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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-05-20, 06:55:18

Hostas with their impressive foliage brings form, color and texture to a shady garden. How to plant and care for your hostas. The effortless beauty in your garden are the hostas.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-05-20, 05:24:00

Trillium foetidissimum is native to a small region of the deep south; rich, old forests on either side of the lower Mississippi River in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is called the Mississipppi River trillium or stinking wake robin. It's a beautiful thing, with deeply silvered, mottled leaves and a dark maroon flower.
In spite of its ominous name, I'd never smelled a thing, so the other day I stuck my nose right down in the flower... WOOF! Imagine a dead mouse wearing unwashed gym socks.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-05-20, 04:48:18

The way we live our lives on a daily basis is changing rapidly. The way we approach certain things in life is different to approach we may have taken 10 - 15 years ago because of the way we are educated by the television media and news paper media towards certain issues.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-05-20, 04:47:35

We are now moving into the time of year where it is great fun to be working out in the garden, spending long hot sunny afternoons tidying up the garden, weeding and planting new plants in time for the summer. Gardening is having a bit of a resurgence in popularity over the past few years with more and more of the younger generation having a go at growing plants and designing a garden, partly because of the exposure that gardening has been given by television design programmes and because of acceptance as the garden patio area as an outdoor living space.