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  • How to Keep Plants Safe This Winter


    Handy Man Fix Home RepairAuthority Authority: 478
    If you have planted perennials in your garden this year, there are a few things that you’ll have to do to make sure that they make it through the winter. Warmer climates usually do not have this problem, but if your nights do get near or below freezing, protecting this delicate plants is a good idea. By taking the ...
    1 day ago
  • Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, colorful November


    Red Dirt RamblingsAuthority Authority: 116
    [Please click on the photos in the gallery to make them larger]I managed to delude myself for the past few weeks imagining it was late September.  Last I looked, many trees had leaves, and I was still planting a shrub or two.  This morning, with its  light rain and cold front, shattered my illusions.I also [...]
    1 day ago
  • Great Weather For Fall Cleanup


    Glenns GardenAuthority Authority: 134
    The weather has been great all week in Chicago for gardeners to get out and do some fall cleanup. the weather has been averaging about 10 degrees above normal and is a great boost over earlier this fall. We have cut back all the perennials in one of the parking lots and cleaned the beds we will continue on to the ...
    2 days ago
  • Design in the details


    blithewold.orgAuthority Authority: 114
    Open any one of William Cullina’s books and you’ll get a good idea of the sort of person he is (our kind) and if you’re me, you’ll read cover to cover and learn something new on each page. Invite him to speak, and you’ll have the pleasure of meeting one of the most articulate, knowledgeable, [...]
    3 days ago

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  • Seeds! Seeds! Seeds!


    The Constant GardenerAuthority Authority: 120
    Ooooooh! The RHSs seed list for 2010 has been published!One of the many great things about being an RHS member is that every year you get to choose 20 packets of seed collected from RHS gardens for the princely sum of 60p each. And theyre mostly quite unusual, so you get to pack your garden with some choice lovelies ...
    4 days ago
  • A Nice Surprise


    Always GrowingAuthority Authority: 123
    “A Nice Surprise”, a copyrighted post, was written for my WordPress blog called Always Growing by Jan in Covington, Louisiana  When it comes to my garden, it doesn’t take much to make me happy.  A new flower, especially one on a plant that has never bloomed before, really is something I look forward to ...
    5 days ago
  • pineapple sage, heroic late bloomer


    A Way to GardenAuthority Authority: 121
    ISMILE AND NOD WHEN GARDENERS FROM ELSEWHERE tout pineapple sage (Salvia elegans) as a hummingbird plant. “Elsewhere,” as in wherever the plant blooms before the hummingbirds have been long-gone for six weeks, meaning decidedly not here. Yes, after probably 10 frosts, my pineapple sage decided to bloom the last ...
    5 days ago
  • Bridgette New York Aster


    Digital Flower Pictures.comAuthority Authority: 128
    New York AsterSymphyotrichum novi-belgii Bridgette(sim-fy-oh-TRY-kum) (NO-vee BEL-jee-eye)Synonyms: Michaelmas Daisy
    5 days ago
  • Summer leftover: Asian-inspired garden


    Toronto GardensAuthority Authority: 127
    While doing the initial scoring for the East York Blooming Contest, I saw some high-scoring gardens that didnt make it into the final round, including this Asian-inspired front garden.The tall tree is a standard form of weeping mulberry (Morus alba Pendula). In horticulture, standard doesnt mean "run of the mill", but ...
    1 week ago
  • Some girls buy shoes . . . .


    Red Dirt RamblingsAuthority Authority: 116
    Last night, HH and I attended our church’s oh-so-swanky auction at the Skirvin Hotel, so, Friday, my husband asked me what I was planning to wear.I made a gesture toward the closet and said, “Something black.”  I then thought for a moment and said, “I think I need new black shoes though.”“Go buy some,” ...
    1 week ago
  • June Gardening Tips


    start-a-garden.comAuthority Authority: 120
    These are just a few gardening tips for you to consider here in late June. Many people seem to think that just because all the plants have been put into their places for the summer and your perennials are blooming, or past bloom, there is no more work to be done. The garden is full of multi-colored flowers, so there ...
    1 week ago
  • Things Are Heating Up


    millertimeAuthority Authority: 103
    November up here is looking more like September with the current temps.......causing some plants to hang onto their lives-and blooms! (Like this borage, too bad my tomatoes couldnt survive this well!)Theyre mixing with the fall foliage thats already been established....this is spirea Mellow Yellow.Of course the ...
    1 week ago
  • The Cap Theory of Garden Clean-Up


    My Northern GardenAuthority Authority: 111
    Looks good in hat Lose the hat, lady Let’s face it: Not everyone looks good in a cap. The young lady at right, for instance, has always looked good in hats. Her mother, at left, not so much. (And, why is she kissing a dog?) I think about caps while cleaning up the garden in fall, and today was a perfect day ...
    1 week ago
  • From the memory banks: Sweet Autumn Clematis


    Toronto GardensAuthority Authority: 127
    Over the next few weeks, Ill be posting a few things that got lost in the shuffle of the too-many-things-to-write-about growing season. One of them is Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora – also widely but erroneously known as C. ternifolia, it seems through a printers error shortly after its discovery in ...
    1 week ago
  • Gardening ideas


    Natural GardeningAuthority Authority: 127
    Thinking about problem-solving in gardens and landscapes is interesting. What we bring to the process is gardening ideas, gleaned from memories, experience, and observation melded with the practicalities of light, soil, and climate. A class today had me thinking about this again. Theres no point in dreaming of lush ...
    1 week ago
  • Striped Volcano Garden Phlox


    Digital Flower Pictures.comAuthority Authority: 128
    Striped Volcano Garden PhloxPhlox paniculata Volcano Candy Stripe(floks) (pan-ick-yoo-LAY-tuh)The ‘Volcano’ series of Phlox was featured on this blog here. This one looked pretty amazing and better than the striped Phlox featured on this post. It had a much larger flower and was a darker pink.I really have to ...
    1 week ago
  • Coneflowers yet again


    Doug Green's BlogAuthority Authority: 117
    Just when you think you understand and have written about as much as your reader’s can stomach about coneflowers, along comes another rash of questions and fellow garden writers writing about this plant. When the new plants started appearing on the gardening scene, I remember hearing from the originating nurseries ...
    1 week ago
  • Which Plants to Protect from Upcoming Frost


    All the Dirt on GardeningAuthority Authority: 121
    So far, fall, 2009, has been frost-free and we still have time to get vulnerable plants pulled indoors. Houseplants that vacationed outside over the summer definitely want to be inside by now. Cacti and succulents that are not native have to be protected, too. Not everything will fit into the house, garage, shed or ...
    1 week ago
  • Perennial Flowers and Record Keeping


    Doug Green's BlogAuthority Authority: 117
    Some random thoughts about perennial flowers and record-keeping. I got a few comments – on and off-list about my latest blog post so here are the answers. Do I keep records? Sort of. I keep records of trial plants so I know what’s going on with that plant. I’ll show you the system next spring as I set it up ...
    2 weeks ago

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