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		<title>Portland Japanese Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonsai Society of Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fumiko Hayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese bonsai exhibit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Tea Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portl;and Japanese Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sand and Stone Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strolling Pond Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukigumo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; This past weekend, some friends and I spent the afternoon at the 5.5 acre Portland Japanese Garden in Washington Park. It was a beautiful day, crisp and sunny, and Portland was at the height of spring color and vibrancy. The Japanese maples, leafed out and in their bright spring armor of red, lime green, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Heirloom Tomatoes in Austin, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/gardens/growing-heirloom-tomatoes-austin-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin heirloom tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blossom-end rot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carmello tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celbrity tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cherokee Purple tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dona tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heirloom tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paste tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sun Gold tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas tomato gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato stink bugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato stunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; Growing heirloom tomatoes in Texas can be frustrating as fruit will not set once temperatures reach the mid-80&#8242;s and above. It&#8217;s been my experience that if you get between 6-8 large heirloom tomatoes on a single plant, you&#8217;ve had a good year. If you get 12 or more, you are having a great year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Heirloom Tomatoes in Austin, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/gardens/growing-heirloom-tomatoes-austin-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.portholedesign.com/gardens/growing-heirloom-tomatoes-austin-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin heirloom tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canning tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[determinate tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f1 hybrid tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Peese Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing heirloom tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heirloom tomatoes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[indeterminate tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayfield Trowel & Error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-pollinated tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paste tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas tomato gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viva Italia tomatoes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; A few years ago, I gave a talk at Mayfield Garden&#8217;s Trowel &#038; Error in Austin entitled Growing Heirloom Tomatoes in Austin. It was a beautiful spring day, the peacocks were out, and people arrived in droves as the tomato season was just starting. Since that time, I&#8217;ve had a number of people contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landscape Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/landscape-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Professional Landscape Designers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design to budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design to fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape design costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape value]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lately been finding that some of my clients are reluctant to commit to the cost of a design plan without knowing the landscape costs associated with their design. It’s an understandable reluctance, I think. I am not, after all, in the business of selling people pipe dreams. Dreams, yes. Pipe dreams, no. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Places for the Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/places-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Man Named Pearl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American vernacular gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden vernacular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Fryar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places for the Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinity University Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaughan Sills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I stumbled across the beautiful and timely book, Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens, by photographer Vaughn Sills. The hardcover book was published by San Antonio&#8217;s Trinity University Press in 2010 and features excellent black-and-white photographs of African American gardens in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Butterfly Center</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/gardens/national-butterfly-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.portholedesign.com/gardens/national-butterfly-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Brew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Mistflower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies of South America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies woody stems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butterfly center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butterfly Weed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Glassberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NABA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Butterfly Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Butterfly Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[native plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; This past weekend, I had the opportunity to visit the National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX. What a treat. Not only was I impressed with the center&#8217;s modern architecture and grounds (they even have a small nursery&#8211;I bought several 1g plants to take back to Austin!), I thoroughly enjoyed talking to the knowledgeable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Garden Spaces</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/challenging-garden-spaces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/challenging-garden-spaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenging garden spaces]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[difficult soils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden spaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening Success with Difficult Soils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oakleaf hydrangea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pavonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salvia limelight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Ogden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sloped yards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow queen oakleaf hydrangea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solutions to sloped yards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around every home, one comes across challenging garden spaces. It may be due to poor soil, light, or a sloped yard. It may be created by a large elm or oak tree that has pushed up its roots and made it difficult to plant anything in its general vicinity. It could be an awkward corner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Style</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/garden-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elements of garden design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Colonial garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden styles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese garden design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Eck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimalist garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern minimalist garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[woodland garden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Joe Eck points out in his classic handbook of garden design, Elements of Garden Design, &#8220;The growing of plants and the making of a garden are not necessarily the same thing.&#8221; So, what then is garden style? And how do we know when to adopt, say, a Japanese or woodland garden look instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repairing a Broken Shovel</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/garden-tools/repairing-a-broken-shovel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.portholedesign.com/garden-tools/repairing-a-broken-shovel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ash handle shovel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breed Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breed Hardware Austin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broken shovel repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iron bench]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mahogany bench]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mahogany slats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reclaimed iron bench]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red pig garden tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repairing a broken shovel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smith & Speed Mercantile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spear & Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stock Building Supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stock Building Supply Austin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.portholedesign.com/?p=402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; If you garden a lot, sooner or later you will break a shovel. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s because most tools available at box stores and even locally-owned hardware stores are made of lesser quality materials. What they are is inexpensive and so most people simply buy another one. Personally, I hate this disposable aspect of modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ornamental Grasses</title>
		<link>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/ornamental-grasses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.portholedesign.com/design/ornamental-grasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmeeker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adagio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andropogon gerardii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big bluestem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bouteloua curtipendula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud nine panicum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud nine switchgrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[designing with grasses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grasses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy metal panicum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy metal switchgrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Van Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese silver grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john greenlee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[little bluestem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micanthus adagio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[miscanthus sinensis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morning light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morning light miscanthus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New American Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New American Garden movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noel Kingsbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northwind switchgrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ornamental grasses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panicum northwind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panicum virgatum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Darke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schizachrium scoparium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shenadoah panicum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sideoats grama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silver grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[switch grass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wolfgang Oehme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a big fan of ornamental grasses. Let me just say that first off. I like them so much I used them in my company logo and I often design gardens around grasses, either solitary ones or large meadow plantings. Tough and resilient, ornamental grasses (and bamboos) create needed &#8220;softness&#8221; and texture when planted [...]]]></description>
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