The Gathering Garden Magazine
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Potted Color That Never Needs Water: Styling a Drought-Proof Patio With Dried Globe Amaranth
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Water restrictions and heat waves have made a lot of homeowners rethink what actually belongs in a pot on the patio. A case for skipping the annuals entirely, in favor of a bloom that's already given up needing water. -
Pink Without Trying: How One Dried Flower Does the Work of a Whole Bouquet
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There's a particular mistake people make when they decide a room needs 'a little pink': they buy a lot of it at once. A full bouquet, heavy on blus... -
The Flower the Greeks Called Unfading: Gomphrena's Borrowed Name and Real History
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Gomphrena carries a name borrowed from an ancient Greek myth about a flower that never existed, and a real history rooted 6,000 miles away in Central America and Southeast Asia. Both stories are worth knowing.
