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Just wondering if anything can be done for our May Day trees, which two moose stripped of bark on Sunday. ... The bark has been stripped all the way to the ground from a height of about 7 feet.
JEFF LOWENFELS
One of the trends I notice while traveling is the exponential growth in the popularity of sudoku. Take the walk down the aisle to the bathroom. Is half the flight to Seattle working on sudoku puzzles? Another large percentage does crosswords.
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We ask Ciscoe about everything
Ciscoe Morris will be one of the guest speakers at the Master Gardeners Conference on Friday and Saturday at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Ready, set -- squirrel's ears!
I pulled out one of my old calendars at random: In 2003, leaf-out day was May 1. By that standard, we are, indeed, late, but the leaves will open after the next rain -- or so I keep telling myself.
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Last week’s trip to Homer was not all snowed out. Part of the reason for the trip was to take in alpine plantsman Harry Jans’ talk, “Plant Hunting on the Roof of the World — Tibet.”
JEFF LOWENFELS
Here is a question every gardener would normally be asking this time of year but for record snowfalls, as was the case last weekend: Do I really need to fertilize my gardens and lawn?
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A call to gardeners to find out what's growing brought in these answers. I am so impressed with the lengths Alaskans are willing to go.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Well before I arrived in Alaska, I learned that Memorial Day weekend was the traditional time to plant gardens here. I don't know if I picked up that fact from the copy of Lenore Hedla's first gardening book, which my mother gave me when she finally accepted the fact of my move thousands of miles from the family gardens, or from something I read elsewhere, perhaps in Alaska magazine.
JEFF LOWENFELS
OK, enough with the jokes about my column last week, which went to the editors before last Wednesday's snowfall. It just goes to show that you can write all you want about Mother Nature, but you sure can't control it. Hopefully -- and I guess I am going way out on a limb again -- today will find us with a fully or at least partially exposed lawn.
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Municipal gardeners get ready to plant
Amy Hubbard has been a gardener with the Municipality of Anchorage for 22 years.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Right now, in between the late-season snows, your lawn is trying to wake up. No doubt, so is your inner "yardener," who has been resting all winter.
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Garden writer Lee Reich started his keynote speech, "My Weedless Garden," at the Alaska Botanical Garden annual meeting last week with an "homage" to weeds.
JEFF LOWENFELS
I know spring is here when readers tell me their plants are all of a sudden doing much better. Mother Nature may tease us from day to day, but Father Time is advancing the hours of daylight without fail. Houseplants, not to mention outdoor spring bulbs, are telling us that spring is here.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Author to headline spring garden events
It's the perfect weekend to meet and learn from one of my favorite garden writers, Lee Reich.
JEFF LOWENFELS
The fragrance given off by cottonwood buds as they open up in early spring is made into a mixture called balm of Gilead.
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Earthworms aren't always our friends
Who would have thought that earthworms could be considered bad, exotic or invasive? Certainly not me, and I bet you didn't think so either.
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Hyacinth bulbs deliver a late-winter surprise
We've been without outside color to speak of for so long that for sanity's sake I decided to try to space out six hyacinth blooms until spring.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Forget, forgive -- and buy locally
I am not much for poetry, but a recent post on a garden writers online list hit home with this gardener and is worth reading by all Alaska practitioners of the soil arts. It is from a little 1893 poem by Rudyard Kipling about, of all things, mail-order gardening:
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I'm looking for shrubbery that could be used to line a driveway and line one's property that would keep out critters and onlookers.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Get started on your garden without leaving the house
We finally have enough daylight to start working on this year's gardens. There are a couple of chores and a few plants that can keep gardeners busy, albeit indoors, in early March.
SLIDE SHOW
LaDonna Russell, who suffers from dementia, participates in the "Museum Memories" art therapy program.
CONTEST
Enter a teen with talent in music, dance, theater, or visual arts and they could win a Nintendo DS Lite or iPod.
Whimsy is fine, but the TV set belongs indoors
Notes from the Seattle garden show
Killer tips for coaxing carnivores
Your lovely Valentine roses are likely chemical bombs
Intrepid Willow gardener generous with knowledge
Dig deeper into soil life with new book
Organics, designer flowers top national garden trends
Colorful Web sites encourage garden daydreams to flower
Sit back and open the laptop; it's time for catalog browsing
Topiary is hot -- but not here
Worthy online sites edge out 'must-have' garden catalogs
Healing garden helped to heal its creator
It's time to unearth garden questions from the mailbag
Les Brake happily tends ice garden
Web is abloom with humor for gardeners
Gardeners remember favorite gifts
Gift ideas for the grower you love
Green thumbs might want to get hopping
Many plants will bloom with low light
'Ice and Fire': an excerpt Winter Magic
Gardener isn't ready to rely solely on icky moose repellent
Indoor gardeners shouldn't take advice from Outside strangers
Houseplants attract house bugs
Bizarre November weather almost leaves me speechless
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