Landscape architects guide to your city coming soon

!-- --> The American Society of Landscape Architects recently announced the launch of The Landscape Architects Guide to Washington, D.C. just the first of many across the country. Its an online, mobile-friendly guide to more than 75 historic, modern and contemporary designed spaces in D.C., with 800+ photos and expert commentary by 20 local landscape architects. It covers not just the usual touristy places but interesting sites in all parts...

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Neighborscant live with em, cant kill em

!-- --> Shutterstock images If you want to appreciate the widest possible range of opinions about gardening, talk to gardeners about their neighbors. Because, you know, nobody really wants to admit that their neighbor might have the right idea (about anything), and most of us have had mild-to-medium plant-related disagreements with the property holders on either side. I was at a party yesterday, and one of the guests was regaling groups of us...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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A Barren Year

!-- --> More successful in 2010 Ive had hens for 5 or 6 years now, and dont plan on ever living without them again. Theyre fluffy and pretty. Their scratch-and-peck is mesmerizing and tranquilizing. Their eggs are so delicious that I can no longer eat ordinary skunky-smelling eggs in ordinary diners. Of all the denizens of my household, they are the least diva-esque, demanding amazingly little care in exchange for the food and lovely compost they...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Its a Miracle! Scotts backs off You Can Grow That

!-- --> Shutterstock image grow the YCGT campaign! Happy endings to stories that involve corporations vs. individuals are all too rare, so were very pleased to report that garden writer C.L. Fornari will be able to continue her You Can Grow That campaign without any opposition from Scotts Miracle-Gro. As she just posted: Recently the Director of Public Relations for Scotts Miracle-Gro contacted me to let me know that this company is going to...

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Wilson Pickett and the Pink Rose

!-- --> I owe my love of pink flowers to Wilson Pickett. The rhythm and blues singer was my high school cosmic everything. Teenage boys often feel they are irrelevant. Or at least they once did. In the mid-60s, I played a white soul man to prove the point. When I was fifteen years old, I stared at the shocking pink cover of the Exciting Wilson Pickett (1966). Wilson was bustin a dance move that I could never pull-off. (Trust me, I tried!) He...

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Olympic Landscape Takes Gold

!-- --> Photo by Nigel Dunnett Sure, the London Olympics are practically ancient history by now, dozens of news cycles back. But did you hear a word about the landscape created for the Games and now enjoyed by Londoners? Me neither. But according to the Evening Standard: The real star of the Olympic site is the landscape design. Its simply beautiful, with borders packed with mixed wildflowers, all blooming gaily thanks to the wet weather. Its...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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My new favorite botanic garden in Mexico!

!-- --> Im back home after a whirlwind visit to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for my nieces wedding and my bags are still unpacked, but my photos are fully loaded and ready to post. First up, the jardin botanico called El Charco del Ingenio, on the outskirts of town. Between the high-desert plants, the sienna-toned architecture and religious signs like this one, this garden is otherwordly, and utterly sublime. The 220 acres include a world-famous...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Let the bulbs begin

!-- --> Who the hell knows what kind of winter well be having in this formerly snow-identified corner of New York, but there will certainly be a few months of dormancy. This is what bulb season is for. Its the closest I can get to real gardening (other than houseplant maintenance) during the cold months. In this scenario, I turn fall into sort of a bogus spring planting season, ordering hundreds of bulbs that will either a., go into the ground,...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril

!-- --> Weve long marveled at the amazing holding power of tendrils like those of cucumbers, but scientists have been unsure about what makes them twist. This very cool video employs time-lapse techniques and mechanical models to show us how. From NPRs Science Friday. Just click that little play button. The video format is Quicktime, so doesnt look like the Youtube videos were used to. Via: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cucumber Tendril ...

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Stanford Organic Study Ignores Variety Differences

!-- --> More nutritious because of the holes? Possibly. Rant readers, please welcome Dr. John Reganold of Washington State University, who has done groundbreaking work demonstrating the value of organic agriculture, including studies that show a correlation between the quality of the soil and the quality of the food it produces. In the wake of the recent furor over a Stanford University review study comparing the healthfulness of organic and non-organic...

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