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Baby's breath, Gypsophila

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Baby's breath is probably one of the flowers most used for bouquets and other floral arrangements. They are known as a "filler flower" and "floral-industry mainstay". We mostly see them in the flower shops and almost always in white. I......

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Homestead Purple verbena

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Verbena Canadensis is a slow-growing and hardy-perennial flowering plant with a long blooming period. It is heat and drought resistant, suitable for borders and edging. 7.9.09 My two verbenas were planted around the end of May, at the inner......

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Verbascum, Common mullein

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One day around early or mid-spring I saw an unusual rosette of pretty, broad, light green leaves growing in my rock garden, very close to the peony tree. The leaves were silvery, thick and wooly. The plant seemed to grow......

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Rudy triteleia

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This is a relative new plant and there isn't much written about it. Rudy triteleia is in the lily family The picture in the bulb catalog I saw back in the spring of 2007 was so irresistible. I instantly......

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