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Edible plant of the month Chives are a very easy to grow virtually anywhere, are perennial, and make a nice addition to countless dishes - from salads to soups and meals... as well as of course the baked potato. The pink-purple flowers are an added bonus, and come a couple of times a year.(more...) Flower of the month The Freesia is a popular garden plant with a strong perfume which naturalizes easily in frost-free areas. Grown from corms or seed, these plants can do well indoors in pots in a windowsill or in the garden, dug up each winter in colder areas. Flowers range from red, orange, yellow, and white to purple, including multicolors, and come in single or double forms.(more...)
Did you know... ...that chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine? ...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods? ...that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?
Gardening news Plants.am tops 3,000 pages! 1 Jan 2008 The wiki is planted, and ready to grow. Importing content and adding new materials contines. (more...) Fall arrives 25 September 2008 Planting of fall bulbs starts any day now - depending on your plant zone. (more...) Cool Season Crops October 2008 Fall is here and it's time to think about what cool season crops you'd like to plant this year. (more...)	Featured Articles Collaboration of the week Template:Current COTW Newest Articles Freesia
Other Currently Plants.am is expanding the articles and helping them conform to the plant entry template, and adding hundreds of photos a week.