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10 Neat Things: About Shrubs

1. To prune or not to prune: when and how. Shrubs often need pruning to keep them well-shaped and under

1. It’s a berry. A strawberry isn’t, a raspberry isn’t, but a banana is a berry, botanically speaking. So are

1. Dyngus Day. Pussy willows were a player on Easter Monday or Wet Monday, a Polish celebration also known in

1. What every good compost pile needs. Nothing can happen to a compost heap unless it has carbon (brown and

1. Skunk diet. Skunks have a varied diet that includes roots, seeds and berries; small mice, birds and eggs; and,

1. The point. Horticulturists refer to plants by their Latin names for reasons far beyond being snobbish (though the occasional

1. Plants feed the world. Only plants know how to change the energy of the sun into digestible, edible protein

1. Gardener, put down that watering can! More windowsill orchids die from drowning than any other cause. Just because many

1. Prickle or thorn, it still hurts. Technically, roses have prickles. Thorns are modified leaves containing vascular strands of the

Purslane 1. Move over spinach. Purslane, sometimes called portulaca, is an edible weed. It has 10 times the Omega 3