About Native Wildflowers
1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few
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Flowers
About Alliums
Allium azureum Toxicoxcordion venenosum Allium cepa (onion) Allium sativum (garlic) Allium moly Allium schoenoprasum (chives) 1. What are alliums? Plants
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Early Spring Flowers
1. Hellebores. One of the early spring flowers, Hellebores, are poisonous, as are many plants in the garden. The sap
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About Sunflowers
1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted
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Clematis beauty
There are gardeners who hesitate to plant clematis, fearing that, like hothouse flowers, they may require too much knowledge or
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About Clover
1. It saved an emperor. Four-leaf clovers stand for luck and it was extremely lucky for Napoleon Bonaparte when he
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About Rudbeckia
1. Black-eyed Susan loves sweet William. All in the downs, the fleet was moored,Banners waving in the wind,When Black-Eyed Susan
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About Peonies
1. What’s so great about peonies? Peonies are drought tolerant, deer resistant, fragrant, hardy to Zone 2 and they can
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Buying Plants
1. Potted plants in bloom (1). At the garden centre, should you buy plants that are already blooming or not?
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About Orchids
1. Gardener, put down that watering can! More windowsill orchids die from drowning than any other cause. Just because many
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