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		<title>When Friends Come to Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2012/01/21/when-friends-come-to-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most folks, when friends come to visit for a couple of days they&#8217;ll send a little note of thanks when they get home. When your friend is a garden blogger, they&#8217;ll blog about your garden. My friend and English garden tour travel partner, Layanee, did just that, posting about my garden here on her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glass Half Full</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/11/25/a-glass-half-full/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chickens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about fall and the coming winter. I wander the garden and yard looking at the carpet of wet leaves. They would be a lot more beautiful if they would just voluntarily hop right into those bags for composting. They have nearly all fallen now except the two zelkovas, which stubbornly hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marking Time: June Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/06/06/marking-time-june-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I look at photos of my garden I think, &#8220;Hey, that looks pretty good.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t one of those times. I don&#8217;t know why, but it seems that for all the work I&#8217;ve been putting in, the flowers just aren&#8217;t cooperating. Things don&#8217;t look as full as I want. The grass isn&#8217;t green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Rain</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/05/18/purple-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[baptisia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been springs when we have been deluged with rain. There have been years when I was already hauling hoses in May. But this year we&#8217;ve been fortunate to have just the right amount of rain&#8212;not too much and not too little. I think the purple stuff here likes it too. Maybe we have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marking Time in the Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/05/15/marking-time-in-the-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 20:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in 2007 I cataloged nine months of photos in the potager. I spent the next three years kicking myself for forgetting to do it again. I would get so wrapped up March cleanup, April and May planting, June maintenance and, well, life that I would forget all about taking those documentary photos. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April is So Very&#8230;Yellow</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/04/22/april-is-so-very-yellow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crocus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daffodils]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is quite a yellow month, isn&#8217;t it? I mean, there&#8217;s the forsythia, the witch hazel, the daffodils. If that weren&#8217;t enough we can now get our azaleas in shades of orange-yellow. And don&#8217;t forget that drop-dead beautiful magnolia &#8216;Yellow Bird.&#8217; (I want.) You know what? I don&#8217;t care. After seeing brown, brown, brown all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taming Nature: The Start of a Woodland Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/01/19/taming-nature-the-start-of-a-woodland-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2011/01/19/taming-nature-the-start-of-a-woodland-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Seating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, January. I have created a new folder in Photoshop Bridge entitled Garden 2011. I have one single photo in it, but it&#8217;s an important one&#8212;a shot of where we&#8217;ll be creating a woodland garden. Out of necessity came opportunity. We had the local tree guys out to take down a large tulip tree that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scenes from Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/09/12/scenes-from-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is September 12. The air conditioner is off and the windows are open&#8212;at least when it&#8217;s not too chilly anyway. I spent the afternoon rotating out the summer clothes and bringing out the sweaters and long pants. Where did summer go? My blog here at Bumblebee has been quiet. That&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bigger Than Mammoth Sunflowers</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/07/25/bigger-than-mammoth-sunflowers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/07/25/bigger-than-mammoth-sunflowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never really understood the interest in growing monster vegetables to see how big they can get. To me, the point of vegetable growing is to eat the things. But more often than not once a vegetable reaches gigantic proportions it is no longer edible. But perhaps it&#8217;s akin to my fascination with  sunflowers. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Quite Ready for Artichoke Dip</title>
		<link>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/06/24/not-quite-ready-for-artichoke-dip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumblebeeblog.com/2010/06/24/not-quite-ready-for-artichoke-dip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every since I heard that my local friend Kirsti has successfully grown and harvested as many as 12 artichokes a season in her small garden, I&#8217;ve been having serious artichoke envy. For several years in my younger days I lived in California not so far from Castroville, a major hub of artichoke activity. Before I [...]]]></description>
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