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The brandywine tomato, a large beefsteak tomato with smooth flesh

 Brandywine tomato on the plant

Black zebra, the darker striped tomato

 Black zebra tomato

Touch-me-not, balsam, advice on caring for it

 Flowers in the distance, touch-me-not (or balsam)

Fruit flies, how to fight them

 Fruit fly, yellow, on bright green leaf with black background.

Wild tulip, a natural wonder that’s small but fits the spot

 Wild tulip blooms with short, cute flowers

Devil’s beard, the garden valerian

A raised garden bed how-to, from building it to growing at an easy height

 Raised garden bed made from round posts fastened together.

Medicinal verbena for delicious herbal tea

 Verbena officinalis

Purpletop vervain, the verbena from Argentina

 Stem with cluster of Argentinian verbena flowers

Watanabe, a doublefile cultivar of Viburnum plicatum

 Watanabe viburnum plicatum

Violet, a superb colored flower

 Field of violets in full bloom

Ravenelle wallflower, easy and flower-bearing

 Yellow flower of the ravenelle wallflower

Edible plants, become a neo-hunter-gatherer!

 A few edible wild plants harvested from a walk

Willow shrubs, small but ever so elegant

 Willow shrubs are willows that grow shorter than normal willow trees

Weeping willow, a majestic waterside tree

 Weeping willow

Vernalization: why plants need chill hours to bloom and bear fruit

 Magnolia flower bud protected with fuzz

Which vine is best to decorate your garden shed or pergola?

 Garden shed with climbing vines decorating it

Yarrow, an easy herb

 Yarrow

Outdoor yucca, care and watering

 Outdoor yucca

ZZ plant varieties

 ZZ plant unfurling its leaves

Corylopsis, abundant and easy-going

 Corylopsis flower, pale yellow

Prepare cuttings from your favorite plants

 Cuttings from favorite plants

Dodonea, the hop-bush that’s happy planted near the sea

 Dodonea, the broadleaf hop bush

Grasses, trendy with a designer touch

 Grasses

Osmanthus, beautiful fragrant blooming

 Yellow-blooming osmanthus

Pennisetum, a very cute grass

 Five seed pods of pennisetum against a sunset-lit sky

Aven, advice on caring for this cute flower

 aven flower

Citrus hardiness, which species survive as it freezes and gets colder

 Cold tolerance Citrus Trees

Heating with wood, how to choose your firewood

 Bonfire at a campsite with the right type of logs and wood

Dracaena, care, diseases, varieties

 Dracaena varieties come in many types, sizes and colors.

Dieffenbachia, foliage that is simply beautiful

 Dieffenbachia leaves, variegated

Fern, advice on caring for it

 Fern

Amaryllis care after blooming is over

 Amaryllis bulb

Which air-purifying plant to get first?

 Dracaena and ficus are two air-purifying plants, here filtering both light and air

Beheading a Dracaena marginata – fear not, it will survive!

 Top of a beheaded dracaena marginata dragon plant

Convolvulus, the shrubby bindweed with leaves like silver

 Convolvulus is a shrubby bush that bears flowers identical to those of bindweed

Types and varieties of red or yellow dogwood, like fire in winter!

 Red and yellow species and varieties of dogwood, cornus

Eranthis hyemalis, the aconite with short gold yellow blooms in winter

 Winter aconite, eranthis hyemalis

Sea orache, the saltbush for seaside gardens… with edible leaves!

 Sea orache, or salbush, leaves

Planting eggplant, the first steps to start your crop off right

 Planting eggplant

Monarda, the plant that bees love that helps prepare soothing balms

 Monarda, or beebalm

Little bunny foo-foo, hopping through the garden!

 Lagurus ovatus, bunny tail grass, in full bloom

White eggplant, different color, taste, feel… same care!

 White eggplant varieties

Goat’s beard, feathery white plumes of the Aruncus dioicus plant

 Large goat's beard shrub, Aruncus dioicus

Sagina subulata, the moss-like ground cover that flowers before summer

 Sagina subulata, a ground-cover plant that looks like grass and moss

Sowing indoors, the best way to start seeds inside the house

 Seedlings sprouting in a tray indoors, likely basil

Tomatoes without diseases

 Tomato plant with no disease

Eggplant growing at last? Proper care leads to great harvests!

 Caring for eggplant

An effortless veggie garden

 Vegetable patch with no maintenance

Rhipsalis, a plant that looks like hair

 Rhipsalis plant

Savory, an herb for even tastier grilling and cooking

 Savory, a herb that's delicious and easy to grow