… of 8 inches with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It has white and blue blooms in March and April and is a specimen. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to reach a height of 4 feet. From July through October it produces red and purple blooms. It is a specimen in a border. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… You type seeds into your search engine—only to get 257,000,000 results. Next you type in seed catalog . Hmm, down to 19,100,000. You need an editor. That's where we come in. An … Lenhardt Library, the Nursery Catalog Database—and its companion, a physical file of catalogs—is a gardener's dream: an already-edited and constantly updated list of hundreds (currently 784) … Have an unusual interest? So do the mushroom folks at Garden City Fungi ( gardencityfungi.com ), the banana experts at Going Bananas ( going-bananas.com ), and the Kitazawa Seed Company ( …
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… “Gardening is something you learn by doing—and by making mistakes. Like cooking, gardening is a constant … say that I’ve burnt dinner many times.” — Nina Koziol, Smart Gardener author Making mistakes in the garden is inevitable. But, as an educator, I chalk them up as life-long learning … fertilizer would really make my containers pop. Those boxes and bottles of blue granules were in the garage. I’d bought them on sale years ago and they were still good. Why not use them up, I …
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… 'Hillside Creeper' is a fast-growing, prostrate Scots pine. It can grow laterally up to 12 inches in a year but growth rate slows considerably as the plant ages. In 10 years it typically attains 2 feet in height and 8 feet in width. The needles are light …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Cercis ), tuliptree ( Liriodendron ) and many others. Description & Symptoms Verticillium wilt is a soil-borne fungal disease that plugs the vascular system of woody plants. Symptoms include wilting leaves, often along a single branch. In acute cases, leaves curl and wilt, and the branch dies. Scattered dieback of branches may occur over several years. In chronic cases, branches survive but growth is slow and leaves are small and sparse. Both acute …
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… Q. What is the best way to take care of plants growing in containers? A. Plants growing in containers require a little more work than plants growing in garden beds. The amount of care …
Type: Plant Info
… Wayfaringtree viburnum is usually a multi-stemmed shrub with a rounded outline growing to a height of 10' to 15'. The … a rough sandpapery texture. The flowers are a creamy white with no fragrance and are borne in clusters 5" in diameter. Bloom begins in early to mid-May and continues for two weeks. The fruit appears in …
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… Lesser calamint is an aromatic, slow-growing, erect perennial with ovate dark green leaves that are 1½ inches long that smell like mint. It grows best in sun in well-drained moist soil. In summer, it produces 5 to 15 white-turning-to-light-lavender to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… followed by clusters of deep red, almost black, fruit whose flavor resembles cherries. Plant in a frost free climate in full sun in moisture retentive well drained soils and water during droughts. It can be grown in a large container on the patio as long as it is brought indoors before the first frost and overwintered in a warm, humid, brightly lite …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
