Hyssop. Add To Your Garden To Attract Hummingbirds & Butterflies!

by Polly Garden Recipes

Hyssop. Add to your garden to attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Besides, this tall and pretty plant also brings bees to pollinate your garden. The minty flavor of the hyssop leaves can be made into tea that is good for sore throats. You can put hyssop leaves in a soup or in a salad to add [...]

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Introducing Sedum, The Easiest And Most Carefree Plant To Grow For Fall Color!

by Polly Creating Healthy And Balanced Soil

Introducing sedum, the easiest and most carefree plant to grow for fall color. “Autumn Joy” sedum is everything its name suggests – and lots more, too. This tough – as – nails perennial makes neat, 18 -to 24 – inch – tall clumps of fleshy, gray-green leaves that look great all through the growing season [...]

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Organic Gardening Secret To Attract Birds

by Polly Garden Recipes

Our organic gardening secret to attract birds is to grow black- eyed Susans. We love to have birds come to our garden, for their beautiful songs as well as for their insatiable appetite for bad bugs. So we encourage them every way we can- and one of those ways is planting perennials with lots of [...]

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Borage: Looks Good Enough To Eat

by Polly Composting

Borage, famous for its bright blue flowers and cucumber-scented leaves, adds beauty to gardens and boasts a long tradition as a companion plant to strawberries and tomatoes

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Meet The Good Garden Insects This Spring

by Polly Garden Recipes

A useful guide to good insects in your garden for natural pest control

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