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I WITNESS: Other duties as assigned

In short, the woman who cannot decide whether she is GI Jane, Calamity Jane, or Amelia Earhart is a despicable freak whose removal was both justified and overdue.

NATURE’S TURN: Flowers and forage for mid-winter holidays

Forsythia, and many other woody stems. their winter buds fully formed, can be “forced” to flower any time after they have undergone freezing weather

NATURE’S TURN: Ready to spring

Every day it seemed that the alternation of warm days and freezing nights would end; nights would moderate, allowing the ground to thaw.

BOB GRAY: Mute tenacity

I wondered a few weeks earlier about a single forsythia twig blooming April-yellow in the depths of November.

The Self-Taught Gardener: The postman plants twice

There are two times of year when gardeners start thinking ahead. The first arrives in January when the seed catalogues show up; the second happens in early summer when bulb catalogs arrive.

NATURE’S TURN: Halfway to spring; Wild and domestic pleasures

Forcing plants to awake from winter dormancy well before their season is a wonderful experiment at home and in educational settings.
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