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Let your plants help your home be hurricane safe!
This "hurricane trimming" may be of value for palms that are not hurricane resistant. Have you ever considered how your plants and trees can actually protect your home from damage in severe storms?
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Invasive Succulents in My Yard
But still has a viscous terminal spine.Ice plants- there are dozens of mesembs (members of the family Aizoacea) that are collectively called Ice Plants that are grown specifically because they can swarm and create a relatively large area of ground cover.These...
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Edible Palms: Date Palms
This article serves as an introduction to date palms and the varieties of dates available. Date palms were probably the first trees cultivated for their food. As mentioned in the article noted above, date palms are dioecious (male and female flowers are...
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Building A Formal Rose Garden Part 1
You can use all sorts of things for your pathways but I prefer grass.Alright---so after all this work it is time to start digging. In the garden we are working on here, the center will have a fountain.
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Survivors! Trees and plants that will remain after the storm passes
Shallow rooting due to rock or hard subsoil obstruction is practically a guarantee that the tree or large plant will be toppled in severe weather. You may obtain this publication online at
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The Color Yellow in Gardening and Folklore
It is easy to find and easy to pair with other colors. There are many reasons and ways to use yellow in the garden. It is one of the colors ofIf a person drives a bright yellow vehicle, supposedly that person has a sunny disposition, is joyful, and is...
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Jack Frost
There is nothing worse than running late, heading out the door, and finding that prankster Jack Frost has covered my vehicle windows with a hard frost. I am thankful to the photographers who make their work available for use!Thumbnail image of grass with...
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The Color White in Folklore and in the Garden
In Japan, brides wear white because it symbolizes death to the former family and introduction into a new one. This phrase goes back to medieval times, when it was thought that the seat of all passions, including courage, was in the liver.
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Woody Plants for Acidic Soils
Rhododendrons and azaleas produce flower buds in the summer prior to flowering. There are several ways to achieve this protection. Don't worry about amending your soil - work with nature! There are many woody plants that prefer or tolerate highly acidic...
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Broom: The Controversy
Writing about broom is like opening a hornet's nest. I think I was too afraid of the consequences to do that though, so I usually waited for the blooms to close before I made my brooms.
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The Color Blue in Folklore and in the Garden
Blue is a widely-used and well-liked color.It is easy to incorporate blue into the garden. It is also one of the few colors that is liked equally well by both men and women. Blue and red provide a patriotic look.
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The Encephalartos Species: THE collector genus of cycad
Most cycads are excellent landscape and potted plants choices and most tend to be sought after by thousands of collectors who love these plants (sometimes a bit too much). The following is a brief overview of most of the more common and some of the rarer...
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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Blue Ribbon Preserves by Linda J. Amendt
Linda's tutorials about basic food safety and sanitation are wonderful. Each problem has a list of potential remedies that can turn failure to success.If you are a cook who enjoys giving gifts from your kitchen, you'll not be disappointed with the recipes...
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Amelanchier - Spring-flowering Shrubs for Multiple Uses
This genus has not been as high-bred as many other flowering shrubs.Perhaps it is the rather short flowering season and the fact that plants produce white flowers only, that has caused this limited hybridizing.Here are some of the more popular named selections.‘Glennform'...
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Persimmons and Mimosas
And how the environment began to suffer as a result. I must have been pretty sick for awhile because I never heard any tree chopping going on. Two of them were an unlikely pair: the persimmon and the mimosa.
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Choice evergreens add spark to home landscapes
Beali has positively lethal spiny leaves and stems.) I'd give 'Soft Caress' an award for brilliance in naming. 'Soft Caress' is not only attractive in its own right, but especially so for gardeners who are familiar with other "Oregon grape-hollies." (My...
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The five most fragrant winter blooming shrubs
You won't miss them, the smell will draw you from across the yard.bears what many call the very finest fragrance, on what many say is the most finicky garden specimen. Follow the higlighted links in the article to read more detailed descriptions of these...
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Blooming and perfuming - Wintersweet, Chimonanthes praecox, is a fragrant, winter blooming shrub
This shrub has one exquisite quality: it blooms in the cold of winter with a delectable, summery fragrance. Then when the summer show is long gone, wintersweet's perfume will lift your spirits.To get a wintersweet, turn to the internet or mail order sources,...
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Traps Between My Strawberries
The next day I can empty the containers full of the slugs that fell inside and drowned. I don't know if there is a day to celebrate strawberries, but I think it'll need at least a week every year - if not one week each month - to talk about this wonderful...
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Not For The Dogs: The History And Culture Of The Dogwood Tree
They believed that a tiny race of people lived in the forest and watched over them. One of the most memorable days that I've ever had, was driving up the Blue Ridge Parkway one Spring.
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Wandering Jew - The Shades Of Its Succulence
They do well in full sun as well as in the shade. When I began researching these plants I was surprised to learn that they are actually members of the spiderwort family. There are actually several plants known by this common name.
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Harvesting and Using Elderberries
We'd then head home where Mom would make jelly and jam, or simply wash and freeze our harvest We'd spend the day filling our buckets, and our stomachs with wonderful sweet goodness.
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CityGreen: Re-greening a city after a deadly storm
When daylight finally arrived, the rain did not stop, the trees did not stop falling and the electricity did not work. Please feel free to comment below.http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080115_238_A1_hToda45273
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The Landscaped Dog Enclosure
Make ramps and natural bridges, anything to keep puppy fit! Don't forget to hide his treats so his sniffer gets a good workout as well. Conifers cast a dense cooling shade that just can't be beat.Yes, a dog can have a den just like a wolf or a fox! One...
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Lovers of Exotic Plants: Where to find information?
This article will give you a comprehensive (though not exhaustive) list of the best books, journals and internet sites to find information about the following groups of plants: cacti, agaves and their relatives (Nolinideae), aloes and their relatives,...
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What is Blackberry Winter? Or Redbud Winter? Or Dogwood Winter?
Yesterday I worked in the garden in a sleeveless shirt, and this evening it is snowing. Linsey-Woolsey Britches Winter was once a popular term, back when winter clothing was homespun of linen/wool, and winters were harsher.
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The Story of Queen Anne\'s Lace
Like otheimilar plants not native to North America, it grows best in disturbed ground, after fires or in vacantQueen Anne's Lace is an important plant in many wildflower meadows. Parts of the plant are mentioned byas a diuretic, an antiseptic, soothing...
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