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Chives

April 17, 2009
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Even though chives are a widely-grown perennial herb, their common uses in the kitchen are limited mainly to potatoes. This is a shame as this member of the onion family is far more versatile.
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Clematis montana var.rubens

April 14, 2009
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Image by Mike Eye Why is it that people who want to cover an eyesore always reach for horrible, thuggish plants such as Russian Vines? Imagine covering your shed with thousands of neat pink blossoms and dark green-bronze leaves. There’s no cont
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Clematis macropetala ‘Markham’s Pink’

April 13, 2009
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Image by Gisela Ott C.macropetala is an altogether more modest plant than its showy summer relatives. It inclines its head humbly and doesn’t produce saucer-sized blooms, preferring to cover itself with hundreds of delicate pink blossoms in Apr
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Amelanchier lamarckii

April 12, 2009
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Image by Bienenwabe If you’re suffering from flowering-cherry-blindness, and want something which holds its own throughout the seasons, the June Berry is pretty hard to beat.
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Dicentra spectabilis

April 11, 2009
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Image by Jack Maynard Bleeding Heart flowers are locket shaped, waxy, and incredibly romantic. I once saw this plant given as a very thoughtful wedding anniversary present: far better than a generic bunch of roses. And Dicentra is a very thoughtful p
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Fritillaria meleagris

April 11, 2009
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Image by Jon Hughes This is a truly breathtaking plant, a grown-up-child’s plant, a barely-real plant. When I was a child I was captivated by the nodding checkerboard heads which grew wild in our soggy clay meadow. And now the sight of hundreds
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Tulip ‘Queen of the Night’

April 10, 2009
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Image by Rebecca Joy The closest breeders have come to creating a black tulip is ‘Queen of the Night’. Of course, it isn’t really black at all: it’s a deep, lustrous purple, but that’s just as well, because black plants
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Community Garden {March}

March 16, 2009
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 New Routes: March 2009  by Jill Coleman     It has been so nice to see the sun at last and actually to feel warm when we are at work. Only a couple of weeks ago we could only make out the first stirrings of early growth on the New Routes site. Now t
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Hydrangea paniculata ‘Pinky Winky’ by Kat

February 26, 2009
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Image copyright Call me Koko ‘Pinky Winky’ is an extraordinarily disgusting name for an extraordinarily elegant plant. Hydrangeas age beautifully, gaining pink and gold rusts on their paper petals. Plant in full sun or part shade in a wel
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Sambucus nigra by Rémy ERRA

February 20, 2009
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Sambucus nigra by Remy ERRA Crushed elder leaves are the smell of childhood, of climbing through their soft branches and picking the landing-pad flowers. Now, picking the flowers supplies us with champagne and other elegant delights such as gooseberr
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Lilacs by NorthernLala

February 12, 2009
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Lilacs, originally uploaded by NorthernLala Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a well-brought-up young lady of a shrub. She dresses beautifully, but without any gaudiness, and smells hauntingly beautiful. Plant in a sunny spot in a fertile and alkaline soil
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A witching hour. Witch Hazel, by Darren Graham

February 11, 2009
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Image by Darren Graham If, like some of the Fennel and Fern writers, you are accustomed to stumbling down an icy garden path at doom o’clock every morning on the way to work, you should at least plant something to wake you up before you hit the
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