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Getting Potted

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

A few months back, some may remember my less than salutory review of the book Terrarium Craft and my complaints about the “put a bird on it” sensibility that still infects terrarium design. In the interim, I’ve been collating ideas … Continue reading →

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Contest: Anyone want a free FenCon three-day pass?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

Okay, so FenCon VIII is only 16 days away, and the Triffid Ranch booth in the dealer’s room should be quite full. At least, that’s the idea, and the variety of plants available depends upon whether or not our relative … Continue reading →

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No Sleep ’til FenCon

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

And now that the heat is finally breaking and the air finally smells like something other than burning flint, it’s time to talk about the rest of the year in North Texas. If things go well, they’ll go quiet between … Continue reading →

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Books and Gardens and Stuff: The Lies Our Parents Tell Us About Gardening

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Billy Goodnick, but he’s a Santa Barbara garden designer best known for his Crimes Against Horticulture listings of particularly inappropriate or borderline offensive of trees, shrubs, and other boundary plants. … Continue reading →

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Contest: The Saga of the Joey Box Continues

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

Just as a friendly reminder, the Joey Box contest is still open, and you still have 14 days to enter. Look at it as getting an item in the mail that isn’t accumulations of school supplies.

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Contest: The Saga of the Joey Box

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

The addiction started half my life ago, when I was a beginning film critic for a long-forgotten science fiction magazine at the end of the Eighties. I started up a friendship with one Joey Shea, better known as “Joey Zone,” … Continue reading →

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