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Category: gardening
Caring for orchids isn’t difficult, and you can get them to re bloom with a little effort.
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Hopefully, you will get some good ideas about what you can plant in your own garden, to enjoy every spring!
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Keeping deer from devouring everything in your yard is especially difficult in spring and fall.
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Six-on-Saturday is six pictures of garden beauty, with limited comment! Last week, I was lucky…
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With such color and form all around, who would argue that these aren’t Nature’s works of art?
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Well, it’s been a while since I shared any garden views, or was able to…
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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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The blooming of fall anemones and physostegia hasn’t happened in years.
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The raindrops looked like crystals sprinkled on the garden.
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Chemical content, scent, and texture all play a part in repelling foragers. And their effectiveness follows in that order.
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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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What happens when it starts raining after a period of drought? Out pop the mushrooms.
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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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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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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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Getting ideas from some of the best professional gardeners
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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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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.
