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Growing Orchids: No Hothouse Required 2008-04-16 13:01:00 The perception among novice gardeners is that orchids are hard to grow. The truth is: some orchids are hard to grow. If you start with the right type, it can be easy.A born window shopper, I have a penchant for orchids that began when I first saw one in the window of a flower shop. I stared in awe at the cascading arch of white flowers. Thinking of my stuffy city apartment -- more like a closet wi Read more:Growing
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Japanese Silver Grass: Ornamental Grass With Four-season Appeal 2008-04-16 12:52:00 An ornamental grass with four-season appealJapanese
silver grass is as beautiful as its common name sounds. Most members of the genus, whose botanical name is Miscanthus sinensis, are elegant plants with a sheaflike habit. Narrow at the base, the clumps rise to five feet or more and fan out at the top. In summer, the different varieties provide an exquisite background for the large, colorful flowe Read more:Appeal
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Can English Roses Thrive In American Soil? 2008-04-16 12:40:00 Can English
roses thrive in American
soil? An expert says they can, with just a bit of translation. Admit it. Like most Americans, you're just a little bit intimidated by things English. The accent, the pageantry, even the warm beer — they all make us feel just a tiny bit cruder than our English cousins. Lately even their gardens have seemed out of our league, as the buzz spread about glorious, Read more:Roses
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Container Gardening: Make The Most Of What You've Got 2008-04-16 12:20:00 Does your garden space consist of a small concrete terrace rather than rolling acres on the lower forty? Don't despair. Designer Rebecca Cole explains how to make the most of what you've got with container gardening.Maiden grass sways in the breeze as white birch trees shimmer in the light. A thick clump of white daisies cools down a blazing red cotoneaster shrub. A tiny yellow bird lands on a bra Read more:Container
Answers To Questions About Gardening Roses 2008-04-15 13:18:00 What's the best way to plant a rose?At a well-chosen site (one with lots of sun and good drainage), dig a hole three feet deep and two-and-a-half feet wide.Mix one cup of triple superphosphate with the soil at the bottom of the hole (to encourage root development). If your soil is iron-deficient, throw in a couple of nails. After placing the plant, fill the hole with a mixture of 50 percent loam a Read more:Roses
Plants for Stone Walls 2008-04-15 13:08:00 Working With Stone
Few materials offer a better backdrop for beds and borders, or create a more attractive garden hardscape, than stone. Building a stone wall can be immensely satisfying, provided certain precautions are taken: 1. When altering old stone walls or foundations, proceed with care. Removing a single rock can cause the entire structure to shift radically or even to tumble completely. 2. Read more:Plants
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Soil for Seed Starting 2008-02-29 11:30:00 It is one of the many paradoxes in gardening that the best soils for starting seedlings indoors contain no real soil at all. Ordinarily, weed seedlings sprout and grow in profusion in any speck of open ground. So what's the big deal with using some topsoil for starting seedlings? Why can't we just dig up a little good earth and set it aside for our winter work.As simple and as natural as that answ
Care for Crispy Gardens: How to diagnose and treat a too-hot garden or lawn 2008-02-29 11:26:00 This time of year, gardens and yards are just this side of crispy if you aren't ardent with the watering or blessed with slow, steady rain. But there is hope in warding off fried, dried effects that the heat and sun can cause. First, learn the warning signs, next, brush up on the basics and last, know how your watering gear works.Warning Signs of Too-hot PlantsSome of the telltale signs to look fo Read more:Crispy
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Get to the essence of flowers: Favorite garden plants are also tops for perfume 2008-02-29 11:16:00 A delicate wisp of freesia, appearing just in time for holiday cheer, can perfume an entire room for days. For Mother's Day, a heavy bouquet of fuchsia-tinged Stargazer lilies has the same voluptuous effect. And a heady Valentine's Day vase of roses might seem an extravagantly perfumed gift. But none of these perishable bouquets can come close to the number of flowers it takes to scent one long-la Read more:Favorite
Easy Roses: Want beautiful roses with less work? 2008-02-29 11:12:00 In the beginning, roses grew wild. From China through central Europe, they flowered with abandon for hundreds of years, needing neither fungicide nor fertilizer. Then hybridizers started fooling around with them, creating new plants that had beautiful flowers but were more prone to diseases. When these new varieties were marketed in climates where they had no business growing, roses gained the rep
Gardening Made Easy 2008-02-28 14:07:00 There is a simple way to make your plants and flowers flourishSo many people are intimidated by gardening. Rather than believing it can be fun and easy, they assume it's instinctive -- you've either got a green thumb or you don't. Well just like many other things in life, you can garden the hard way, or the easy way. But why make it more difficult than it really has to be? Believe it or not, there
Gardening with aromatic foliage just makes scents 2008-02-28 13:27:00 A rose is a rose is a roseuntil it withers and dies, losing its beguiling scent forever. But savvy landscape designers know they can count on year-round fragrance if they pack their gardens with aromatic foliage. Long after the blooming season ends, the scented leaves fill the air with a distinctive perfume of their own."A garden without fragrance is hardly a garden at all. You might as well just Read more:makes
Protecting Trees During Construction 2008-02-28 13:17:00 You have to begin planning even before the lot is cleared. If you buy a "spec" house from a builder, you may be disappointed a year or two later to find he was not careful, and your trees are dying. You are faced with the expense of removing dead trees. If you paid a higher price for the lot because of the trees, you've also lost your investment. Saving trees around a house or building that you're Read more:Construction
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Live Oaks, Fertilization With proper care, live oaks will grow fast. 2008-02-28 13:15:00 The first two growing seasons are the most critical for the live oak. Don't allow a tree to show stress before you start watering it. You may believe that the next generation will be the only people who benefit from a live oak tree planted now, however, that's not really true. With proper care, a live oak will grow faster and will provide more benefits than you may think in only five years. Fertil
Smoke Tree: Spring Beauty 2008-02-28 13:13:00 Some nurseries and garden centers carry this tree as Purple Smoke
Tree or the Velvet Cloak Smoke Tree. They will retain an unusual purplish cast to the leaves throughout the summer One of the very spectacular late spring flowering trees is the Smoke Tree. This very attractive large shrub or small tree gets lost among the other spring flowering trees. Its flowers, which are 6 - 8 inch misty panicle Read more:Beauty
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Pruning Crape Myrtle: You may Choose Between a Shrub or a Small Tree 2008-02-28 13:08:00 The Crape Myrtle
's small tree form will usually have one or two main stems or trunks. All side shoots on the main stems are kept pruned off up to the head or top of the plant. All growth activity is channeled into the development of a healthy full head. Far too many gardeners neglect pruning Crape Myrtles. Those that do prune, seldom practice sound pruning practices. In landscape design, Crape Myr Read more:Small
Lawn Care: Lawn Renovation 2008-02-28 13:06:00 Renovating a lawn may take one of several directions. It may involve reseeding or plugging areas where existing sod has been killed by insects or disease. Or it may mean destroying the existing sod and reseeding or resodding with new material. Partial renovation In cases of partial renovation, remove all grass in the dead areas by raking or some other method. Lightly re-till the affected area befo Read more:Renovation
Lawn Care: Rye Grass Planting 2008-02-28 13:02:00 For a glorious green lawn Georgians favor rye grass. A rye grass lawn provides a strong contrast color in the environment in the winter and is attractive as a background for spring flowering bulbs and early-flowing trees and shrubs. If you would like a new, green lawn during the winter you should consider sowing rye grass during late October and November. Rye grass flourishes in Georgia's relative
Lawn Care: Garden Trimmers 2008-02-28 12:56:00 Be aware of the trimmer's impact.It's not uncommon to see shrub borders damaged and dying because of the improper use of garden trimmers.Garden
trimmers which use a monofilament line to cut weeds and grass may damage trees, shrubs and vines if you don't use them correctly. These gardens trimmers can be very useful...but they should be used for the jobs they were meant to do. A useful toolGarden tr
Lawn Care: Brown Patches 2008-02-28 12:53:00 Georgia lawns suffer most from brown patch. Generally, brown patch attacks only the leaves and stems of the grass, but it can cause severe damage if uncontrolled .The most serious disease in Georgia lawns is brown patch. It's caused by a fungus which attacks almost all species of grasses during the warm, humid early spring or fall weather. Brown
patch is especially serious on St. Augustine and cen
Controlling Lawn Insects: Chinch Bugs 2008-02-28 12:46:00 The adults are small, black bugs 3/16" long with white wings and reddish legs. The nymphs are smaller than adults, wingless, brick red in color with a white band on the back. The damage is irregular shaped yellow patches, 2 to 3 feet in diameter, which turn brown and die out. Non-grass plants may survive in the affected area. The insects keep moving out from the infested area so are most likely to Read more:Controlling
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Controlling Moss in the Lawn 2008-02-28 12:46:00 Moss grows in the lawn when shade, low fertility or poorly drained soil are present. The moss does not kill the grass, the growing conditions are so unfavorable to the grass it dies out. Moss will grow on acid soil but this is not the main reason it will grow in a particular area. Do not add lime to try to control a moss problem unless a soil test indicates a need for lime. Shade and poor drainage Read more:Controlling
Controlling Lawn Moles 2008-02-28 12:43:00 Moles can be the most common and frustrating lawn pest problem. The animals eat soil insects such as grubs and earthworms. They do not feed on flower bulbs or plant roots. There is currently no satisfactory chemical control. Trapping is at present the best technique for mole control. Moles have two types of tunnels. One type is used only once, the other type is used regularly. The trap must be set Read more:Controlling
Proper Lawn Mowing 2008-02-28 12:39:00 Proper lawn mowing involves the interaction of the height and frequency of mowing. Most lawns should be mowed no lower than 1 1/2 inches and up to 3 inches. Shaded lawns need the taller mowing height. The personal preferences of the homeowner usually determine the exact height selected. The lawn should be mowed often enough so that no more than 1/3 of the leaf area is removed at one time. For exam Read more:Proper
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