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Sprawling and Spilling Plants for Paved Areas...

gardening.about.com - Spreading groundcover type perennial plants are great to use to fill in cracks and spaces in paved walkways and patios. Plants like spreading sedums and creeping thyme are favorites because they not only look great, they can handle some foot tr...
Submitted to Garden Information 8 hours ago by Sawdustman
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Random plant event: Columnea 'Light Prince'...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - I got this last May, from a reader, as unrooted (I think?) cuttings. One cutting didn't make it, but the others rooted fine, and then at the beginning of January, I noticed a couple flower buds forming. It's not a cascade of hundreds of flowers ...
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Et tu, Kew?...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - Are the "Zantedeschias" featured in this post at Talking Plants actually dyed Anthuriums? [Yes. The post has since been corrected to Anthurium. -Mr. S.] And shouldn't the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens know the difference? And why is Kew dying/painti...
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Plant-Related Drag Queen Names...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - In honor of the beginning of the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (viewable on-line at the LogoTV.com website1), and because after watching the first episode I had trouble getting to sleep because I kept thinking of drag names, here's a list ...
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Unfinished business: fictional botany...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - Sadly, I've gotten out of the habit of writing fictional botany posts -- the last was posted in July 2010 -- even though I enjoyed doing them. After the one in July 2010, I started another, and had a pretty clear image of the plant in my mind, b...
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Pretty (?) picture: Aristolochia gigantea...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - I had planned to do an orchid post today, but it got really complicated, and took off on several tangents: the meaning of the word "natural," hybridization, my best guess as to the identity of the dye Silver Vase is injecting into their orchids ...
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Elsewhere on the Web: Did We Win Already?...

plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com - Greenhouse Grower has a couple articles up about the blue-dyed Phalaenopsis phenomenon, both of which contain some interesting quotes. In the first, from January 6, Marcella Lucio, the marketing director of Silver Vase (who produce the 'Blue Mys...
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Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Gard...

gardening.about.com - This garden is designed to attract both butterflies and hummingbirds. Most of the plants are suitable for a wide range of growing conditions. Alternative plants are also listed. You can follow the plan as is or adapt it to your particular sit...
Submitted to Garden Information 8 days ago by Sawdustman
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