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Staghorn Sumac Is Dioecious

Staghorn Sumac puts on a startling display of color in the fall. It is a pleasing sight, especially in the

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How to Grow and Care for Wintergreen

The wintergreen shrub is accentuated with either gorgeous, white bell-shaped flowers or brilliant, pinkish-red berries, depending on the season. Beautiful,

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How To Grow and Care For Bougainvillea

So let’s try and give a general overview of growing Bougainvillea, its care, blooming, light, water, soil, origin and more…

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Purple Giant Hyssop is Great for Pollinators

Purple Giant Hyssop sets soft plumes of the palest purple flowers that top out at 6 feet, soaring above most

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Sansevieria makes a Very Adaptable Houseplant

The snake plant or Sansevieria pronounced (san-se-vi-ee’-ri-ah) – A genus of perennial herbs with stiff, very thick leaves, often mottled

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Foamﬂower Shows Well in Groups

Foamflower can be a great addition to many gardens. It has an interesting, attractive leaf when not in flower. It

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Smooth Solomon’s Seal

Smooth Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum commutatum) is a drought tolerant perennial for the shade garden, native to Ontraio and Eastern North

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How To Care For Tiger Lily

It’s easy to grow a Tiger Lily from bulbs, and their lilies are one of the most beautiful flowers in

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Passion Flower: Growing The Passiflora Vine

The Passion Flower is listed as hardy in USDA hardiness zones 5-9; however, it may actually struggle in zone 5

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Grey Dogwood Care and Use

Grey dogwood is a hardy, low-maintenance shrub that provides subdued beauty all year round. Around June, white flower panicles enliven

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Aloe Vera Gel

Aloe Vera, a popular cactus-like succulent, is one of the most useful medicinal plants and is very easy to grow.

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Obedient Plant has Wonderful Flowers

Obedient plant, true to its name, its flowers are “obedient” and can bend in any direction. The obedient plant is

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Blue-stemmed Goldenrod is well behaved.

The blue-stemmed goldenrod is sometimes referred to as Wreath Goldenrod. It is a well-behaved woodland species. It forms pretty, loose

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Blue Flag Wild Iris, Quebec’s Floral Emblem

Iris versicolor, commonly called northern blue flag, is a clump-forming iris that is native to marshes, swamps, wet meadows, ditches,

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Great St. John’s Wort Care and Uses

St. John’s Wort is a magnificent, vivacious plant with flowers that can be up to 5 cm wide. It is

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Discover the White Turtlehead

White Turtlehead has masses of beautiful white hooded flowers at the ends of the stems from late summer to mid

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