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This video cannot be played because of a technical error.(Error Code: 102006) A sunny balcony is great for growing plants like tomatoes. 2. Best Use of Space Team up different containers to grow vegetables in a limited space of your balcony. 3. Oranges in Balcony! Yes! You can grow ora...
How different is the evolution of sex-biased gene expression between plants and animals? A commentary on: 'Sexual dimorphism and rapid turnover in gene expression in pre-reproductive seedlings of a dioecious herb' This article comments on: Guillaume G. Cossard, Melissa A. Toups and John R....
It is fast growing and produces large amount of foliage during the spring and summer. Mature plants can be harvested up to five times per year. In herbal medicine, comfrey is known as an herb that can offer therapeutic benefits, but at the risk of liver toxicity. Taking any part of the...
The Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is a European species that grows in meadows, disturbed areas, woodlands, and foothills in spring, summer, and fall. It has a crowned head of flowers, which produce numerous seeds. The plant is known to compete against native plants and is found in...
Passion flowers are wild-looking, exotic plants that love to climb trellises or walls. Scientific Name: Passiflora caerulea Also known as the Common Passion Flower, this is an RHS award-winning bloom considered one of the most attractive climbers. It is a vigorous and semi-evergreen climber ...
This woody biennial herb (Verbascum thapsus) has a rosette of densely-hairy pale gray-green leaves in the first year. There is an unbranched solitary hairy flowering stem in the center of the rosette in the second year. The stem is topped in summer with a twenty-inch cylindrical inflorescen...
You dig one hole per plant and can be confident that they’ll repeat their pattern of blooming year after year without you replanting them. Of course, not all perennials can simply be left to their own devices. Some tend to spread and overtake other plants, and others need to be ...
Here are some ideas of how you can adapt the technique in this project into different applications. These projects use the same basic technique shown for the Herb & Flower Garden Centerpiece.The fireplace mantel is all artificial plants and the other is all fresh flowers and foliage. If you ...
Epimedium is a genus of about 60 flowering herbs. There are many uses for epimedium plants, including making ground cover and...