… arching cymes gracefully top the dark green, heart-shaped leaves. A wonderful selection for the early spring garden in full sun or under the canopy of deciduous trees. Tolerates the …
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… golden yellow fan-like foliage and an irregularly globe-shaped, upright habit. Excellent for use in rock gardens, beds or borders to bring a unique look to the landscape. Prefers a sunny …
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… sun in moderately rich, well drained soils and permit to reseed to provide replacement plants for this often short lived perennial. …
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… flower heads to 4 inches across and attracts butterflies. This rather coarse plant is good for the wild, woodland garden. It grows to 5-feet tall. …
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… 'Twilight Zone', an improved version of native Little Bluestem is the first to color up for fall, adding iridescent silver-mauve tones all over the plant as early as midsummer! Then …
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… Americans are at last tuning in to the taste of homemade condiments. The time has come for homemade mustard—and you won’t believe how easy and tasty it is. Start with the Basics As … horticulturist Nancy Clifton to learn the how-to’s. Within five minutes of starting her demo for us, she had the first batch of mustard whipped up: Nancy Clifton’s Basic Mustard Recipe ½ cup … online.) Mustard-making Tips Mustard powder makes a much stronger spread than mustard seeds. Best bet? A combination of both. Hot water mellows mustard’s heat—use hot instead of cool in any …
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… I just returned from two weeks in Mongolia searching for fossil flowers. Why go halfway around the world to look for fossils of flowering plants when … lakes that draw hundreds or thousands of animals to drink. Tempting as it may be, it is best not to set up camp too close to the water! Then there are the less picturesque … the locality to look for the kinds of rocks that we need. For mesofossils we normally have best luck with clay and siltstone with fragments of organic material. In the field we often can’t …
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… learn more. Meanwhile, here are a few ways to get started: Learn More White Pine-Infused Honey For sore throats or pick-me-ups, clinical herbalist Dawn Petter makes a simple remedy of honey … wellness,” says Petter, owner of Petalune Herbals in New York. Tip: It takes six weeks for this recipe to be ready, so think about preparing it ahead of time, before the cold-and-flu … dry air can wreak havoc on your skin. Petter likes to make an oil with marshmallow root to use for winter hydration (see recipe, right). “Marshmallow root is soothing, moisturizing, and …
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… not able to migrate north as quickly as the ice melted because many of the animals responsible for pollinating and transporting seeds or plant parts had become extinct. Members of the genus Amsonia are commonly known as bluestars for the abundant small blue flowers borne in clusters at the stem tips in late spring or early … and more than 3,5000 individual plants. A number of these varieties have been evaluated for their performance in our region; Plant Evaluation Notes can be found on the Garden's website. …
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… story got me wondering if we could replicate Martian soil with local ingredients and use it for plant experiments. So I contacted the Garden’s soil scientist, Louise Egerton-Warburton, and … high temperature) three times to kill microbes Experiment away! You know you work in a great place when you can ask a colleague for directions for making Martian soil and you get an … actions remind us of stories about the Pilgrims teaching the indigenous people to place a piece of fish next to each kernel of corn to improve the crop yield, there are some …
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