… Scots pine. It reaches only 1 foot tall but spreads along the ground over time to 6 feet wide and can be used as a ground cover in a sunny location. Thick, glossy, blue-green needles grow to 2 inches long. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… with reddish pink petals with a blue center in midspring. It will grow to a height of 6” and (over time) will naturalize in the garden. It should be planted in full sun in average, … removed until it turns yellow. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This perennial bulb blooms with bright vermillion flowers in late spring and will grow to a height of only 4”. The flower color provides a nice contrast to its wavy, … removed until it turns yellow. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… 'Crater Lake Blue' forms a clump 1½’ in height and 1’ wide. It blooms with short, dense, racemes of tiny, intense blue flowers in late spring … to encourage additional bloom. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
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… This evergreen ground cover grows to a height of 6” and will spread to 18”. It blooms from May through June with small, lavender-blue flowers. It … sun, part shade, or full shade. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… story with wild mistletoe? The backstory involves a 6½ hour drive to the Kentucky border and tricky hand-paddling on an overloaded kayak. We thought that mistletoe would be the perfect … inspires romance—is actually a parasite. The plant’s roots penetrate the bark of a host plant and steal its nutrients. All photos in the wild courtesy of Jenny Lesko, Illinois Department of … horticulturist Jason Toth could not find the right kind of mistletoe for sale anywhere. And it would take too long for our production greenhouse to grow the plant. Even if he had found …
Type: Blog
… to maximize their feathery qualities. Most dwarf conifers require very little, if any, pruning and definitely no shearing. Boxwood and yew hedges can be pruned in March unless they have suffered from winter dieback or winter burn. In that case, wait until the new growth comes in and then prune out all browned branches. They will require additional light pruning throughout …
Type: Plant Info
… a wonderful organic fertilizer for my vegetable garden is manure tea. How do I make this brew, and how much do I use on my crops? A. This liquid is used at transplant time and again every three weeks or so. Fresh, not aged, manure from horses, sheep or cows is "soaked" … several days to one week. The manure is then strained through burlap, sacking or cheesecloth, and the resulting tea water becomes the concentrate of your liquid fertilizer. Since the theory …
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… Q: What is the difference between a synthetic and a natural fertilizer? A. Natural fertilizers are organic products that have been extracted … 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, phosphorus and potassium. In general, natural fertilizers contain lesser amounts of N-P-K than their …
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… A. Diagnosing turf problems can be very difficult. Problems often arise from improper watering and fertilization. The first step will be to determine if the problem is due to cultural … a diagnosis, it will be important to provide as much information as possible such as watering and fertilization practices, location, soil type, sun and shade information, grass variety, mowing practices, chemical use, seed or sod, etc. It is …
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