… roasting, blanching, and spiralizing. Featured recipes include lavender-rosemary roasted beets with ricotta, creamy beet hummus, crispy beet falafel, and a fresh greens salad with raw beet spirals, finished with a bright seasonal herb dressing. Nicole Putzel, certified nutrition coach, classically …
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… early spring and is attractive to butterflies. The blooms are fragrant lilac-mauve flowers with orange throats in twelve inch panicles. The leaves are gray-green with gray wool underneath. It grows to a maximum height of eight feet with full sun. …
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… New! Simplify your holiday season with a cozy, make-ahead classic. In this hands-on class, learn how to prepare jumbo pasta shells filled with a rich ricotta and herb mixture and topped with a bright, tangy tomato sauce. Perfect for popping in the oven on a busy night, this …
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… winter. This clump-forming South African ginger relative grows to a height of about 6 feet with bright, indirect indoor light and moderate moisture conditions. Like other tropical plants, it benefits from misting with water during the winter months to increase the humidity and keep spider mite populations low. Misting with water actually causes the spider mites to catch the equivalent of pneumonia. …
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… by a wholesale bulb company in the Netherlands. The first to bloom has large scarlet blooms with a short stature. The broad wavy leaves are edged in yellow. It is intermixed with a white variety and the last to bloom will be pink. Tulip blends are popular with both vendors and homeowners looking for tulips that provide coordinated colors and which …
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… With a classic 'corsage' orchid shape, this cultivar presents lavender petals that surround the darker lower lip with a dark yellow spot to guide he pollinating insects to the pollen sacks. With bright sunlight, high humidity, a modest rest period, and well-drained media, this plant …
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… With parents native to Madagascar, Aloe ‘Christmas Carol’ is a small succulent that produces rosettes smaller than 1-foot tall and wide with 6-inch-long leaves. The deep green, lance-shaped leaves have soft but spine-like, vibrant, dark red, raised markings down the center and along the leaf margin and are stippled with creamy white dots. The flowers, which bloom in fall and winter, are reddish-pink, though …
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… Carolina allspice, or sweetshrub, has untoothed, opposite, ovate leaves with a pleasant, spicy aroma. 'Purpureus' has coppery red new growth, more prominent on the undersides of the leaves, with leaves becoming more olive green in shade. The flowers, blooming in May and June, have … overlapping strap-like petals and a fruity scent. They are an unusual shade of dark red with a hint of maroon and sit atop short branchlets. Leaves can be 4-6” long, with a rough …
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… Linnaeus in 1753. The genus Mammillaria is currently one of the largest in the cactus family, with 171 known species and varieties. This amazing plant, with its cylindrical form and bright carmine rose flowers, is a showstopper of a cactus. The top of each cylinder is crowned with bright, funnel-shaped flowers in a circle surrounding the center. This small gem only grows …
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… sold under the trade mark name Little Quick Fire™. This is a dwarf shrub 3 -5 ft. tall with a spread of 2-4 ft. The cone shaped flowerheads are a mixture of densely packed showy but sterile flowers with smaller, fertile but nonshowy flowers underneath. The flowers emerge white and turn light pink, then a deeper pink as they mature. With new flowers continually emerging at the tip of the cone, the flowerheads are a lovely blend …
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