Westringia
Very hardy and adaptable plant, which tolerates strong winds, salt spray and dry conditions. Especially suited to salty coastal conditions. Grey-green foliage and small white or pale lavender flowers that are suitable for cutting. Grows rapidly ... [... more]
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Suzy Cohen
Suzy Cohen, R.PH., has a syndicated column, "Dear Pharmacist," which reaches nearly 24 million readers coast to coast. When she isn't writing her column, she works as a pharmacist and speaks for various consumer and professional ... [... more]
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Gail Collins
Gail Collins, a columnist for the New York Times, was the the first woman ever to serve as editorial page editor for the paper. Previously, she was a member of the Times editorial board, and a columnist for the New York Daily News and New York ... [... more]
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Wil Clay from HarperCollins Publishers
Wil Clay studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, and the University of Toledo in Ohio. He is the illustrator of Auntee Edna by Ethel Footman Smothers; The Real McCoy: The Life of an ... [... more]
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Terrence Cheng
Terrence Cheng's grandmother was a senator in the Chinese Nationalist Party, and his grandfather was a prisoner-of-war captured by the Japanese during World War II. Both survived and moved their family to Taiwan after the Communists came to power ... [... more]
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Gossypium - Cotton
Gossypium belongs to the hibiscus family and includes annuals, woody perennuals, evergreen shrubs and small trees found in warm-temperate and tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Best known are the 4 to 5 species grown as ... [... more]
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Chrysanthemum chalet
The Chrysanthemum genus is a large one and has many different types. Chrysanthemum chalet is a prolific "weedy" type that grows to about 30cm and produces flowers practically all year long. It makes an excellent bedding plant, but is just as is [... more]
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Ctenanthe lubbersiana
Commonly grown foliage plant, about 40-75 cm high with branching stems that spread laterally. The oblong green leaves are patterned in irregularly shaded bands of pale yellow-green, with pale green undersides. Small, white flowers on one-sided ... [... more]
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Choisya
Grows to about 1-2m, has aromatic foliage and produces perfumed, white star-shaped flowers in spring. Although Choisya is good plant for coastal temperate and tropical gardens, it is also frost hardy and will grow in cool temperate climates if ... [... more]
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Cordyline stricta
This slender subtropical shrub native to eastern Australia will adapt to temperate climates. The dark green, strap-like, floppy leaves with toothed margins are no more than 2 cm (3/4 in) wide but 60cm (2ft) long and cascade down a slender stem. ... [... more]
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Ctenanthe setosa
This plant is up to 1.5m tall with oblong-lanceolate to oblong leaves with twisted tips. The green leaves sometimes have margins of cream coloured spots. [... more]
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Citrus japonica
A compact, evergreen small shrub, about 1.8m (6ft) high and a spread of approx half of its height, sometimes thorny. Leaves are oval-shaped up to 8cm (3in) long. Fragrant white flowers in spring produce round to oval fruit about 2.5cm (1in) in ... [... more]
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