Chicagoland Gardening Columns
2008

 

 

 

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January / February 2008

Beyond Extreme Makeovers

Well, here we are again. Funny how Jan. 1st rolls around about this time every year. It's almost a pattern. Depending on circumstances, I'm guessing that some of you are...

A) looking out at the remnants of the Great Blizzard of '08 and laughing about all of the earnest prognostications about global warming.
B) looking out, horrified, at the blooming roses in your yard while writing donation checks to Al Gore.



March / April 2008

Ark de Disaster

The ultimate definition of an optimist may very well be a person who looks out at a mass of brown, smushed foliage; twisted, broken, defoliated branches; and lumpy, gray-green lawn and says,

"Yup. Looks like it's going to be a good gardening season."

Who are these people?



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May / June 2008


 


July / August

MacGregor Redux

"Hey, where's Stinky?"
"Mmmphrgbl?"
"Stinky!"
"Phbbmmrrggnndr."
"Didn't your mama ever teach you not to talk with your mouth full?"
"Nrrp."