Design an eco-yard: turn your high-maintenance lawn into an environmentally friendly perennial garden to draw birds, butterflies and admiring looks

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Big lawns waste water and time. A habitat garden can be designed to cut water use with such features as mulched shrubs, vines and drought-resistant wild flowers. Such a garden will also attract and offer a niche for birds, insects and other small animals. Tips are giving on designing a garden.

Planning, Innovations, Design and construction, Growth, Insect-plant relationships, Garden ecology, Perennials, Perennial plants, Flower gardening

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Okra takes the heat

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Okra is best known in the US as a staple of southern-style cooking, particularly as an ingredient of gumbo. The vegetable is a good source of protein and is regularly used as a meat substitute. It migrated from Brazil, Barbados, and Central Africa, but now thrives in the southern states.

Analysis, Cooking, Cookery (Okra), Okra

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