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The New Wild Garden
As summer winds down, my already relaxed gardening habits become even more lackadaisacal, and suddenly I notice that the weeds are winning and the shrubs need trimming. The offhand loveliness I...
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Interlopers In The Garden
Multiflora rose. Phragmites. Oriental bittersweet. Japanese Barberry. They're pretty. But they're bullies. Invasive plants are non-native plants that grow around the state, and probably in your own...
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No Wonder Your Eyes Are Bright Red
It's not your imagination. This May is practically off the charts for tree pollen. Bill Weir has the story. Click here. Sample of tree pollen as seen under a microscope, collected by Waterbury...
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Bugs, Birds, Blossoms: Biodiversity's Crucial Connections
When Douglas Tallamy was 9, he and his family moved into a new subdivision in Berkeley Heights, N.J. It was called Oak Park, he said, "because oaks were what they knocked down to develop it." The lot...
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Tragedy For Eagle Cam
UPDATE: The father bird reappeared at about 6:46 p.m. For weeks now, several of my colleagues here at The Courant have been avidly watching the activity at a nest holding three baby bald eagles in the...
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Native Plants Advocate Speaks Thursday: A 'Call To Arms'
He's been called a tree hugger -- in the best sense of the word. Douglas Tallamy, whose 2007 book, "Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants," earned him almost a cultish...
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Underwater, But In A Breathtaking Way
In this era of housing woes, the word "underwater" has taken on an unfortunate connotation. Here, as something of a corrective to that bandying about of the word, are the world's best underwater...
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Fired Up: A Reprise Of Autumn Color
Margaret Roach has several lovely slide shows of autumn foliage at her A Way To Garden blog. With the end of daylight savings time, our first brush with snow and the waning of fall's brilliant show,...
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Maya Lin - Unchopping a Tree from What is Missing? Foundation on Vimeo. Earlier today Steve Silk posted Maya Lin's video on his Clatter Valley blog -- as he says, if only it was this easy.
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Over The Fence Q&A: He's Bugged By Daddy Longlegs
Walter Aniskoff, who lives in Windsor, says he has been inundated this summer with Daddy Longlegs around the entrance to his house. He called me, wondering how to get rid of them. His house, about 125...
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