Top 10 Easy-care Perennials
These easy-care perennials are the old reliables of the garden. It’s not that they live forever, their lifespan can be
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Plants
How plants breathe?
Understanding how plants breathe and preventing winter burn Plants breathe through their leaves. It is estimated that the total water
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Winter Berries
1. What’s a berry? As you will know by now if you read 10 Neat Things frequently, only some berries
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About Fall Leaves
1. It’s a loss not a gain of colour. Deciduous leaves turn colour in fall because of a loss of
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To do in Fall
1. Neaten up. Add this to your to-do list in fall. Even the messiest gardener (that’s me) needs to get
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Browallia: A standout for shade
browallia
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Asparagus: Healthy diet in a spring sprout
By Dorothy Dobbie Love your first feed of asparagus in springtime? No wonder. Here’s a short list of the health-giving
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Top-pick herbs for the kitchen garden
Basil (Ocimum sp.) Basil is a winning herb: it is available in a smorgasbord of classic and worldly flavours and
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10 uncommon annuals worth another look
There are gardeners who would rather die than be seen with common annuals like impatiens or petunias in their yards,
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How to grow your own tea garden
By Tania Moffat Tea is a wonderful and healthy beverage. It can soothe most of what ails us — lack
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