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Trees with Simple Leaves
Leaf shape, while often a distinctive identifying feature of trees, can also be confusing when many trees share leaves of similar shape.
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Clearing Woods - Part 3 - More Vines
The native and non-native vines in my woods are either total thugs or thugs with redeeming features.
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Easy Winter Soup Vichyssoise
Warming winter soup is easy and comforting on a cold night. Classic technique of potato-water base
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4-Corners Mountain Bike Adventure Day 4 & 5
An Eight Day Mountain Bike Adventure from 1999 by Alan Davis of WA, USA.

Clusia flaviflora
This tall hemi-epiphyte, distinguished by curtains of aerial roots, is found in high altitude cloud forests.
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Feng Shui
Garden designs that use the ancient art of Feng Shui to bring balance and harmony to your outdoor living space.
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How to Plant a Lotus Pond
While low areas in the garden are often landscape challenges - think wet - and plant a water garden.
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Insalata Caprese Recipe
Insalata Caprese is the classic easy Italian salad, made from tomatoes and mozzarella
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Shamrock Pillow or Sachet
Here is a way to crochet or knit a shamrock shaped pillow or a smaller shamrock sachet!
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Trinidad and Jones Fight
Saturday night January 19, Roy Jones Jr. knocked Felix Trinidad down twice on the way to a unanimous decision victory at Madison Square Garden.
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Fall Garden Chores
Fall garden chores. Plants new trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables and even lawns. Divide perennials, plant trees for autumn color and more!
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Feng Shui Plants
Caring for house plants that purify your air and enhances your life goals.
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Feng Shui--Part 2
Feng Shui--Part Two on the Art of Placement. It explains the main compass directions and the elements that are associated with them. A great tool for reenergizing your home.
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Growing Nasturtiums to Eat
A favourite edible bloom, nasturtiums are a lovely, colourful addition to any vegetable patch or community garden plot.
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Lilies on Land and in Water
Lilies can add color and drama to both land and water gardens. Find out how to give your landscape a shot of color in late summer with stately lilies and discover some sources for water lilies for your home water garden or pond.
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Plant Families: Spurge
The Spurge Family (<I>Euphorbiaceae</I>) is everything the Heath Family isn't, which is polite way to say it falls at the other end of the spectrum in most people's eyes.
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Pleiospilos nelii
Pleiospilos nelii is the popular split rock plant, looking like a piece of greenish speckled rock, and with a perfectly straight cleft right down the middle.
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Poisonous and Aggressive Plants
Plants with thorns or irritating oils may not endear themselves to humans, but they are nature's way of trying to reclaim disturbed areas and return them to wilderness.
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SAGE: HERB OF THE YEAR
Sage, salvia officinalis, is herb of the year for 2001. Explore the many types of sage, learn to grow them and use them and enjoy them.
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Summer Blooming Annuals
Summer blooming annuals are plants that flower in the summer, produce seed and then die. See six of the most popular and useful annual plants for summer flowers.
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The Granny Circle in Crochet
Granny Circles are fabulously versatile. Here is a variation on granny squares for those who want a fresh look.
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ZZ Plant for Easy Care and Beauty
This striking newcomer to interior plantscaping is a favorite accent piece that thrives on neglect.
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A List of Hostas to Grow in Blooming Gardens
Among all plantain lilies, there are blue leaved hostas for shade gardens, sun tolerant hostas, hostas for small space gardens and those with fragrant flowers.
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But Why A Pig?
What is Feng Shui? How is it connected to Chinese Astrology? Why am I a pig? Find out here!
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Greens, Reds & Speckles
That premium mesclun mix isn't new. It's what salad used to be.
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Herbs For Your Container Garden
Herbs come in a variety of shapes, sizes and scents and most are perfectly suited to growing in a container.
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Languorous Water Lilies
The history, folklore, and uses of water lily and lotus
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Massonias - Daubenya and Neobakeria
Massonias - Daubenya and Neobakeria. Because things are not offered for sale at your local nursery or because they have strange sounding names, please don't be put off from growing these things. In Australia and the milder regions of the U.S.A. and U.K. all of the South Africans grow well and flower profusely. If you let folks know what your interests are, like seed companies; they often hold seed for you ahead of the pack. I say seed, because all of the above from seed <b>adapt to your climate</b> far better than buying in bulbs to watch perhaps - die. Remember with most bulbs - Drainage, drainage, drainage.
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Medieval Era Herb Garden Plants
Continuing to look at our herbs and medieval plants still in use today. Many medieval herbs and plants are still used in modern gardens very successfully.
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Splendor in the crabgrass: Mistakes beginning gardeners make
Before you put even one seed into that ground, consider the basics!
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The Gardener's Vision
Is there something special about the gardener's view of the world?
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Through WEED COLORED glasses
You stay, You go. On WHAT do we base these decisions??
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Blackberries
The largest of the wild berries, blackberries mark the start of the warmer season. Learn how to choose and store these wonderful berries, and get some delicious recipes for you to try this season!
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs Part 4 - Brambles Part 1
Highly decorative or pernicious pests? To make certain that I don't get bored, the brambles in my USDA zone 7 woodland manage to be both at once.
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Nasturtium: A delicious, medicinal, ornamental flower
A delicious medicinal remedy, nasturtium is an effective treatment for topical and internal bacterial infections.
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Employ Annual Vines for Summer Entertainment
Use flowering annual vines to add excitement and entertainment to your garden this summer.
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Foliage: The Living Palette - Part 3
As we dream of our gardens and what we want to do, we need to keep our aesthetic tools in mind. Foliage is one of the primary tools available to those of us who garden in shade. With it, we can weave a living tapestry. I've finally gotten a scanner and I've been playing with it. One of these days, I'll figure out the best way to use it. In the meantime, please bear with me if my page is slow to load.
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Hostas: The New Breed
Most of us can't tell most hostas apart without a scorecard. So why do the hybridizers keep making more? We asked the experts.

I Wonder Who's Going To Lose In The Finals?
A look at the Eastern Conference teams for the 2000/2001 season.


Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 4
Hydrangeas are some of the most sumptuous summer-flowering shrubs for our shady gardens. These faithful summer bloomers are regaining the popularity they somehow lost for a time. And rightfully so. We'll look at several species in depth and since there are a lot of photographs, this two part series is also broken into two pages for each part, so they will have a chance of loading in your life time.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 6
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part 6 - Some Special Pets for the Mixed Border
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Spring - Beauty and Beast - Part 2 - Beast
Spring's beauty ripens as the days lengthen and the sun strengthens. But, as there are two sides to every coin, so there are two sides to Spring. The Yin and Yang of Spring, so to speak. If the Yin is the beauty, the Yang is the beast.
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Online Nurseries 2001 - Variegated Foliage Nursery
Stan Megos' Variegated Foliage Nursery, in Eastford, Connecticut, fosters the same type of uncontrollable greed in the heart of a variegated plant nut as a candy store does in the heart of a child. I have lots of plants to show you, so please be patient while the page loads.
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