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Sustainability - Testing the World's 1st Compostable Chip Bag
CSI - Critters in the Garden
Chicago Flower and Garden Show: Through the Looking-Glass
A Berry Nice Wildflower Wednesday
Gardening Gone Wild
The Smooth Blue Aster
The Return of the Spring
Christmas Wishes
Another Unsung Hummingbird Plant
The Ever-changing Garden
Reviewing "The Bad Tempered Gardener"
Color Combinations: the Problem of Pink
Early July Wildflower Wednesday
Dragonfly Farms, Bainbridge Island; I Became Alice
Flocks of Phlox for a Blooming Blogaversary
The Rose
A Light Frosting
Month End Views & We Have a Winner
Wildflower Wednesday a Bit Late
Helleboremania!
Oh, Spring, Where Art Thou?
A Weed By Any Other Name: Reviewing Michael Pollan's "Second Nature"
I Must Be a Masochist..
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
The Only Good Rabbit...
A Wildflower for All Seasons: Wildflower Wednesday
Rites of Spring, Chicago Style
Closer to the Earth
This is Just Wrong
A Policy of Containment
Love for 'Lydia'
Status Quo Ante
Awakening: March Foliage Followup
Minor Bulbs & Hellebores: March Bloom Day
Spring Begins: March Bloom Day
Awakening - March Bloom Day
March Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day: Spring Strikes Back
New Product Giveaway
13 March 2012
Force-ythia
How to Clean Up Hellebores
Spam Warning and Mini-rant
From the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" File: Hellebores
Gardener Snake (Wordless Wednesday)
Do I Truly Need a Soil Test?
MMD's Adventures at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show '09
It Really is Spring
Days of Miracle & Wonder
Searching For Signs of Spring
Fun With Forcing & Indoor Plant Update
March (to war): Garden Bloggers' Muse Day
Saying Goodbye to the Year of Weird
On Snowdrop Watch
A New Bird
Spiky Frost: a winter meditation
December Bloom Day '11
Mossy
Coyote Hungry
The End of Endless Autumn
An Overwintering Experiment
Baptisia at the End
November Bloom Day in the Year of Endless Autumn
The Last Garden Chore
11/11/11: Happy Nigel Tufnel Day!
The Last Rose
Why Would Anyone Want to Grow Hostas? Reason #7
Helping Nature
Wordless Wednesday: Autumn Morning
Trick & Treat
The Fall Finery of Wildflowers
The Golden Afternoon Garden
A Glorious October Bloom Day
Wordless Wednesday: Sunrise Japanese Anemones
Coloring Up
Pinched "Asters"
Sad News for US Clematis Lovers
September 2011 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
News Flash- Hummingbirds Visit Tricyrtis
Refreshing the Containers
Second Spring
Days of Labor
Impressions of a GWA First-timer
Fairy Tales in the Rain: the Bloedel Reserve
Daylily Dissatisfaction
I Went to a Garden Party...
Catching Up With...
Finding Inspiration in Suburban Seattle
Postcard from Seattle Days 2 & 3
Postcard from Seattle
Power Restored July Bloom Day 2011
Midsummer Malaise
A Colorphile's Take on Combinations: part I
Wildflower Wednesday
Blue Moon of June Bloom Day
I'm Not Don Quixote
The Truth* about Clematis 'Betty Corning'
Maximum Acceleration
Dusk
A Collector's Garden with Style
Wildflower Wednesday: May-apples!
Squirrelhaven's Squirrels vs. Havahart Critter Ridder
Wordless Wednesday: Ranunculus
The Lush Life: May Bloom Day
Training Clematis: from the DAISNAID* File
Oh, frabjous day!
Blue, White, Yellow & a Touch of Pink: Last Week at Squirrelhaven
The Blues for Wildflower Wednesday
Wildflower Week & Last Week at Squirrelhaven
Save the Earth by Saving Open Space
It Always Snows in April: Last Week at Squirrelhaven
All New! Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
Postcard from Squirrelhaven*: First trip to the garden center of the season
Daffodil Time: Last Week at Squirrelhaven
Don't Panic: a lesson from the garden
Hellebores, Hepatica & Hammamelis: Last Week at Squirrelhaven
A Clarification
Two Great New Plants
Hellebore Mania is Imminent: Last Week at Squirrelhaven
The Healing Power of the Garden
Wildflower Wednesday: Emergence
When the Plants are Shipped Too Early
This Week at Squirrelhaven
Small Blooms: March 2011 Bloom Day
This Week at Squirrelhaven
I've Won a Yellow Ribbon
This Week at Squirrelhaven
Welcome, Spring
The Genius Loci
Wildflower Wednesday: a Trillium Mystery
Hope is Blooming
I'm not Lydia: Latest Entry in the DAISNAD* File
A Forced Bloom Day
The Late Winter of My Discontent: a 3 for Thursday*
Seasons of the Garden
Not Just a Lot of Snow*: Groundhog Day Blizzard
Winter Interest in the Midwestern Garden
Trout lily: a different Erythronium
The Allure of Moss
Indoor Winter Activities for Housebound Gardeners
Wordless Wednesday: A Midwinter Day's Dream
Bloom Day January 2011
Schizachyrium 'Carousel', a better little bluestem
See You in Seattle!
The Catalog Experience
3 For Thursday: When the Snow All Melted
Gazing at the Future With Eyes Wide Open
Wishing for the Green Teens
January Muse Day 2008
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: 2008 in Review
The Best of 2010*
'09 Best of the Garden - New Additions
The Gardening Year in Review: A Top Five*
A Really Good Snow Shovel
Red, Green and Blue
Too Much Christmas
A Snowy Saturday
Too Much Christmas Redux
Happy Box-ing Day
A Mighty Wind
Christmas Greetings
A Christmas Card from Me
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Season's Greetings From Squirrelhaven
A Festival of Lights: OOTS
Memento Mori
Honoring & Remembering My Garden Inspirations
The Gardening Year In Review: Underachievers
The Truth About Black Jack
Frigid Friday: A Holiday Story
A Festive December Out On the Streets
The Return of Frigid Friday
December Bloom Day - Taking It Inside
A Christmas Miracle for Bloom Day
Frozen Blogger's Non-blooming Day
Gilty Pleasure
Last Night I Dreamed of Daffodils
The Journal
Frigid Friday
Cat and Mouse
Signature Plants?
1st Snowfall at Squirrelhaven
Garden Bloggers' Design Workshop: Walls and Fences
Why I Garden - Revisited
An Indoor Gardening Mystery Solved
Sterilizing Potting Soil: From the DAISNAID* File
A Long Winter's Rest
It's Going to be a Long Winter
The Big Sleep
Lo, how a hellebore e'er blooming!
Is My Freudian Slip Showing?
Acting Squirrelly
A Chill Wind Blows
3 Reasons to Like Winter in the Midwest
A Star Among Asters*
Squirrelhaven's 1st Snowfall*
Wordless Wednesday: 1st Snow
Lo, How a Rose Ain't Blooming - a December Muse
When a Gardener Hosts a Party
Why do I garden?
On Beauty
Eew!
Being Led Down the Garden Path
Mason Jar Photography
This Was Supposed to Be a Thanksgiving Post...
Small Blessings
Wildflower Wednesday: At the End Of All Things
Adventures in Welding
A Lesson From History
Thoughts About "Green Thoughts"
The Promise of Spring
The Truth About Rozanne
Three for Thursday: Late Fall Tasks
A Gardener's Wish List
And Now, a Bit of Fun: A Book Meme
The Grand Finale: Foliage Followup
Buona sera, garden, goodnight.
I'm It (I've Been Tagged)
Bloom Day November 2007
The Tough Keep Going: November Bloom Day
November 2010 Bloom Day: The Fat Lady Has Taken The Stage
November Bloom Day - With Actual, Outdoor Blooms!
"Indian Summer"
For a Good Time, Read This Book
Geraniums* for Fall Foliage Color
Design Dilemma
The Joy of Leaf Mold
Compostable Chip Bag Update
Fleeting Beauty
Field Tripping
The End of the Line - Picture This Photo Contest
Did I Say I Didn't Like Orange?
The Late Roses
Three Sad Things For Thursday*
Frost and the Autumn Garden
Wordless Wednesday: Hakonechloa's Pink Autumn
Do They Know Something, or Are They Just Confused?
Muse of November
November's Musings 2007
I Should've Bought a Leaf Shredder
Haunted Cemetery Halloween
Horrors!
Replacing The Vampire Tree From Hell
They're Taking Over! A True Scary Story
The Dead Zone
I am no longer feeling the shame
Going Out In A Blaze Of Glory
OOTS: Fall Edition (Out in the Streets)
Last Dance on the Titanic
Last Wildflower Standing
Fall Festival of Foliage
Book Review: What's Wrong With My Plant?
Happiness Is...
I'm Hijacking This Post to Cuba
Three For Thursday
Busy as Bees
I've Had Some Diem to Carpe
Wordless Wednesday: Autumn Mist
Mum's the Word
Picture This: Fall on a Flatbed
Bloom Day October '12
Blog Action Day
Bloom Day: October 2008
More Than Just Mums: October 2010 Bloom Day
After the Freeze -October Bloom Day
October 2007 Bloom Day
An Interview with Chuck Sambuchino (that Garden Gnome guy)
That Was Then
LAPCPADPOUB
Embrace Frost
10/10/10 -Becoming the Greenwoman
It's A Bittersweet Symphony
Squirrelhaven
I've Got A Really Big Aster
I Notice These Things: Three for Thursday
Flip This Bed
New FTC Guidelines Apply to Bloggers
Coming Soon to a Blog Near You
October Crept In
Unexpected Visitors
Do You Dare to Bare?
Monkshood
It's Not a Yellow Lady Bug
October Muse 2008
Garden Blogger's Muse Day - October '07
New Sculpture Preview: Three For Thursday
Turn and Face the Strange
End of the Month View -September09
What, Me Worry?
Save The Date: Spring Fling 2009
Wordless Wednesday: Autumn Contemplation
The One Book Every Gardener Should Own
Of Nanoprairies, Sculpture and Gnomes
The Truth About Japanese Anemones
Help! ID Needed for Mystery Plant
Supersize It
Little Class on the Prairie
The Truth About Heptacodium miconiodes
The Year of Living Structurally
The Feedburner Dilemma
Squirrelhaven in the Fall
Wildflower Wednesday: The ex-Asters
The Shrub That Ate the House
The Secret of My Success with Hostas
Crabapple Public Service Announcement
An Existential Exercise
A Toad, Some Bulbs, and Lots of Roots
Beautiful Berries
Fall Foliage Friday
NIMG: Not In My Garden: a Top 10
In the Beginning...
If There Are "Asters," It Must Be September
A Soggy September Bloom Day
And Where Are the "Asters"? -Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, September 2010
Blogger's Bloom Day September*
Beautiful Edibles Part IV: Too Beautiful To Eat?
Walkabout
Real Art for Squirrelhaven
They're Back
Literally Off the Beaten Path in the Prairie
"HGTV" is a Misnomer
Beautiful Edibles Part III: Merlot Lettuce
Grassy Things
3 For Thursday: Peppers
It's... * The Incredible Shrinking MeMe!
Return of the Colchicum
False Alarm
Beautiful Edibles Part I: Hello, Sunshine
This Post Brought to You By the Letter B: Berries, Bees and Bunny
The Quiet Entry of Autumn
The Best Laid Plans
Seeing Red on Garden Rant
Three for Thursday: Outstanding Hostas
Working Hard
Garden Blogger's Muse Day
Passiflora Tendril: Photo of the (last 2) Week(s)
Harbingers of Autumn: End of the Month Views at the End of Summer
Anemone Mine
Ladies & Gentlemen, We Have A Winner
Signs and Portents
Truth and Beauty in the Late August Garden
Spotlight on Spikenard
Requiem for a Hosta
Choosing the Substitute for Sedum 'Black Jack': Three for Thursday
Like a Box of Chocolates
Wildflower Wordless Wednesday: Aralia Racemosa Berries
The "Four Ws" of Veggie Gardening
Oh, Here Comes the Flood
On Leaf Mold, A Use For Landscape Fabric, and a Leaf Vac
Spot the Naked Ladies
Ending the Summer Vacation of My Discontent
Scent and Sensibility
Picture This: On the Road Again & Looking at the Lurie
Down on Your Knees
The Best Virtually Unknown Native Shade Garden Plant*
A Reblooming Hellebore?
Three for Thursday*: from the IGC
Dr. Pangloss on Environmentalism
The Olympics of Gardening
Love For Lobelia
Raspberry Ice
A "Feeling English" August Bloom Day
It's My Blooming Blogaversary
Top 5 New Bloomers for August Bloom Day
And now... a Blog
August Bloom Day -The 2d Blogaversary
A Bloom Day Blogaversary
The Five-Year Blogaversary
Cracked Up
'Shrooms: Last Week's Photo of the Week
The Truth About Phlox 'David'
From the DAISNAID* file: How Not to Train a Dogwood
I Ranted, Now I Rave
Beautiful Wildlife Gardens
Ennui's Got Me or I am Half-sick of Summer
and the Nominees are...
Why I Hate American Topiary & the Abuse of Stella
Whaddaya Think This Is, A Wildlife Sanctuary?
Gimme Shelter!
Mishmash Monday
Photo of the Week: Painted Fern
July 2010 End of the Month Views
August
"Holy Jalapeno!"*
Worst Weed Wednesday
Photo of the Week: Ahhh...
Semi-Wordless, Wildflower Wednesday
X-Terminate!
Introducing The Bizarro Garden Awards
The People of Buffa10
Photo of the Week: Riverside garden, Salisbury
We Have Poddage
The Return of Foliage Friday
Fierce Creatures
If You Plant It, They Will Come
Shady Ladies of Summer: Lilies and Daylilies
Feeling Austin, Texas
Transcendence in the Midst of a Garden Tour
Silly Redbud - Picture This Photo Contest
Photo of the Week: Allium Cernuum
Meme: The Best & Worst of This Year's Annuals
The Intent of the Gardener
The Amazing Color-morphing Phlox 'Nicky'
Foliage Friday
The Squirrelhaven Method of Bindweed Eradication
July '13 Bloom Day
Defiant Beauty: July '12 Bloom Day
July Bloom Day
July Bloom Day in the Year of Weird
Yes, There Actually are Things in Bloom in July
Photo of the Week: Metallic Green Sweat Bee
Ideas and Lessons From the Gardens of Buffalo
Art and About in Buffalo
Weird Oakleaf Hydrangea Flowers
A Better Ruellia
The Gardens at Hidden Tree Part II
Open Day at The Gardens at Hidden Tree- Part I
Curl Up & Fry: the Drought Chronicles
Guest Rant - Why I Hate Hornets
Trouble in Paradise
Shufflin' Off to Buffalo
All Trussed Up
Imperfect Perfect: Picture of the Week
From the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" File
Drought Chronicles: What Looks Good Now
Reality Bites - July
Success with Clematis: Planting
July Muse 2008
Witch's Broom
Taking the Heat (and Drought) and Settling into the Kitchen
The Garden in Late June*
The Clematises of Squirrelhaven
WARNING: Don't Use SkeeterVac's Tac Trap
Preparing for the Worst-case Scenario
GBDW: Green Mustache Update & A Corner Front Garden
Last Week's Photo of the Week: honeysuckle
Beauty Beyond Blooms
Last Week's Photo of the Week: Ruellia
There Will Be Mud
Wildflower Wednesday: Asclepias purpurascens
A Rose in Three Moods
My Best Shot
Zen and the Art of Deadheading
The Best Garden Center in Chicagoland
A Residential Green Roof and Raingarden
A Julyish June Bloom Day
June '13 Bloom Day
June Bloom Day 2008
We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Blog: Bloom Day
Hydrangeas, Campanulas & Clematis- Oh, My: June Bloom Day
All My Aquilegias
Searching for The Unique Angle
The Plot Thickens - or Is It a Pale Pink Herring?
The Year of Blooming Trees & Shrubs
The Pink Peony Mystery
Physocarpus' Flashy Fruits
Photo of the Week: Clematis Cezanne
A Solution for Floppy Peonies*
Sweet Relief for an Aching Back: a Special Edition OOTS
Suddenly Summer
The Big Bad Bee
An Extraordinary Garden, An Extraordinary Gardener
I Gotta Wear Shades (and the Dogwoods are Blooming)
Don't Be Too Quick to Plant in That "Empty" Space!
But Wait, There's More! The Chicago Botanic Garden Part II
Musing of June*
End of the Month View -May '10
Look Closer
So Bright, It Can Be Seen From Space
Snow in Late May?
A Grand Day Out at the Chicago Botanic Garden Part I
Early Kickoff to Spring Fling
The Curious Incident of the Yellowwood in the Spring
Success in Dry Shade
Full Force Weather - a Minor Deluge
Wildflower Wednesday: A Special Event
A Visit to Rich's Foxwillow Pines
Shot of the Week: Wisteria
Rainy Day Plants
Glimpse of Biltmore
Chiaroscuro
Picture This - Help Me Choose
Chicagoland's Weed Axis of Evil
Tree Peony Watch: Day 2 - The Long Wait is Over
Tree Peony Watch: Day 1
By Request - The White Chaenomeles
Wordless Wednesday
Foliage Followup: May 2010
An Unexpected Visitor
May '12 Bloom Day
The Eagerly Anticipated (by Me at Least) May Bloom Day 2008*
Don't Hate Me Because My Tree Peony's Beautiful: May Bloom Day 2010
May Bloom Day 2009
Taking Plant Evaluations With a Grain of Salt
Re-inventing the Lost Garden
The Lazarus Plants
Photo of the Week: Arisaema triphyllum
Helping Mom
The Elusive Egret
Morning Jewels
Wordless Wednesday: Abstract in Blue
Mmmm... Magnolia
The Real Reason I Didn't Go To Malvern*
Letter from A Distracted Mind
from the Secrets of a Plantaholic file
A Clematis Correction/Caveat
Nothin' But 'nemonellas
Plant Shopping: Clematis 'Asao'
I Just Can't Resist a Bargain
Big City, Little Village OOTS*
The Dirty Daffodil
May Muse 2008
Exciting News Flash!
Beauty & the Barrel
Enchanted April
Wildflower Wednesday-Dodecatheon media
What Wildflowers Want
Plant Sale at the Morton Arboretum
The Relativity of Time
From the DAISNAID* file: Designing with Daffodils
The Variability of Wildflowers
Surprising Paperwhite Science Experiment Results
The Name Game - A Rant
My Magnificent Misplaced Mystery Magnolia
Color Names
Where the Wild Things Are: an Earth Day Ramble
Earth Day 2009
Picture This: Green World
My Sweet Lady Jane -- NOT
Native Plants in the Landscape
Help, My House Has a Green Mustache!
The Squirrelhaven Springtime Blues
Squirrel Wars 2008: A Weird Beginning
100th Episode - A Very Special GBBD Addition/Edition*
May Bloom Day in April
April '13 Bloom Day
April Bloom Day (Now With Ephemerals!)
Spring Full Throttle: April Bloom Day
Spring Slightly Delayed Bloom Day - April 2008
Anticipation
Beware of Iris Borers
Easter Parade
Eranthis Update
The Other Shoe Has Dropped
Don't Blink...
Why Chicagoland Gardeners Want to Stay Home In Early April
It's a Blooming Party in the Garden
Spring Fling: the 1st Meeting of the Garden Club of the 21st Century
Wordless Wednesday: Anemonella thalictroides
In Defense of Forsythia
The Journey of a Thousand Miles
Pasque flower -- You Can Grow That!
Easter Wishes
Garden Mysteries
Skunkcabbage is NOT Illinois' State Flower
Illinois' State Flower & April Muse Day
Take down the wallpaper Hamish, we're moving!
The Gardener's Candidate
Deep Thoughts on Gardening
My Apologies to the Deer
Garden Blogger's Muse Day - March 2008
I Hereby Declare It Spring
Why grow wildflowers?
Northwest Suburban Chicagoland - a Filmology Quiz
The Most Exciting Day of the Gardening Year
Do They Know Something?
"Our Life in Gardens," a Book Reivew
Houseplant Census Results
The Wonderful World of Blotanical
A Florida-friendly Garden or, What I Did On My Winter Vacation
Bulbs & an Announcement
Picture This - Winter Light
Make It Stop! Make It Stop!
Crabapple Conundrum
Small Tropical Garden Quandary
A Dangerous Time for the Garden
The Truth About Praire Smoke a/k/a Geum triflorum
Foliage Followup & GBBD combo
Winter Blooms
It's February Bloom Day
Hearts and Flowers
Frosty Shake: Frigid Friday Follies
When Life Gives You Snow...
When the Snow Finally Melted
Check This Out
Winter Games
The Dinner Party
Color in the Garden
Why Should Gardeners Read Garden Blogs?
I'm Lichen It
A Borzoi Runs Through It
Witch Hazel Begins
The Great Houseplant Census of 2010
Garden Blogger's Muse Day - February 2008
Adventures with Indoor Plants: Confessions of a Chronic Underwaterer
The Tale of the Fox and the Squirrel
It's a science experiment!
Garden Blogger's Design Workshop - Arbors & Pergolas
Wildflowers in Winter - Week 2
Frigid Friday: After the Thaw
Chicago Really is the Center of the Universe
Will the Real Tiarella 'Iron Butterfly' Please Stand Up
GGW Photo Contest - 6th Time's the Silver Charm
Hello, There's a Difference Between a Garden and a Landscape
The Green Hornet
If Ever I Would Leave You...
Mayapple - Wildflowers in Winter
Postcard from Wauwatosa
And Now for Something Completely Different...
The Deserted Island Plant List
I've Got a Head Full of Plants...
Squirrel Appreciation Day?
Sweet Dreams are Made of This
From the DAISNAID* file: Garden Ornaments in Winter
A Riddle
January Bloom Day - Stages of an Amaryllis
January '13 Bloom Day
January Bloom Day - Stir Crazy Edition
Outdoor Blooms for January
Garden Blogger's Bloom Day January 2008
On Design: the Plant Collector's Lament
Too Many Flowers?
Adventures in Overwintering Tender Plants
A Correction
The Zen of Snow Shoveling
Color in the Midwestern Winter Garden is Not an Oxymoron
Help For Those Unused To Snow
Thawed
See You at BuffaFling*!
The Great Earwig Invasion of Aught Eight*
A Great Disappointment
Product Review: Solar Christmas Lights
Gardeners & Guns?
Under the Sea: a Lazy Gardener's Dream
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