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Christmas One-Act Operas
Christmas one-act operas: Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Bridge's The Christmas Rose: opera plot synopsis, character description and other opera information.
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Hellebore: The Christmas Rose
The history, folklore, and uses of hellebore
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Hellebores - Part 1
For years, I had one hellebore; then I grew another from seed. I liked them, but it was not a passion. Recently, however, I've gotten well and truly hooked on hellebores. These are marvelous plants for shady gardens. I've got a lot of images, so please be patient while they load for you.
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Christmas Flower Legends
While some Yuletide flora décor are rooted in Pagan customs, others are based on Christian legends.
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The Garden Blooms in Winter
You may be surprised to discover what's blooming these days - even while the snowflakes are flying. Here are several plants that are extremely early bloomers - with pictures taken this wek - March 6 and 7 to be exact - to prove it!
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Thoughts from a Wrinkly Gardener
The years are passing quickly and this passionate but wrinkly gardener becomes thoughtful with the passage of time. Take a stroll through her thoughts and her gardens. Smell the roses and see the perennial by looking at the garden photos.
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Christmas Legends and Ornament Stories
Legend of the Christmas Rose and the Poinsettia.
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Beautiful Winter Flowers
Let's examine a some of the winter blooming plants that we can add to our gardens to create that year round beauty and interest. Add some winter color and excitement!
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Hellebores - Part 2
Hellebore fever is relatively recent for me. Not that I haven't enjoyed those I've had for many years - I just hadn't crossed that threshold from liking them to being a bit nuts about them. It's an easy leap to make, these are such marvelous plants. Most of them are so easy to grow and burnish our gardens in the dreary days before Spring truly arrives.
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Low Maintenance Garden Plants
Everyone wants foundation landscapes that look great, but not everyone wants to spend hours in the garden each week. These plants are easy keepers that look great!
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MAGICAL HERBS
For centuries, herbs have enriched people's lives. According to herbal folklore, many species have magical properties. From taming beasts to making folks feel safe and secure, these plants contributed to a sense of well-being.
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Plant Profile: Hellebores
The so-called Christmas roses, and Lenton roses, are hellebores. The Hellebore is a great plant with a lot to offer gardeners at a time when not much else is going on.
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Pollution Tolerant Plants
Until we solve many of our current pollution problems some urban gardens will suffer. Here are smog tolerant options for gardens in dirty cities.
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Those Amazing Hellebores
Thanks to gardeners rediscovery of Hellebores, and recent work by hybridizers, these once quiet plants of the winter and early spring garden, are stirring up excitement in the plant world.
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Winter and Holiday Themed Plants
There are so many fun ways to enjoy winter in the garden year-round including planting some of these winter themed plants.
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Late Summer Perennials, a heretic view
Late Summer gardens are my least favourite gardening scenes. Am I an Heretic? Photos of the borders and individual photos accompany this article to prove me wrong!
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If Winter is over surely Spring will follow
Gardening at "Kibbenjelok" last weekend, I remarked that the Helleborus were grateful for the gentle Winter conditions.


Winter Chill brings Winter Flowers
The Gordonia small tree, about which I have grumbled for many years for its lack of participation and threatened excommunication, chooses to debut into this troubled and angry world and thus lighten my heart and put a smile on my lips again

Good-bye 1999, Hello 2000!
This year, for the first time, I have pondered the past year. I have also been wondering about the next. Here are some of my ponderings, waxings, and events I feel worth talking about.
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Winter Blooming Plants
Winter blooming plants in my garden on the southern Oregon coast
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Winter Comes to the Country Garden
In Winter you may see the curtain fall but it is not the end of the play. The Rhododendrons and the Camellias are certainly firmly on the programme, just look at their fat buds and the prologue is already in progress and if I had stayed inside the house, I may have nearly missed it.

Winter Flowers Cheer
The Rhododendrons and the Camellias are certainly firmly on the programme, just look at their fat buds. The prologue is already in progress and if I had stayed imside the house, I may have nearly missed it.

POISON: PART THREE
Common plants with poisonous properties.
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The Nearly-No-Work Shade Garden
Some plants for the shady garden that demand little from the gardener - except maybe some admiration.

Adorable Alpines
Easy to grow alpines for the open garden
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January Plant Gallery
Plants with seasonal interest in January, together with colour photos, descriptions and cultivation details
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Beautiful Wedding Flower Ideas
Top tips on wedding flowers for day and evening, as well as what goes best with your hair colour. Includes lists of seasonal flowers and inspiring ideas.
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How to Cook With Roses and Make Rosewater
Rose cooking entails using delicate roses to flavor and garnish a variety of menu items.
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Protecting Your Toddler During The Holidays
Tips of how to keep your toddler safe during the holiday season. Information about toys, clothing, food, cooking, and decoration safety.
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Red Roses on Valentine's Day
Why do we send roses on Valentine's Day, and why are they red? Learn a dozen other ways to use flowers to communicate secret messages to your loved one.
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A Winter Garden
There are many choices available to provide color, texture, form and berries for your winter container garden.
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COLOUR IN THE WINTER GARDEN
COLOUR IN THE WINTER GARDEN
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Potpourri and Pressed Flowers Project
A short and simple project using pressed flowers and potpourri
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Surfing the Web This Holiday Season
Where can you find exactly what you are looking for this Holiday season? On the Web of course, but with Hundreds of thousands of different sites who has the time? Well I took the time to find some of the Web's best, interesting and fun Holiday sites. So, get that mouse in gear, get ready to catch a wave. We're going holiday surfing!
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The Bloomin' Winter Garden
I look out the window and see the Autumn cherry trees are in full bloom, covering their branches with sweet little star-like flowers.
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The First Sign of Spring
Spring is almost here, and the signs of it are all over the garden and alpine house.
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The Town garden, the Country Garden and Me
I was asked why it is I am always writing and showing photos of the country garden and not the town garden I love and enjoy the garden in Hobart, so I wonder why too!
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Winter leaves us dramatically
Spring is rushing in with the impetus of the fool hardy, it is still officially Winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Try telling that to the Camellias and the early Rhododendrons.

A GARDENER'S NEW CENTURY
Every day in our daily newspapers, we read an article about the Year 2000 I am old enough now to not appreciate indigestion and a hangover next morning. So, what are my wants for the next twelve months, the Year 2000? Let me share my desires with you
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Angels we have heard on high - part two
continuing the history of Christmas music --

Camellias, the Heralds of Spring
But isn’t that what gardening is all about? We must make our hard choices all the time. Which plant? What flower? Insecticide or no dangerous poisons? Birds or losing the odd flower or five? And my thoughts?

Gardening 101: Protecting Your Plants During Winter
Winterize your outdoor garden. Tips on caring for picky plants such as roses. Create a winter garden. Care for indoor plants during the winter months.
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Holiday Safety Tips
Make your holidays safer with some simple tips. A safe holiday is a less stressful holiday. I hope you have both!
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Is it Gay[i]ety in the Winter garden?
I wonder if all those scientists madly finding the genetic pattern of all living things could clone this wonderful day and reproduce it for me on the Open to the Public weekends?
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Landscaping in the Town Garden
A green country garden of peace and harmony, where birds fly and children have space to play cricket on the front lawn.

Plant Profile Online Encyclopedia
An alphabetical listing of all the plant profiles covering flowering plants, garden shrubs, ornamental trees and more. An online plant encyclopedia with growing details.
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