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Northwest Gardener • By Nancy Chennault • Like many communities, the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce organizes a clean-up event each spring. Last year, volunteers planted the southern entrance beds, known as “The Islands,” with hundreds of bubblegum-pink petunias. It was this display which gave Castle Rock the motivation to really think BIG for 2012. And the recent renovation of the main street through the business district sparked local business owners and community leaders’ desire to enhance the downtown with new landscaping, floral displays and hanging baskets
30 Jul 15:16
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Northwest Gardener • By Nancy Chennault • A few minutes planting a selection of perennial lilies will give you arm-loads of sweetly fragrant blossoms for many years. Enjoy them as cut flower bouquets and on your daily stroll through your garden. They are truly stunning.
28 May 21:47
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By Greg Smith • The last half of May and the first half on June will bring us some very impressive daytime sky shows. The first will be a partial eclipse of the sun.. . The second major event is one of a lifetime. Venus will put on a fantastic show this June as it catches up and bypasses Earth in its orbit. It will cross in front of the Sun, in what is called a “transit,” on Tuesday June 5, starting around 3 pm (PDT) and lasting through sunset. The last time it did this was eight years ago on June 8, 2004, but prior to that it was in 1882, and it will not happen again until your (great) great grandchildren see it in December of 2117! This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
19 May 14:52
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By Laura Baird • Did those April showers bring your May flowers? Are you well on your way to having red, juicy, vine-ripened tomatoes? Whether you enjoy gardening, or just want to enjoy the fruits and veggies of someone else’s labor, you’re in luck. . .
18 May 14:05
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Story & Photos by Nancy Chennault • As the early spring rains persist, it is not easy to visualize the beauty of blooming baskets, swinging gently in the summer’s breeze. However, within bright greenhouses, hanging gardens of every conceivable cultivar, combination and color are being nurtured. Tenderly grown and groomed, they are destined to become thoughtful gifts, lovingly showered on mothers throughout the world.
25 Apr 20:46
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Northwest Gardener by Nancy Chennault • The challenge in growing clematis is not in the cultivation, but the selection. You will find that your singleton clematis can quite innocently become a collection. And when your enthusiasm becomes an obsession you will be continuously looking skyward for yet another structure on which to grow them.
17 Apr 13:43
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By Greg Smith • Use your spotting scope to see the rings of Saturn. You will be able to see the division in the rings ,as well. It is one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system. You do not need a fancy telescope to view Saturn or many of the celestial objects in the sky, because you already have one. What else is a spotting scope but a telescope?
15 Apr 14:38
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By Nancy Chennault • Make this the year you pledge to “make over” the unruly Japanese Maple. Its appearance will dramatically improve and so will its health.
15 Feb 19:14
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STORY & PHOTO BY NANCY CHENNAULT • Hopefully you have lived with your clematis long enough to know when it blooms. This knowledge is of ultimate importance and the pruning steps you take are dependent upon that information. If you can’t remember when it blooms, but know the variety of clematis, enter that name into any Internet search engine and find specific bloom times for each cultivar. With no name and no history of bloom time, the options would be to (1) Wait for heavy pruning until next year, (observing the bloom cycle in 2012); or (2) Cut the vines back to 18-24 inches and then document the bloom time for future reference.
15 Jan 16:23
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As Christmas week unfolds, dear readers; slow down, take a deep breath and make time to enjoy the wonderful opportunities that are outside your doorstep or inside your home. . .
23 Dec 10:10
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