Member profile for BotanicalBrain
 Gardening since 1973
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I'm a professional horticulturist, garden writer, photographer, kitchen gardener, botanist, mother, and traveler. Gardening is a longtime family past-time that I first learned as a child and continues to ground me.
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Mid-Atlantic Garden Retreat Wilmington, DE
I have many diverse gardens at my home landscape as well as a community garden plot where I grow vegetables.
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Working Mom's Vegetable Garden Wilmington, DE
I grow food to feed my family and teach my kids. We preserve as much as we are able for the winter months when average grocery store veggies taste like card board.
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Other Gardens of Renown and Not-So-Renown Wilmington, DE
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Jessie's Mid-Atlantic Veggie Patch Wilmington, DE
Each year I grow at least 15 new varieties while hanging on to tried and true cultivars I cannot live without. This garden story will focus on new additions, most notably heirlooms.
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Our Grounds Des Moines, IAOrnamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...
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East Texas Linden, TX
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RoriTx
We grow,can or freeze 90% of all the vegetables we eat. I've decided to start saving our own seeds so this year we will plant as many heirloom varieties as we can.Breaking News:Facebook you've been replaced!
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Ramos' Disorganized Garden Floresville, TX
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Clenram
The success of our gardening has been great, with some disappointments due to the learning curve. We are learning what we can do when we have 4 months of temperatures over 100 and no rain. Our soil is all sand! We...
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Little House In Midtown Sacramento, CA
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Katrina
In 2008 we moved to our home in the middle of one of Sacramento's oldest neighborhood. The backyard was overgrown and unkempt. We began the slow process of removing old dying trees and weeds. A shovel at a time we leveled...
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Bohemian Garden Monroe, MI
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Liz
My vegetable garden is getting a makeover this year! Not only will I be growing more heirlooms, but the area where they will be growing will have a Bohemian flair.....colorful, artsy, fun, and perhaps a bit of the...
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The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Austin, TXFounded in 1982 by the Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hays, The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin displays 650 species of native Texas plants on 12 acres of cultivated meadows and...
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Mt. Cuba Center Wilmington, DE
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amt27
Mt. Cuba Center is a non-profit horticultural institution in northern Delaware located on nearly 600 acres.
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Your Entomolo-Garden Oakland, CAWelcome to the Insect News Network on YourGardenShow! The I.N.N. travels the globe to learn how people think and feel about our 6- and 8-legged friends. The I.N.N. is a non-stop, multi-media interdisciplinary plunge...
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YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA
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The-Busy-Bee
YourGardenShow.com - the social network for gardeners, by gardeners
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| Favorite gardening books: | RHS Dictionary of Gardening |
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| Favorite vegetable: | Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant |
| Favorite flower: | Cool obscure ones, xerics, fun new veggies, gourds and squash, hardy cacti |
| Favorite tree / shrub: | Cool obscure ones |
| Gardening organizations: | Local community garden, Local Botanical garden, Local Arboretum, School garden project, Local conservation group, Garden Writers Association, American Community Garden Association, American Horticulture Society, and Other |
| Favorite park / arboreteum: | Longwood Gardens, Chanticleer, Morton Arboretum, Morris Arboretum |
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