ARTICLES TO READ

Grow and Enjoy Air Plants
Tillandsias, and other members of the Air Plant Database, seem to live and grow in nothing but air.. As with most plants, imitating their natural environment is the best way to display tillandsias. Let us show you some tips and tricks to get yours thriving.

Gardening for Birds
Although attracting birds to feeders brings hours of birdwatching pleasure, a welcoming landscape is the single best way to encourage the widest variety of birds to visit and reside in your yard year-round.

Let Us Grow Lettuce
There are few things that taste better to a vegetable gardener than the tender lettuce and greens of the season's first homegrown salad. There is a wide variety of lettuces and greens that thrive in cool spring weather. Now is the time to sow some seeds so you can soon be enjoying that delicious first harvest.

Grow Your Own Jujube
If you live in the right climate- Jujube trees may be a great tree for you to grow. Minimal effort, minimal problems, plus healthy fruit to enjoy.

Broccoli Growing Basics
How to grow broccoli in every zone.

Establish Your Own Wildflower Meadow
Creating a wildflower meadow takes a little effort, but the results are stunning and beneficial to pollinators. A meadow of mixed flowers and native grasses can replace your lawn, cover a slope, or enhance a roadside.

Winter Heaths
Winter-blooming heaths add a splash of color to gardens throughout winter. These hardy, low-growing plants produce a wide variety of bell-shaped or tubular pale pink, reddish purple, and magenta flowers for what seems like an eternity -- October and November into April and May.

AWESOME NEW PHOTOS FROM THIS WEEK

Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Check It Out'), by dirtdorphins:

Flowering Maple (Abutilon 'Ruffles'), by DaylilySLP:

Formal Decorative Dahlia (Dahlia 'Midnight Moon'), by Lucichar:

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Todd Monroe'), by TBGDN:

Showy Banksia (Banksia speciosa), by HemNorth:

Echeveria (Echeveria setosa var. deminuta), by HamiltonSquare:

Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea), by carolem:

Landscape view by katesflowers:

Landscape view by Fleur569:

Landscape view by jmorth:

Landscape view by dirtdorphins:

NOTABLE DISCUSSIONS FROM OUR FORUMS


Subject	Area	Replies
Pretty Pictures from the Past	Peonies forum	55
Killing slugs by stepping on them cruel or good?	Sandbox forum	38
Claremont Lilium Show 2018	Lilies forum	29
Iris pollination	Irises forum	26
Newer to Orchids	Orchids forum	24
Floral Alphabet Soup! The letter F!	Garden Photos forum	23
What was your favorite daylilies in 2017?	Daylilies forum	22
On the Move with Bill and Ken and maybe Alice too	Orchids forum	22
Lesson learned, don't plant semps near alliums	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	15

THE NUMBERS FROM LAST WEEK:

684 members joined.
4,713 posts written in our forums.
1,251 photos posted to the plant database.
494 plants added to personal inventory lists.