Lavender is trendy. Here's why.
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Loving Lavender
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May Flowers in Garden and Woods Welcome a New Season
Hopefully, you will get some good ideas about what you can plant in your own garden, to enjoy every spring!
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Spring Blossoms that Survive Deer
Keeping deer from devouring everything in your yard is especially difficult in spring and fall.
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Luxembourg Gardens Overflows in Pink
Six-on-Saturday is six pictures of garden beauty, with limited comment! Last week, I was lucky to have the opportunity to visit Paris and stroll through Luxembourg Gardens. It was a bit early to see the …
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California Travel Rejuvenation: The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
With such color and form all around, who would argue that these aren't Nature's works of art?
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Redesigning a Garden: Six on Saturday 11-10-18
Well, it’s been a while since I shared any garden views, or was able to read much about everyone else’s garden on The Propagator blog. Let’s blame it on many (in)decisions about redesigning the garden. …
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Take Your Garden Design to the Next Level
The edges of a driveway, a stone wall, a series of flower pots, or wrought iron poles for hanging plants are all examples of how lines are brought into garden design. Lines take your eye on a journey through the landscape.
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Garden Successes and Failures, Six on Saturday 9-22-18
The blooming of fall anemones and physostegia hasn't happened in years.
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Wet and Wild in the Garden, Six on Saturday 9-15-18
The raindrops looked like crystals sprinkled on the garden.
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6 Deer-Resistant Bulbs to Plant Now
Chemical content, scent, and texture all play a part in repelling foragers. And their effectiveness follows in that order.
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Fall Favorite Flowers, Six on Saturday 9-8-18
The border that the Rudbeckia grows in has a little "secret path" that makes it easier for me to get into the bed to weed.
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Mushrooms Bloom, Six on Saturday, September 1, 2018
What happens when it starts raining after a period of drought? Out pop the mushrooms.
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Crisp Air for a Fall Garden, Six on Saturday, 8-25-18
The tri-color dappled willow bushes (Salix integra 'Hakuro-nishiki') had a burst of growth, from 2 feet at the start of the season, to over 8 feet today.
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The Slowdown, Six on Saturday 8-18-18
Cherry and Roma tomatoes are doing well, but the heirloom tomato plants succumbed to some sort of rot, and the fruits are mealy and terrible. Maybe there is a reason for hybrids.
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When Do Morning Glories Bloom?
My over-zealous addition of fertilizer had cause this disappointment. The plants put all of their energy into growing, not reproducing. Fertilizing lesson learned.
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Display Gardens Make Saturday Shopping A Pleasure
Getting ideas from some of the best professional gardeners
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Went to a Garden Party
The party honored our newly married nephew and his wife. The garden and its cool shade provided a serene setting for the happy occasion.
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August in the Garden
There's more than I thought growing on around here.
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Berry, Berry Good, Six on Saturday 8-4-18
I just noticed that the color theme here is red and white. In fact, those are the colors of the wild and cultivated flowers that are in bloom.
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Trimming Back Herbs and Flowers for Another Round of Bloom
I remember watching a friend as she pulled faded petals off her flowers and told me that the plants would be more likely to re-bloom because she did this. When I started gardening, I did the same. My petunias still looked awful by the end of July.
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Great Flower and Garden Photos With A Camera Phone, Six on Saturday 7-28-18
Not every picture speaks a thousand words, but once in a while you capture something really memorable, even with a camera phone. Here are six photos I took with my camera phone (Samsung Galaxy J7). …