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GardenComm
Are your houseplants looking less than stellar? Are you wondering why your "green thumb" is only that color outside? Let's talk about the hottest plant group out there (move over hydrangeas) and why. I will talk about general care but also give you some tips and tricks to help improve the light you have, choose the right plant for the area where you want some green, and improve the overall conditions for your houseplants.
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GardenComm
If you're anything like me in the garden, each act — pruning a rose, weeding a flower bed, deadheading the annuals — supplies its own metaphor. "Cut the dead wood out," your brain says with glee, as you actively do just that. I remember struggling with grass in a flowerbed — as you do — and imagining myself a dictator trying to "root out" the resistance. "But it's a grassroots movement," my imaginary underling whined, "We'll never get it all." Grass is tenacious.
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The Writing Cooperative
One of my best-received articles ever was about cigars, written for a highly specialized magazine. I knew nothing about cigars, I'd never smoked one, and I was utterly clueless about them right until the day I took on the assignment.
Five days later, I delivered a story so well-crafted, informative and inspiring that they accepted the article and hired me on the spot. I never told them that five days ago, I could not tell one end of the cigar from the other.
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Join the celebration! Foxgloves changed the look and feel of gardening with unmatched dexterity, color, comfort and style. Foxgloves have earned the reputation for being “the gloves you love to wear!”
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Steph Smith (blog)
If you told me five years ago that I would one day lead a 20-person Publications team or have a personal blog that's read by hundreds of thousands, I would've laughed in surprise. Yet somehow, I've found myself in that reality. Here we are.
People often ask how I approach writing, so I decided to share this piece to sway the self-conscious writer inside each one of us.
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Pew Research Center
Roughly a quarter of U.S. adults (27%) say they haven't read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Jan. 8 to Feb. 7. Who are these non-book readers?
Several demographic traits correlate with non-book reading, Pew Research Center surveys have found.
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The Atlantic
It's unclear to me whether anyone has ever fallen in love over email, but it's true that the only friendship I've ever succeeded in initiating via the internet started in my inbox.
Peppermint oil, face spackle, Glossier girls, the physical indignities of "William DeBlasio's New York" — these were the subjects of Claire Carusillo's email newsletter, My Second or Third Skin, later renamed That Wet Look.
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Nieman Lab
Imagine you're a barista at a coffee shop. You may have no background in business, finance or data analysis — but you still probably have a decent handle on how the company you work for makes money and what role you play in that process.
You know that each cup of coffee you sell costs the customer $2 or $3. The company makes that amount minus the cost of the coffee grounds and the cup, with some fixed overhead costs.
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Make your garden come to life with Sunfinity® Sunflowers that thrive and bloom continuously all season long.
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With the widest selection of full-blooming varieties, Optimara continues to advance the industry with new plant varieties and innovative growing techniques, constantly refined over years of research and development. We create new, exciting plants and care products which are trend-setting and truly functional. Our effort is to continue offering customers a unique selection of flowers in a beautiful product line.
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Digital Content Next
There is a certain musical rhythm to our digital media industry calendar. If there was a crescendo, I expect it would be in the fall, as leaders migrate from execution to strategic planning. And with this shift, conference season begins. There are many forces at work shaping these agendas, not the least of which are businesses wanting to get their messages to market.
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Fast Company
You've built your following on LinkedIn, you have more friends than the average person on Facebook, and you're known for never breaking a streak on Snapchat. So why do you still feel disconnected?
Social media can be terrible for your health. It makes you feel connected (when you're not), and it can contribute to depression and unfavorable comparisons.
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Social Media Today
Facebook is always experimenting with ways to make its visual elements more enticing, in order to drive higher engagement and keep people interested. For example, Facebook added colored backgrounds for text updates in 2016, tested different colored text and backgrounds for comments in 2017, and added video and 360 options for profile cover photos last year, among other updates.
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The Drum
Social media advertising will see 20% in ad spend boost in 2019 to account for 13% of all global spend.
This will see social media overtake print ad spend the first time, according to Zenith Media's Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Spend on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram will grow by 20% in 2019 to reach $84 billion, while combined newspapers and magazine expenditure will fall 6% to $69 billion.
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The Orange County Register
Biological control is a wonderful thing. It is yet another phenomenon, familiar especially to gardeners, that illustrates the virtue of patience. Just when you think there is no hope for a plant, as it is being eaten up before your eyes by a voracious pest with an endless appetite, relief comes along in the form of what we call a beneficial insect, a predator of the problematic pest. This most frequently happens with aphids.
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The New York Times
Four years ago, during my family's third move in six years, I felt like I was slowly unraveling. My husband had lost his job in Austin, Texas, and was offered a new one in the Philadelphia suburbs, so we trucked our two children, two cats and an embarrassing amount of stuff cross-country to start our lives over from scratch. I tried to sound optimistic to our new neighbors: Moving is hard, but we're excited to put down roots here. I’ve never lived in suburbia, but I love the giant trees.
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The Free Press
Water. It's so important in the gardening world. How to get it, how to collect it, how to correctly apply it, how to conserve its use, how to preserve it once it is applied. I write a lot about water, and for good reason: it's vital to optimum plant growth, and it is the No. 1 answer to the common question, "What am I doing wrong?" Watering incorrectly, fortunately, can be corrected unless it is of course excess rainfall.
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