… spider plant outside and see how it fares over the next few weeks. Who knows, maybe I’ll even start a vegetable container. Stay tuned! Spider plant ( Chlorophytum comosum ) Loving its new …
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… collection as it grows and ages, so may a home owner approach the elements in his/her garden. Start with a fresh eye The first step is to go outside, walk around your property, and take a … spot? under the downspout? surrounded by concrete?) and overall health or condition. Work from the top down (trees and tall items, shrubs and medium-sized features, perennials, bulbs, … an aging garden in just a year's time—it's a process. As you prune, remove, transplant, or start afresh, you'll have many opportunities to tweak, re-think, and revise. All are possible …
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… Tomato Talk Tomato Talk A Full Season of Tomato-Growing Information Raised-bed tomatoes benefit from "square-foot gardening"—plant one plant per square foot to ensure space for growth and air … and a natural fertilizer? Natural fertilizers are organic products that have been extracted from living things or from the earth. They can be either plant-derived or animal-derived. Some examples are mushroom …
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… Nichols Hall , and Design Studio are located in the Regenstein Center (a six-minute walk from the parking lot). The Fruit & Vegetable Learning Center can be found in the Regenstein Fruit … lush foliage, after you cross the bridge to the Fruit & Vegetable Garden (a 12-minute walk from the parking lot). Classrooms 1 – 13 are located in the Learning Center on the Regenstein … path along the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Plaza and entry drive. (a five-minute walk from the parking lot). The Rice Plant Resource Center is south of the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice …
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… So you think you’re an ace tree identifier. Those big scalloped leaves are from oak trees, the three-fingered hand shapes are maple leaves, those little oval leaves marching in a double line along a stem are from an ash—boo yah! OK, now do it without any leaves. And yes, you can…with a little help from … a towering behemoth that could have played a role in The Exorcist : it was an oak. But let’s start with a major clue: bark. Jabcon cast a practiced eye—an artist’s eye, in fact, for his …
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… with a heavenly scent which permeates the garden and attracts pollen and nectar-gatherer from afar. This everblooming Argentine native prefers full sun, and while a fast grower, can be … the very succulent-appearing Jatropha podagricea in the Arid Greenhouse with this species from the relatively moist island of Cuba. Like almost all members of the Euphorbiaceae family, … in all kinds of growing conditions may earn it the label of "weed". Its range extends from Texas to Florida in the southern United States, to as far south as Argentina. It typically …
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… craft stores) Live moss that you find growing in a shady place in your yard (or you can buy it from a garden store that sells terrarium supplies) Activated charcoal (sold in garden and … If your ornament is like mine, it has little “loops” for attaching a hook at the top. Start by tying a 12-inch piece of ribbon to each half of the ornament through the loops. In one … ornament. The moss can live inside this globe indefinitely. The moss just needs light from your home to survive through the holidays. Moisture will evaporate from the soil and will …
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… down to save the white oak and the fence. When trying to remove a leaning tree, you have to start at the base and work your way to the top as each section falls away. The base of the tree was good and solid, sending a shower of sour-smelling oak shavings flying from the chainsaw. When I got about halfway up the trunk, the saw began spewing dark brown flakes … Looking back at one of the middle sections of trunk, where the center was a rich dark brown from the rotting wood, I noticed a thick, white object shaped like the letter “C”. A closer …
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… will require a nearby different apple variety to complete pollination and produce fruit. Start with a tree that has been grafted onto dwarf rootstock. All commercial apple trees are grafted onto roots from selected hardy apple trees. Some rootstock is dwarfing and will produce small trees; other … the lowest bud on the whip and prune off the wood above it. That bud should be about 2 feet from the base of the whip and coincide with the lowest wire. Lateral branches will begin to grow …
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… to them. Amazing how quickly we can break through enemy lines when we're rescuing primroses from garlic mustard! To be honest, their interest soon flags, and I'm left to fight on alone. … in the fall, and if I couldn't visualize the end result of my digging, I don't think I could finish the job. But each time I dig a hole, I imagine masses of purple and yellow crocuses; … with exterior petals of empire rose." Or copy that tells exciting stories, such as "collected from the limestone crevices on the dangerous mile-high, windy ridges of Ula Dag, where no one has …
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