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• growing hellebores and more, with barry glick

  
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  I’ M OFTEN ASKED by frustrated gardeners how I managed to get my big old hellebore plants to grow so lustily—as if they are finicky, or difficult.  To me they seem easy, but since reader questions persist, I decided to ask the guy with 6 acres of mature plants and decades of hellebore-breeding experience, Barry ...
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• Hot summer color and Chocolate Chips manfreda in bloom

  
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  Austin’s lovely, unexpectedly extended spring appears to have faded into summer’s mid-90sF heat and humidity. While I may be complaining about the sauna-like conditions, my garden doesn’t mind. Take this cute little cactus for example. Last year it resided on a sunny windowsill in the kitchen, but this spring I ...
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• Impatiens Downy Mildew (IDM)

  
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  I am sure that more than a few of you depend on impatiens to provide season-long color in shady containers and beds. The latest news concerning them may leave you feeling a bit frantic! Impatiens Downy Mildew (IDM) was diagnosed on flowering impatiens in Massachusetts for the first time in 2011 and then devastated ...
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• Great Annuals for Westchester, Putnam Gardens, with Video

  
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  Mother’s Day weekend traditionally marks the kickoff of the get-serious gardening season in the Lower Hudson Valley because by now we can generally say that any danger of late frosts is pretty much gone, making it safe to buy and plant tender annuals like begonias, sunflowers, cosmos and coleus. Yay, right? It’s ...
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• Upcoming Plant Sales for Westchester, Rockland and Putnam

  
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  Combing through local plant sales is a great way to find good annuals for your garden this spring. Many come right from garden club members’ own gardens. And if you’ve come up short on a gift for Mother’s Day, get her a big hanging basket, or five can’t-miss vegetables to grow, or perhaps a banana tree for the ...
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• Super Easy “Shoebag” Planter Project

  
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  This spring, I have become obsessed with re-purposing items, and have found a great and inexpensive yard project! This over-the-door shoe organizer planter is great. Continue reading →
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• Friends don’t let friends plant impatiens

  
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  I have bad news and good news. The bad news is there’s a fungus among us. Impatiens downy mildew (Plasmopara obducens), the mysterious ailment that denuded and killed almost every busy Lizzie (Impatiens walleriana) back in July or August of last year, is here to stay. It’s in our soil now and unlike other downy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exotics Were Important in the Nineteenth Century English Garden

  
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  Today plant hunters still travel the world looking for plants that will find a home in American gardens. The American grower Proven Winners tests plants from sixty breeders around the world.  The company trials them and if they are worthwhile, the new plants become part of the palate for the American gardener. The ...
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• 6 early native spring wildflowers for shade

  
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  M Y GARDEN, LIKE MOST (and like the assortment at the garden center), is a jumble of non-native and native plants. But at this early spring moment, a half-dozen Eastern wildflowers take my breath away. In a slideshow, six easy, captivating natives for the woodland or shade garden. Follow each plants name (the ...
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• Springtime visit to the Garden of Good and Evil

  
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  Last weekend Lori, a gardener in southwest Austin who blogs at The Gardener of Good and Evil , hosted a meet-up of local garden bloggers. It was my second visit. I’d seen her lovely garden three years ago and posted about it then. Lori loves roses, and in 2010 they dominated her garden. Today, due to the drought ...
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• Spring into summer with gusto

  
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  Can you believe this? We’ve had spring (and winter!) longer than 15 minutes. Poppies keep popping up with spuria iris. I can’t have too many native winecups. In the cat cove, they team up with Gulf penstemon and C alylophus berlandieri ssp. Pinifolius . And this time of year is just about my ...
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• Alternanthera Became a Popular Victorian Plant for Bedding

  
  American Gardening, with a love for the English garden — Authority: 125
  The alternanthera is grown for its leaves. It was a popular plant in beds during the nineteenth century both in England and in America. In the 1880 issue of Philadelphia seedsman Thomas Meehan’s  Gardener’s Monthly M. Digram wrote an article called “The Alternanthera as a Lawn Plant.”  He said, “A ...
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• Annual Events – Part 3

  
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  Finally, the last part of the Annual Events series – good news for those of you who like annuals and even better new for those of you who are getting tired of them by now. This one focuses on annuals and tender perennials with outstanding foliage paired with other terrific foliage or flowering plants. Coleus [...]
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• In the garden today

  
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  In the garden today, it is very breezy bordering on windy. While I tidied things, I took some photos of what it looks like on this second, very warm day. Yesterday was 88°F which is about ten degrees warmer than it should be this time of year. Today is a repeat with the wind added [...] The post In the garden today ...
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• Stream This

  
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  The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that.  So, every Friday I’ll be posting the best album streams and videos that were sent my way during the week.  Take a scroll and find something worth remembering. FULL ALBUM ...
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• Annuals releases first new album in five years, Time Stamp

  
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  Annuals were once the biggest buzz band in the Triangle who were garnering national attention from blogs, magazines and even late night talk shows. But after the release of their last last album, 2008s Such Fun and the subsequent touring for that album, Annuals sort of disappeared for a while. They released the 2010 ...
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• Annuals – Time Stamp

  
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  Mp3 Download Annuals – Time Stamp (2013) from mp3boo.com FREE!! Tracklist: 01. Omnicide 02. Winslow 03 .Sunday, 17 04. I Don’t Care 05. Orbweaver 06. The Rotary 07. Whippoorwill 08. Watauga 09. Broke 10 .Coffee 11. Lil’ Pitlins Download
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• the other clematis: charming non-vining types

  
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  W HEN I TALKED CLEMATIS PRUNING recently with my friend Dan Long, we didn’t spend much time on some of my favorite Clematis of all: the non-vining types that act more like perennials or even like lightweight shrubs. I wanted to be sure to spread the good word for “non-vining” Clematis , too (that’s ...
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• Native companions

  
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  Things are buzzing around here! Native Gulf penstemons absolutely suck in the bees. I have them everywhere, including the cat cove; not by my design, but by theirs. Like all parents, plants point their progeny in the right direction. I don’t mind if they crowd the path for now. I’ll cut them back after ...
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• Stream Annuals Time Stamp

  
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  Raleigh’s Annuals were a Band To Watch way back in 2006. Until yesterday, though, the group had not delivered a full-length album in nearly five years. Annuals independently released their new album, Time Stamp , on Bandcamp along with a heart-felt note documenting their hiatus. Read More...
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