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Herb Garden for Swallowtails - Our Herb Garden
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Herb Garden for Swallowtails. This is our second in a series of articles on edible butterfly gardens. This article will share with you a number of edible herbs that will attract swallowtail butterflies to your garden but also provide you with some tasty treats as well. As I mentioned in our earlier article on edible butterfly gardens. And herb gardens for Monarch butterflies. Swallowtail Butterfly Host Plants. It seems that almost all butterflies enjoy dill. Thyme for Swallowtail Butterflies. A number of...
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Tansy Companion Planting Guide
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Tansy Companion Planting Guide. The culinary herb tansy is primarily grown as an ornamental but it also makes a great companion plant for a variety of vegetables, berries and flowers. Tips on growing tansys in your garden). Tansy Plants in Flower. As more and more gardeners are growing tansy. They are becoming more interesting in learning more uses for their plants. By companion planting, you can use your tansy plants to help other plants in your garden as well as attract beneficial insects. Tansy is rep...
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Lime Basil - Two Seed Varieties
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If you like your basil with a hint of lime, you have two different options when it comes to growing basil. As I mentioned in my article on basil varieties. Are the species where I expected to find the choices for buying lime basil. However, there are a few varieties being sold under the species name. It would seem, based upon leaf shape that both may indeed be correct. 150 LIME BASIL Ocimum Basilicum Flower Seeds. These lime basil seeds are being described as O. basilicum. Basil Lime – 1000 Seeds. 8211; ...
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How to Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders
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How to Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders. How to Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders. The biggest problem we face each year is that our resident hornets also want some of that nice, sweet, sugar water we put out for the hummingbirds. OK, before anyone lectures me on bees, it would seem most Googlers call all yellow and black flying things bees. I would never recommend killing bees, we need them. But, hornets are a different story entirely. Homemade Hornet Trap 1. Some suggest adding a drop of s...
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How to Make Hummingbird Food, Ratio is the Key
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How to Make Hummingbird Food. How to Make Hummingbird Food. You really don’t need an expensive or fancy feeder to attract hummingbirds to your backyard. If they spend the warmer months in your area, a few flowers they might like and a feeder or two should be all you need. The most important part is keeping your feeder clean and keeping it full. How to Make Hummingbird Food, It’s All About Ratios. Pay attention to how many birds you seem to have and how many frequent your feeder. If you have a big cro...
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Basil Varieties - A Primer on 11 Species of Basil
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Now and again, I see people visiting Our Herb Garden who are looking for information on the different basil varieties available. I started out in the naive belief that I would need around half a day to put something together. Order, family, genus, species, cultivar – terms I hadn’t used since high school. How hard could it be to write about the different varieties of basil? Oh, was I in for a rude awakening. I thought I would start at the beginning. 8211; i.e., plants. Basils are in the order Lamiales.
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Growing Anise, a Versatile Aromatic & Culinary Herb
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The dainty white flowers of anise belie the strong savory, licorice-like flavor of this herb's seeds. Pimpinella Anisum, Linn.). Dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome and is mentioned in the Bible (Matthew xxiii, 23). Read more on the History of Anise. Southwestern Asia, northern Africa and south-eastern Europe. Later introduced throughout the Mediterranean region, Germany and other temperate regions. 18 – 36 inches tall. Root leaves lobed – similar to celery. Growing Anise From Seeds. When your anise is...
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Peruvian Daffodils a Gardening Experiment & Great Surprise
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I know, daffodils are not herbs. But, they were an exciting part of our garden this year and they have a little story too. We were wandering around in our local Big Lots. Even though their display is short, we are keeping our fingers crossed that our bulbs survive being virtually forced to bloom with so little growing time. We didn’t fertilize, so hopefully, they won’t be too stressed by our experiment. Which the seller is limiting the edition to 500 pieces but this beauty will set you back a Benjamin.
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Carolina Anoles - Our Herb Garden
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The Carolina anole is native to the coastal regions of the Carolinas. They make great pets for first time reptile owners and require similar care to other reptiles. They are among the least expensive lizards offered by most pet stores and and remain less than seven inches long. (Of course, if you live in the Carolinas, you can catch one for free.). This article provides an introduction to these charming reptiles and some basic care information. Living in the Carolinas. Like our spring hummingbirds. Since...