If you match a native plant to its function, your garden will flourish.
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Here’s how to attract more butterflies to your garden
One of the keys is to offer a habitat for the earlier stage of the life cycle – caterpillars.
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When nothing else is in bloom, iris can add a splash of color to the garden
As early as March, they have blue blossoms, which are about 2 inches across.
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Appreciating Mother for sharing the gift of wonder
A sense of wonder can be lost by adulthood, eroded by the stresses and strains of the workaday world.
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What to know if your hydrangeas aren’t blooming
Often, the reason is that people cut off flower buds during improper pruning.
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Vermont joins quarantine to fight spread of emerald ash borer
Scientists say the invasive pest, which has not yet been found in Maine, has pushed five species of ash trees to the brink of extinction.
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Lots of options for finding local mushrooms
Forage, shop or grow them yourself.
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Plant sales no bargain if winter moth is part of the deal
Here are some tips on how to avoid it. In short – dig early, consider location.
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A few Mainers are giving up the fight over fiddleheads, and growing their own
People like Russell Black have given up the springtime rite of picking wild fiddleheads, after tiring of competing with commercial foragers.
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40-year-old Clinton seed co-op must move ahead without CR Lawn, its visionary center
Lawn will retire from Fedco in May, leaving behind a legacy of number crunching, tomato testing and big thinking.