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	<title>MDI Grows: Landscape and Garden Maintenance</title>
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	<description>Residential landscape maintenance for Mount Desert Island and Down East Maine</description>
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		<title>Native Plant &#8211; Virginia Sweetspire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Itea virginica Virginia Sweetspire This native shrub is a great choice for spectacular fall color that rivals the ubiquitous Burning Bush. Fragrant 2- to 6-inch long white flowers bloom in early summer on the ends of arching branches. It is a trouble-free shrub that tolerates heavy shade or full sun, wet or dry soil, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/native-plant-virginia-sweetspire/</link>
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		<title>Fall Color &#8211; Extend Your Garden&#8217;s Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By mid August, many spring- and summer-blooming perennials start to look tired. You can extend the enjoyment of your garden well into September and October by planting ornamental grasses, late-blooming perennials, and trees, shrubs and perennials with colorful fall leaves. Plants with berries and interesting seed heads add winter interest as well. Great plants that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/fall-color-extend-your-gardens-season/</link>
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		<title>Pest Problems &#8211; Slugs and Snails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slugs and snails, like deer, will eat any leafy greens if they are hungry enough. Large, irregularly shaped holes in plant leaves and shiny slime trails indicate the presence of slugs or snails. They like leafy vegetables, succulent plant parts, and the tender new foliage of many plants. But there are certain types of plants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/pest-problems-slugs-and-snails/</link>
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		<title>Native Plant &#8211; Hayscented Fern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dennstaedtia punctilobula Hayscented Fern This fern is an excellent groundcover for a wide range of soils, and grows best in part to full shade. With consistent moisture, it will also do well in full sun. Native to the eastern and midwestern United States, it grows 18-24&#8243; high and spreads by rhizomes to form colonies. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/native-plant-hayscented-fern/</link>
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		<title>Native Plant &#8211; Cinnamon Fern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Osmunda cinnamomea Cinnamon Fern Cinnamon ferns are just now unfurling their fronds in our area. They will open up to become 2&#8242; to 3&#8242; tall clumps. With constant moisture, they can reach 5&#8242; in height. Cinnamon ferns, named for their bright cinnamon-colored fertile fronds, grow best in medium to wet, rich, acidic, humusy soils in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/osmunda-cinnamomea-cinnamon-fern/</link>
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		<title>Organic Lawn Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An organic approach to lawn maintenance is safe for you, your children, and your pets, protects wildlife, protects and improves the quality of our natural resources, uses fewer fossil fuels, less water, less fertilizer, and saves on maintenance time and costs.]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/organic-lawn-care/</link>
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		<title>Composting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Composting - great way to get free organic material for garden. Compost improves the soil structure and supplies nutrients to plants and beneficial organisms. There are many ways to make compost.]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/composting/</link>
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		<title>Native Plants &#8211; Dwarf and Large Fothergilla</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fothergilla gardenii and Fothergilla major - Dwarf Fothergilla and Large Fothergilla - Both of these native shrubs produce lightly fragrant white bottle brush-shaped flowers in spring. The trouble-free blue-green leaves turn yellow, orange, and red in the fall.]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/native-plants-dwarf-and-large-fothergilla/</link>
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		<title>Native Plant &#8211; Vernal Witchhazel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hamamelis vernalis - Vernal Witchhazel - This deciduous native shrub will brighten up your winter landscape. It blooms in March in Maine, with strongly fragrant yellow, orange, or red flowers.]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/native-plant-vernal-witchhazel/</link>
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		<title>Native Plants for Your Landscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why plant native plants? Use native plants in your landscape to preserve Maine's "sense of place," protect biological diversity, reduce garden maintenance, and enhance quality of life.]]></description>
		<link>http://mdigrows.com/native-plants-for-your-landscape/</link>
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