Saturday Tweets: Alan Chadwick, Thinking Plants and the Best Restroom in America

November 14, 2015

...15 Ski Town Outhouse Just Won Best Restroom in America https://t.co/hTzuyNrjf0 via @CurbedSki — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 12, 2015 ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves https://t.co/kUjqVnX0BC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 10, 2015 Do plants think? James Wong (@botanygeek) considers the evidence https://t.co/3bukQpPoHV pic.twitter.com/TboHRIUh1u — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) November 10, 2015 Fixing potholes with ice cr...

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Favorite Plants- New Zealand Spinach

Homegrown Neighbor

October 13, 2009

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

15 Comments

...ll New Zealand spinach now. The drip watering system broke and most of the plants withered and died or were mercilessly attacked by bugs. But this plant kept on going strong. I have been growing it for many years and find it a reliable plant. In The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, Rosalind Creasy writes, “New Zealand spinach makes a marvelous temporary ground cover, is good in hanging baskets, and will cascade over the sides of planter boxes....

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Rain Garden Update

Mr. Homegrown

March 17, 2021

Garden Design, Gardening, Native Plants

4 Comments

...ome interest to a stroll in the backyard. Here’s our original post on the rain garden. I haven’t mentioned this in awhile but it’s worth repeating. The reason I include the scientific names of plants is not to show off but because this blog has international readers and the common names for plants can lead to confusion and, worse, cases of poisoning....

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Saturday Tweets: Moving Plants on the Subway, Punk Rock and a Cute Medieval Lion

Mr. Homegrown

June 1, 2019

Picture Sundays

...(@rootsimple) June 2, 2019 Only in NYC: Straphangers wait for man to load plants, trees onto subway https://t.co/y0BlNZaFRw # via @ABC7NY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 25, 2019 What a treat! https://t.co/ufVyKYdkoA — William Morris Soc (@WmMorrisSocUK) May 28, 2019 I can’t stop thinking about these two maps. Should we rebuild the first one or continue on the path to the second one? pic.twitter.com/Y182PPpPhw — Michael Muhammad (@mbsully7) May 2...

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Weekend Tweets: Stressing Out Plants, Jerry Baker is Still a Quack and Flower Studded Lawns

Mr. Homegrown

April 9, 2016

Saturday Linkages

Dr. Flavor at MIT—Stressing out plants for flavor https://t.co/QOnF8FeJIt via @themadfeed — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 8, 2016 Is email sinking the US economy? https://t.co/Kkxz2HYRuC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 8, 2016 #TBT: Jerry Baker, Still Quacking | Garden Rant https://t.co/vbCUM4Qnjz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 8, 2016 Perils of Plantsmanship | Garden Rant https://t.co/4gKWgNGCbT — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 8, 2016 A...

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