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Maranta surprises never end
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A few months ago I wrote about my accident with my Maranta plant in which I broke off both of the branches. I really thought that my plant was gone, but instead, the little, crazy resistant Maranta awarded my…
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Could this be chives?
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For the past couple of years, I’ve started noticing small, onion-looking bushes all around the yard. First, they started appearing in the backyard, but lately, they started spreading outside the side yard, into the woods. We have here some wild…
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When being clumsy turns out to be a good thing
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Some days I can be very clumsy. Not always, but sometimes it seems like I have two left hands. Sometimes, I have a feeling like my fists open on their own and I drop things, or my hand twitches…
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Heliotropium arborescens – heliotrope
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Heliotropium arborescens, a plant that was in the gardens of our grandmothers known as “the cherry pie flower” or “bradarka” was once a very popular flower. The Peru native plants have been a part of every garden in Europe, as…
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Streptocarpus -cape primrose
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A few weeks ago I bought two plants of Streptocarpus. The delicate leaves and flowers have been badly beaten up from the boxed delivery, so I had no idea what to expect from the plants. A few weeks later the…