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How to Plant and Grow Viburnum

With so many varieties to choose from, there's bound to be at least one that will fit your landscape. Good...
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How to Plant and Grow Veronica

This reliable perennial adds interesting texture to gardens with its flower spikes. Veronica graces the garden with spires of flowers...
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How to Plant and Grow Verbena

Continuously blooming verbena graces rock gardens, trellises, walls, and containers. Verbena is the ideal plant to cascade over retaining walls,...
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How to Grow and Care for a Venus Flytrap

This carnivorous plant is entertaining to grow, but it requires a little special care. Use these tips to keep your...
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Valerian

Valerian Overview DESCRIPTION This upright perennial herb, also called garden heliotrope, is topped with white to pinkish-white fragrant flowers in...
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Ursinia

Ursinia Overview DESCRIPTION This gloriously happy annual blooms and blooms and blooms. Extremely floriferous and easy to grow, this South...
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Umbrella Plant

Umbrella plant sends up a flower stalk with pink or white blooms in early spring, but it's the dramatic 2-foot-diameter...
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Turnip

Turnip Overview DESCRIPTION Turnips were once the most popular choice for home gardens, and for good reason. They're easy to...
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Tulip Tree

Tulip Tree Overview DESCRIPTION These natives send their straight trunks up to 120 feet high. Discreet, tulip-shaped flowers give the...
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How to Plant and Grow Trumpet Vine

While we love that this vine is so vigorous, it can become invasive so plant with caution. Trumpet vine, which...
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Trillium

Trillium Overview DESCRIPTION Trillium, also called wood lily or wake-robin, is admired for its 3½-inch-diameter three-petal flowers. Its leaves and...
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How to Plant and Grow Trifoliate Orange

Here's what you need to know about growing trifoliate orange, including when to harvest the sour, juicy fruits. PHOTO: ARTERRA...
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How to Plant and Grow Tradescantia

These long-stemmed plants can be grown as groundcovers or houseplants. PHOTO: BHG / KELLI JO EMANUEL Growing tradescantia (also known...
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How to Plant, Grow, and Care for a Toothache Plant

Use these tips to enjoy the unique flowers and edible leaves of toothache plant in your garden. PHOTO: JAY WILDE...
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Tomato

Tomato Overview DESCRIPTION Tomatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Provide them with at least 8 hours of...
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Tomatillo

Tomatillo Overview DESCRIPTION Tomatillos share many traits with tomatoes. Both fruits are members of the nightshade family, thrive in heat,...
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Thyme

This pretty and flavorful herb garden staple also works well in other sunny, dry places in your garden. Thyme Overview...
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How to Plant and Grow Thrift

The pretty blossoms on this drought-tolerant perennial look like little pom-poms. Also known as "sea thrift" or "sea pink," this...
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Thalia

Thalia Overview DESCRIPTION Also called hardy water canna, thalia has large paddle-shape blue-green leaves. Add this fast-growing water plant to...
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Tarragon

Tarragon Overview DESCRIPTION French tarragon creates a shrubby presence in the garden border, combining fine texture with wonderful green-to-gray foliage....
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