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Flowers & Garden: July's hot tips on maintaining flower garden
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July's hot tips on maintaining flower garden. If you are lacking summer color, it's not too late to set out these plants: ageratum, begonias, celosia, chrysanthemums, coreopsis, gazanias, gloriosa daisies, impatiens, marigolds, petunias, portulaca, sea lavender, sweet alyssum, zinnias. Start seeds of campanulas, columbine, coreopsis, delphiniums, forget-me-nots, and foxgloves to plant out in September. Renew the mulch around plants to keep them cool and conserve moisture. Stop pruning these spring-bloomi...
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Flowers & Garden: 'Black Eyed Susans' - Favorite Summer Flowers
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Black Eyed Susans' - Favorite Summer Flowers. Need to be grown in full sun in somewhat moist soil conditions in a well-drained area. It is great in borders, for cut flowers or for naturalized areas. Rudbeckia attracts butterflies, provides food for birds in the winter and is mildew-resistant. Posted by blogger at Sunday, July 06, 2008. 25 off $50 orders with Brecks. Coneflowers (Echinacea) works with bugs. IN YOUR GARDEN: Glorious gladioli. A little neglect is best for begonias. Window blinds and shades.
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Flowers & Garden: March 2005
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Plan your flower garden around perennials! Perennial plants reward us with an appearance year after year while their cousins, the annuals, make a one-time show and then they're goners. For your home landscape, the perennial is a winner, with its wide range of size, flower and foliage. Listed below are some of these plants suitable for our area. Many can be started from seed indoors right now, or later from bedding plants ready to go in the garden. Some of them, like iris and peonies. Delphinium: Likes su...
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Flowers & Garden: July 2005
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Hydrangeas - the shady stars of summer. In the world of plants, as in show business, everything old is eventually new again. Our grandmother's old-fashioned hydrangeas, those shrubby mainstays of gardens past, have made a comeback. And with good reason, for few plants are so easy to care for, plus bloom so long in such a lovely array of colors. Breeders have been busy creating a wonderland of whites, blues, pinks, reds, violets and deep purples and not just in the familiar mop-head clusters. Little Honey...
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Flowers & Garden: April 2005
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Gerbera Daisies colorful blooms Flowers for Bouquets. Gerbera Daisies used to be called Transvaal Daisy, and you may see that name from time to time in catalogs or on labels. It's another of the flowers we've acquired from South Africa and it's well-suited to our Southern California climate, whether in the hot inland valleys or along the coast. Gerbera likes well drained soil, and the crown should never stand in water. It helps to fertilize two to three times a year, and disease and insects aren't us...
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Flowers & Garden: December 2004
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My mother taught me this technique for storing herbs and it works very well. 1 Chop a desired amount of herbs using a knife and cutting board or a food processor. 2 Put herbs into a large plastic baggy or bowl and add a small amount of oil, just enough to coat the herbs. 3 When herbs are lightly coated with oil, spread them out on a cookie sheet. 4 Place cookie sheet in freezer and let herbs freeze. 5 Remove cookie sheet from freezer and place frozen herbs into an air-tight freezer container. Herbs-When ...
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Flowers & Garden: Primer on plant problems, how to treat them! Part One
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Primer on plant problems, how to treat them! Your garden is off to a great start this season and everything's looking great, you don't have a care in the world and then: Whack. All of a sudden your prize tomato plants are turning wicked colors of yellow or brown, perhaps dropping their leaves as we. Very young (newly seeded) flower and vegetable seedlings either fail to come up or rot off at soil level soon after the emerge. Cause: Colletotrichum coccodes fungus. Orange-yellow, brown, or purple pustules ...
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Flowers & Garden: Fast-food take on landscapes appetizing
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Fast-food take on landscapes appetizing. In the past two weeks I have traveled from the Deep South to northern Michigan, and from West Texas through New Mexico and Colorado to South Dakota. Believe me, the natural gardening climate is vastly different in every place. Still, there are plants that each place holds in common - oft-used, dependable "garden backbone" plants such as junipers. Zinnias and ornamental grasses. And guess where the major patterns for flower and shrub arrangement are most visible?
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Flowers & Garden: February 2005
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Bold Colors for Your Flower Garden. Plan your garden's bold color range for the intensity of light in its. Peak season. For instance, if plantings look their best in high. Summer, select the brightest colors possible so they won't fade in. Harsh sunlight. Tone down the color later by editing out plants or. Adding cooling white or silver plants as fillers among the brighter. The flower combinations listed below offer a starting point for. Creating your own bold color garden. The Magic of Magenta. Posted b...
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Flowers & Garden: January 2005
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If you bring fresh cut flowers make sure to put them in a vase so the hostess doesn't have to run around looking for something to put the flowers in. (she has enough to do! Your thoughtfulness will be appreciated! Posted by Candee at Monday, January 31, 2005. 25 off $50 orders with Brecks. Just a reminder: when watering do not use water straight from the tap and use room temperature water. Posted by Candee at Sunday, January 30, 2005. 25 off $50 orders with Brecks. 25 off $50 orders with Brecks. As with ...
