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It is important to know the difference between cultivars, hybrids and varieties for propagation as well as legal reasons. Hybrids are fairly simple and most people who deal with plants are familiar as to how they are produced. Two plants of the same species or closely related species are crossed. This is done by placing […]
Wintry weather is upon us and we watched our gardens succumb to the cold early this year. No gardener likes to see his plants freeze with the onset of cold weather especially the premature onset of cold weather. Is there anything that can be done to at least delay the loss of plants to an […]
Lactuca serriola This has been a great year for weeds. Not only have they proliferated like the meaning of the word but some of them have reached an extraordinary size. One that you might have noticed is prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola). This form of wild lettuce was introduced from Eurasia but now grows wild in […]
Marsilea mutica Say the word fern and people instantly conjure images of a green, feathery plant that is, well,…… ferny. But of course, the typical ferny leaf is but one body design used in this ancient and extremely variable group of plants. One of the oddball ferns, the water clover (Marsilea mutica), looks like your […]
Oenothera sp. There are 145 species of evening-primrose. Some do indeed, as their name suggests, open at night to the delight of the moths that pollinate them. Others bloom during the daytime. Some are biennial, some are annual, some are perennial and some cross the lines. Pat brought us a video of one of the […]