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Three Neat Plants

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Nan Ondra

It’s been a long while since I’ve picked out a few of my favorite plants to focus on, and the list of candidates is getting rather long. So, it’s high time to pick out three that happen to look particularly good right now, starting…

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Category: Cool Plants, Three Neat PlantsTags: Amicia zygomeris, bitter panic grass, coastal panic grass, Cool Plants, cranberry hibiscus, false roselle, Hayefield, Hibiscus acetosella, Hibiscus acetosella 'Haight Ashbury', Hibiscus acetosella 'Mahogany Splendor', Hibiscus acetosella 'Red Shield', Panicum amarum, Panicum amarum 'Dewey Blue', red shield hibiscus, yoke-leaved amicia

Three Neat Plants

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Nan Ondra

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It’s been a while since I’ve trotted out some neat plants, and probably about as long since I’ve written about some interesting edibles. So, in this installment of Three Neat Plants, I present to you a trio of intriguing vegetables.

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Category: Three Neat PlantsTags: 'Aunt Molly's' ground cherry, angora tomato, Cool Plants, ground cherry, Hayefield, Physalis pruinosa, pineapple tomatillo, pretzel bean, ram's horn bean, Tomato 'Velue Striee', Vigna unguiculata 'Pretzel Bean'

Three Neat Plants

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Nan Ondra

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Finding plants with interesting foliage is always a treat, but if they’re discouragingly expensive or too fussy to grow successfully, the thrill can go off pretty quickly. So these days, I turn first to seed catalogs to see what I can grow for myself…

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Category: Cool Plants, Three Neat PlantsTags: beefsteak plant, bloodleaf, Hypoestes phyllostachya, Iresine 'Purple Lady', Iresine herbstii, Iresine lindenii, Plectranthus argentatus, polka-dot plant, silver spurflower, Three Neat Plants

Three Neat Plants

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Nan Ondra

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Sometimes it takes a new pair of eyes (or nearly 200 new pairs of eyes) to make you appreciate a plant that you walk past every day with hardly a second glance. Of all the bright flowers and in-your-face foliage plants I have here,…

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Category: Cool Plants, Three Neat PlantsTags: Alternanthera 'Purple Knight', Alternanthera 'Royal Tapestry', Cool Plants, Hayefield, Pennisetum 'Tift 8', Pennisetum Vertigo, Tinantia erecta, Tradescantia erecta

Three Neat Plants

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Nan Ondra

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The list of neat plants I want to tell you about keeps getting longer, so it’s about time to have a crack at checking off a few of them. First up, a must-have shrub for those who swoon over scented plants: Abelia mosanensis, known…

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Category: Three Neat PlantsTags: Abelia mosanensis, bed-of-nails, bridal bouquet, fragrant abelia, hardy abelia, malevolence, naranjilla, purple devil, Solanum atropurpureum, Solanum pyracanthum, Solanum quitoense, Three Neat Plants

Three Neat Plants

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Nan Ondra

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Herbs were the first group of plants that grabbed my attention as a youngster, and they quickly became a passion in my later teens, when I started gardening obsessively. Eventually I moved on to ornamental perennials, but lately, I’m finding myself drawn to herbs…

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Category: Three Neat PlantsTags: Angelica archangelica 'Corinne Tremaine', Hayefield, Tanacetum vulgare 'Isla Gold', Teucrium hircanicum, Teucrium hyrcanicum, Three Neat Plants

Three Neat Plants

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Nan Ondra

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I’ve long been a sucker for plants with showy foliage, often falling for their pretty leaves without careful consideration of their sometimes less-than-attractive habits. I don’t much mind plants that produce lots of seedlings; if they’re truly gorgeous, having to snip off the spent…

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Category: Three Neat PlantsTags: dwarf whitestripe bamboo, Hayefield, Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides 'Crystal Confetti', Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo', Pleioblastus fortunei, Pleioblastus variegatus, Three Neat Plants, variegated water celery, variegated water pennywort

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