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The Mediterranean Climate: Where Summer is Winter, by Kelli Kallenborn

We think of winter as a time of cold weather. As gardeners, we also think of it as a time when plants stop growing or greatly reduce their rate of growth. It is usually the most difficult time in terms of plant survival. This sounds like November through February for much of the northern hemisphere, but it also describes summer in the mediterranean climate zones of the world. To plants native to the climate, the hot, dry summer is the challange. Summer is winter.

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Dudleyas: California's Native Succulent Gems, by Geoff Stein

This article is an introduction to Dudleyas, a genus of succulents native to California and the surrounding states and Mexico, that is a wonderful group of plants for landscaping and for pot culture.

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PLANTFILES:

PlantFiles: Honeysuckle 'Gold Flame' (Lonicera x heckrottii)

Honeysuckle 'Gold Flame'

(Lonicera x heckrottii)

I have grown Goldflame for years, both in the mountains on northern CA and the heat and humidity of OK. It's my favorite...
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Breck's Bulbs

Review by HouseofFlowers:

This was my first time ordering from Breck's. I have received gifts from others that were shipped directly and had positive...
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BIRDFILES:

BirdFiles: Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)

Solitary Sandpiper

(Tringa solitaria)

Like the name says, this bird tends to forage alone. Wading slowly it will vibrate the forward foot to stir up the bottom...
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BugFiles: Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

Comma Butterfly

(Polygonia c-album)

Almost extinct in the UK at one point, the Comma made a come back by changing the food plant for its larvae from hops to...
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Garden Spot

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Three stars only because I've only driven by--not gone in and shopped. They moved to the old G&G nursery site on Rock Blvd....
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GARDEN BOOKWORM:

Gardening Book: A Southern Garden

A Southern Garden

Review by moonstrucklady:

When I used to live in Raleigh NC (not 1/2 mile from where Elizabeth Lawrence lived), I used this book like a "garden Bible"....
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Do you need help identifying a plant, bug or bird? Check out the plant and tree identification, insect identification forum, and the bird identification forum. Or browse the PlantFiles, BugFiles and BirdFiles databases, where you'll find information on more than 160,000 plants and thousands of insects and spiders.

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We invite you to sign up and join our community, and share what you know! Here at Dave's Garden, you can create your own blog, upload photos for free, or use our tools to trade seeds and plants.

Since 2000, we've grown to be a comprehensive gardening community with discussion forums for every hobby, home and garden topic you can imagine. Our members are knowledgeable about soil, weather, watering, and just about every kind of plant and insect. On behalf of all our members, we are glad you came to visit, and we hope you will stop by again soon!

TODAY IN THE FORUMS

Tough one for me....

Found this in the back of my garden. Don't want to yank it out in fear its something cool. Can anyone ID? The "spiky" one has been there a while. The rest is new. The second IC looks like plantains to me....not sure.
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  Today in history: May 22  
0000: Today's Hortiscope: Everyone has a hidden talent and may need a little encouragement to draw it out. Consider the asparagus fern. Did you know it will climb with a little support?

1902: Crater Lake in Oregon was dedicated as a national park. It is the deepest lake in the U.S., and seventh-deepest in the world.

1906: William Lanier (Bill) Hunt, American botanist, was born in Pomona, North Carolina. He would become a charter member of the American Rock Garden Society and author of "Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening"; in his later years he donated his 125-acre Hunt Arboretum to the North Carolina Botanical Garden.

1909: The New York Times published the following poem about "dogwood winter" by W.J. Lampton: "Now Jack Frost comes with his nipping airs To take from the Spring his final toll; He looks like Winter, but he always wears A dogwood blossom in his buttonhole." Read more here.

1947: New Hampshire's governor Charles M. Dale, signed the bill designating the white birch (Betula papyrifera) as the official state tree.

1997: The Southern longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) became the official state tree of Alabama.

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