Showing posts with label FLOWERS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FLOWERS. Show all posts

EASY HOUSEPLANTS-- BEGONIAS

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Begonias are an easy houseplant for beginners, with a range of species and selections for the more advanced gardeners.  Some are grown for flowers, others for their foliage.  They come in a range of sizes, shapes, and habit, from upright to spreading.  Many tolerate low light, and they have few if any...
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SECRETS OF CUT TULIPS

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CARING FOR CUT TULIPS  Also though the outdoor scenery may be bleak right now, the greenhouse industry has found a method to bring spring into our homes. And that's by lying to tulips and other spring and coil flowers into blooming early on indoors. When properly maintained, cut tulips will stay fresh in a container...
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BLUEBERRIES

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Good are a great choice for their fruit, as well as shrubs for your landscape. Their fruits and veggies are easy to choose, freeze, have many uses, and be noticeable among vegetables for their high content of antioxidants--those chemicals that slow aging that help your immune system combat infections. Blueberry bushes...
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FUN FACTS ABOUT POINSETTIAS

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Do you like trivia, or at least learning more about the top-selling holiday plant? If so, perhaps you will be interested in a dozen fun facts about the poinsettia plants you buy and see everywhere each December.      Fact 1: Did you know that the poinsettia's main attraction is not its flowers, but its...
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COOL CYCLAMEN

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Keeping cyclamen cool and consistently moist, poinsettias warm and away from drafts, and making gardening gift idea bins are a couple of the garden-related activities with this month. Cyclamen are a flowering holiday herb, usually seen during this time of year and winter. The rounded deep leaves usually have silvery...
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