 Gardening is a medicine that does not need a prescription...and with no limit on dosage. -George Eliot
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Growing Salad Greens in Window Boxes
Don't let a lack of garden space keep you from growing and enjoying fresh veggies! With this plan, you can start harvesting fresh, flavorful, nutritious salad ingredients in about a month. |  |
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Easy Care Perennials
These 12 of my favorite perennials require little or no care for at least a few years. These are in no particular order. You can choose which ones will best fit your needs. |  |
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Edible Shrubs for your Landscape
Look around any yard in the United States and you're bound to see a limited palette of ornamental shrubs used as foundation plantings, hedges, and specimen plantings. Although beautiful, I can't help but think they're missing out on a great opportunity to grow similarly attractive shrubs that are edible instead. |  |
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Together with Jung Seed Spectacular RosesJung Seed has a wonderful selection of roses that we are excited to share. We offer many different classifications, such as hybrid teas, grandifloras, floribundas, antique & modern climbing roses, and disease-resistant, highly floriferous shrub and groundcover roses. Shop Now!
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Rose (Rosa 'Rose de Granville')
Bloom size: Medium: 2-3"
Petal count: full: 26-40 petals
Rose bloom color: Light pink
Extra Bloom Info: In clusters
Rebloom: Good
Class: Floribunda
Growth Habit: Short, 2-3 feet, bushy
Fragrance: Mild
Hybridizer & year: Jerome Rateau, 2005
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Plant Height: 2-3 feet
Plant Spread: 2-3 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Flower Time: Spring, Summer, Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Parentage: AUScent x DORblan
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Woodland Passion Flower (Passiflora morifolia)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 8b -9.4 °C (15 °F) to -6.7 °C (20 °F)
Plant Height: 20'
Leaves: Other
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Summer, Late summer or early fall, Fall
Uses: Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Birds, Butterflies, Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon, Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Honey Euryops (Euryops virgineus)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F)
Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet
Plant Spread: 2 to 4 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Fruit: Other
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant, Other
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring, Late winter or early spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant, Humidity tolerant
Pollinators: Bees
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Rice Flower (Ozothamnus diosmifolius)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade, Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F)
Plant Height: 2-3 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White, Pink
Flower Time: Other
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge, Cut Flower, Dried Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
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"Royal Yellow Leucospermum"
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"Anemone coronaria Rainbow 'Blueberry'"
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"First ever bloom. Strong grape jelly scent."
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"Big Delight"
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 I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring. Kirsty Gallacher
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