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Winter cold actually aids germination of some seeds. They will fare poorly if planted too late. It's advisable to plant seeds of California poppy, bread seed poppy, larkspur, nigella and bachelors ...

Self-seeding plants make gardening easier by naturally dropping seeds and growing new plants without much effort. These ...

Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, England, is home to the Poison Garden, which contains around 100 deadly and toxic plants.

In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...