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“Your passion for writing and love for your subjects are important contributions to the human thought bank. My interests in the garden are tangled with the all the human emotions — joy, passion, sorrow, surprise and wonder — and how they affect our lives. I have searched for an outlet to express how I (and others) feel when surrounded by beautiful places. Writing and lecturing may be the outlet. Thanks for interrupting my life and giving me a boost.”
— Michael Schoeller
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A Dogwood By Any Other Name
by Paula Panich Four hundred years ago, almost to the moment, the English botanist and barber-surgeon John Gerarde was cataloguing the plants in his garden. In a corner he saw a dogwood, and mused over its many names – “Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Dogs berry tree, Pricke-timber . . . Gater tree.” But what could [...]



