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Harvesting rose hips. Information on growing, harvesting, and cooking with rose hips. Includes a recipe for rose hip marmalade. Harvesting rose hips. Information on growing, harvesting, and cooking with rose hips. Includes a recipe for rose hip marmalade.

Roses can do more than grace our landscapes and floral designs. Like its cousins the apple, pear, peach and cherry, roses produce a fruit. Rose Hips are a valuable source of vitamin C, containing as much as 20 times more vitamin C than oranges. They are also an excellent antioxidant.   Growing Roses for Hips…

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The many uses of bee balm, a favorite outdoor garden herb. The many uses of bee balm, a favorite outdoor garden herb.

Description and Growing Information   Bee Balm is a very pretty herb with a wonderful fruity, minty aroma. The gorgeous tubular flowers, held like a crown at the top of the 3-4 foot stems in mid and late summer come in a lot of colors including red, pink and purple.   On top of all…

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Growing old fashioned roses, information on growing and caring for old-fashioned or old roses in your flower garden. Growing old fashioned roses, information on growing and caring for old-fashioned or old roses in your flower garden.

In the 18th Century, rose bushes were very common in gardens. These roses were mainly “old roses” and often given as a gift during courtship.   Since the “old roses” were easy to tend, beautiful to admire and highly fragrant, most of these roses conveyed a symbolic gesture that wasn’t often spoken among 18th Century…

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