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90Attract Butterflies to Your Garden
Here are some simple ways to attract butterflies to your garden and to keep them happy by providing food, water and shelter. Also learn how to have your garden certified as a "Monarch Waystation".
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88The Jerusalem Monarch Butterfly Celebration 2010
The third annual Monarch Butterfly Migration Festival was held in Jerusalem Community Park on October 2, 2010. Just south of Oklahoma City/Norman, we exited I-35 to travel briefly west to the avid celebration. It was a clear, beautifully warm...
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87The natural healer plant Milkweed or Asclepius and it's many healing characteristics
The milkweed is a generic title for the Asclepias genus and it is interesting to look at both the healing or poisoness properties of the plant and the myth that surrounds it's genus name. The Asclepius genus...
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82Siren Call: An Ecological Rictameter Poem
The rictameter can be considered the 20th century invention of Jason D. Wilkins and Richard W. Lunsford, Jr. It fits 50 syllables into 9 lines. Featured is an ecological rictameter poem about the world's most mysterious migrants, monarchs.
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82Three Fictional Stories I Recently Read on WWII
I am not very good at book reviews, or film reviews either, or reviews of any kind. Lack of practise really. But this is exactly the right reason for using a hub as a book review, yes? I think it will be a little messy, but let us see how I get...
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81videoButterfly Gardening-Growing Plants Butterflies Love
This article is a brief overview of butterflies and their relationship with plants. It is a basic guide to starting a butterfly garden and some of the concepts gardeners should consider if they want to attract specific types of butterflies.
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77Pictures of Ontario Wild Flowers - Roadside Beauties
Purple Fragrant Raspberry, Common Yarrow,Pearly Everlasting,Butter and Eggs,Beach Pea, Meadow Rue...wildflowers of Ontario
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80The Amazing Milkweed
There are about 2500 species of milkweed in the world, over 100 of which are native to North America. One of the most familiar North American milkweeds is the Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Though Common...
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775 Natural Wildflower Remedies
Not only has nature provided us with beautiful wildflowers to look at and enjoy, but wildflowers also have health benefits. There are five that are regularly used for their medicinal benefits.
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76One year in the backyard
This hub was getting so large it was beginning to slow down. So I've continued the narrative in a hub, One Year in the Backyard, Part II. Check out the latest there. A blue jay scans the yard from a dead...
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