How To Plant Phlox

The species below offer myriad choices for gardens and country or city roadsides where they will bloom for many years.Commonly called woodland phlox, wild sweet William, or wild blue phlox, this adaptable plant is hardy from Zones 3-9.

Night blooming phlox offers a honey-almond, vanilla fragrance that combines well with the sweet scents ofPlant the evening fragrance garden near an outdoor seating area to take full advantage of the wonderful fragrance emitted from some night blooming...

And why is phlox called thrift, but only sometimes? It produces lots of small, brightly colored flowers in shades of pink, red, white, purple, and red. What is thrift, exactly? It's not at all uncommon for two completely different plants to go by the...

However, when a phlox plant is infected with a viral disease, there is usually no cure. Infected plants should be dug up and destroyed. However, we cannot control rain; therefore, using preventative fungal sprays before symptoms appear can also be beneficial.It...

Dividing the clumps every three or four years will help to keep them vigorous. For the rest of the year it takes a backseat, but the evergreen, needlelike foliage makes a solid bright green mass that is a perfect background for the brightly colored summer...

Creeping phlox blooms in spring and produces long, spreading stems, which become woody with age.These thicker growths cease to produce flowers over time and may be cut out of the plant to encourage the newer, softer stems that do bloom.

Remove it once a day to prevent fungal build up in soil. The latter will need more time to send out roots but will do so provided they are cut near a growth node.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Either...

It is drought tolerant for brief periods of time but extreme drought will cause flower production to fall off. The seeds germinate in just 10 to 30 days and provide spring blooms sometimes into early summer.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

Thinking back on which annuals have been the highest performers, I immediately think of butter daisy. Students who finished their work early were allowed to weed and water the plants.

Leeks can be handled this way, too, and it's worth a try with celery. Like the other biennial vegetables listed below, carrots bloom at a time in late spring when nectar plants are in short supply, usually after spring-flowering trees and shrubs, but...

Fight Back! Starting with a weedy garden can be intimidating, and demoralizing. Revisit growing areas once a week to remove young seedlings before they've had a chance to establish.

Compost is always in short supply, so use it where it's needed most It's precious stuff though, so it's wise to reserve it for your hungriest or most treasured plants – there's simply never enough! To make most effective use of your compost, use it...

Start by making a side view drawing of your slope as shown below. Drainage is never an issue, though I've noticed that some soil moves downhill along with rainwater. As the wood decays, mycelium from the wood-feeding fungi also infiltrate adjoining soil.

The corn plants may not use up all the fertilizer applied to the row middles, so it's a cushy planting niche for heavy-feeding fall crops like collards and spinach. There are dozens of cold-tolerant species from which to choose, or you can use a cover...

If it's too windy, much of the gas simply blows away, slamming the brakes on the ripening process. If the variety you're growing is heavy cropping, you could continue picking early on in order to maintain a balance between ready-to-eat peppers and those...

Summer Pruning Plum Trees Thinning fruits can be regarded as the first stage of pruning, as it reduces strain on the branches. Plum trees may produce generous harvests of some of the most mouth-wateringly juicy fruits, but they're not without their problems.

Drying is an excellent way of preserving chilies. How to Make a Chili Pepper Ristra A ristra is simply an arrangement of drying chili peppers. They shouldn't take longer than two to three weeks to dry, after which time they can be finished off in an oven...

Concentrate your watering where it's needed: young seedlings to help them establish, salad leaves to stop them wilting, fruiting vegetables like tomatoes and anything growing in a pot.

If you want to grow potatoes in the ground first consider how much of the growing season is left. The easiest way to grow second-crop spuds is in containers . Potatoes need a period of dormancy before they can sprout into a new plant, so in this case...

Now remove the smallest fruits and any that are awkwardly positioned. But if we're to get the most from this bounty we'll in fact need to remove some of the fruits now. Thin peaches in stages: to one fruit every four inches (10cm) once they reach the...

Begin with a good, strong blast from the hose to knock the whitefly off your plants and onto the ground where they'll perish. They are perhaps best reserved for use within a closed environment such as a greenhouse, but be aware that results may disappoint...

Keep Watering for Best Fruit Quality All vegetables need water, but fruit and pod-producing vegetables are particularly thirsty. Prune to Let the Sunshine In Strong growth over the summer months can mean that taller plants cast shade where they didn't...

Not only can it be used to create protective tunnels for the likes of brassicas (for instance to exclude cabbage white butterflies ), it can be turned into a vertical ‘fence' at least 60cm (2ft) high and placed around crops to help foil low-fliers such...

Unless your soil is naturally alkaline, sprinkle garden lime onto the soil either after you've dug it over, or rake it in at planting time. In very cold regions, growing cabbages in a greenhouse or cold frame is a great way to guarantee a winter-safe...

Climbers, particularly scented climbers like jasmine, honeysuckle or rambling roses are also perfect for this purpose and may be trained up an arch positioned over the seating to offer both scent and dappled shade.

Watermelon radishes have stiff, serrated leaves that resemble those of turnip, and the only tricks to growing them are to plant them early enough so they mature before cold weather, and thin them early on to at least 4 inches (10cm) apart – two needs...

Dry off the produce before storing in freezer bags or Tupperware in portion-sized batches. Once they are completely dry and crisp, crunch them into airtight jars. It uses 900g (2lb) of the fruits together with a large onion and a cooking apple.