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Poetry In And Of The Garden
The New York Botanical Garden's exhibition on Emily Dickison's life, poetry and garden is called "The Poetry of Flowers," and just the thought of it transports me into something of a rapture. And now...
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Adieu, Little Brown Bats... Hello, Mosquitoes
I noticed two bats flying around our backyard shortly after dusk last night. That used to be a fairly common sight at our place on summer evenings, but last night it was a particularly welcome sight,...
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The Telegraph reports that more than 1,200 new species of animals and plants have been discovered in the Amazon in the past decade -- a new species every three days -- including a bald parrot, a...
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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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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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