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  • Giant Fig Tree

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    Beautiful and Strange Trees – Trees can be stately and/or weird. When we visited the Sydney, Australia Botanical Garden we saw some interesting trees. One had bats hanging from it and was endangered of being destroyed. The one tree that caught my eye and is pictured here was this majestic fig tree. What can be more commanding than a mature tree? See some more outstanding trees at the link below.

http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2010/06/19-beautiful-and-strange-trees.html

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  • Cat Looking Out

    No need to leave kitty inside when you can have a catio. Apparently there is a new movement afoot for cat lovers! On our local garden tour in March one of the houses had a newly constructed catio for their NINE cats. I guess if I had nine cats I would have an outside area for them as well. All “kittyng” aside, read more about this apparent trend.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/garden/17catio.html

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  • Thanksgiving Cactus


    Houseplants that are hard to kill     – I favor the ZZ plant pictured in the article (not here). It appears to do well as an indoor plant even in the desert. I have grown several other plants mentioned and they are relatively “easy” as houseplants go.

http://webecoist.com/2010/06/21/no-green-thumb-13-healthy-hard-to-kill-houseplants/

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  • Rose Against barn

    Roses bred to resist “bugs” ALSO surrender their fragrance. The loss of the old world rose scent has long been a topic of consternation starting way back in the 1960s (or before) as a wave of hybridizing swept the world and with it took out many of the genes of those wonderful-smelling roses! Read more about this dilemma from the NY Times!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/garden/24roses.html

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  • Paver Planter

    Patio paver planters – I am always on the lookout for a way to gather unusual or at least different planters. These seem simple and straight forward to make AND you get to pick your color; any color!

http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/05/paito-paver-planters.html

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Gardening on the Moon, www.gardeningonthemoon.com, originally published this post