… Try your hand at transferring a design onto silk pocket squares and using a water-based resist to create an outline. Finish off your one-of-a-kind work by adding dye for a bright, vivid color. This technique creates a stained-glass effect and leaves a lasting …
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… The double orange flowers shade from red orange through peach from mid-June up to the first hard frost on this disease-resistant shrub rose. The colors intensify in warmer weather, an unusual characteristic for a rose. Plant this rose in full sun and in moderately moist, fertile soils in a location that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This diminutive plant spreads in the garden and grows to under 12" tall. Use Allegheny foamflower as a ground cover in a shaded area of the garden. The … foamflower has heart-shaped leaves and dainty white flowers in spring. Lovely ground cover for shade …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… habit. 'Jervis' is a natural form that was found in the wild and vegetatively propagated for the nursery trade. It's ideal in rock gardens or as an accent among lower growing perennials … This plant prefers acidic soils that are well-drained yet consistently moist and bright light to full sunt. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… family, is a tropical plant that resembles ginger in growth and habit but is actually related to the spiderworts (genus Tradescantia ). This striking plant is native to the tropical woodlands of North, Central, and South America, especially in the Atlantic forest vegetation in Brazil. It is cultivated for its handsome, spotted stems and large, shiny foliage, which is held horizontally, surmounted …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… present in live fish and, as such, is used as an all-purpose, low-dosage fertilizer for most types of plants. It is usually found in a 4-1-1 or 5-1-1 ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus to potassium. Because of its low nutrient composition, it can be used along with other …
Type: Plant Info
… King Tut papryus is a type of sedge that is native to Africa where it grows along stream edges and in boggy areas. King Tut grows to about four or five feet in height and width and is cultivated primarily for the fluffy umbrella like bracts that top the otherwise bare stems. The entire plant is a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Annabelle hydrangea produces up to 10-inch flower clusters at the tips of branches from June to September (or November through January, if forced for indoor displays). Derived from native species, it is perfectly hardy outdoors in gardens in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… - find the flowers irresistible. This is a plant that requires a distinct dormancy in order for the bulbs to prosper and flower. After flowering and as the leaves begin to yellow, withhold water. Bulbs can be left in the original pot or redivided. This is another …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narcissus ‘Rosy Sunrise’ is in Division 2. It blooms in mid to late spring with white petals and a salmon pink corona. The bulbs are toxic and will not be eaten by deer or rabbits. The name Narcissus comes from the Greek word for narcotic and is tied to the myth of a young man known as Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection. When he …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
