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		<title>Heavy Metal</title>
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&#8220;Industrial&#8221; was never a term I thought I would use to describe one of my floral designs.  However, I rather enjoyed creating this piece during my design class this week.   Building this structure of window screening, wire, and concrete was very time consuming and the finished product is not quite up to my standards of perfection.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1276&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End &amp; The Beginning</title>
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It&#8217;s a sad truth:  this was the last season I would be growing in the garden I&#8217;ve written about here on this blog for two years.  I knew this and yet the thud of my heart falling to the ground as I began to rip out the plantings I had tended so diligently for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1271&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Ambience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My floral design class at the moment is all about exploring different design &#8220;ambiences&#8221;, or moods, really. The past two weeks have had very contrasting ambiences: exotic and natural. I much perfer the natural, but the exotic was fun to try.
 

Exotic Ambience
 

Natural Ambience (Floral Wall Tapestry)
 
On another note, the last of my own cut flowers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1264&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Beauties</title>
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Two more designs for the portfolio:  the first is an autumn hand tied bouquet that I chose to place in a large clear vase with river rocks in a take on the European trend.   The mums, amaranth, smoke bush, baby eucalyptus and twisted grass are a lot of fun, yet stay within classic bounds.
 

 
The second design [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1253&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of This, A Touch of That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m once again taking a floral design class, and I&#8217;m also finishing up my flower growing season.  As a result, I&#8217;m getting quite an odd collection of design samples to show you.  Rather than put up a bunch of snippets, I thought I&#8217;d put a collection of them together in one post.  Forgive me if this seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1249&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pgjennielove.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/a-bit-of-this-a-touch-of-that/</link>
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		<title>The Pie Patch</title>
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Quite some time ago, I put up a little post about getting a new community garden and my own plot in it started this past spring.  I dubbed it The Pie Patch because I planted mostly things that would go well  in a pie: currents, loingonberries, rhubarb, and gooseberries.  I realized the other day that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1245&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going, Going&#8230;Gone?</title>
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The last few days of the 2009 growing season are really eeking away. The weather has been chilly and generally damp since September and I was certain we&#8217;d get an early frost.  Our expected frost date in this area is October 15th.  We&#8217;re just about there, and truth be told, I&#8217;m ready for it.  My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1243&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pgjennielove.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/going-going-gone/</link>
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		<title>ASCFG National Conference</title>
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Last week I attended the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual national conference on Long Island, New York.  What an amazing treat it turned out to be, and I really could go on forever about the passionate attendees, the knowledgable speakers, the spot-on demonstrations, the beautiful tours, the kindred connections that were made, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1228&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pgjennielove.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/ascfg-national-conference/</link>
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		<title>A Visit to Landcraft</title>
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Delightful Landcraft Environmental is both a personal garden for entertaining and a showcase for the wholesale nursery next door run by its creators, Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith.  Dennis was kind enough to show a group of us from the ASCFG around and to answer my volley of excited questions about his rather exotic combinations of plants throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1230&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pgjennielove.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/a-visit-to-landcraft/</link>
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		<title>PASA Dinner @ Longwood</title>
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This past Saturday I had the privilege once again of doing the floral work for the PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) fundraiser dinner at Longwood Gardens.  This event is quite special, featuring ingredients sourced from local farms and served by the outstanding catering staff at Longwood in the Main Conservatory just as the autumn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pgjennielove.wordpress.com&blog=3431618&post=1232&subd=pgjennielove&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pgjennielove.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/pasa-dinner-longwood/</link>
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