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      <title>Make Use Of Falling Leaves</title>
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      <title>Get It Growing: Arbor Day Approaching; Good Time To Plant Spring-flowering Trees</title>
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      <title>Get It Growing: Camellias Brighten Winter Landscape In South</title>
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      <title>Get It Growing: Plant Roses During Winter For Beautiful Summer Blooms</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(For Release On Or After 01/26/07) Now is an excellent time to consider adding roses to your landscape, so you can enjoy the beautiful blooms this summer. Before you go to the nursery, however, it’s important to think about the type of roses you want to grow so that you make the proper selections. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Ground Covers Are Versatile In The Landscape</title>
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      <title>Prepare Beds Now For Spring Planting</title>
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      <title>Indoor Plants Need Light To Live</title>
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      <title>Prune Roses To Keep Them Vigorous</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/29/07) Most roses need to be pruned every year. Pruning is important on roses such as hybrid teas and grandifloras, and late January is the best time to prune your roses.  (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Preserve Blooms By Pressing Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/29/07) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Dan Gill frequently talks about how to grow flowers, but this time he's talking about how to preserve some of those wonderful flowers you grow. (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Houseplants Bring Benefits To The Home</title>
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      <title>Get It Growing: Now Is Time To Prune; But Don’t Abuse Crape Myrtles</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(For Release On Or After 02/16/07) Now is an appropriate time to prune summer-flowering trees and shrubs, but you should take care to make sure you do it right. Especially in the case of trees, pruning should generally be done to enhance their natural shape while correcting any problems. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Get It Growing: Please Don’t Eat The Daisies; Take Precautions With Poisonous Plants</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(For Release On Or After 02/23/07) Horticulturists don’t often discuss the fact that many of the plants we grow as ornamentals are considered poisonous. After all, cases of people eating poisonous plants are relatively rare, and there is no need to cause the public undue alarm. But there is a need for people – particularly those with children – to be aware that poisonous plants exist in our landscapes and inside our homes and to know how to deal with the situation. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Get It Growing: Gardening With Perennials Can Be Challenging, Fun</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(For Release On Or After 02/09/07) When you finally reach the "been there, done that" stage with the cycle of planting annuals, you might consider that perennials offer exciting challenges and great fun. February is a good time to transplant or divide perennials already in your landscape, and now through April is an excellent time to plant new perennials. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[(For Release On Or After 02/02/07) Most roses will benefit from some pruning now, and some types must be pruned to perform the way we want them to. Hybrid tea and grandiflora roses, in particular, should be pruned every year during the first or second week in February. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Camellias In Bloom And Ready For Planting</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/22/07) Now is a great time to purchase and plant camellias. There are not many plants that are in full bloom during their proper planting time, but camellias are one of those plants. You can choose the camellia variety that has the shape and color flowers that you like. (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Proper Watering Keeps Indoor Plants Healthy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/22/07) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Dan Gill says he often gets questions about watering indoor plants. Watering them too much or not enough both can be problematic for the plant. (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/15/07) Winter is a great time to prune a variety of plants in our landscapes. Do not, however, prune spring-flowering trees and shrubs. But you can prune summer-flowering trees and shrubs. Remember, pruning is optional. Only prune if a plant needs it. (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Plant Irish Potatoes Now For Late-spring Harvest</title>
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      <title>Arbor Day Celebrates The Benefits Of Trees</title>
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      <title>Winter Temperatures Won't Bother Tropical-looking Plant</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/08/07) In the North, plants such as foxgloves and holly hocks are perennials, but here in Louisiana, they are cool-season annuals. Find these plants at your local nursery as soon as you can, and buy them before they bloom. (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Repot Houseplants As They Grow</title>
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      <title>Foliage Puts On Winter Display</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Audio 01/08/07) Three of the most popular plants we grow in our vegetable gardens are tomatoes, eggplants and peppers. Many gardeners buy transplants of these plants in late March or early April. But you can grow them from seeds now. LSU AgCenter horticulturist Dan Gill explains how. (Runtime: 60 seconds) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Wax Myrtles Provide Privacy Screening</title>
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