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	<title>Gardening Tips for the Santa Cruz Mountains</title>
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		<title>Tough Succulents &amp; other Plants for Containers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have hundreds of plants in containers (295 at last count). You&#8217;d be amazed how many pots you can squeeze on a wrap-around deck, including the railings! Some of my favorites are those that house my succulent collection. I&#8217;ve come to think of them as pets as they grow over the years. They are tough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s coming. You can feel it. When school starts, Indian Summer usually starts, too, and it won&#8217;t be long before we&#8217;ll be basking in lots of sunshine. Fall is just around the corner and most flowering perennials and annuals will continue to bloom until Halloween and maybe into November if the weather cooperates. My garden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jannelsonlandscapedesign.com/?p=525</link>
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		<title>Deer Resistant and Beautiful,too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m standing just inside my screen door watching a young doe and her fawn browse on plants that are suppose to be &#34;deer resistant&#34;. They are only about 5 ft from me and not really doing much damage yet. I see deer all the time but I confess, I am mesmerized. The fawn is so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jannelsonlandscapedesign.com/?p=522</link>
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		<title>Spider Mites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a good question If you notice the leaves on some of your plants appear stippled or flecked with pale dots and have fine webbing, especially on the undersides, you have a spider mite infestation. These pests thrive during dry weather and their populations can get out of hand by August. Mites puncture plant cells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jannelsonlandscapedesign.com/?p=519</link>
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		<title>Planting Cool Season Vegetables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August is a month of transition in the garden. Some plants like dahlias and crape myrtles&#160; are in full glory while others are starting to wind down. If you look closely, dormant flower and leaf buds are just starting to form on lilacs, rhododendrons and camellias. Seems we&#8217;re still waiting for summer it&#8217;s been so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bouquets from Your own Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A gardener&#8217;s life:&#160; water, prune, plant, rake, weed, stake. Repeat as necessary. Then smell the roses, harvest the vegetables and It&#8217;s great to be out in the garden among your beautiful plants. Reward yourself and bring the outside in. Have you ever seen the spectacular arrangements made weekly for the mansion at Filoli Gardens in [...]]]></description>
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