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Weeping Willow Trees

Willow is their only common name. They are from the genus “Salix,” related to the soft wooded poplars. They are an old time tree, growing along the banks of the Euphrates, in parts of Asia as well as Palestine. The captive Israelites hung their harps, no doubt, on the weeping willows which grew so abundantly […]

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African Violets More than a House Plant A Passion

African violets have many attractions to those how grow them indoors as house plants. One of their pluses is that success can most certainly be achieved even under rather makeshift conditions. For Hobby and Collectors However, no one can dispute the possibilities of growing African violets as a hobby plant for collectors. Hundreds of varieties […]

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A Gardener’s Vocabulary

New Gardeners are often puzzled by expressions which seasoned landscape/gardeners take for granted, and therefore never think to explain. “Mulch-what’s that?” Present day gardening methods find mulches of all kinds used. Various materials are spread on the ground around plants (or over them for a winter mulch) for specific purposes. For example, in the winter, […]

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Cool Climate Grasses to Plant Now

Fall is the best time for planting grass seed and a new lawn in the cool sections of the United States. Here are some cool-climate grasses. Cool-Climate Grasses are the types most suitable for use in the northern sections of the country, including the northeastern, northern, midwestern, and northern Pacific coastal areas. In these climates […]

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Delphiniums You Can Grow Them

A local garden club I once knew, in its early enthusiasm, chose the delphinium as the “community flower.” Every gardener in the town was asked to have at least a few delphiniums in their flower garden, and the more they had the better. But when almost no one succeeded in getting delphiniums to grow or […]

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Freesias… Like To Be Cool

Freesias flowers have the sweetest fragrance of any plant grown indoors… and the basic requirement for success with freesias is a sunny window in a cool room. FREE-zi-as grow from bulbs which should be planted during August or earliest September. They have graceful iris-like foliage, are members of the iris family and native to South […]

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How to Beat the Drought in Your Landscape

The hot, dry months are just about here, and the garden will need water. But in many localities, the summer demand for water taxes the supply, and water for the garden must be curtailed. What can you do? There are two solutions to the problem. First, you can tap an additional supply of water; or […]

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Peacock Plants – The Calathea

One of the things that I enjoy about many of the plants from the tropics are not the flowers, although they are an added feature, it’s the foliage. That was one of the things that got me hooked on plants, was the amazing array of textures, colors, and shapes of the plants. Let’s face it, […]

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Water Your Landscape the Right Way

Many a landscape grows well without benefit of irrigation but rare is the garden, lawn or landscape that does not respond gloriously to some extra watering. Then, too, extra watering is necessary because seldom does a summer pass without a dry spell that lasts from three to four weeks. insufficient water stunts plant growth, delays […]

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Plant Totem

I am always surprised when traveling and I walk into a hotel and there sits a unique look you seldom see in garden centers today… The Philodendron totem. Philodendrons have been grown for decades as indoor plants. Some how it seems that the philodendron totem has dwindled in production. It’s been pretty much limited to […]

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