Hibiscus moscheutos The huge, showy blossoms of Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos), a member of the Mallow (Malvaceae) family, begin to appear in mid-summer, and continue into early fall. The flowers are most often pink or white, sometimes with a red throat, inspiring a different common name, Crimsoneyed Rose Mallow. But deeper shades of pink [...]
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Dear Kashmir, They said you were bruised and battered, they said that war had ravaged your paradise, they said I shouldn’t step on your soil lest I was caught in the midst of terrorism, they said all that, but they never said the truth. The newspapers lied, the TV channels lied, the reporters lied. For [...]