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Fearsome Foxglove
The history, folklore, and uses of foxglove.
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Foxgloves for a Shadier Garden
The foxglove is versatile. It can be tall enough for the back of the border or left to go to seed at the edge of a woodland garden. It's a perfect plant for naturalizing.
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Foxglove Plant Profile
The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.
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A Foxglove for Every Garden
Exuberant, extravagant, and home to the garden fairies, the foxgloves are quintessential cottage garden plants yet well suited to every garden style.
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Biennial Plants with Yellow Flowers
Biennial plants are usually hardy, easy to grow plants that self-sow in the garden, so these yellow blooming plants will make great additions to a yellow themed garden.
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Contrasts in A Desert Garden
By observing nature, you can develop some striking contrasts in your desert garden. A red Don Juan rose and a purple penstemmon are examples of such juxtapositions.
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Groundcovers - Self-Seeders
Most plants that set viable seed will seed around a bit if they are happy. Some plants can cover a fair amount of ground via self-sown seed.
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Heart Failure Meds
Maybe you should be taking cheaper heart medication. A new study suggests that one of the oldest and least expensive medications could keep you out of the hospital.
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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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Recall of Digitek
A nationwide Class I recall of Digitek (digoxin) was released as the product is considered extremely dangerous and may cause either death or serious injuries.
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Summer Garden
Summer is the time to show off the rich colors of flowers in a garden. Optimum planting creates enjoyment throughout the summer.
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Heart Failure (Part 2)
The second part of last week's article, dealing this time with the causes and treatment of heart failure.
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A Couple Eastern Penstemons
Penstemons, which I have discovered are very, very fond of the Pacific Northwest (and you will be reading about them sooner or later), have a few cousins in the east.
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And then there's Foxglove
Foxglove has a lot going for it, and though it is not really a wildflower, and not native to North America, well, it behaves otherwise. And it's even one of those in-between odds and ends of September I began writing about last week...
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Birth Flower for May
The language, legends and history for the lily of the valley; the flower for those born in the month of May.
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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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Online Nurseries 2000 - Crownsville Nursery - Bridgewood Gardens
The last nursery in the spring 2000 series is two nurseries in one. The Crownsville Nursery has been growing great plants since 1979 when they started as a local garden center. Bridgewood Gardens is their retail outlet and their online Hosta heaven. There are so many plants to tell you about, as well as both nurseries, that I've broken this into three parts so that the pages have a chance to load in your life-time.
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Online Nurseries 2001 - Avant Gardens
Avant Gardens focus on growing unusual plants ranging from alpines through perennials to woody plants. They also have a marvelous selection of annuals and tender perennials, perfect for creating the lush, tropical look so popular today. There are lots of photos, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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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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Planting Under Trees - Part 10
Some plants who are happy and some who are not, growing under an oak (Quercus>) and four dogwoods (Cornus florida) in my USDA zone 7 garden.
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Starting Perennials from Seed
How to start perennials from seed, taking into consideration how they differ from annuals.
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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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Container Gardening (part two)
Discover all sorts of plants for the perfect containers as well as themes and style suggestions. This is the second part of a two-part article.
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Perennial Foliage For Early Winter
The tree and shrub leaves have drifted over my borders and most perennials in my garden have retreated underground, or into tight rosettes, for the winter. Nevertheless, a jaunt around the garden found several perennials whose leaves are still very much in evidence; aiding the evergreen trees and shrubs in furnishing the early winter garden.
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Factors Affecting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Whenever a flu virus affects humans as SARS, H5N1 bird flu and swine flu did, the Spanish flu outbreak is cited. But in 1918 more than the influenza virus was involved.
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Flowering Herbs for Flower Gardens
Many herbs have pretty flowers and should be grown in flower gardens. Many favorite flowers are also herbs. Do you grow these herbs in your flower garden?
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Lilliputian Lily of the Valley
The history, folklore, and uses of lily of the valley.
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Planting Plan for a Shady Border
A wide variety of plants can be grown in a shady area. This planting plan provides all-year interest in a north-facing border.
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Plants From Witches' Gardens
Many plants have curative as well as harmful properties and were used by healers of long ago for beneficial ointments, love potions and at times instruments of revenge.
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A List of Tunings used by James Blackshaw
James Blackshaw is one of the best UK composers and guitarists in the music world at the moment.
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Pumping Heart
This is the first of a series on the heart derived from an assignment on "The Work of the Heart" I had written.
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A Witch's Brew of Plants
The poisonous consequences of some angelic plants this Halloween.
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This Year's Favorite Flowers - and a Few that Fizzled
What plants surprised me with their fabulous performances this year - and which disappointed me enough to turn them into compost?

Camelot Themed Garden Plants
These perennials, annuals and other plants will add a chivalrous feel to your garden as you celebrate the myth of the Knights of the Round Table.
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Canine Cardiomyopathy
Learn how Cardiomyopathy affects Dobermans.
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Going Native - Plants for the Rural Garden
The use of native plants can help to integrate a rural garden with the surrounding countryside.
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Herb Interactions with Drugs
Although from nature, even if not tampered with by man, herbs often have side effects, as well as affecting prescription drugs being taken.
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Old Folk Remedies: Native Trees
A few of the different native tree species that have been used historically as old folk remedies.
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Ten Health Remedies from Your Backyard
Most people enjoy discovering natural remedies that can help common ailments - natural solutions for relief of cold symptoms, sore throat, and indigestion, for example.
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The Beth Chatto Gardens - Part 2
Continuing from the last article, looking at Beth Chatto's waterside and woodland plantings.
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The Endpoint of Heart Disease
Lung disease, hypertension, and heart disease often end the same way - a dilated heart that cannot pump and death.
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The Propagator's Calendar - Part 2
A guide to when to propagate your plants
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There Is No God?
This is not the philosopher asking the eternal question, "Is there a God?" Nor is it a dyslexic philosopher asking, "Is there a dog?" It is a columnist looking at everyday things and concluding that indeed there is a God.
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Alternative and Integrative Medicine
Use of natural and medical remedies tailored to your specific health challenges may be the solution for optimal health.
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Beef Up Your Borders
How to use short-term planting to fill out a newly planted border
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BeWitched Plants For Halloween
A pretty face can hide a Painted Lady
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BNH Bangkok's First Hospital
The Bangkok Nursing Home or BNH has cared for Bangkokians and visitors for over a century and still is one of Asia's best hospitals.
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Choosing and Caring for Summer Perennial Plants
Anemones, Delphiniums, Hollyhocks and Foxglove are just some of the very large and versatile range of summer flowering perennials available for temperate gardens.
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FALL CHORES
A hurricane's destruction reminded me to put the garden to bed for the winter.
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Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew
Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!
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