Growing Orchids in your Home
Growing orchids should be easy. They are a very forgiving plant if you understand it. Sadly, most are drowned by
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Flowers
About Papaver Poppies
1. Papaver rhoeas. Corn poppies or field poppies are quite common in Europe; in fact, they are known as a
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About Plants That Kill
1. How toxic is toxic? Your garden is full of toxic plants, that could probably even kill, including parts of
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Rafflesia arnoldii
Pungent Plants
Noteworthy pungent plants from around the world. Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) The corpse flower is known as “the worst smelling
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Stinky Flowers
There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers
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Downy Mildew Killing Impatiens
Common impatiens, Impatiens walleriana, have always seemed the most indestructible of plants. You stick them in the ground, give them
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About Alstroemeria
1. Lily of the Incas. Deep in South America, in the southern Andes, clumps of richly coloured flowers grew from
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Beguiling Begonias and its Other Species
We have been growing begonias in our homes and garden for about three centuries. There are many, many hybrids in
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Poppies Are Forever
Graceful and fragile, brilliantly coloured and stunningly beautiful, poppies call irresistibly from any garden they inhabit. There are over 100
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Beauty in a Bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour
By Dorothy Dobbie If there is one thing that bulbs, especially summer bulbs, have in common it’s incandescent colour. The
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