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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)

Karen September 4, 2024 0 Comments

Native to swamps, woodland clearings, wetland forests, and outcroppings in eastern North America from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, south to northern Florida, Alabama and Arkansas, this deciduous shrub…

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Plant Profile: Common Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis aka Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis)

Karen July 31, 2024 0 Comments

Also called American elder, this deciduous shrub or small tree is native to North America east of the Rocky Mountains, south to Bolivia, where it usually grows in moist areas…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Japanese Flowering Apricot (Prunus mume aka Prunopsis mume)

Karen February 26, 2024 0 Comments

Native to forests and stream sides of China, this deciduous tree is a member of the rose family, Rosaceae, that also includes cherries, almonds, and lady’s mantle. It grows 15-20′…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Dragon Fruit (Selenicereus undatus aka Hylocereus undatus)

Karen December 6, 2023 0 Comments

Also known as pitaya, Belle-Of-The -Night, Cinderella Plant, Honolulu Queen, and Jesus in the Cradle (to mention just a few names), this lithophytic or hemiepiphytic perennial vine is a cactus…

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Book Review: Gardening the Mediterranean Way

Karen July 14, 2017 0 Comments

A mediterranean garden has mild, relatively wet winters and long, hot dry summers which offer unique challenges to gardeners that live in such climates throughout the world. Heidi Gildenmeister’s book,…

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  • Book Review: Tiny + Wide
  • Meadow Garden: Tall Native Flowering Perennials for Moderate to Dry Soil in Full Sun
  • Plant Profile: Desert Four O’Clock (Mirabilis multiflora)
  • Plants for a Mary Garden: Wood Anemone (Anemone nemerosa) “Candlemas Caps”
  • Plant Profile: Crown Daisy (Chrysanthemum coronarium aka Glebionis coronaria)
  • Book Review: Rekha’s Kitchen Garden
  • Edible Mushrooms: Meadow Wax Cap (Cuphophyllus pratensis)
  • Plant Profile: Bitter Apple (Solanum incanum)
  • Plants for a Mary Garden: Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) “Our Lady’s Candle”
  • Plant Profile: Crystalline Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)

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Book Review: Tiny + Wide

Meadow Garden

Meadow Garden: Tall Native Flowering Perennials for Moderate to Dry Soil in Full Sun

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Desert Four O’Clock (Mirabilis multiflora)

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Plants for a Mary Garden: Wood Anemone (Anemone nemerosa) “Candlemas Caps”

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