… Nymphaea 'Perry's Double Yellow' is a hardy waterlily with large blossoms of pale yellow centered with brighter yellow stamens. The leaves are mottled with chocolate brown spots. Waterlilies are rhizomatous aquatic plants with about 50 species …
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… family native to tropical America. Kohleria 'Heartland's Blackberry Butterfly' has flowers with pink tubes and golden fuzz. The throat is pale pink to pale lime green and the lobes are spotted with deep burgundy and edged in white. The leaves are light green with chocolate veins. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular …
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… and is best known for jojoba oil, a very long, straight chain wax that has more in common with whale oil than with more traditional vegetable oils. This wax is used in cosmetics and has potential for use as … in North and South America, the Middle East, and Australia. Jojoba is an atttractive shrub, with densely set branches covered with small gray-green leaves. The yellow-green flowers, though …
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… that bear large melon-like fruits that are technically berries; that is, they have a soft rind with black seeds embedded in the center of the juicy, fragrant flesh. With huge, palmately divided leaves atop a 20 to 25 foot trunk, they are very ornamental and look like coconut trees with clusters of the huge fruit under the canopy of leaves. The flowers are white with five …
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… Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with recipes featuring flavorful chiles. Learn how to roast, peel, and de-seed peppers. Taste a … a progression of heat from mild to hot, as well as chiles in three different recipes: chayote with guajillo dressing, carne asada with charred tomato salad, and tomatillo sauced spinach enchiladas. …
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… Oncidium Twinkle 'Red' is a miniature orchid packed with flower power. The blooms grow on a much-branched stem, often with 50 or more flowers in bloom at the same time. Each flower is a blend of cherry red, light … pink, and creamy white. If you wish to recreate this, try hybridizing Oncidium cheirophorum with Oncidium ornithorhynchum . …
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… flavors seeds add to recipes in this cooking class. Enjoy a light lunch of wilted frisée salad with pear and dukkah, roasted cauliflower with tahini pomegranate dressing, and turkey-stuffed tortillas with Oaxacan mole verde. Take home a portion of dukkah, a spicy seed mixture. Mary Kay Gill, …
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… Medium sized, powdery blue leaves are puckered with petioles that are speckled with mauve on this new cultivar of Hosta. The powder blue color persist best in shaded conditions and areas with cool summers. In mid-July small light purple bell shaped flowers appear on 2' stalks. Plant …
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… rhododendron is a hybrid broad leaf evergreen of unknown parentage. It blooms in late April with funnel-shaped, fragrant, pale mauve flowers with darker lobes with a brownish-red blotch. The flowers bloom in trusses of 11 to 16 flowers. This rhododendron …
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… Embrace the flavors of fall with a satisfying meal. In this hands-on class, you will learn to make a comforting homemade chicken noodle soup as a main course. For dessert, pair with apple fritters, topped with warm maple syrup and a rich whiskey-infused whipped cream. Meg Dhamer, private chef and …
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