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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 […]
We have a new/old plant to review this month. In our last garden club sale we had several ladybells. This bellflower look alike was growing wild when we bought the land on which we are currently living. No one had lived there for years and there were a number […]
Five million, seven hundred thousand bats have succumbed to white-nose syndrome since 2006. Seven bat species are included in this number: :big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), little brown myotis, (Myotis lucifugus), tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus), ), eastern small-footed myotis (Myotis leibii) ,northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis), the Indiana myotis (Myotis sodalis) and gray myotis (Myotis grisescens). […]
Saprophytic plants are not unusual in nature. These are plants that live off of dead and decaying matter. They cannot make their own food as they contain no chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize. Most of them are found in defined locations since they have a very specific arrangement with their environment. While some such as mistletoe […]