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• Apple Blossom Time 2013

  
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  Late arrivals in 2013 looks like being a good year for apple blossom and thus fruit in the North of England. A cold and late spring delayed the buds and blossom until the worst of the weather was over. Energy has been diverted into fruit production rather than new wood after judicious pruning. There has been ...
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• Trees, Shrubs and Conifers

  
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  blog.spaldingbulb.co.uk - For a garden youll love to grow! This group is the backbone of any garden design. Properly chosen for the particular spot, they are indispensable. In the wrong place, they are a disaster. advantages. There is always something to see. Even bare branches can be attractive. Most conifers, ...
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• clove currant: ribes odoratum, or ribes aureum

  
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  W HAT NATIVE AMERICAN SHRUB smells like cloves right now, with a profusion of golden flowers, and handsome lobed foliage (which will turn nice warm colors in fall)? Another clue: It would have fruit, too, if you had both a male and a female plant. It’s the clove currant, which I know as Ribes odoratu m, and woody ...
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• ‘Fruit Activists’ Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction

  
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  In California and beyond, using fruit trees to reclaim public spaces and expand the notion of what constitutes art.        
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• “Pick, Pick, Picking”

  
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  Hot grasses, ladybug picking and some of the foulest stenches know to humanity emanate from the Patch this week.
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• Small and Lovely Shrub for Landscapes: Pelargonium trifidum

  
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  Pelargonium trifidum is a small sprawling shrub from a large genus of tropical flowering plants, Pelargonium . The plant is known for its beautiful white and maroon flowers that often bloom in late summer. Pelargonium trifidum/ Image by Alan Gregg Pelargonium trifidum is rather low-growing shrub with ...
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• Rose Rosette Disease Threatens Westchester, Rockland Gardens

  
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  Fresh on the heels of impatiens downy mildew and boxwood blight, a new malady may soon be blowing into Hudson Valley gardens: rose rosette disease. It’s a virus carried by tiny mites, and no effective controls are available for existing infected roses. Rose rosette disease characteristics include excessive ...
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• California Shrub: Western Redbud

  
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  These were the blossoms on the Western Redbud a few months ago, before the leaves appeared. This is what it looks like now. Western (or Californ ia) Redbud Pea family Usually a shrub 7 to 18 feet high. Leaves are round and heart shaped, winter deciduous Bright purple flowers appear in ...
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• The bloom is off the viburnum

  
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  Strawberry bloomsThe bloom is on the strawberry and off the Korean Spice Viburnum.By golly,  now that it isnt blooming, I think I can remove that Korean Spice Viburnum on the right side of the gate to the vegetable garden after all.  It has a big dead branch in the middle and is right where I want to plant a new ...
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• Native Azaleas

  
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  Right now I am loving the deciduous native azaleas. I live in the south which is the land of azaleas but have never been taken by them until I grew the natives. Native azalea can be fussy about placement, they certainly aren’t the easiest plant to grow, but if you have the correct growing conditions [...]
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• Weed It And They Will Come

  
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  When the man was putting in the drain field for the septic system he said he would seed it with grass when it was done. I told him no. Do not seed it with grass. I want to see what will come up on its own.Well a lot of stuff has come up over the years, including things I did not like. I got a huge thicket of ...
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• building raised beds, and choosing crabapples: radio q&a

  
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  A S PROMISED: On this week’s pubic-radio show (available anytime as a podcast, too), I answered some of your recent Urgent Garden Questions. The topics ranged from how deep to build a raised bed for vegetables, to a whole range of crabapple inquiries: What’s the best crabapple variety for jelly, the crabapple with ...
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• Lovely and Unusual, Clianthus puniceus: the Kaka Beak Flower

  
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  Clianthus is a beautiful tropical shrub with very lovely and unusual flowers . Originally native to the New Zealand, Clianthus belongs to the family of Golden Shower and the Orchid Tree , and grows easily in tropical climates – average watering, full to partial exposure to the sun and protection from long, ...
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• How To Make The Best Of Your Small City Garden

  
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  Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could all live in the countryside and have beautiful gardens, wooded areas, ponds and somewhere for the children to disappear off to? How about pouring a glass of cold wine and sitting with a bowl of olives on your patio looking out at the rolling hills?  Ok, this is my dream, and ...
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• Take A Adventure Trip In India

  
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  Kettuvallam Substantial adventure for the unadventurous. If all that’s necessary from the getaway is usually to rest last any nice water-borne room, watching the blue heavens, natural trees and shrubs, while others scurry close to make certain the comfort and ease, obtain thee upon any houseboat. It can be the ...
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• Jumpstart Your Yard Prep with Scotts Florida Select Mulch

  
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  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scotts Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark . All opinions are 100% mine. Right now is the perfect time of  year to get outdoors and start your yard prep for landscaping and gardening.  Think Scotts when it comes to getting the job done!  Scotts Florida ...
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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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• Great Blue Heron Rookery Tree Dies

  
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  Great Blue Heron Nests The main tree that holds up the heron rookery is dead. This Sycamore was 12-feet in diameter; the largest single tree at the PGT. Perhaps another victim of the drought? Lorna thinks that heron droppings poisoned the tree after accumulating for several decades. Herons are huge birds with 6-foot ...
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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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• Pandanus

  
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  Pandanus is a palm-like, bush, small trees or shrubs native to the tropics and subtropics. There are about 600 known species and classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae. pandanus sanderi with yellow central stripes.
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