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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
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Leaping into horticulture boots first.
About Me
- Heather
- A professional horticulturist, I'm not afraid to take chances with gardening. These are my adventures in gardening, musings on the natural world, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
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water water everywhere
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writing
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Dutch elm disease
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I'm done with winter
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Yeats
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a little solar flair
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a thousand miniature suns
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aesculus
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all the hydrangeas
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allium
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anemone are awesome
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ant candy
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architecture treasures
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ash
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autumn blaze
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autumn gold
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autumnal fragrance
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awakening earth
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baby mantis so fierce
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baby oaks
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bald cypress ballet
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bamboo
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beach pebbles
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beaches
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beacons
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bearded iris
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beautiful beads in the freezing cold
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beautiful death
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beauty every day
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bee heaven
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beech tree singing
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bees
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beneficial plants
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berries in snow
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big boomers
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big fat caterpillars
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big shrubs
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big sky
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biggest koi ever
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bird sanctuary
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birdie
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bittersweet is both bitter and sweet
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black swallowtail
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black-eyed susans
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blossom fireworks
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blowing snow
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blue pearl
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blue rug juniper
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blue skies
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bluestem
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botany photo of the day
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boulders
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boxwood bloom
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bug haven
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bug photos
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bumblebees
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bundle up
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bunnies are evil
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butterflies
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butterflies are tricky
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cabbage as art
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camassia scilloides
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cantigny
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carex
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catalogs galore
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catch a leaf
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caterpillars are cool
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celebrating the blues
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celtis occidentalis
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cercis canadensis mn strain
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certified arborist
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chicago botanic garden
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chicago flower and garden show
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china snow lilac
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chipmunks got a few too
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chives
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christmas trees
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cleanup
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clematis failures
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clematis terniflora
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climate change is a cruel mistress
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clouds are cool
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collect with permission
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composite flowers
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compost happens
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connecting to the world
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construction damage
(1)
contorted filberts are cool
(1)
craig bergmann
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crazy pond guys
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cream beauty
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crocus
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croquet
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crows are cool
(1)
curly willow
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daffodils
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dagger moth
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damn plants
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dead things
(1)
decisions
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decomposers
(1)
deer
(1)
desk bouquet
(1)
dodecatheon
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don't mess with the crab spider
(1)
don't think about cutting down that rose bush
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dreaming of plants
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eab can suck it
(1)
early blooms
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elegant badass
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elegant buds
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emerald ash borer
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every day longer
(1)
evil bunnies
(1)
farewell to granny
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farnsworth house
(1)
fathers
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fennel
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fibonacci spirals
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field trips in winter
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fin
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finally frozen
(1)
five senses of fall
(1)
flickering flames of flowers
(1)
flooding
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flower ghosts
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flower structure
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flowers flowers flowers
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flurries
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folk tales
(1)
following critters
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forsythia
(1)
fortress landscaping
(1)
fraxinus
(1)
freeman maples
(1)
fun with bugs
(1)
fuzzy plants
(1)
garden family traditions
(1)
garden postcards
(1)
garden surprises
(1)
garden takes creativity
(1)
garden walk with fish
(1)
get out of the house and go learn
(1)
get outside
(1)
ghost stories
(1)
gimmie shelter
(1)
go climb a tree
(1)
going native
(1)
good news or bad news
(1)
goodbye old friends?
(1)
granite
(1)
grass is better in small patches
(1)
grassy
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grow little guys
(1)
grow your own
(1)
growing trees just for the heck of it
(1)
halloween trees
(1)
hansa
(1)
harbingers of spring
(1)
haunted prairie
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haunted trees
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haunted woods
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haunted yews
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hawk
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heirloom plants
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hellebore
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hello yellow
(1)
herb gardens are nifty
(1)
herbs are easy
(1)
herbs for fun
(1)
herbs in winter
(1)
here birdie
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hetz junipers are pretty
(1)
hiding in the garden
(1)
hiding your neighbors even if you love them
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hill's oak
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hippeastrum
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holding on to leaves
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honeylocust
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houseplant antics
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houseplants are not for sissies
(1)
hydrangea care
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hydrangea pruning
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hypnotic winter
(1)
i dream dark dreams of beeches
(1)
i kill plants
(1)
i love my neighbors but i don't want to see them all the time
(1)
i need palm trees
(1)
i will not kill this one i swear
(1)
i'll just prune it and keep it small
(1)
i'll let go when i'm good and ready
(1)
i'm a plant killer
(1)
i've got a sunny windowsill
(1)
ice dance
(1)
ice magic
(1)
icy juniper
(1)
illinois sunset
(1)
invasives in your backyard
(1)
iris
(1)
iris Katherine Hodgkin
(1)
it is too spring
(1)
it's ok to be aggressive
(1)
january rain
(1)
janustory wrap up
(1)
japanese beetles
(1)
july flowers
(1)
june perfume
(1)
just relax and enjoy fall
(1)
katsuratree
(1)
kaufmanniana tulips
(1)
killing pests the eskimo way
(1)
lake Michigan in winter
(1)
lake marmo
(1)
lake michigan
(1)
landscape design
(1)
landscaping
(1)
last roses of the year
(1)
lawn
(1)
lawn alternative
(1)
layers
(1)
leave your perennials alone
(1)
lily of the valley
(1)
linneaus
(1)
little bluestem
(1)
long winter nights
(1)
longing for spring
(1)
loves me a lightning show
(1)
lustron house
(1)
magical dew
(1)
magnolia
(1)
mailman nightmares
(1)
maple woods
(1)
marcescence
(1)
marmo
(1)
math in nature
(1)
meidiland
(1)
memories
(1)
microcosms
(1)
milkweed
(1)
miscanthus
(1)
missouri botanic
(1)
misty winter
(1)
mmmmm rose hips
(1)
monarch
(1)
moonrise
(1)
more and more iris
(1)
mother nature on hold
(1)
muscari
(1)
mushrooms
(1)
mysterious black orchids
(1)
mystery plants
(1)
name that plant
(1)
natives for insects
(1)
nature sings its own tune
(1)
nearly wild
(1)
negatives are good for you
(1)
neighborhood trees
(1)
new dawn
(1)
new dawn rose
(1)
new year
(1)
nifty bugs
(1)
nifty caterpillars
(1)
norfolk pine
(1)
northwind perennial
(1)
november rain
(1)
oak trees
(1)
oaks
(1)
october is for flowers
(1)
off and running
(1)
oh alice where are you?
(1)
old doorway
(1)
old garden roses
(1)
old-fashioned beauties
(1)
oregon state landscape plants
(1)
osage orange
(1)
out of room
(1)
owls
(1)
painted sunsets
(1)
paphiopedilum
(1)
paphiopedilum orchid
(1)
parkway trees
(1)
paths
(1)
patterns
(1)
pausing for petals
(1)
peegee hydrangea
(1)
personal jungles
(1)
pierre magnol
(1)
piet oudolf
(1)
pink flowers
(1)
pink madness
(1)
pipevine swallowtail
(1)
places to go when it's snowing
(1)
plant a tree
(1)
plant collecting
(1)
plant derivitives are delicious in the form o rum
(1)
plant it for the planet
(1)
plant sales
(1)
planting trees in crap soil
(1)
plants as fiber art
(1)
plants in snow
(1)
playing with color
(1)
playing with plants
(1)
plot twist
(1)
pointless landscape practices
(1)
polar vortex
(1)
pond tour
(1)
ponderosa lemon
(1)
poor planting
(1)
potting soil
(1)
prairie burn
(1)
prairie flowers
(1)
prairie moon
(1)
prairie sculpture
(1)
prairie sky
(1)
prairie thunderstorm
(1)
predator insects
(1)
pretty thugs
(1)
primose path
(1)
primroses
(1)
procrastinating bulb planting
(1)
pruning ulmus
(1)
puerto rico
(1)
purple crocus for spring sanity
(1)
purple prose
(1)
queen anne's lace
(1)
quercus
(1)
rain lashed
(1)
recipes
(1)
reclaimed ash wood
(1)
redbud for remembrance
(1)
remember when it was green?
(1)
removal
(1)
resolutions
(1)
rosa glauca
(1)
rose propagation
(1)
rosemary happiness
(1)
roses are cool
(1)
roses for all
(1)
saying goodbye
(1)
scilla
(1)
screening
(1)
sea foam
(1)
sears kit house
(1)
sedum
(1)
seed dispersal
(1)
seeing trees differently
(1)
sensation lilac
(1)
sensuality of seasonality
(1)
sentimental lilac
(1)
september flowers
(1)
shadows
(1)
shimmery
(1)
shoveling is my favorite aerobic exercise
(1)
siberian iris
(1)
simple recipes
(1)
small wonders
(1)
snags
(1)
snowbound
(1)
snowdrop surprise
(1)
snowdrops for remembrance
(1)
snowed in
(1)
snowpocalypse
(1)
soaked in sunshine
(1)
solidago at dawn
(1)
solitary spiders
(1)
sometimes you just need a flower
(1)
spider lovelies
(1)
spider rules
(1)
spooky trees
(1)
spring foods
(1)
spring gone haywire
(1)
spring is all consuming
(1)
spring subtlety
(1)
spruces in the right spot
(1)
spruces in the wrong spot
(1)
starry beauties
(1)
stop and smell the roses
(1)
stories we tell
(1)
storm damage
(1)
stubborness of plants and humans
(1)
stumps
(1)
sugar maple
(1)
sum up
(1)
summer flowers
(1)
summer resources equal spring beauty
(1)
summer trees
(1)
sunny gardens galore
(1)
sunshine on my shoulder
(1)
sustainability at work
(1)
swallowtails everywhere
(1)
swapping out in season
(1)
sweet autumn clematis
(1)
syringa lacinata
(1)
take a breath
(1)
taxonomy fun
(1)
teardowns come to us all
(1)
techny arborvitae
(1)
tenacious bulbs
(1)
terrariums
(1)
texture
(1)
the colder it gets the happier I am
(1)
the end is nigh
(1)
the risk of freebies
(1)
the story continues
(1)
the white stuff
(1)
things that make horticulturists wonder
(1)
thinking outside the box
(1)
thumbnail moon
(1)
tiger swallowtails
(1)
tomato gorgeousness
(1)
tomato victory
(1)
tough but lovely
(1)
transplanting
(1)
tree hunting
(1)
tree lilacs
(1)
tree man
(1)
tree places
(1)
tree practices that make me crazy
(1)
tree pruning
(1)
tree wrap in winter
(1)
trees
(1)
trees in snow
(1)
trees run strong in my family
(1)
trekking
(1)
trillium
(1)
tropics
(1)
tropics in winter
(1)
troubled waters
(1)
u of i extension
(1)
ulmus davidiana
(1)
umbrella magnolia
(1)
unforeseen treasures
(1)
vanhoutte spiraea
(1)
viburnum bailey compact
(1)
viburnum borer
(1)
vines
(1)
volo bog
(1)
waiting for snow
(1)
walking in a winter wonderland
(1)
walking iris
(1)
walks in the forest
(1)
weed if you must
(1)
weeding friends
(1)
what i may have killed
(1)
what? you didn't start the lettuce yet?
(1)
where is spring?
(1)
whimsy
(1)
white pine
(1)
who wants a tree?
(1)
who wants some seed?
(1)
wild ginger
(1)
wildflowers
(1)
windowsill herb gardening
(1)
winter be damned
(1)
winter blossoms
(1)
winter color
(1)
winter ghosts
(1)
winter hauntings
(1)
winter interest
(1)
winter is here at last
(1)
winter nights
(1)
winter paths
(1)
winter sky
(1)
winter storms
(1)
winter tales
(1)
winter thaw
(1)
winter weariness
(1)
winter weightedness
(1)
witch hazel
(1)
witchhazel
(1)
wonderful friends
(1)
writing experiments
(1)
yellow flowers
(1)
yellow orchids are winter sunshine
(1)
yews
(1)
you can too grow roses
(1)
zen
(1)