Tag: Northern

Hydrangea are wonderful flowering shrubs, most valued, by northern gardeners, for their late summer through fall floral displays. Most have white flowers but Hydrangea macrocephala has flowers in a range of colours from white through pink, purple and blue.
A few even have the added value of excellent fall colour. Read on to learn which hydrangea are best for your northern garden.

ScienceDaily (Aug. 5, 2011) The farther that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains, according to a new study by Oxford University.
But it turns out that this is not because they are smarter, but because they need bigger vision areas in the brain to cope with the low light levels experienced at high latitudes.

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