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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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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Philip Carlo
Philip Carlo was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where he earned a Ph.D. in the ways of the street. At the age of fourteen he witnessed a good friend being shot to death in broad daylight by a Colombo hit team and was himself shot in ... [... more]
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Douglas Century
Douglas Century, the author of Barney Ross, recently collaborated on two New York Times bestsellers: Under and Alone (with William Queen) and Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire (with Rick Cowan), which was also a finalist for the 2003 ... [... more]
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Ruben Cavazos
Ruben "Doc" Cavazos is the international president of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. He lives in California. [... 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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