If you grew up in the countryside you will know the Greater Celandine as a typical plant of neglected spots. When the plant is damaged, an orange sap drips from the wound. When we were children, we used to drop the sap onto our fingernails. That looked liked grandfathers smoker...

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Opposed to its botanical name this plant grows not only in India. It is distributed from Afghanistan to Japan and grows on moist ground along the mountain rivers. To us in Central Europe it is an allrounder for difficult spots in the garden. It grows under almost...

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 The Himalayan Cranes-Bill is a very good perennial that performs well in many places in the garden, as long as the soil is not too dry. UK nursery Ingwersen selected a clone wiht very large flowers and smaller foliage and named it `Gravetye`. It is in flower from mid summer to...

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There are few plants that grow equaly well in full sun and in deep shade. This crane`s bill is one of them. It is at home in rocky places from the south-west Alps to the Balkans. In the garden it performs very good as a solitary in full sun in the rockery. It is also possible to give...

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This cranes bill comes from the southern Alps and the Balkan peninsula and can be used in the garden in two quite different ways. In sull sun on poor soil it developes the usual appearance with countless shining flowers. If planted in full shade however it turns itself into a ground cover with much fewer flowers and velvety foliage.

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This plant comes from Siberia, but it is naturalized in the UK for several centuries. It grows in moist forests, but in the garden it will also do well on drier or wetter spots. All parts of it are edible, even the flowers. As long as winter isn`t too cold, it is possible to harvest fresh...

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