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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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Purple Coneflower
Purple coneflower is extremely popular as a medicinal herb. This plant has many uses in the landscape.
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Drive-By Echinacea
Echinacea may change your life!
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Echinacea
Echinacea is an herb which can be a great addition to the landscape.
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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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NEW HERBS FOR 2004
2004 brings a new gardening season. This year, a number of fine herbs are being introduced to American gardeners.
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Purple Coneflower-a Popular Herb for Landscaping
Good breeding pays off. New varieties of the purple coneflower or coneflower have taken the market by storm. this plant has gone from being the most widely used herbal remedy to a much-sought garden ornamental.
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The Charm of Herbs
Herbs cast a spell upon gardeners, With their fragrance and texture, these are very worthwhile landscape plants. Here is the latest scoop on new varieties, books, and research on herbs.
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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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Gardening with Colorful Native Plants
Strikingly beautiful and easy to grow, Purple Coneflowers are a must-have for butterfly gardens.
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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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Container Desert Gardens
Planting desert plants in containers can provide an ideal, low-maintenance garden for limited-space areas.
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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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Giant Black Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susans, with their conical brown seed heads and bold yellow petals, provide some striking contrast in any natural garden.
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HERB NEWS FOR MAY
Ephedra and other herbs have been in the news recently. Here is the latest herb news.
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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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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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Tower Hill Botanic Garden
A description of its plants with photographs and links.
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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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Yard and Garden Planning Reader Questions
Readers ask questions about dividing and deadheading perennials as well as overwintering coleus and fish in a water garden.
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Who's Hanging Out In Your Flower Garden?
Identifying butterflies that are more attracted to certain flowers than others can be helpful in planning your butterfly garden. You will marvel at the beauty of the "flying flowers" as you follow the links to their exquisite photographs in this article. Feel free to join in or begin a discussion about this article if you have questions or comments. Enjoy!
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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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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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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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Herbs in the News
As we look ahead to fall in the garden, here's a roundup of herb-related news.
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Native forbs for a dry garden, Part II
Here are six North American wildflowers I have grown, all adapted to well-drained soils.
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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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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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The Best Wildflower Places - Part One
So, without further ado, beginning with number 10, I give you ... fanfare please ... my Top Ten Wildflower Places!
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Controversial Coneflower
The history, folklore, and uses of echinacea.
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High Altitude Gardening Tips
Gardening at altitudes above 6500' is challenging, but with a little effort and proper plant selection, the rewards can be spectacular and unique.
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Lewis and Clark: a couple of High Plains Drifters
Lewis and Clark and their fellow explorers rode out the winter of 1804/05 in the High Plains, at Fort Mandan, in what we now know as South Dakota. During the autumn prior to, and the spring and early summer following that winter they encountered many new plant species.
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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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Heirloom Gardens PT II
Part 2 of Heirloom Gardens article listing some of the heirlooms available to gardeners.
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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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Garden Perennials for Attracting Songbirds
Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant perennials that provide songbirds with a source of food.
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Growing and Caring for Rudbeckia Plant Profile
Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan, is a beautiful daisy-like flower that adds a beauty and splash of color to the summer garden for weeks.
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Health Benefits of Herbal Supplements
Common herbal remedies and supplements and a summary of their potential health benefits.
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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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Herbs for Colds & Flu II
Catching a cold? Herbal relief is here.
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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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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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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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Butterflies in the Heartlands Part Two
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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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Dividing Perennials
Don't have separation anxiety, divide your perennials. Ornamental grasses, lilies, dahlias, delphinium, daisies and more can be divided for free plants.
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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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