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  • An '''annual plant''' is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if ...ng, annual often refers to a plant grown outdoors in the spring and summer and surviving just for one growing season.
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  • ...plant|medicinal]] and [[ornamental plant]] native to [[Africa]], [[Asia]], and [[Europe]]. ...es deemed as a high priority for conservation in the UK by the wild flower and plant charity [[Plantlife]]. <ref>http://www.plantlife.org.uk/index.html Pl
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  • ...<ref name="blamey">Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. ISBN 0-340-40170-2</ref> ...e="blamey"/><ref name="rhs">Huxley, A, ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. ISBN 0-333-47494-5</ref>
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  • ...us nigra''] at [[Flora Europaea]]</ref> , northwest Africa southwest Asia, and western North America. ...mbucus'' is needed. It grows in a variety of conditions including both wet and dry fertile soils, primarily in sunny locations.
    10 KB (1,435 words) - 11:28, 7 July 2010
  • ...ative to [[Europe]], [[Asia]], northern [[Africa]], and [[North America]], and is the best-known member of the [[nettle]] genus ''[[Urtica]]''. ...well as the colloquial names burn nettle, burn weed, burn hazel. The pain and itching from a nettle sting can last from only a few minutes to as long as
    21 KB (3,099 words) - 11:28, 7 July 2010
  • ...rafting wax for various uses|accessdate=2009-04-20}}</ref>, used in gluing and sealing the wounds of newly [[grafting|grafted]] [[tree]]s<ref name="ncse"> [[Category:Gardening aids]]
    821 bytes (109 words) - 09:17, 20 September 2010
  • ...</ref> It is an important application for [[sustainable]] [[construction]] and is one of many [[low impact development]] techniques used by builders to pr ...e [[water pollution|pollutant]] loads entering into [[stream]]s, [[pond]]s and [[river]]s.
    10 KB (1,425 words) - 09:21, 20 September 2010
  • ...ovincial tree emblems of Canada|Provincial tree]] of [[British Columbia]], and has extensive applications for the indigenous [[First Nations]] of the [[Pa ...osperm"/><ref name="Farjon">Farjon, A. (2005). ''Monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-068-4.</ref> Trees
    20 KB (3,210 words) - 09:22, 20 September 2010
  • ...hrough areas that would traditionally be [[impervious surface|impervious]] and infiltrates the [[stormwater]] through to the soil below. ...the United States that attempts to minimize impacts on [[water quality]], and the similar [[sustainable urban drainage systems]] in the United Kingdom.
    17 KB (2,512 words) - 09:23, 20 September 2010
  • ...categories of design. 'Hard landscape' can also describe outdoor furniture and other landscape products. [[Category:Horticulture and gardening]]
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  • ...tecting structures without adequate defensible space, for personnel safety and their effort less likely to succeed. ...mass of the remaining plants. The goal is to break up the more continuous and dense uninterrupted layer of vegetation.
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