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Up-to-the-minute Echinacea Hybrids
Echinacea (coneflower) hybrids are up-to-the-minute plant breakthroughs. American plant breeders work to bring bright flower and plant color to landscape garden designs.
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Echinacea Selections in Landscapes
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) selections and cultivars can enhance prairie and meadow gardens. These native N.A. plants tolerate some shade and moist soil.
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Growing Purple Coneflowers
Coneflowers are native to North America. Although purple coneflowers are the best known, there are at least four wild varities and several cultivars.
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Echinacea Purpurea Plant Profile
Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.
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Drive-By Echinacea
Echinacea may change your life!
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Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part I
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situaiton and how the problem is solved.
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Perennials that are good for you
Echinacea, Burdock and Valerian - how to grow them, enjoy them and utilize their medicine
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
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Summer Blooming Perennial Plants
Summer is the season when perennial plants take center stage with bright, long lasting flowers that stand up to the summertime heat. See eight perennial garden favorites!
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Patriotic Themed Garden Plants
What better place to celebrate Independence Day than in a garden full of plants that celebrate that spirit of "freedom and liberty for all".
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A Minnesota Garden
A small slice of heaven in Minnesota
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The End of a Garden
A friend of mine says it was easier to move than kill off the invasive plants. I'm too stubborn for that.
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Container Desert Gardens
Planting desert plants in containers can provide an ideal, low-maintenance garden for limited-space areas.
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Low Water Use Plants
Plants that need less water are rapidly becoming available at nurseries across the world. Colorful, fragrant and beautiful, these plants have transformed desert gardening
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Top 30 Low-Water Use Perennials
If you're interested in water conservation, but also want a beautiful garden, take a look at these low-water-use flowering perennials.
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Water Conservation Myths
It’s easy to talk about water conservation, but it’s more difficult to do something about it.
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Revamping for Fall
Has your glorious flower display turned into a few dibs of colour here and there? Adding fall bloomers such as Mums, Susans, Coneflowers and Stonecrops can make sorry beds stupendous.
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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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Plants for Butterfly Gardens
These flowering shrubs and perennial plants are all known to attract butterflies to the garden. Flowers and flutters - what could be better?
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Plant Families: Asteraceae
Daisies. Asters. Sunflowers. The archetypal flower. The Sunflower (or Daisy, or Thistle, or...) Family. When we think of flowers, these are the types of flowers which come to mind. These are the types of flowers we put in vases and plant in the garden. These are the types of flowers that give us joy, and satisfy some basic botanical void.
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Seeds and Seedpods for Winter
A detailed discussion of how to add interest to the winter landscape through the use of seeds, seedpods and seedheads on plants.
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Upright Growing Container Plants
These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.
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Arid Zones in The Garden
The third zone in a desert garden is the "arid" zone, one that requires little or no supplemental water after they are established. Read about the "arid" zone, and the pl
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Eight Easy Perennials
Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.
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Grow A Great Native Border!
This pink and lilac garden highlights showy North American native species that will be colorful from June to early fall.
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Perennial Plants for Cold Climates
A frequent frustration of gardeners in cold northern zone climates is hearing about perennial plants that their Southern neighbors enjoy. What plants will survive zone 3?
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Perennial Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new perennial plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.
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Plan Now for Spring Gardens
It may be warm outside now, and the temptation to stay inside where it's cool almost overwhelming. Use some downtime to plan your spring bloom garden.
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Gardening for "Flying Flowers"
If you want to attract butterflies -- or "flying flowers" -- to your garden, you'll want to read this article! You will learn about the four life stages of butterflies and how you as a gardener can create a habitat that butterflies can't resist.
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Online Nurseries 2000 - Specialty Perennials
Specialty Perennials is a small nursery with a wide range of plants for our gardens. Their list of plants will be especially suited for you northern gardeners. Of course, most will do well in warmer climates, too.
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Eight Endangered Plants from Georgia
This is a look at which plants are on one half of the list of endangered plants in Georgia.
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Murdo Morrison's Suburban Backyard Habitat
Creating a garden for people and wildlife alike.
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Butterfly Gardening
Talks about butterfly gardens. Provides excellent links to information about other areas within the North American continent.
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Heirloom Gardens PT II
Part 2 of Heirloom Gardens article listing some of the heirlooms available to gardeners.
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Creating an Edge For the Furry, the Feathered, the Scaly
How to garden on the edge - and some living examples of how well it works.

A Fan's Tribute to the Chicago Cubs
Wrigley Field, home playing field to the Chicago Cubs baseball team since 1916, has been replicated in miniature in the suburban Chicago backyard of a longtime fan.
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Butterflies in the Organic Garden
Butterfly gardening is a rewarding offshoot of keeping an organic garden. Learn about the flowers, host plants, and habitat that attract butterflies to your yard.
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Helping Wild Birds Through Winter
In freezing conditions, wild birds could use a hand finding fresh water and food, and with a little ingenuity and some planning, you won't even need to buy a feeder.
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Are we having fun yet?
Time to start putting out the feeders?
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Parasitic Wasps
Parasitic wasps are one of the most efficient biological controls for many pests. However, you must get the right kind for the pest you have. Check out this extremely nice insect to have in any garden.
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The Greek Goddess Hestia
Bring balance into your home and spiritual life by drawing on the energy of the goddess Hestia. Learn simple rituals and other ways to connect with her energy and balance
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Adding Drama to the Landscape
Take your garden from ordinary to extraordinary using these four easy techniques.
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Caring for a Wildflower Meadow
Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.
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Creating a Special Memory Garden
Gardeners can commemorate the birth of a child visually in the garden, honor the loss of a loved one or celebrate a special event or wedding anniversary with plants.
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Drought Tolerant Plants Attracting Pollinators
Butterfly weed and lantana are used in xeriscape gardening to attract bees, butterflies or hummingbirds. These drought tolerant plants are food sources for pollinators.
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Native Penstemon Plant Profile
Penstemon was once prized only in native or wild flower gardens but is now popular for water-wise xeriscapes, hummingbird and mixed border areas as it is very hardy.
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Raising Black Swallowtail Butterflies
You can't get kids any closer to nature than watching the miraculous transformation of the infamous 'parsley worm' into the jeweled beauty known as the Black Swallowtail.
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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An Herb Butterfly And Bee Garden
A simple how to guide to create a butterfly garden. Environmentally friendly herb gardening to attract bees and butterflies. Insect pollinators are in serious decline.
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