 The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
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Amaranth Grain for Healthy Eating
Amaranth is a wild vegetable and is one of the top three healthiest wild vegetables we know. There are quite a few varieties of the amaranth flower that gardeners world-wide grow as an ornamental plant and they can all be used as a healthy addition to your diet as well. |
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Growing Edible Flowers in Your Garden
While gardeners love flowers for their beauty outdoors in the garden and indoors in a vase, few raise them to eat. That's a shame because many flowers are edible and bring lively flavors, colors and textures to salads, soups, casseroles and other dishes. Eating flowers is not as exotic as it sounds. The use of flowers as food dates back to the Stone Age with archeological evidence that early man ate flowers such as roses. |
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How to Grow and Care for Coneflowers
Coneflower is a native North American perennial sporting daisylike flowers with raised centers. The flower, plant, and root of some types are used in herbal remedies. |
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Preserving Herbs
The most common ways to preserve herbs are drying and freezing. You can also make herb-based sauces. Try one or more of these methods so you can enjoy that fresh-picked flavor year-round. |
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Saving Flower Seeds for Replanting
Saving seeds can be economical, since a single flower can generate dozens or even hundreds of seeds. Although the procedure is simple, there are a few techniques that will improve your chances of being a successful seed saver. |
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Heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 2.5-3 feet
Plant Spread: 1.5-2 feet
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant
Flower Color: White, Purple, Lavender
Flower Time: Summer
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
Toxicity: Other
Pollinators: Bees, Moths and Butterflies
Containers: Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Cleome
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Plant Height: 3-6 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White, Pink, Purple
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer, Summer, Late summer or early fall, Fall
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Start indoors, Sow in situ, Can handle transplanting
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Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva 'Kwanso')
Hybridizer: Kaempfer
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1712
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 36 inches
Bloom time: Midseason
Bloom Traits: Eye or Band
Bloom Form: Double
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry
Flowers: Showy
Uses: Will Naturalize
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Triploid
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Common Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry
Plant Height: 24-36 inches
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White, Pink, Other
Flower Time: Summer, Late summer or early fall, Fall
Uses: Cut Flower, Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Birds, Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Start indoors, Sow in situ, Can handle transplanting, Other info
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Bees, Moths and Butterflies
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
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Bachelor's Buttons (Centaurea cyanus)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry
Plant Height: 1-3 feet
Plant Spread: 1-2 feet
Leaves: Unusual foliage color, Other
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue, Other
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer, Summer
Uses: Cut Flower, Dried Flower, Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Flowers
Eating Methods: Raw, Cooked
Wildlife Attractant: Birds, Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Provide darkness, Self fertile
Pollinators: Self, Bees, Flies, Moths and Butterflies
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Awards and Recognitions: Other
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