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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Photo by Paintedtrillium "Beautiful!!"
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Photo by MySecretIslandGarden "The aroma is intoxicating."
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Photo by WebTucker "Sandhill's Saint John's wort #238. RAB page 712, 126-1-12; AG page 92, 18-2 —?; LHB p. 676, 129-1-?, "Ancient Greek name of obscure meaning"."
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