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Horticultural architecture

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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Elephant’s Ear  Alocasia macrorrhiza … Plants are often feats and triumphs of fantastic design. Leica M10 with/35mm Cron.

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Plant Blindness

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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From my favorite newspaper The Wall Street Journal The country has a growing case of ‘plant blindness’—a term used by botanists to describe the inability to identify basic plants. Even biologists struggle.” Douglas Belkin Aug. 14, 2018 11:17 a.m. ET … Continue reading →

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Prickly Pear( Opuntia) With Portulaca

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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Several years ago I bought a pad of Prickly Pear (Opuntia sp.) at the fresh produce “Mexican Section” of an area grocery store and rooted it in a 1/2 pot. It has been happy as a meadowlark even though it … Continue reading →

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Flowering Crab Apple

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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Flowering Crab Apple   Malus spp. I do not know the name of this cultivar. There are hundreds of species and hybrids. This double flowered version is, I seem to remember,  a French hybrid. There is a native East Texas species- Malus angustifolia. Crab … Continue reading →

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Little Botanical Jewels

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Jeff Abt
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Dawn Stover up at the SFA Gardens gave me three, small pots of these little botanical jewels. As she handed them to me she said, “Watch them; tell me what you think. They are native right here in Nacogdoches!“ This … Continue reading →

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Thankful Coming and Going

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Jeff Abt
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It’s been a tough year. As you dig through the year, it seems like there’s been trouble and heartache in layer after layer. Sometimes the soil has been rocky, sometimes dry and hard. Other times it’s been overly soggy and … Continue reading →

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A movie For Some Cold Winter Evening

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Jeff Abt
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“Glorious salvia which keep going until the first frost takes them.” We had wonderful rains this past week. I hardly stirred outside the whole day. A trip out to the mailbox in my Wellies was just about my only contact … Continue reading →

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Dahlias…slipping in and out of my life.

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Jeff Abt
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Plants, like people, come and go in our lives. Sometimes an odd jostling of our memories bring back to us people and plants we had forgotten. So, last week when we talked about zinnias, mentioning that some are known as … Continue reading →

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A White Garden

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Jeff Abt
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I saw the most beautiful, white garden the other day in Lexington, Kentucky. It was inspiring to put it mildly. I wanted to go home and plant white stuff in my little walled garden. The garden is so small that … Continue reading →

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