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Bat Face Mexican Heather Plant

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

I recently came across several plants while doing my shopping for a new camera at Amazon.com. I placed the order March 20 and the plants, sent March 22 by priority mail, arrived two days later, all in very good condition.......

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Yesterday Today Tomorrow, Brunfelsia

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

"Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" -- the name alone is unique and memorable. Seeing the three colors of flowers all at once on a big tree for the first time at Entebbe Botanical Garden earlier this month was also an exciting and......

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The amazing Sausage Tree, Kigelia pinnata

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~John Muir (1838 - 1914) Entebbe Botanical Garden in Uganda, on the beautiful Lake Victoria,......

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Cannonball Tree, Couroupita guianensis

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky" --Kahlil Gibran It's a line written at the top of the Forest Generation website I happened to come across as I was searching for information on the Cannonball tree and......

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Crown of Thorns, Euphorbia splendens

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have just returned from an African safari (safari is a Swahili word, meaning journey) where I was intrigued by an unusually big, low-growing shrub called Crown of Thorns, perhaps 15 feet in diameter and 4 -5 feet in height,......

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Pregnant onion, Ornithogalum longebracteatum

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

I consider myself lucky to have found the so-called pregnant onion with one small baby plant growing on one side of the 'mother' bulb at the RI Spring Flower & Garden Show. My reactions after the encounter were, "Where have......

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Stromanthe sanguinea 'Tricolor'

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Stromanthe sanginea was one of the 4 plants I picked up at the R.I. Spring Flower & Garden Show. It came in a 4-inch pot, from a nursery (Heimlich Nurseries) in Woburn, Mass. 2.19.10 I was captivated by the variegated......

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Some new African violets

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

It was over a year ago when I bought my first African violet, on sale for $1.99 with just one lonely bloom. That plant has continued to do well in the past year as the other five I have added.......

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Mosaic plant, Fittonia verschaffeltii

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Every so often I go grocery shopping and come back with one or two new plants. This happened a few weeks ago when I spotted some new plants with very unusual foliage. 2.15.10 The plants have small, oval, dark-green leaves......

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