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		<title>Indoor plants as air filters </title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Greenophilic: Indoor plants not only look great, they can also help clear your house of common environmental pollutants. Using indoor plants to clear the air There&#8217;s nothing quite like the scent of forest air &#8211; the real thing, not an air freshener . While some of that lovely earthy scent is due to &#8230; <a href="http://globalchirp.com/2012/04/14/2131/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalchirp.com&amp;blog=11498297&amp;post=2131&amp;subd=gardenalmanac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Magnolia Blossoms?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My magnolia tree is not covered with the beautiful open white blossoms that I love. There are fewer buds, mainly at the top of the tree, and few have opened this year.  I was beginning to think it might be diseased since it is so much less productive than last year. Standing outside this morning &#8230; <a href="http://globalchirp.com/2012/04/13/where-are-the-magnolia-blossoms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalchirp.com&amp;blog=11498297&amp;post=2127&amp;subd=gardenalmanac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Just One Caterpillar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I checked the oleander plants to find not just one but several of the polka-dot wasp moth caterpillars, At this stage though they are commonly called the oleander caterpillar (Syntomeida epilais). As you can see from the photos below, they eat the entire leaf and can easily strip the leaves of an oleander bush in &#8230; <a href="http://globalchirp.com/2012/04/12/never-just-one-caterpillar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalchirp.com&amp;blog=11498297&amp;post=2123&amp;subd=gardenalmanac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Polka-Dot Wasp Moth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lovely visitor, Syntomeida epilais commonly called the polka-dot wasp moth or oleander moth, is sitting on a Christmas cactus on the patio. I hadn&#8217;t seen one before, so I took the photo and then researched to see what it is. I learned it is unusual in that it emits a sonic sound to attract &#8230; <a href="http://globalchirp.com/2012/04/07/my-polka-dot-wasp-moth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalchirp.com&amp;blog=11498297&amp;post=2102&amp;subd=gardenalmanac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compost Container Vegetable Gardening</title>
		<link>http://globalchirp.com/2012/04/06/compost-container-vegetable-gardening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a good week for gardening with warm temperatures and over an inch of rain. I wondered how my tomato plants in the compost bin would do, but the experiment is a success. A week ago, see Compost Gardening Experiment, the plants were just at the top of the chicken wire compost container. &#8230; <a href="http://globalchirp.com/2012/04/06/compost-container-vegetable-gardening/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalchirp.com&amp;blog=11498297&amp;post=2096&amp;subd=gardenalmanac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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