Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
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Make Your Own Compost
While compost can be purchased, making your own is easy and has numerous benefits besides helping you grow healthy plants. | |
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No More Trenching!! -- Tool for Nearly Painless Irrigation Pipe Installation
After having installed several PVC-based irrigation systems in my Utah yards, there had to be a better way. There is, and I found it. This article describes a nearly painless way - using a tool that I invented - to install black poly irrigation pipe with little impact to the lawn or gardens. It's been an incredible sweat/labor-saver for me. | |
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Creating a Butterfly Garden
Butterflies bring an added dimension to your landscape. Lured by scent and color, they visit certain plants to feed on nectar, a sugary solution containing the carbohydrates that butterflies need for energy. Create a welcoming landscape by including butterfly-friendly plants and features. | |
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Edible Landscaping - Planning Your Landscaping 101
Once the construction of your landscape actually begins, an odd thing happens. As soon as the first section of fence is hammered into place, or your future herb garden starts to fill in with the delicate sprouts of your favorite edibles, your imagination takes over and completes the project in your mind's eye. | |
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Power Plants
Because of variables such as erratic weather and fickle pests, growing a beautiful garden is always a bit of a gamble. Want to tip the odds in your favor? Choose plants that have performed so well they've won awards--and not from mere beauty pageants, either. Although different award programs, from the venerable All-America Selections to trials by horticultural societies, have varying rules and procedures, they share a common goal of helping gardeners find reliably high-performing plants. | |
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Edible Flowers
Edible flowers turn foods and drinks from ordinary to extraordinary by adding color and flavor and a beautiful garnish. Picked straight from your own garden, you can add flare to your table with little effort. | |
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Honey Euryops (Euryops virgineus)
Plant Habit: Shrub Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade Water Preferences: Mesic Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F) Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet Plant Spread: 2 to 4 feet Leaves: Evergreen Fruit: Other Flowers: Showy, Fragrant, Other Flower Color: Yellow Bloom Size: Under 1" Flower Time: Spring, Late winter or early spring Uses: Windbreak or Hedge Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees Resistances: Deer Resistant, Humidity tolerant Pollinators: Bees
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Rose (Rosa 'New Year')
Bloom size: Medium: 2-3" Petal count: double: 16-25 petals Rose bloom color: Orange and orange blend Extra Bloom Info: Medium to large, double to full, in clusters Rebloom: Good Class: Grandiflora Growth Habit: Medium, 3-4 feet, upright Fragrance: Mild Hybridizer & year: Samuel Darragh McGredy IV, 1982 Optimal growing zones: USDA zone 6 and warmer Awards: AARS Plant Habit: Shrub Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6b -20.6 °C (-5 °F) to -17.8 °C (0 °F) Plant Height: 3-4 feet Plant Spread: 2-3 feet Leaves: Deciduous Flowers: Showy, Fragrant Flower Color: Orange Flower Time: Spring, Summer, Fall Uses: Cut Flower Wildlife Attractant: Bees Parentage: Mary Sumner x (Yellow Pages x Kabuki)
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Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema 'Silver Bay')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade Water Preferences: Mesic Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 10b +1.7 °C (35 °F) to +4.4 °C (40 °F) Plant Height: 30 to 32 inches (76-81cm) Plant Spread: 30 to 32 inches (76-81cm) Leaves: Evergreen, Variegated, Other, Broadleaf Fruit: Showy, Other Flowers: Inconspicuous Flower Color: White, Other, Green Bloom Size: Under 1" Flower Time: Other Suitable Locations: Houseplant Resistances: Humidity tolerant Toxicity: Other Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots Parentage: Manila Whirl x Ernesto's Favorite
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Baby Rubber Plant (Peperomia obtusifolia 'Variegata')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb, Cactus/Succulent Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade, Partial Shade to Full Shade Water Preferences: Mesic Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9b -3.9 °C (25 °F) to -1.1 °C (30 °F) Plant Height: 6-10 inches Plant Spread: 12-18 inches Leaves: Evergreen, Variegated Flowers: Inconspicuous Flower Color: Other Flower Time: Other Suitable Locations: Houseplant, Terrariums Uses: Groundcover, Will Naturalize Resistances: Humidity tolerant, Drought tolerant Containers: Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans Chocolate Chip)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade, Full Shade Water Preferences: Wet, Wet Mesic, Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35) Plant Height: 6 inches Plant Spread: 6-9 inches Leaves: Unusual foliage color, Evergreen, Other Flowers: Showy Flower Color: Blue Bloom Size: Under 1" Flower Time: Spring Uses: Groundcover, Will Naturalize, Erosion control, Provides winter interest Wildlife Attractant: Bees Resistances: Drought tolerant, Tolerates foot traffic Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous Pollinators: Self, Bees, Moths and Butterflies
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Photo by Mollie670
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Photo by Baja_Costero "Rooted cutting, midwinter, 6 inch pot"
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Photo by plntblbs8
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Photo by Australis "First seedling to bloom! More expected to follow."
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Photo by floota "Charity in Action"
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Photo by drirastucker
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Photo by scflowers "one of the various patterns of this flower looks like arrows"
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Photo by Australis
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Photo by SL_gardener
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Photo by sunnyvalley
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -- Abraham Lincoln
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