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I've been blogging since 2010, with different blogs for different topics. With this one, I'm bringing everything together, gradually moving posts here from older blogs, which is why you see long past publication dates on some of them.

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Marie McKinsey

Sep 18, 2015
3 min

It's All About YEW

Besides this scene in DIA, yews have another Outlander connection: the European yew is the plant badge of the Clan Fraser. It is said that m

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Black Hellebores and A Little Girl's Tears

Marie McKinsey

Jan 24, 2015
4 min

Black Hellebores and A Little Girl's Tears

I love hellebores. I have been growing them for years. They are highly prized in the gardening community for their exotic flowers and the fa

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Potatoes: A Story of Feast, Famine - and Poison

Marie McKinsey

May 5, 2014
3 min

Potatoes: A Story of Feast, Famine - and Poison

As a time-traveler, Claire knew what a calamity The Rising would be. She advised Jenny to plant potatoes so the residents of Lallybroch woul

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Marie McKinsey

Apr 13, 2014
3 min

Rhododendron Hell

"Roger didn't need to read it; he knew well enough the thoughts that were going through the other's mind. The same thoughts he'd wrestled...

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