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The Unforgettable Myosotis Species
The pretty little "forget-me-not" is an often overlooked groundcover; a wildflower that does well in the shady areas of your yard.
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Plant Families: Bignoniaceae and Boraginaceae
Bright colors, aggressive vines and five o’clock shadows hold sway this week. Reds, oranges, yellows, blues and purples all blossom and bloom, decorating the landscape with festive abandon. Coiled tendrils unwind, grasping onto absolutely everything they fall across. Plants, hairier than my Uncle Paul, wear their flowers like gaudy costume jewelry. Many of these wildflowers, if not well known, are certainly recognizable by sight. Some even turn up in the garden. So what are these, these hirsute plants, these plants that won’t let go, these plants that flash us with bold colors, bugger the trench coat?
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Alaska State Flower Alpine Forget-me-not
Forget-me-not is a perennial plant native to alpine areas of the United States and is the Alaskan State Flower.
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Get the Best of the Blues: Part 1: Annuals
Patches of blue are a great contrasting colour in your beds and baskets. Here are five annuals that have true blue blooms.
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Rounded Growth Container Plants
Plants with mounding growth habit add weight and substance to a container planting combination by filling it in and creating a mass of color.
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Love-sick Knights, Forget-Me-Nots and More
According to one legend, a brave young knight was questing about, looking for dragons to slay and Black Knights to smote ... then he saw her, a beautiful maiden. Leaping from the back of his steed, the knight stumbled towards a stream’s edge where he did wrap his gauntlet-clad hand around a bunch of beautiful blue flowers; a gift for the comely young maiden. But alas, drunk on love and carelessly so, the knight tumbled mightily into the water. He sank with a sickening zeal, but not before throwing the flowers toward the maiden and proclaiming, “Forget me not!”
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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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Planning a Cutting Garden
These days, the price of cut flowers is so expensive that many of us have chosen to grow them ourselves.
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Perennials for Moist Soil H to Peltandra
The second in a series about moist soil.
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Official Designated State Flowers
Each state in the United States of America has a formal flower. Some blooms are claimed by more than one place. Check this complete state by state listing.
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Shady and Native Blue Flowers
If you like blue flowers and need blue flowers for shade or prefer native plants with blue flowers, try planting some of these unusual flowers in your flower garden.
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International Garden Photographs
April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.
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A BUSY TIME IN THE ALPINE HOUSE.
A BUSY TIME IN THE ALPINE HOUSE.

The Alpine Retreat
A visit to the annual Alpine Weekend.
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Twelve Beautiful Plants for Shade
These twelve plants will make your shade garden the envy of the neighborhood.
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Let Your Trowel Dig True for the Red, White and Blue
Celebrate Memorial Day and the rest of summer. Check out these annuals for great red, white and blue combinations.
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Celmisia and Eritrichium: White and Blue.
Celmisia and Eritrichium: White and Blue.
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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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