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	<description>Randomly writing about whatever garden subjects pop into my head</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Rain Days&#8211;Some Garden Potpourri</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=497</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=497#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Animals in the Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Container Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Random garden thoughts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Summer Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Water in the Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Annabelle Hydrangea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[birds in the garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[flowering onions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[frogs in the garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gourd birdhouses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hydrangeas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hydrangeas in containers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nikko Blue Hydrangea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rain-washed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spring garden chores]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tadpoles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[White Giant Allium]]></category>

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Lover of sunshine that I am, it sure was nice to get a couple of true rain days.  My little world here at Woodland Cottage is washed fresh and clean.  It&#8217;s sparkling in the intermittent sunshine this morning after heavy rain overnight.  This is rain day #2.  I&#8217;m getting lots accomplished.  I realized yesterday that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Designer&#8217;s Favorite Plants&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=493</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gardeners]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Southern Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[favorite plants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wilmington NC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wrightsville Beach Magazine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wrightsville Beach NC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to an article I wrote in the May 2012 issue of Wrightsville Beach (NC) Magazine, titled &#8216;Designer&#8217;s Favorite Plants&#8217;.  Thanks to Marimar McNaughton for the opportunity to put together the article.  Enjoy!
http://www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com/article.asp?aid=824&#38;iid=103&#38;sud=27
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		<title>Snowballs in the Rain on Earth Day</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=488</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=488#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Snowball Viburnum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Earth Day]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Viburnum macrocephalum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Earth Day.  It&#8217;s a day to celebrate the Earth and all that she gives us, like this gentle, soaking rain we so need here in the magical Mid-Atlantic.  Everything is so green! The trees are smiling.

I showed an earlier photo of the Chinese Snowballs, Viburnum macrocephalum, in their green stage, before they whitened up.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lady Banks is Abloom</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=482</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=482#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lady Banks Rose]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lady Banksia rose]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rosa banksiae]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woodland Cottage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She is stopping traffic right now, literally&#8230;people are jumping out of their cars with their IPhones and snapping pics.  I don&#8217;t blame them.
Here she is, climbing an arbor in my yard, and the adjacent plants.

Ain&#8217;t she pretty.
She is the Lady Banks Rose, Rosa banksiae.  Also known as the Lady Banksia Rose, depending on from where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Continues to Dazzle</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=468</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=468#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Azaleas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bloodgood Japanese Maple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Calycanthus floridus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Camellia japonica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carolina Allspice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Snowball]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dogwoods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Epimedium rubrum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fatsia japonica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[garden gnome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Happy the Buddha]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pieris japonica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ralph]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ralph the Gnome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spicebush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sweetshrub]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Variegated Pieris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Viburnum macrocephalum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woodland Cottage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As in all gardens, each Spring day brings something new.  Here at Woodland Cottage, we are passing from early to mid-Spring.  Soon, we&#8217;ll be in what I like to call &#8220;full Spring&#8221;&#8211;when the Azaleas and Dogwoods are really kicking.  It occurs usually when the mid-season Azaleas come into bloom.  That will be soon.
We landscape designers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tuscan Sun Cookbook</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=448</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=448#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cooking and gardening]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Edward Mayes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frances Mayes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Tuscan Sun Cookbook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tuscany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Under the Tuscan Sun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just got my prized copy of &#8216;The Tuscan Sun Cookbook.&#8217;  My dear friend, Dean, graciously gave me a copy, which Frances Mayes promptly signed.  Here&#8217;s the cover:
What has a cookbook got to do with gardening? Everything.  Cooking is the culmination of gardening, especially if you grow your own food.  Or herbs.  Or both.  Cooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinda Pretty Here in Arlington Right Now</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=452</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=452#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fragrance in the garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Southern Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Camellia japonica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corydalis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daphne odora 'Variegata']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Edgeworthia papyrifera]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Loropetalum chinense 'Zhuzhou']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pieris japonica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spring-blooming Camellia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Variegated Winter Daphne]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vinca minor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Winter Daphne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beautiful week one is now running into beautiful week two here at Woodland Cottage.  It&#8217;s astounding.  I&#8217;ll let the pics speak.

The Loropetalum has never been more floriferous&#8230;
Heavenly scent&#8230;
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		<title>Nancy Goodwin&#8217;s Montrose Garden in Hillsborough, NC</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=440</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=440#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Tours]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Garden Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gardeners]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Southern Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Anne Raver]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ed Mayes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frances Mayes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hillsborough NC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Montrose]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Montrose: Life in a Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Goodwin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Tuscan Sun Cookbook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Under the Tuscan Sun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed Anne Raver wrote a piece in the New York Times recently about Nancy Goodwin and her garden in Hillsborough, NC, &#8220;Montrose&#8221;.  Here&#8217;s a link. Nancy wrote a book about her garden and her experiences there, Montrose: Life in a Garden.  It&#8217;s a lovely, informative read.
Steve and I visited there two Winters ago, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bearded Iris in Wilmington, NC&#8230;on March 2??</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=428</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=428#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Southern Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Weather vagaries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arlington VA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Azalea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Azalea 'Formosa']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bearded Iris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iris germanica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wilmington NC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woodland Cottage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tornadoes over much of the East today as we enter meteorological Spring.  Terrible and sad.  It&#8217;s the season for unsettled weather.
We had temperatures in the mid-80sF here in Wilmington, NC, yesterday.  I had some surprises on my &#8216;coffee walk&#8217; this morning around our garden.  The most astounding bloom is the Bearded Iris (Iris germanica) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rash of Spring, Fever or Freeze?</title>
		<link>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=424</link>
		<comments>http://minnichgardendesign.com/blog/?p=424#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Minnich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Southern Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spring Flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Spring Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Winter Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Weather vagaries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lumina News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wilmington NC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wrightsville Beach NC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article I wrote last week, Rash of Spring, Fever or Freeze?  It was published in Lumina News of Wrightsville Beach/Wilmington, NC, on February 16th.  Enjoy!
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