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Are You A Flower Gardener?

I am, and I love the friendship that flower gardeners share. I have never met a person that gardens who wasn't anxious and proud to share growing tips, plants, flowers and seeds!

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Tenerife Dragon Tree: A Woody Plant of Ancient Lineage Becomes the Canary Islands' Icon

Tenerife, an idyllic Atlantic Ocean island, is home to a world-famous woody plant known as the Tenerife Dragon Tree.

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Cassie Liversidge’s Homegrown Tea Planting, Harvesting, Blending Guide

Cassie Liversidge’s Homegrown Tea offers an illustrated guide to planting, harvesting, and blending teas from tea plants and tisanes from non-tea plants.

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UGLI Fruit (Citrus reticulata x Citrus paradisi): Beauty Is Not Just Skin Deep

UGLI fruits are native to the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Seemingly unattractive exteriors give no hint of their delicious, luscious, nutritious interior.

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Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi

Every part of a grapefruit tree exudes grace. Citrus x paradisi has a generous, giving anatomy, with a use for every part.

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Gothic Garden - Black Flowers

A new trend in gardening is creating a gothic garden with mystical garden statues, and black and deep purple flowers.

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Virginia Historic Garden Week 2016 Is By Tradition April’s Last Week

Virginia Historic Garden Week 2016 welcomes the Garden Club of Virginia’s 83rd annual set of building and landscape-lovers from April 23 to April 30, 2016.

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Grocery Store Gardening

How to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs from the produce department of the grocery store.

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Landscaping with Best Decorative Garden Bridge Plans - Lattice, Cobblestone and Wooden Yard Bridges

Perhaps you dream of a country garden dressed in sun-loungers and sun-bathed beaches or moorland setting with garden bridge plans and breathtaking waterways to stroll along.

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Five Annuals That Attract Hummingbirds: Phlox, Garden Balsam, Jewelweed, Nasturtium, Tree Tobacco

Annual phlox, garden balsam, orange jewelweed, garden nasturtium, and tree tobacco are five annual plants that are attractive to hummingbirds.

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How to Grow Mushrooms

Mushrooms have been shown to promote a healthy immune system. They also add great taste to our foods. Here's how to grow mushrooms at home, either indoors or out.

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Schefflera-actonophylla

The schefflera actonophylla tree is grown in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world. It's the parent plant to the schefflera arboricola plant which is a common houseplant.

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After the Boston Tea Party: Herbal Liberty Teas Suggested by Philo Aletheias on January 13, 1774

The Boston Tea Party ushered in a period of herbal tea drinking in Colonial America as imported tea via the East India Company became a symbol of taxation without representation.

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Marigolds (Tagetes): Flavorous, Floriferous, and Fragrant to Skipper, Sulphur, and White Butterflies

Marigolds (genus Tagetes) are New World natives with Old World charm.

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Australia's Flaming Red Spires: Gymea Lily (Doryanthes excelsa)

Native only in the area of Sydney, wild Gymea lilies reach heights of 16 feet (5 meters). Standing tall with fiery flowers, these colorful Aussie icons resemble flaming spires.

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Peonies in Bloom -- Nichols Arboretum

This year we hit the peak of the peony bloom at Nichols Arboretum, part of The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Experiments with Mini Vertical Container Gardening

I have moved into a space that doesn't allow for a garden. I was determined to find some ways to at least have some salad greens. Here's some of my experiments in mini gardening.

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Trees Deserve Respect

Who cares if Pluto is or is not a planet? There are no trees there. Trees are the reason nobody wants to relocate to anywhere else in the universe.

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