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Growing chives as perennials has three main benefits: fresh chives for the kitchen, pretty lavender-colored flowers, and an easy-going plant that pops up early in spring to bring green to the ...
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
Chives are perennial plants, and with a little care, they will return in the next season. If you live in a location where it frosts, you generally have two options: let the plant die off and await ...
This low-maintenance plant is cold-hardy and easy to harvest.
A good predictor for when a plant will bloom and produce pollen is a calculation of the growing degree days. The color of pollen below indicates the color as it appears when the pollen arrives at the beehive. After arriving to the colony with a fresh load of pollen, the honey bee unloads its pollen from the pollen basket located on its hind legs.
A perennial plant, A. schoenoprasum is widespread in nature across much of Eurasia and North America. It is the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old Worlds. The leaves and flowers are edible. Chives are a commonly used herb and vegetable with a variety of culinary uses. They are also used to repel insects.
The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky (Also known as University of Kentucky Arboretum or Lexington Arboretum), 40 hectares or 100 acres (0.40 km 2), is located at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is open to the public from dawn to dusk every day of the year.
Early- to mid-spring blooming hyacinths (Hyacinthus spp.) are available in shades of blue, pink, red, purple, and white. Sweet-scented and hardy in the same climate as snowdrops, they make a ...