low-growing plants

Oregano Beauty

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I love oregano—on pizza, in cooked dishes, in salads and in my garden.  In the past I have grown pots of common oregano or Origanum vulgare ssp, hirtum to provide myself with ample quantities to dry for winter cooking.  This year I will do that once again.  The flavor of home grown dried oregano is … Read more

Winter Buttercups

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Now that I am officially on spring watch, I am having the usual seasonal regrets about early-blooming plants that I did not order or install last fall.  Sometimes, however, life gives you second chances, and ten days ago a second chance presented itself.  I was pouring over the slim annual catalog from the Temple Nursery, … Read more