Articles related to "Teasel"



Nectar-rich Teasel Easy to Grow from Spring Seed
Overwintering Teasel attracts small birds, like buntings, goldfinches, sparrows, to its super-sized brown seedheads. Gardeners can encourage self-sowing teasel in spring.
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Teasel, MY new friend!
After EIGHT cases of Lyme Disease, wouldn't you know it's a WEED that helps avert a ninth!
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Rootin' Around
Digging roots for medicinal uses when it seems the harvest is past.
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Pincushions and Friends
The perennial plant of the year and it's buddies are on-track for summer gardening. How to grow them, how about them, how d'ja like 'em?
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How to Get the Cutting Garden You've Always Wanted!
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Deer Ticks Redux
Lyme Disease prevention with a few new spins
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How to Grow Native Flowers to Encourage Insects
Our insects are finding it difficult to survive in our modern world. However by growing a range of native flowers you can help encourage them into your garden.
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Prepare Fleece With Carders
Carding fibers using a pair of carders is part of the process of preparing fibers for spinning or other fiber crafts. This is also a good way to blend fibers.
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RED ALERT!
The first signs of fall are bold but fleeting -- don't get left behind!
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Book Review: The Savage Garden by Peter D'Amato
Discover nature's savage side. This book is about growing, and nurturing your very own little shop of horrors.
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Play Plants in Tasmania
Plants Tasmanian children might play with.
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A Nature Lover's Shangri-La Crowley's Ridge State Park
Crowley's Ridge has been called the largest sand bar between two rivers that nature ever created. To me, it's a Naure Lover's Shangri-La!
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Attracting Beneficial Insects
Organic gardeners need to attract beneficial insects to control the pest bugs commonly found in flower and vegetable gardens. I explain which insects control which pests and how to attract them.
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Gardens for Eccentrics and Individualists: Fun in the Yard
Create a garden that makes a statement about your individuality - and have a little fun.
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Invasive Species
Invasive alien plants may upset the ecological balance in their new location.
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Interstate Botany: Comments on Interstate Highway Vegetation Mangement
Efforts to brighten and beautify our interstate highways are erratic and subject to the whims of local officialdom, often to the detriment of the very goals sought.
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Cheese Making Part Two
The Art of Cheese Making
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Say Cheese! - Two
Conclusion to Last Week's Article

Ice palace
Nature journal for December. The river begins to freeze and geese return to the pond. A beaver lodge and an ice palace. A hike at Rattlesnake Point, an outlier of the Niagara Escarpment.
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