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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
Last summer, in one of those impulse buys, I purchased a tropical hibiscus. This is the showier cousin of the hardy ones that grow in our area. The flowers are five petalled, single, semi-doubled or full doubles. Many of the hybrids are exotically colored including just about every color of the spectrum except black. A sure sign that you have a tropical hibiscus is if it is a shade of orange or yellow or is multicolored. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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When Jack Frost Won’t Quit |
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There is nothing more frustrating than spending a spring day admiring your newly emerged bulbs and perennials, only to discover that the night will bring rapidly falling temperatures. All those tender tips are going to be lost to old Jack Frost and everything will be set back by weeks. Well, probably not. Those plants have survived the winter and are remarkable resistant to low temperatures. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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I recently found an interesting new book, A Book of Blue Flowers by Robert Geneve. Blue is an anthocanin pigment and, in the plant kingdom, is primarily a flower color. It is rarely found elsewhere. It is totally absent, for instance, in fall leaf color where leaf pigments are most readily seen. Fall leaf colors are the result of the emergence of the anthocyanins but only the red pigments manifest themselves. (Yellow is the result of a different group of pigments.) |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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A number of news services, including Associated Press, have been carrying the news of a new marijuana plant that resists herbicides and cutting. The plant must be grubbed out by the root in order to kill it. This has been the unenviable task of the Mexican army, which first discovered the super hybrid about two years ago in the western Michoacan state. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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Have you ever found a drowned mouse in a bucket you have inadvertently left outside? Have you ever thought of a 5 gallon bucket as a giant mouse trap? Give it a thought. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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