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Category Archives: Easy Care Perennials
Double Your Primrose Pleasure
Today, these rescued treasures are available as You and Me primroses (Primula x tommasinii). The large, fragrant blooms are pink or white, rose or cream, blue or purple, yellow or coral, and two laced forms have red or burgundy petals with silvery edges. These free flowering primulas bloom from late winter into June and are solidly perennial, retaining their foliage rosettes all year round. They do best in partial or filtered shade and if divided every few years, the plants will happily carpet a woodland or shade garden.
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Reviving Frozen Plants
After The Freeze As a series of cold fronts ripped through the Northwest, many of us struggled to shelter and protect borderline hardy plants. Draped with floating row cover cloth, sheets, or bubblewrap, temporary structures can provide a few degrees … Continue reading
A Delicious Mystery
The Sweetest Story Ever Sweet peas have been garden favorites for at least three centuries, yet to this day, nobody knows for sure where they originated. Though long thought to be native to the Mediterranean, provocative claims have been made … Continue reading
Posted in Early Crops, Easy Care Perennials, fall/winter crops, Garden Prep, Health & Wellbeing, Nutrition, Pollinators
Tagged Cupid dwarf sweet pea, Grandiflora Sweet Peas, Lathyrus odoratus Cupani’s Original, Painted Lady Sweet pea, Perennial Peas, Prima Donna Sweet pea, Spencer Sweet Peas
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Ornamental And Edible Oreganos
Mediterranean Kitchen & Garden Delights Edible or ornamental, perennial oreganos are among my favorite easy-going border edgers. Deer and disease resistant, their long lasting flowers are always lovely and sometimes fabulous, even (or especially) in their dried stage, making them … Continue reading
Posted in Drainage, Easy Care Perennials, preserving food, Soil, Sustainable Gardening, Sustainable Living
Tagged Amethyst Falls oregano, Aureum Gold oregano, Barbara Tingey oregano, Bristol Grass oregano, Cleopatra marjoram, Dittany of Crete, Golden Crinkled oregano, Greek Kaliteri oregano, Greek Mountain Oregano, Greek oregano, Hopley’s Purple oregano, Hot and Spicy oregano, Italian Oregano, Jim Best oregano, Kent Beauty oregano, Mini Compact oregano, Muhlenbergia capillaris, Nasella tenuissma, Origanum vulgare, Sweet Hardy Marjoram, Westacre Gold oregano, Zaatar marjoram
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