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How to Grow Sour Cherry Trees
Sour cherry is a compact, self-fertile fruit tree that needs no second tree for pollination, producing tart red cherries best suited to pies, preserves, and baking.
How to Grow Winter Savory
Winter savory is a hardy, woody perennial herb with a sharp, peppery bite, grown for its evergreen foliage and near-constant supply of kitchen leaves.
How to Grow Shasta Daisies
Shasta daisies are a sturdy, clump-forming perennial with the classic white-petaled, yellow-centered blooms that make an easy, reliable choice for cutting gardens and cottage borders.
How to Grow Sweet Alyssum
Sweet alyssum is a low, fragrant annual grown from fast, easy seed, perfect for edging beds, filling gaps in paths, and spilling over container rims.
Celery
Home-grown celery is crisp and full of flavour. It needs a long, cool season, rich soil and constant moisture, so start it early and never let it dry out.
Yellowroot
A low, suckering native shrub for damp shade. Plant it once beside water or under trees and it knits into a tidy groundcover.
How to Grow Foxglove
Foxglove is a classic cottage-garden biennial that spends its first year as a low rosette before sending up tall, dramatic flower spikes in its second; every part of the plant is toxic if eaten.
How to Grow Crimson Clover
Crimson clover is a nitrogen-fixing winter cover crop, broadcast in late summer to build soil fertility and suppress weeds before being cut down ahead of its spring bloom.
How to Grow Anise Hyssop
Anise hyssop is a hardy, licorice-scented perennial herb that draws bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds to its flower spikes while supplying leaves and blooms for tea and garnish.
How to Grow Hardy Hibiscus
Hardy hibiscus, or rose mallow, is a herbaceous perennial that dies to the ground each winter and returns to produce enormous, dinner-plate-sized blooms all summer.
Bean
Bush, pole, runner, lima and fava beans compared, with sowing times, support, picking and seed saving for a steady harvest.
Catnip
Catnip is a tough perennial mint relative that grows in almost any sunny, well-drained spot. Here is how to sow, cut, dry and contain it.