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Time For A Vine?

Vines deserve more credit. After all, they can be beautiful. They can be extremely effective in providing color and texture. And they can provide privacy quickly in the garden. Moreover, their growth habit is both unusual in terms of the ways they attach themselves to surfaces and amazing in that they can grow up to 60-feet long!

So in my attempt to get more folks to use vines in their gardens, I’ve assembled a list of my favorites.

Monarch Update

At a press conference in Mexico City last January, scientists cheered when the official eastern monarch butterfly population was announced. And with good reason: The numbers were an impressive 144% increase over the previous year, and the highest recorded since 2006. At the same time, however, it was announced that the California western monarch population had declined by a stunning 86%. So what gives?