Harbingers of Fall - Part IV - Asters, Part 2
There are many aster species and cultivars that can provide color in your garden. In addition to the ones that I grow (see Asters, Part I) in my USDA zone 7 garden, there are many other aster species and cultivars that can provide color in your ... [... more]
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Gardening with Perennials Month by Month
 Useful when used in conjunction with other gardening guides: This is a guide for the serious perennial gardener. It is useful as a reference for planning a perennial garden that will always have some feature of interest, no matter what the season. Many [... more]
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The New York Trilogy
ONE OF A KIND!: The novels that make up Paul Auster's New York Trilogy are notable for their brevity, inclusion of relatively extraneous material, and chronicling the main character's disintegration. In each of the three, the detector (a mystery writer [... more]
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The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
Amazon.ca: Esi Edugyan's atmospheric first novel has all the ingredients of a 1970s horror flick. A mild-mannered civil servant inherits a rambling old house in the country from a mysterious uncle. Convinced that this is his second chance, he quits his [... more]
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Kila Kila Kila
Would you like some Sun Ra with your Amon Duul II?: I expected something different, I suppose, than what I received. Their press characterizes the music such that you expect glistening sheets or sound with small animals peeking through the haze to chirp, [... more]
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Tussie-Mussies: The Language of Flowers
Interesting - Very sweet: This is a very charming book with lots of historical facts as well as beautiful pictures and drawings. The history of the talking bouquet is quite interesting, being influenced from several different countries. Lots of specific [... more]
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Secrets Of Jesuit Soupmaking
Good Soups Great Stories: "There is something so comforting about soup. It touches something deeply rooted in our lives." p. 5 This book is a journey around the work and through the year. The soups are divided into church seasons: Advent, [... more]
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Plant these jewels of the fall garden
Sedum 'Autumn Joy', Japanese anenomes, Perovskia and Monch's asters sparkle in the autumn garden. Until a cooling thunderstorm moved through southern Ontario yesterday, autumn has been more like an extended summer than the herald of winter. Now, ... [... more]
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Go Wild, Plant Natives
Most lists of native plants don't apply to northern New England. Finally a list of tough, hardy natives, that just happen to be beautiful as well. One of the toughest of all New England natives is the New England aster. A native plant that blooms ... [... more]
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The Plantfinder's Guide to Daisies
The aster or daisie family is one of the largest plant families in existence. It comprises 1500 genera with 25000 species. This book describes a selection of those genera. The Asteraceae plant family is sometimes called the "daisy" family. This [... more]
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Harbingers of Fall - Part V - Asters, Part 3
Right now, my garden is frothing with white flowers from the species asters that I grow. I only grow very few of the many that are really worthy of space in the garden. Here are a few more to add to the list of 'must haves'. Right now, my garden ... [... more]
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Ah, the Asters of it All
The arrival of the wild asters of autumn help us hope that they and the honeybees who love them will return if we keep spraying pesticides as is being done in New York now. Will the Asters of Autumn return if we do things like blanket-spraying ... [... more]
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