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  1. Aromatic & Useful Hyssop Plants at Nature Hills Nursery!

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    Hyssop plants (Agastache) are perennial and evergreen plants that are must-haves if you want butterflies and hummingbirds

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  2. How To Identify Evergreen Trees Part 2: The Hemlock Tree!

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    There are so many wonderful varieties of Evergreen trees around the United States! Sometimes when you are out for a stroll, you may find yourself referring to all of them as just Pine Trees.

    However, there are many different varieties of coniferous

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  3. Bees, Butterflies & Brilliance! Check Out Perennial Yarrow!

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    The Yarrow family of hardy plants have been used by savvy gardeners for millennia, since before the Roman times as medicinal herbs and garden

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  4. Happy National Plant Day! Here Are Some Crazy Plant Facts!

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    The plant world is a crazy place! For every rule that Ma Nature seems to make regarding plants, she turns around and breaks them, then twists them round to remake them…just to break them again! 

    The dizzying diversity, incredible survival s

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  5. Easy Evergreen Tree Identification Part 1: Pine Trees!

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    Need to tell the difference between a Pine and a Fir? How does a Hemlock differ from a Yew? 

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  6. Time to Feed the Hummingbirds

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    As flowers and warm weather begin to creep up from south to north, it brings with it many migratory birds and insects, but none quite so highly anticipated as the jeweled Hummingbird!

    The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird begins migrating north as early

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  7. Time to Divide Spring Perennials!

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    It’s Spring! Time to break out that Spring Chore List and start gearing up for the growing season!

    One of these items t

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  8. Don’t Fight The Squirrels - Embrace Them!

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    Anyone with birdfeeders knows the age-old war that has been waged between feeding birds and keeping these devious little rascals out of your bird feeders and bulb gardens!

    But Squirrels are important parts of your ecosystem and shouldn’t be v

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  9. Getting To Know Tiarella - Spring Blooms Made For The Shade!

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    Tiarella cordifolia, more commonly known as Foamflower, Foam Flower, or sometimes called False Miterwort, are herbaceous perennials from the family Saxifragaceae. The same family as Coral Bells (Heuchera) that these unique Perennials resemble. 

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  10. When to Divide Different Perennials

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    Spreading and creeping Perennials and Groundcover plants fill our gardens in lovely color! Sometimes they need some help keeping to their boundaries or preventing overcrowding

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