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The Astonishing Truth Behind Tree Circles 
2000 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (10/20/00)
2001 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (10/16/01) 
2002 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (10/31/02)
2003 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (11/20/03)
2004 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (11/17/04)
2005 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (12/9/05)
2006 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (12/20/06)
2007 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (1/3/08)
2008 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (1/1/09)
2009 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (1/1/10)
2010 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (1-1-11) 
2011 High Spot/Black Spot Awards (1-1-12) 
April Muse (4-22-99)
Behold The Holding Pit (7-2-98)
Chicago Area Garden Highlights (9-3-03)
Container Gardening Tips (7-24-97)
Crafting Cool and Creative Containers (3-6-08)
Deciphering the Sun (2-1-08) 
Designing With Container (7-17-97)
Designing With Bulbs (9-25-97)
Designing With Natives (8-26-99)
Develop Your Inner Snoot (6-18-02)
Don On Design (5-28-97)
Evil Brother Ron (8-17-00) 
Early Spring Notes and Comment (4-1-03)
Five Questions for the Renegade
  Gardener (3-8-11)

Form Foundation (2-3-12) 
Garden Gaffs (7-30-98)
Gardens, Not Grass Part I (9-3-98)
Gardens, Not Grass Part II (9-17-98)
Gardens, Not Grass Part III ( 10-1-98)
Gardens Of Maui (5-14-98) 
Getting My Head Around Homer (8-22-09) 
Groovin’ in Vancouver (11-06-05)
Holiday Containers (11-18-09) 
Is Gardening Dead? (5-25-06) 
Landscaping 101 (1-9-06)
Lessons From the Wilderness (9-6-00) 
Lessons From The Wilderness II (6-15-01)
Lessons From The Wilderness III (11-1-07)
Maui's Aplenty With Wowie

Mistakes to Learn By (7-18-02) 
My Last Damn Rant About Red (6-15-09) 
The Myth Of The Green Thumb (8-12-99)  
No Update Until the Big House Swings (10-31-06)
Now We’re Getting Somewhere! (6-30-05) 
On Cutting Down a Tree, or Three (8-8-01) 
Planting Perennials for Punch (12-3-08) 
Planting On a Slope (2-1-10) 
Project #1 Update & General Spring Foofaraw (6-7-05)  
Project #1 Completion (1-6-06) 
Project #2 (8-8-05)
Quickie in Vancouver: Butchart Gardens (9-29-03)
The Secret to a Beautiful Garden (9-17-01)
Sheepish in Seattle (9-4-02)
The Shredded Truth (9-6-05) 
Spring 2005 Update: Patience is a Virtue (4-15-05)
Strong Bones: Design Tips for
Hardscapes (4-7-10)

Top 5 Most Important Gardening Tips
Top 10 Gardening & Landscaping Blunders—and How to Avoid Them! (2-1-07)
Use of Blue/Lily Care (8-2-00) 
Wallowing in Washington (10-11-11)
Water Gardening Design & Construction Tips (8-21-04)
Why Beautiful Landscapes are So Odd (11-1-11)
Why Gardeners Are So Hip And Happy (5-2-04)
Why We Garden (10-22-99)

HARDSCAPES
Creative Use Of Hardscapes (7-10-97)
Fruits of Summer (9-25-06) 
Placing A Bench (7-31-97)
Tips To Creating Flower Beds (7-3-97)

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