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Joy of Gardening
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The best of Dick Raymond’s vegetable gardening wisdom is illustrated with full-color photos and at-a-glance charts that make his methods accessible to any gardener…. More >>
What’s Wrong With My Plant? : A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies
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Dealing with a sick plant is one of the most frustrating situations a gardener can face. More often than not, we have no idea what is causing the problem, or how to fix it. Fortunately, help is at hand. What’s Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?) provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any problem, and matching it to the right cure.
This innovative and easy-to-use guide is split into three parts.
Part One presents easy-to-follow, illus… More >>
What’s Wrong With My Plant? : A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies
Participate in the conversation by leaving your comment below.Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
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Sooner or later, every older gardener faces a similar challenge. At some point, we all find ourselves asking “If I can’t get out there and dig, plant, and prune as I used to, what am I going to do?”
The garden has been an everyday part of Sydney Eddison’s life for over forty years. It has witnessed the changing of seasons, her greatest joys, and her deepest sorrows. The garden and the gardener have aged and changed together. Gardening for a Lifetime i… More >>
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
What do you think? Please comment below to tell me.Plant Disease – ?garden Creep?
One thing you either might have to watch out for or embrace is something I call Garden Creep.
This is the ability of certain gardens, let alone the plants in them, of slowly growing and spreading or even multiplying over time.
Any dedicated gardener can explain to you the visible symtomology of the disease. New garden growths appear almost randomly at times as new outbreaks of gardens pop up in sometimes rather unexpected corners and sections of the area.
This problem is also seen in certain plants as well. When they have managed to obtain a foot hold in an area, where the available space for them, is inadequate for their realistic size. You will find these plants spilling outwards or upwards into space they were never intended to occupy. This causes constant problems for entryways & walkways, as well as air space occupiers like power lines. These planbts then have to constantly attacked and kept back within their territory, often at great cost in time and money to their garden owner.
Lawn areas and sometimes even pathways in it’s way are encompassed and/or swallowed up. It even can escape from your area onto and around footpaths and along road verges.
It appears I reckon to be a possibly viral disease that affects both the gardens and their gardeners alike.
It means that these garden areas extend over a period into every little space they can infect and take over, sometimes far outside the originally intended boundaries of the initial garden/s.
The Bare Bones Gardener is a qualified Horticulturist and a qualified Disability Services Worker. He hates spending money on stuff which doesn?t live up to the promises given. So he looks for cheaper, easier, simpler or free ways of doing the same thing and then he passes these ideas on to others.
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Cityline Hydrangea – Dwarf Hydrangea Series
Hydrangea Cityline For the timid or busy gardener, the Cityline series of hydrangeas could be the solution to the question: When do I prune my hydrangeas? They are compact and don’t need pruning. Cityline Berlin, Paris, Venus, and Vienna are dwarf shrubs, suitable for containers or the front of the shrub border. Their stiff stems hold up large flower heads in differing shades of light to dark pink or light to dark blue. The ph of the soil determines the color of these hydrangea blossoms. Much of the soil in the Southeast US is acid, resulting in blue flowers. Much of the rest of the country has alkaline soil where pink will be the normal blossom color. If you want to change the typical flower color for your area, you will have to change the ph of the soil where you plan to plant your hydrangeas. You can add lime to raise the soil ph and produce pink flowers, add elemental sulfur or iron sulfate to lower the ph of your soil for blue blooms. Get your soil tested first and always follow the instructions on the labels. This series of hydrangeas is hardy in USDA Zones 5-9. They also love the seaside and flourish with a good watering schedule.
Planting & Growing Flower Bulbs : How to Grow Amaryllis Bulbs
Amaryllis bulbs are often brought in around the holidays to be given as gifts, and they cannot take a lot of water. Grow amaryllis bulbs by not giving them a lot of water and placing them in a small pot withtips from an experienced gardener in this free video on flower bulb gardening. Expert: Jessica Smith Bio: Jessica Smith has worked in the gardening business for more than 22 years. She currently manages Blands Nursery in West Jordan, Utah. Filmmaker: Michael Burton
Rose Gardening : How to Propagate Rose Plants
Rose plants are easy to propagate by taking a cutting at a leaf line, dipping the end in honey and planting it in very moist soil. Get a rose clipping to sprout roots withhelpful information from a sustainable gardener in this free video on roses. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Washington. She is the owner of vanveenbulbs.com and has sold flower bulbs for more than 15 years. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
Rose Gardening : How to Graft Rose Plants
Rose plants are easy to graft by taking an angled cutting from one plant, cutting a slit in the stem of another plant and binding the two together with honey and floral tape. Mix several different kinds of roses onto one bush withhelpful information from a sustainable gardener in this free video on roses. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Washington. She is the owner of vanveenbulbs.com and has sold flower bulbs for more than 15 years. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
The Random House Book of Indoor and Greenhouse Plants Vol. 1
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The indispensable new reference book for every gardener.A unique photographic guide to plants that grow outdoors in subtropical climates (from Florida to California) or indoors in areas that have frost in winter. All can be grown outdoors in the summer. Includes introductory chapters on garden and greenhouse cultivation and on the habits of species in the wild.With details on the history, characteristics and cultivation of each plant, Indoor and Greenhouse Plants is… More >>
The Random House Book of Indoor and Greenhouse Plants Vol. 1
I'm eager to hear your comments...Gardening: Caring for Plants : How to Trim Hydrangea
Trimming hydrangeas should be done as soon as they are done blooming for the season, and only the brown or dead pieces should be pruned off. Avoid trimming back more than one-third of the plant at a time withgardening advice from a sustainable flower grower in this free video on plant care. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner