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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Kitchen Gardening
... and Flower-Infused Ices Spring Beauty—A Woodland Wildflower With Tasty Tubers Stevia—A Sweet and Sour Tale Tasty Tubers—Unusual Central and South American Vegetables Tea—Brewing Good Health and ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Splendid Salvias—14 Tender Perennials for Summer and Fall Bloom
... dormant and reliably reappear in the garden for years. But there is a whole cast of out-of-the-ordinary perennial salvias native to Texas, California, Mexico, and Central and South America that generally behave like annuals in Zones 4 to 7 (and sometimes 8). These tender salvias are quite distinct from—and much more versatile and appealing than— ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Annuals—Six Unusual and Versatile Flowers
... can provide a wide range of size, texture, and color for your garden. Anise sage Salvia guaranitica This tender perennial native to South Africa can live through mild winters here in ... any garden soil and will self-seed. Tweedia Tweedia caerulea (Oxypetalum caeruleum) This native of Central and South America is in the same family (Asclepiadaceae) as the North American native butterfly weed, and the ...
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Pretty Partridgeberry—A Native Groundcover With Lots of Star Potential
... forest understory throughout eastern North America. It ranges from Newfoundland south to central Florida and from southern Ontario and Minnesota south to eastern Texas. The diminutive shrub inhabits the shady nooks ... to its unique methodology of fruit production (oneberry, two-eyed berry) and floral display (twinflower). "Squawberry" and "squaw vine" refer to the plant's use by Native Americans: ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Roses
... and other species roses provide a backdrop for the old garden roses. Gallicas, damasks, centifolias, mosses, and albas are planted in the side beds, creating an informal look. Toward the south ... garden—not only the plantings to the south but also the 15 rectangular beds of roses ... hybrid teas were displayed in the central beds, and the remaining teas, Chinas, Noisettes, and Bourbons, which have a more ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Roses
... map) is composed of 15 rectangular central beds devoted to modern roses—such as hybrid teas, floribundas, and polyanthas—flanked by border beds devoted primarily to wild and old garden roses. The smaller ... America is Rosa carolina, the pasture rose, native to the East coast and ranging from Nova Scotia west to Kansas and south to Texas. This hardy, carefree wild rose is an early bloomer ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Guide to the Cherry Tree Collection
... know as 'Sekiyama'. Location: Cherry Esplanade, Cherry Walk, Osborne Garden (East and Hill), Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden (south of Lakes), west of Herb Garden Prunus serrulata The majority of Oriental ... gardeners in the early part of the 20th century. Location: Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden (East, West, Central, and North Perimeter), Osborne Garden (East) Prunus 'Shiro-fugen' Although the buds of ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Osborne Garden
... and west sides of the central lawn are walkways through 10 pergolas draped with wisteria. Evergreens and flowering fruit trees such as cherries and crab apples shade the walkways. Rhododendrons and azaleas line the paths, and ... the 10 pergolas, and foundation planting were completed in the spring of 1935. The Dean Clay Osborne Memorial—the architectural elements on the north and south ends of the ...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Cardinal Flower—Spectacular Scarlet Blossoms That Hummingbirds Adore
... corresponds especially well with the southern migration of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to Mexico and Central America for the winter. Discovery and cultivation of the alba form of L. cardinalis is credited to Howard ... covered with heavy mulch, they will rot, especially in the South. If you regularly mulch your perennial beds to prevent heaving and root damage, use light straw or mulch that can be ...
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Fragrant Fare—A Selection of Traditional and Unusual Plants for the Scented Garden
... fixative and insect repellent, and for aromatherapy. In the garden, patchouli relishes high heat and humidity and is hardy in Zones 10 and ... tree blooming in midsummer. The American linden, native to central and eastern North America, is covered with lusciously fragrant yellow ... sandy areas and bogs from Virginia to South Carolina and grows up to six feet in height. Its oval-shaped and toothed blue ...
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