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| Thank you Mr. Smarty Plants January 28, 2009 Hi, this is a note of thanks, powerful thanks, for your answer to my question about carolina laurel. Our disappointment was more than made up for by your recommendation to check out OSU's wonderful ... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Correction to question involving acid vs. alkaline soil December 31, 2008 In a question about blueberries you said most blueberry web sites are in states with deciduous trees including pines. Not sure about your part of the world but here in NC the pine trees keep the need... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Why do we exclude Mexican plant species? November 17, 2008 Thanks for all your great help and your wonderful website. I have been wondering why you exclude Mexico from "North American" native plants? I live in Austin and it seems like the flora and fauna ... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Plants native to Virginia September 07, 2008 I would like to know what websites you would recommend for information about plants native to Virginia. Glad to have found Mr. Smarty Plants, it will be tops on my Favorites list. Thanks for your t... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Use of pictures from our Image Gallery August 28, 2008 I would like to use the picture of prickly wild rose on a website I am designing for information on native plants. I am designing this site for children and teachers. Who do I contact? View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Wrong photo in Native Plant Database August 18, 2008 The picture to the left of the information for Rudbeckia laciniata L. shows a plant with a dark center. This is not the Cutleaf Conflower with which I am familiar. What is it? Thank you. View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Why is Mr. Smarty Plants website so useless? July 16, 2008 Why is your site so useless? View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Plant database correct! June 27, 2008 Wrong taxonomy for bald cypress tree family in your plant database? View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Why website does not have better variety of flowers April 27, 2008 Why don't you have a better variety of flowers? I can't find the ones I have. View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Texas bluebonnets for Illinois March 12, 2008 Thank you Mr. Smarty Plants. I will be closely checking the variety of Texas bluebonnets that I tried to plant. For the record, I did soak them first to loosen the seed shell. I think we probably just... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer |  | |
| National Events Calendar March 06, 2008 Where is the link to the National Events Calendar? I would like to submit two events for California. View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Maintenance policy for Ask Mr. Smarty Plants February 04, 2008 Greetings, I am a volunteer at the University of Washington’s Elisabeth C. Miller Horticultural library. I am currently developing a maintenance policy for our database of gardening questions and ... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Thank you Mr. Smarty Plants October 30, 2007 No question, just wanted to thank Barbara Medford for her most informative and entertaining reply to my Oct. 2 question on the elimation of nutsedge. THANK YOU! View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Comment on Doug Shermans photography March 29, 2007 This is actually not a question. I just wanted to comment on Doug Sherman's photographs. I am working on a native garden presentation and his pictures are amazing. I love the way he captures the f... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| True date for Earth Day March 09, 2006 My grandson asked me to verify the correct date for Earth Day 2006. Sites on the internet say (a) Earth Day USA is April 22, 2006. (b) International Earth Day is M... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Links to geographical zones February 06, 2006 A link page to similar sites would be helpful. Rather than 8 "geographical zones" how about by real zones; I live in California at 8000 feet. I know I can use the Rocky Mt. Zone to a degree, but al... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Obtaining a list of Texas native plants February 16, 2005 I'm a member of the Lindheimer Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas (New Braunfels area) and wanted to get a list of Texas Native Plants for our Chapter to use as our guideline of what is nat... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Articles on landscaping with native plants in Kansas August 18, 2004 I work for the Kansas Department of Transportation in Topeka, Kansas and would like to receive information on growing native wildflowers. I have a catalog titled "Wildflower Favorites" that was pub... View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
| Why use native plants March 14, 2004 Why use native plants? View Mr. Smarty Plants' Answer | ||
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