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		<title>The Best Camera</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an oft-repeated saying among photographers that the best camera is the one you have with you. In March, I went on a fabulous photo workshop in Charleston with two first-class photographers and teachers, Alan Sislen and Colleen Henderson.  I took along my new Nikon D600 and soon I&#8217;ll share some of the photos I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4294&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glowing Embers &#8211; A Winning Japanese Maple for Sun</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/glowing-embers-a-winning-japanese-maple-for-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 02:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many readers know, a couple of years ago I had to take down a gorgeous crabapple tree in my front yard that was failing. And because I also had lost a 90-foot beech tree shortly before, on the other side of the front yard, the site had turned from shade to fiercely sunny. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4278&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Artist Down the Road</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/an-artist-down-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early March, the day of our &#8220;kick-off&#8221; meeting of all the crews and staff at Landscape Projects&#8217; Poolesville, MD location, the other designers and I took a small road trip. Two miles away from our company&#8217;s physical plant, in Beallsville, sits Alden Farms, a local annuals-and-perennials garden center that happens to be owned by an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4232&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hinoki Falsecypress &#8211; Gold for the Garden</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/the-hinoki-falsecypress-gold-for-the-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society announced its most recent Gold Medal Awards for garden plants. I was excited to see that my own excellent taste in plants had been validated by the inclusion of Chaemacyparis obtusa &#8216;Nana&#8217;, or dwarf Hinoki falsecypress. I fell in love with this shrub/tree during my education as a landscape designer. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4247&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M-Bracing in the Front Yard</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/m-bracing-in-the-front-yard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[containers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I was hired by some new clients who were moving from a large house in the suburbs (with lots of deer) to a new house within walking distance of downtown Bethesda, Maryland, close to our firm&#8217;s offices. The lot was narrow and the front faced west. Most of the front [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4214&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An &#8216;Endemic Creation&#8217; in El Cerrito</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/an-endemic-creation-in-el-cerrito/</link>
		<comments>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/an-endemic-creation-in-el-cerrito/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy visiting gardens that unsettle my designer&#8217;s sensibilities. One of my sons once told me that he thinks of me as a photographer who likes taking images of &#8220;beautiful things&#8221; (rather than edgy street scenes, etc.) and I guess that&#8217;s what my mindset is when I design &#8211; somewhat traditional gardens with as much [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4191&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A variety of shapes and textures, including &#039;Siskiyou Blue&#039; fescue grass again, define the narrow front garden.</media:title>
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		<title>Art in the Garden, Bay Area-Style</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/art-in-the-garden-bay-area-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most enjoyable stops on the September 2012 &#8220;garden tour&#8221; APLD conference was a Bay area garden owned by Gail Giffen and Chris Pisarro in Lafayette, CA. Our tour materials gave this garden the title &#8220;Playing for Art&#8217;s Sake,&#8221; and that felt pretty accurate. The sculpture selections are eclectic and whimsical &#8211; from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4157&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The architectural elements of a motorcycle &#34;creature&#34; contrasts with flowing grasses.</media:title>
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		<title>Vegetable Gardening with a Master</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/vegetable-gardening-with-a-master/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosalind Creasy is known nationally and internationally for her inspired landscape designs that use herbs and vegetables ornamentally. So it was a special treat to be given a private tour of her home garden during the APLD conference in the Bay Area last fall. Creasy explained how finding substitutes for more traditional plants (e.g., rosemary [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4171&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warming up Some Tulips</title>
		<link>http://melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/warming-up-some-tulips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you don&#8217;t live in the DC area, it&#8217;s winter here now. The days are shorter, the light goes faster, and there are only so many trips I can make to the National Arboretum or client gardens in search of new images. Today we even had some light snow, but too late in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=4120&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destruction in the Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think your garden has suffered as much as it can, you find out you&#8217;re wrong. Last year, as many readers know, I lost two beloved trees in my front yard, which turned a north-facing sloped shade garden into the horticultural equivalent of the Sahara Desert. I&#8217;m still coping with those changes. Then, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaclarkphotography.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10847820&#038;post=3900&#038;subd=melissaclarkphotography&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A new white arbor has found a home where the old one was. Now all that remains is to decide what to plant to adorn it.</media:title>
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