Farmers Market
The sure sign that late spring has arrived is the farmers market with its spectacle of flat after flat of flowers. I go just to view the display, having raised my own requirements this past winter. While there is nothing exotic exhibited, the ... [... more]
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Difficult Loves
 From Amazon.com: One of the warmest and gentlest collections of stories by Calvino, and one of the most grounded in the real world. Lovely and elegant prose that lolls in your imagination like a story whispered into your ear on late spring day. [... more]
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New and Selected Poems
From Amazon.com: As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful [... more]
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Late Spring (Criterion Collection)
My Favorite Movie: This is my favorite movie by my favorite director, meaning that its the movie that touches me more than any movie I have seen. I feel like I know the main characters, Noriko and her father, so well, their relationships, and the culture [... more]
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The Body Clock Guide To Better Health: How To Use Your ...
From Amazon.com: We've all used the terms night owl and early riser; all felt the intense hunger pangs of midday and the subsequent ebb of energy after lunch; and all know what time of day we prefer to exercise or have sex. As explained in The Body Clock [... more]
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Trials Of Van Occupanther
They gathered in spring: Midlake debuted with a sparkling collection of Grandaddy-covers-Flaming-Lipsesque rock, and they grow more into their fuzzy-folk-rock sound in their second full-length album, "The Trials of Van Occupanther, with swirling [... more]
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New and Selected Poems: Volume Two
From Amazon.com: As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful [... more]
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Why We Do Not Cut Back Foliage?
Hiding daffodil foliage is a method that can be used to maintain the formal garden look in late spring. Some methods and solutions for the daffodil foliage is discussed in this week's article. The downside of having daffodils in landscaping and ... [... more]
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Kalmia: Exquisite Evergreen
Is there a Kalmia in your garden? With glossy, evergreen foliage all year round and exquisite clusters of blooms in late spring, there should be. If you love rhodos, you'll love Mountain Laurel! When I was at the local nursery this week, I became ... [... more]
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COLD DAMP WEATHER
The cool start to summer is extending the season for late spring flowering plants.. With the weather still on the cool side, many of the spring flowering plants are lasting longer than usual, and the early summer flowering plants are slow to ... [... more]
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Anomatheca laxa:
Anomatheca laxa is a hardy little corm for zone 8 gardens and upwards. A delightful little mid winter into late spring and early summer flowering corm. Debate on the attribution of the name still has Botanists talking. The name either comes from ... [... more]
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THE JOYS OF JUNE.
Late spring and early flowering plants in the alpine garden. June is one of the best months for flower power in my garden, the last of the late spring flowering alpines coincides with the early summer flowering forms and creates a beautiful ... [... more]
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