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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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• Perennials RFC City Of Culture Tour Results In Winning The International Select Prof / International Tournament – 4 Reports LIVE HERE covering The JOURNEY / The Road To The FINAL / The FINAL / POST TOURNAMENT VICTORY! & Action Shots ALL LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!!

  
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  Tour report Derry/Londonderry The May Bank Holiday weekend say the Pereenials head to the north coast to play a bit of rugby and enjoy the bonus of the International Jazz festival festivities. Click on the links below to follow their progress, all with legally reviewed picture both action and social The Journey click ...
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• Abutilon (Flowering Maple)

  
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  Abutilon megapotamicum (aka Flowering Maple) This is a plant I bought last year at Plant Delights . Abutilons are popular plants for containers and I had never heard of anyone growing them in the ground. At Plant Delights Nursery, they were perfectly happy and healthy in the ground. There are cold hardy varieties ...
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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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• Where botany meets horticulture|Monticello|Peckerwood

  
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  Thanks to insects, human foragers, experimenters, dreamers, and plants’ own spin on things, our gardens are deeply enriched. My Salvia farinacea ‘Henry Duelberg’, discovered by Greg Grant in a cemetery—and named for the nearby headstone—makes a perfect companion to white Salvia greggii . I’m so ...
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• Have you seen these double primroses?

  
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  In the last ten years, many of the old, double flowered primroses have vanished from our gardens, on both sides of the Atlantic. A combination of virus disease and relentless weevil attack has led to the disappearance of many of these captivating, and very hardy, spring perennials. Grown in Britain. Brought to America ...
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• Youve Got Mail Monday

  
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  Blogging has taken a backseat to getting the garden planted. Plus it was Greek Easter this past weekend, so we were at the in-laws. With Mothers Day coming on Sunday, my sister-in-law and I are plotting some gardening work in my mother-in-laws yard. She loves flowers, but just cant do as much as she would like these ...
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• Exotics Were Important in the Nineteenth Century English Garden

  
  American Gardening, with a love for the English garden — Authority: 125
  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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• Pulmonaria … I think

  
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  Not sure where this plant came from. I think its a pulmonaria. There are some faint markings on the leaves -- which is what you really what you really look for in a pulmonaria. The plant is butt ugly. But Ive never seen one with better flowers from anything in this genus.
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• Biomimicry – How Doing It Nature’s Way Will Change The Way We Live

  
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  The disappearance of a major natural unit of vegetation from the face of the earth is an event worthy of causing pause and consideration by any nation. Yet so gradually has the prairie been conquered by the breaking plow, the tractor, and the overcrowded herds of man…that scant attention has been given to 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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• 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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• Spring Garden Cleanup and Cutting Back Perennials

  
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  Video with Robert Welsch, owner of Westover Landscape Design in Tarrytown. Taboola Article Player The post Spring Garden Cleanup and Cutting Back Perennials appeared first on In the Garden .
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• Mulch 101 — How to Edge a Garden Bed and Add Mulch to It

  
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  Here’s a video with garden designer Robert Welsch, the owner of Westover Landscape Design in Tarrytown. The post Mulch 101 — How to Edge a Garden Bed and Add Mulch to It appeared first on In the Garden .
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• Tree Peonies at Rockefeller State Park Put on a Show for the Ages

  
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  It’s a short show — 7 to 10 days max — but oh what a theatrical performance the magnificent tree peonies in the Rockefeller State Park Preserve put on for visitors in May. “My guess is no blooming in any volume until the weekend of May 11,” says Keith Austin, former mayor of Briarcliff Manor and head of ...
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• Late Spring

  
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  It has been awhile since weve had a Spring like this and I love it. It seems that we usually have one week of Spring and then are immediately plunged into Summer. This year Spring is lingering. I think the plants are appreciating that.   One of my favorite shrubs is Beauty Bush ( Kolkwitzia a mabilis ...
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• Wordless Wednesday 1st May 2013 – Ferny Croziers

  
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• Succulents and Cacti – it’s easier than you think!

  
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  by Debra Anchors A succulent rock garden Cacti and succulents often seem intimidating, but they are actually forgiving plants that respond to a gardener’s attentions by multiplying freely (succulents) or bursting into bloom (cacti).  Because they require little water, succulents are a great ...
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• Sprigs and Shoots

  
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  In the spring, the morning walk with the dogs yields something new each day. The hellebores are in full bloom and require a worms view to capture a picture as their flowers nod to the ground rather than the sky. Thick and sturdy shoots on the Hosta sieboldiana Elegans have emerged this week. Not all hosta have such ...
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