Is it not amazing how many flowering stalks can come from a single sweet basil plant? This one plant is going to produce several basil seeds for next year's garden.
Check out Michael's Arts & Crafts for some cute gardening items for kids. At the time I visited their store, they had 50% off their gardening selection, but I'll list regular prices below.
Free Plants By Mail (freeplantsbymail.org) was started by local growers as a way to use the surplus plants from nurseries and also as a way to support The Nature Conservancy. Free Plants By Mail offers a new free plant each month. This month they are offering Aroid Palm/ZZ. Although the plant itself is free, you do have to pay a small shipping and handling fee of $6.95.
This organization also has over 100 plants available for sale on their site. 100% of the proceeds from the sale will go to The Nature Conservancy.
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