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Lavender Plants and Their Uses
Lavender plants are so versatile. Lavender buds, flowers, leaves and stems have multiple uses.
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Nova Scotia's Victorian Lavender Festival
The Victorian Lavender Festival in River John, by way of Nova Scotia's North Shore, offers visitors the chance to learn all about lavender.
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Plant Profile: Lavender
An in-depth profile of a favorite herb plant, Lavender. Learn why the lavender plant is prized in the garden and how to select and care for one in your own landscape.
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How to Grow Lavender
Understand the different varieties of lavender, how to grow it indoors and out, and learn about its uses in crafts, cooking, aromatherapy, and decorating.
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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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Medieval Herb Garden Plants Part 1
This article discusses briefly some aspects of medieval gardens and gives a list of several herbs and other medieval plants still in use today.
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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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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Saving Plant Seeds
Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.
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Planting and Growing Musk Mallows
Musk mallows are a gardening favorite. These beautiful plants are prolific and produce delicate flowers covering stems that grow to approximately 3 feet.
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Sonoma California Wine Tours
There's much more to Sonoma County than touring some of the finest California vineyards. Try free vineyard hikes, bird-watching, honey-tasting and organic hideaways too
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Summer Book Review: Cutting Gardens
A review of a book that may change your mind on how to grow a fragrant cutting garden!
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Lovin' Lavender
Lavender, with its fragrant purple flowers and grey-green foliage, is a perfect container plant for your patio or balcony garden.
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Plants with Silver Foliage
Plants with silver foliage blend well with other plants and add shining accents to a mixed border or flower bed. Use grey-leaved plants in moonlight gardens also.
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Grow a Variety of Scented Flower Gardens
Plant a scented garden in any garden theme. Use hostas with fragrant flowers in a shade garden to attract hummingbirds or flowers with scented leaves butterflies love.
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Grow More Lavender!
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.This week: lavender.
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Lavender Essential Oil Profile
Lavender essential oil is one of the most commonly used oils for aromatherapy, home health and natural medicine. A universal essential oil, lavender has many benefits.
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Lavender-the Herb of Choice for Landscaping
Fragrance is big. The sale of candles, aromatherapy products and other scented items continues to grow without bounds. Among the most popular aromatic herbs is lavender. This scented plant is an excellent choice for landscapes. It adds a unique beauty to gardens even when it isn't in bloom.
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In the Garden, Disappointed in Love
They say each one kills the thing they love - and my garden seems determined to prove it to me. It's never the dandelions that dwindle - only the plants of my dreams. So why does that make me smile?

Oh Good! The Lavender Died.
There's always room for one more.

The Mint Family
Of the culinary herbs, ten of these are the most commonly grown. For the most part, these tend to be members of the Mint family. Worldwide, there are around a hundred genera and some three thousand species within this family.
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Low Maintenance Gardening
Creating a garden that looks good without demanding too much from the gardener.

Lavender
Lavender is so much more than just a prety shrub. Stressed out? Lavender tea will calm your nerves!
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Spring Gardens: Problems and Promises
The anxiously awaited green things are peeping through the mulch - along with a few less pleasant surprises. Here we go again - Gardening time!


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