Hibiscus acetosella isn’t like most of the tropical flowered hibiscus you’re used to seeing in gardens. Hibiscus acetosella is grown mainly for its stunning foliage, which can be so finely cut and deeply red colored you’ll think it’s a...
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Are weeds simply a plant in the wrong place? Well, not really. Some of them are real problems in our home gardens. Here are some tips for managing weeds in your garden:
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Now that your seeds have sprouted and are actually starting to look like plants, what do you do?Indoor seedlings can be very...
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I can remember planting peas on St. Patrick's Day only once, in all my years of gardening. I was pushing my luck then and the peas I planted later in the season quickly caught up to the...
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Photo of Sambucus Black Beauty.: black beauty
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Add some pizzazz to your cool weather vegetable garden with crops like nutty mache or corn salad, Oriental delights like mizuna and tatsoi, plum purple radishes or any of the many other suggestions offered here by Cathy Wilkinson Barash for...
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Great gardeners seem to know all the little secrets for making plants happy. Luckily, gardeners love to share almost as much as they love to talk about their gardens. Here's a collection of quick gardening tips and ideas...
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana) got its common name because you can bend the individual flowers in any direction you like - a nice feature for floral displays. Unfortunately obedient plants are not so obedient in the garden, where some...
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A garden designer once told me that good garden design was a lot like pornography: You can't define it, but you know it when you see it. Certainly good garden design is subjective. My tastes seem to...
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Getting rid of weeds is a never ending garden chore. How weeds get into your garden in the first place is a bit of a mystery, but if there's a bare spot, a weed will find it and grow....
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