… Q: What is the difference between a synthetic and a natural fertilizer? A. Natural fertilizers are … manure, blood meal, bone meal, cottonseed meal, kelp meal, poultry or horse manure (aged) and compost. Synthetic fertilizers are those composed of the synthesized chemicals of nitrogen, …
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… I clean up my vegetable garden this fall, should I add any amendments to the soil? A. Fall is an ideal time to give a little something back to your garden soil after it has produced so … past growing season. After removing all the plant material from your bed, cultivate the soil and add 2 to 3 inches of a mixture of compost, shredded leaves, leaf mold, aged horse manure and garden sulfur. Be sure to use granular sulfur at the rate of three to four pounds per 100 …
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… Look carefully at the flowers on this plant and you'll see that each flower has five petals but the flower is symmetrical. If you happen to be here when it has seed pods you'll see that they have a … plant bears the distinctive seed capsule. Johnson's Blue grows to about eighteen inches high and two to three feet width in full or partial sun making it suitable for borders and as a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… thick substance of its leaves make it slug resistant. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow, and long-lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called scapes, they are grown primarily for their foliage and neat habit. Hostas are actively hybridized for leaf color, size, shape, and texture; natural … They all prefer moist, loamy soil enriched with organic matter. Some leaf damage by slugs is to be expected. Deer find hosta delicious. …
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… This hosta forms a very large mound over time. Hostas are shade tolerant, easy-to-grow, and long-lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called scapes, they are grown primarily for their foliage and neat habit. Hostas are actively hybridized for leaf color, size, shape, and texture; natural … They all prefer moist, loamy soil enriched with organic matter. Some leaf damage by slugs is to be expected. Deer find hosta delicious. …
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… Kohleria ‘Designer Halloween’, bred in Taiwan, has flowers with orchid lobes. The throat is pale lime green, heavily spotted with purple. The dark green leaves have red-purple undersides. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular flowers that are covered with soft fuzz. Related to African violets, the leaves are often suffused with purple or brown. The tubes, which are an inch or two long are inflated and flare out into five spotted lobes. In the right conditions (indoors) kohlerias grow quickly …
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… , hybridized by Susanne Hvegholm of Sweden, has flowers with soft red lobes. The throat is pale yellow with large burgundy spots surrounded by white patches. The leaves are a lighter … green than the typical kohleria. Kohlerias are characterized by soft, ovate scalloped leaves and tubular flowers that are covered with soft fuzz. Related to African violets, the leaves are often suffused with purple or brown. The tubes, which are an inch or two long are inflated and flare out into five spotted lobes. In the right conditions (indoors) kohlerias grow quickly …
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… American Rose Society selection committee presented this cultivar with an award, noting it is perhaps the deepest red of any rose on the market. Plant this rose in full sun and keep the soil moderately moist. Feed it periodically with soluble fertilizer solutions or top-dress with well-rotted manure in midwinter, and mulch it with leaf mold to keep the soil from drying too quickly during the growing season. …
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… Parrotia persica or Persian ironwood is a small, single trunk, deciduous tree eventually growing 20-40 feet tall (but typically 10 … long) emerge reddish-purple in spring, mature to a lustrous, medium to dark green in summer and change to variable shades of yellow, orange and red in fall. Bark of mature trees exfoliates to show green, white or tan patches beneath and …
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… This wisteria is native to Asia. It can grow to 25’ in length with an 8’ spread. It blooms in May with 6-12” … a dramatic visual display. The flowers give way to bean-like seedpods that ripen in fall and may persist into winter. It prefers slightly acidic, moderately moist and fertile, well-drained soils in full sun (needed for best flowering). It can be slow to …
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