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	<title>The Blogging Nurseryman by Trey Pitsenberger</title>
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		<title>Facebook is just one of the tools available</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the hype the Facebook stock offering is getting I find it a bit of a non-event. Sure it will be a way for early investors and insiders to get rich, but for the rest of us? Does anyone &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=4091">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting times in gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been remiss in cultivating this blog, and thank a long time reader for reminding me to do just that. We have been busy at the nursery with a spring not dominated by cold and rain, like last year. &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=4083">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Support your locally run garden businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been in the garden center business for 30 years, I have seen all sorts of changes. A very powerful and positive change is the ability of gardening businesses to communicate with one another via The Internet. Sure, we communicated &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=4066">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Where the &#8220;new plant&#8221; action is</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the American Nursery and Landscape Association (ANLA) the winner of the &#8220;Garden Idol 2012&#8243; award is &#8220;The Scallywag Holly&#8221; from Monrovia Growers. The Garden Idol awards are are held at The ANLA annual clinic and are for what &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=4039">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mastery, and staying small</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends in the horticultural businesses have two choices. One is to align yourselves with the increasingly boring world of mass merchants, plant trademark companies, and mega growers. The second option can seem lonely at first, but  in my opinion &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=4026">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This is the most significant plant disease invasion into California in modern history&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s citrus industry accounts for $2 billion in revenue. You would think a disease that threatens the industry would get more attention, yet this is the first I have heard about it. According to Yahoo news, &#8220;state bug detectives fanned &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=4006">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The future of garden bio-diversity is in our hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of garden bio-diversity rests in the hands of thousands of amateur gardeners. As the large concerns continue to hybridize and focus on the &#8220;best sellers&#8221;, other more unusual varieties are shut out, and potentially lost. It&#8217;s through the &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=3998">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pier 39 horticulture in good hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tulipmania has come and gone at Pier 39 in San Francisco. I had forgotten about the event it until reminded by a post at Far Out Flora last month. Every year this tourist hot spot on the bay puts together &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=3976">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Guerilla Gardeners, &#8220;dig, drop, done, move on&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=3960</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bulb industry is wondering how to invigorate the bulb trade. As we have talked before, bulb sales are way down and the bulb trade is looking for ideas. The have tried the Dig, Drop, and Done campaign, which was &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=3960">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Far Out!</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=3946</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this cool blog from San Francisco, titled &#8220;Far Out Flora&#8221;. Megan And Matti write the blog from their home near Ocean Beach. The blog is a visual delight, filled with photographs of plants that grow in the frost &#8230; <a href="http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=3946">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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