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How to Propagate Dahlias
Divide tubers and root cuttings to increase dahlia plants and provide masses of cut flowers from late summer through to the first frost.
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How to Dig and Store Dahlia Tubers
Save your dahlias for replanting next spring! In fall, dahlia tubers or roots are dug up after frost and stored for the winter. Learn how to dig and store dahlia tubers.
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Bulbous plants.
As often the culture of bulbous plants is poorly understood, it is you the reader who using your common sense and experimenting with which grows best in your climate hold the key....
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory... Part II
Part II contains information regarding the toxicity of Gloriosa tubers, hints on propagation, a discussion of nomenclature, and sources for these great plants.
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Bulbs to Plant in the Spring
While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.
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Arisaema Seed Germination
Learn how to germinate arisaema seed, create an artificial winter as well as when to expect your plant to bloom.
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Mandioca or Cassava?
Widely referred to as cassava it's known as mandioca, aipim, or macuxeira throughout Brazil. Where does the word Mandioca come from?
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory...
of Gloriosa superba, a spectacular flowering plant that actually enjoys our summers, is pest free, fast-growing, self-cleaning, and is hardy in zones 8 through 11.
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Dahlias for Garden and Vase
Dahlias are easy to grow. Follow these quick tips to growing perfect dahlias and enjoy dahlias blooming in the flower garden and as cut flowers, too.
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Flowers for the White Garden
Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.
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Sweet Potato Bread Recipe
Sweet potatoes are very popular in the South with North Carolina being the top producing state with 40 percent of the crop.
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Sexy Plant Stems and Bulbs (What You Don't Know May Cost Y ou!)
Part Two in Plant Anatomy 101: A Beginner's Guide to Garden Plants.
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Fall Comes Unexpectedly
Frost strikes. A few things need to be rushed in and cared for. Many just keep on keeping on. But that first frost is the clue. Start planning for next year.
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My Garden
Tour our Garden Design editor's garden.
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Winter in the Pond
Get your pond ready for the cold season ahead.
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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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Growing Healthy Potatoes
Waxy new potatoes are one of the delights of summer - and very easy to grow in the home garden.
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Wintering Over Frost Tender Bulbs
How to store the frost tender bulbs of cannas, dahlias and gladiolus plants over the cold winter months.
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Acianthella amplexicaulis
This tiny delicate terrestrial orchid is confined to parts of the Australian east coast and is considered rare.
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Bulbs add colour to the fall garden
Plant drifts of autumns crocus, colchicum, cylcamen and lycoris to brighten the fall garden.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 1
Gardening in Shade - Bulbs for Shady Places - Part 1
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Amorphophallus Titanum Flower
Amorphophallus, possibly the world's stinkiest plant, has made headlines and brought in crowds each time it has bloomed.
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Arum italicum 'Pictum'
When the weather is chilly, wet and dreary and leaves are covering the ground instead of tree branches, fresh foliage is hard to find. Arum italicum is just starting to hit it's stride.
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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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Growing Dracuncula Vulgaris, the Voodoo Lily
Dracuncula Vulgaris, or Arum Dracunculus is also known by the name Voodoo Lily or Dragon Flower, but what is it and how do you grow it?
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Augustinian Medieval Medicine
The Augustinian Medieval monks knew more about black henbane, hemlock and opium than anyone alive today. It was the best medicine you could buy in the Middle Ages."
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Canoeing Florida's Blackwater River
The Blackwater River, located in the northwest panhandle of Florida, is a pristine, shifting sand bottom river, perfect for a long leisurely float trip.
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Caramelized Fruits On Skewers
Read about the origins and medicinal properties of this traditional snack, which still remains popular today with children and adults alike.
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Murder & Mayhem in the Garden
Garden clean-up time can also be a great stress-buster
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Books for Christmas - Part 1
Books for Christmas buying. All solid works and a sound investment of hard earned money.
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Cultivate Home Grown Potatoes
Grow a good crop of potatoes and prevent pests and diseases from destroying them.
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Get Your Garden Started Right: Three Invaluable References
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Growing Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are easy to plant, require a minimum of effort while growing and yield a bountiful harvest that will store well into the winter.
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Tubing at Ichetucknee Springs
When temperatures rise in Florida, one great place to seek relief is Ichetucknee Springs State Park.
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Books for Christmas - Part 3:
Top Shelf Garden Books, real winners
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Holy Thistles to Madonna Lily: More Plants of the Bible Lands
This is a continuination of a series on Bible flowers.
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Violets and Prayer Seeds
Planting seeds while praying for the continuance of a community garden; recipes for Spring Salad with Violets and Japanese Knotweed Sauce
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 2
More early spring bulbs that do well in shady gardens.
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My Garden
garden tour
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Worms are Eating my Root Vegetables! - Answers
A common gardening question, with answers revealed.
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Fatal Beauty: Garden Plants that Can Kill
Even familiar garden plants and parts of vegetable plants can be deadly.

Jerusalem Artichoke
A reader writes to me for tips on Jerusalem Artichokes. Your gourmet sleuth springs into action. Girasole is Italian for Sun...what American plant follows the sun?
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Plant Collectors
Presents some easy care plants for the enabled gardener.
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Ajiaco Colombiano
This dish takes advantage of the myriad of potatoes available in the Andean region of South America. Great for a main dish or as a starter.
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Community Supported Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) promotes seasonal cooking with a weekly delivery of fresh tasty produce and many other healthy advantages.
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Cookbooks: Fresh Vegetable Recipes
These 3 titles offer tasty, easy recipes that make cooking with fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables a pleasure regardless of the time of year.
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Fall Cleanup of Perennial Beds
With a hard frost past in most areas, fall cleanup of the perennial beds should be underway. Here is what to do and why.
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Sancocho Recipe
Sancocho is a Colombian soup that is not only great for quelling an appetite, but also for nurishing the soul.
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Selecting a Recreational Boat
Recreational boat builders offer many different types of boats for activities like fishing, skiing, and sightseeing. There is a model suitable for any type of boating.
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Venezuelan Food and Drink
Venezuela's cuisine is relatively unknown outside of the country, but taste an Arepa and you'll be likely to plan a trip.
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