) recently spoke to a rapt audience at the National Arboretum&#8217;s Native Plant Symposium, addressing the big question &#8211; how to create a native-plant garden that looks like a garden.  You know, cared for and pretty. So first he clarified that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned from Larry Hurley&#8217;s Shade Garden</title>
		<link>http://blog.behnkes.com/what-i-learned-from-larry-hurleys-shade-garden.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.behnkes.com/what-i-learned-from-larry-hurleys-shade-garden.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meet Our Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a brand new-to-me garden to fill up,  I need plant ideas, especially shade-loving perennials, so where better to look than the garden of our perennials buyer Larry Hurley?  So I paid a visit to his Bethesda garden this past weekend and saw lots to love, and learned a thing or two. Around a large [...]]]></description>
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