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E is for Echinacea
Coneflowers are great in the garden for many reasons. Read about what makes them so great, and how to grow them.
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Controversial Coneflower
The history, folklore, and uses of echinacea.
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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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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 Echinacea Purpurea - the Coneflower
Herbal treatment or border beauty? It's hard to resist the beautiful coneflowers produced by echinacea. Here's how to raise it from seed and keep it in tip-top condition.
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Unusual Coneflowers For Butterfly Gardens
Echinacea purpurea can be found in many colors, flower forms and some scented for fragrant gardens. Unusual coneflowers are still appropriate for butterfly gardens.
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Echinacea
Echinacea, native to North America, is one of the most famous and effective herbs in the modern herbal pharmacopoeia.
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Perennials Grow Over Time
Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.
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More Helpful Healing Herbs: Chickweek to Evening Primrose Oil
It's important to know some of the most important herbal treatments for many of the common ailments we are faced with daily. This is one in a series of articles which gives a short, concise overview of many very useful healing herbs. These herbs and treatments are effective alternatives to prescription drugs and lessens the chance of side effects which so often accompany the helpful aspects of modern medicine.
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Echinacea
Echinacea is a medicinal herb that many people vow strengthens their immune systems and keeps colds away.
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Echinacea
Echinacea - an easy to grow native wildflower that's good for your garden and good for you, too
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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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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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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 Supplements As Immune System Boosters
Echinacea supplements are often used as a cold and flu remedy. The following discusses echinacea benefits, side effects and what precautions to take when using this herb.
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A Medicinal Herb Garden
A medicinal herb garden was a colonial home remedy necessity. Now, we grow them as much for beauty. Read about a cold remedy, sore throat, & acne remedy etc.
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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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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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Herbs for Allergies and Sinus Problems
A number of time-tested herbs provide significant relief for allergy sufferers. Used alone or in combinations, herbs target many common allergy and sinus symptoms.
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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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Seedheads in the Winter Garden
Don't be so diligent about your autumn garden clean-up and you'll have a more interesting winter garden.
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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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Choosing Plants for a Butterfly Friendly Garden
Help save Butterflies by planting a Buddleia Bush or by letting the nettles grow? Every grower can do something to preserve this beautiful insect.
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Drive-By Echinacea
Echinacea may change your life!
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Easy Care Perennials for Hot Sun
Every garden has a difficult hot sunny spot where most flowers fail. Plant some or all of these proven hardy perennial performers in your flower garden this summer.
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Easy to Grow Perennials
Perennials are those plants in the yard or garden bed that can be counted on to return and bloom every year. Here's a list of perennial plants anyone can grow.
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Flowers for Butterflies
Flowers and butterflies (and caterpillars) go together. Plan your flower garden to attract butterflies and grow a magical butterfly habitat in your own back yard.
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Fragrant Lavender Flowers Grow Scented Gardens
Fragrant Lavandula plants will create a scented garden or can be part of xeriscape flowerbeds. There are many English and French lavender flower varieties to choose.
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Native American Healing Remedies
Native Americans have used herbs and other plants for healing for centuries; their knowledge of healing remedies has been handed down from one generation to the next.
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Perennial Flowers All Season
Every perennial gardener wants a showy display of flowers all season from spring to fall. Here's how to get it. Follow this guide for your best perennial garden yet.
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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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Perennials: Design to Impress
Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"
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The Top 7 Southwest High-Elevation Perennials
High in the mountains of the southwestern United States, late snows and early freezes can put a damper on flowering gardens.
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Anti-inflammatory Herbs
This article describes the use of plant chemicals with anti-inflammatory properties as complementary therapies for patients with autoimmune disease.
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BASIC HERBAL TREATMENTS FOR HORSES
A good basic guide for using herbs when treating the horse.
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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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Container Desert Gardens
Planting desert plants in containers can provide an ideal, low-maintenance garden for limited-space areas.
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Fall Sowing of Seeds in the Flower Garden
Sowing seeds in fall is a good way to extend the growing season and begin next year's garden.
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Landscaping with Roses - Selecting the Rose
Now that the how, why and where decisions have been made, the only thing left is to determine the "which."
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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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Plants That are Safe for Cats
To create a pet-friendly garden, choose non-toxic plants and avoid those that are highly poisonous.
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Postcard from the Backyard
One of my major goals in this topic area is to encourage gardeners to discuss what they are doing in their gardens and to share information and experience. With that in mind I will send you occasional 'postcards' from the backyard to let you know what I am up to in my garden and to stimulate discussion on what you are doing in yours.
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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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Seasonal Allergy Relief
Herbal relief for seasonal allergies.
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A Garden of Helpful Herbs
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.
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Butterfly Gardening in the Ozarks with Wildflowers
Butterfly and hummingbird gardening with wildflowers. Nectar sources for butterflies and hummers. Host plants for caterpillars.
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Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
Great performers for the summer garden. Everyone needs some dependable "easy keepers" and these plants selected among flowers, shrubs and trees have worked for me year after year. Maybe they'll work for you, too.
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Menopausal Years - Bladder Infections
Susun Weed uses the Six Steps of Healing to help women combat bladder infections.
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My Garden's Got the Blues (And I Love It!)
There are blue things blooming everywhere I look in the garden. I wonder why I never noticed this before?


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