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All About Award Winning Plants

Winter means Awards Season - but for more than just the movie and music industries! January is also the time to start thinking about red-carpet plants. What will the best-dressed...

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Hydrangea blooms
Making A Hydrangea Wreath

by Amanda The finished product. If you’re lucky enough to have a mature Hydrangea shrub bursting with summer blooms (or know of a generous friend who does), consider making a...

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Visual Guide to Bare Root Plants

Astilbe - Astilbe Bearded Iris - Iris germanica Black Cohosh - Actea Racemosa Bleeding Heart - Dicentra spectabilis Bloodroot - Sanguinaria canadensis Blue Cardinal Flower - Lobelia siphilitica Bugbane - Actea simplex Dahlia - Dahlia Daylily - Hemerocallis Dutchman's Breeches - Dicentra cucullaria Dwarf Blazing Star - Liatris microcephala Dwarf Crested Iris - Iris...

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Hydrangeas
Planting Shrubs in Fall

By Marianne Willburn, gardening expert and author. Butterfly Bush, Hydrangea, Forsythia, Beauty Berry, Viburnum, and more! A shrub by definition is a woody, multi-stemmed plant, either deciduous or evergreen, that...

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coreopsis flowers
How to Grow Coreopsis

Coreopsis flowers are attractive to butterflies, and the leaves to the caterpillars of some butterfly species. About half the 80 or so species of coreopsis are native to North America,...

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coreopsis blooms
All About Coreopsis

By Dr. Leonard Perry, former Horticulture Professor at the University of Vermont. Profuse blooms, often in shades of yellow, through a long period in mid-summer make coreopsis a great native...

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Viola
How to Grow Viola

Viola is in genus of the Violet (Violaceae) family, and is a familiar sight in spring gardens all over the world, where the diminutive, heart-shaped flowers, are easily recognized. The...

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