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Plant Rant: Jim Duke on Thebaine of Iran

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Green Farmacy Garden

8 May 2012, Jim Duke writes on Papaver bracteatum ~ Thebaine Poppy Though this beautiful ephemeral poppy is more appropriately known as the Great Scarlet Poppy, I reminisce about it as the Persian Poppy, as I spent nearly a month … Continue reading →

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Jim Duke’s Cuban Food Farmacy Trip Report

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Green Farmacy Garden

CUBAN TRIP REPORT April 2012 Jim Duke At the luncheon we enjoyed at the Cuban Botanical Gardens, there was a healthy and delightful array of fruits and veggies, many not emphasized in the handout I sent you before our Cuba … Continue reading →

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Plant Rant: Skunk Cabbage – Passing the stink test.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Green Farmacy Garden

10 March 2012 Time to get back to the garden begins in early March. One of our two new head gardeners, Anna Wallis, started with me this week, and together we have been cutting down the winter botany stubble, weeding … Continue reading →

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Plant Rant: Frost Flowers!!!!

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

29 December 2011 This morning’s email report from Jim regarding the garden and the greenhouse: “At 7:00 I was surprised that there are white conical and ribbonlike frost flowers, not a full inch tall but impressive. No frost on my … Continue reading →

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Plant Rant: Diggin’ Groundnuts

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

Peggy’s favorite saucer magnolia sits between the Duke’s house and the driveway that takes visitors down to the Green Farmacy Garden. Peggy likes to sit in her sunroom during the early spring and admire the tree’s dramatic profusion of pale … Continue reading →

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Creme de’mentia and more on mints

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

1 October 2011, After working outside on this raw, bone chilling day, I find myself  sipping on peppermint tea to help ease into this soggy autumn and attempt to ward off what feels like an impending cold.  Being that it … Continue reading →

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Plant Rant: Dog Days and Mad-dog Skullcaps

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

9/6/2011 Below is a plant rant I wrote a couple of weeks ago that became lost in the pile of uncompleted summer projects.  Reading through this rant once again, it already feels outdated, but yet retains a notion of a … Continue reading →

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Plant Rant: Scaping into Summer with Garlic

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

How did it get to be the end of June already? The moist cool days of spring abruptly changed into the hazy, hot, humid, daze of summer, and the garden has been without any significant rain for weeks now. Looking … Continue reading →

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Campaign to restore the reputation of Dent de Lion…Dandelion

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

I’m afraid there’s no denyin’ I’m just a dandylion A fate I don’t deserve. ~ the  Cowardly Lion in “If I only had the Nerve” children have it right about the humble dandelion – it’s just us acculturated adults who … Continue reading →

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On Bitter Herbs and Crucifers

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Green Farmacy Garden

This past week, I journeyed out of the quiet piedmont to the hustle bustle of New York City to participate in the Passover Seder and the retelling of the Exodus story out of Egypt. The story is illuminated by lively … Continue reading →

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