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Your Guide to Salvias

Salvias are a large group of garden plants that includes annuals, biennials, perennials, and shrubs. The perennial salvias are mainstays of the midsummer garden border. Another common name is sage.
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Patio Gardens

Patio gardens soften the transition between indoors and outdoors by bringing plants into outdoor living areas. This might involve something as simple as setting up a few window boxes on an apartment balcony, or as elaborate as enclosing an entire porch with trellised vines, potted trees and shrubs, hanging baskets, and containers filled with annual and perennial flowers.
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Butterfly Plants Especially For the North and West

Perennials and Shrubs especially suited to the Northern and Western regions of the United States.
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Prune Your Roses

Pruning has four main goals: remove dead twigs and branches; remove weak, damaged, and useless branches; open the plant to improve air circulation; and create an attractive shape. We're here to help you prune your roses.
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How to Care for Holiday Plants

At the holidays, I like to give and receive flowering houseplants. Weeks later, however, after the fruitcakes and candy-canes are gone, these once-gorgeous gifts often struggle to survive, much less to bloom. So here's a seasonal-care guide that will keep those gift plants looking their best year-round.
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Caring for the Christmas Cactus

Persuading your Christmas Cactus to pump out the lush and delicately colored flowers that originally tempted you to bring them home takes a little special attention. However, with just a modicum of care, they will reward you with an abundance of color that few winter bloomers can match.

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Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus)

"Asplenium nidus - It was only in researching this plant that I learned the collquial named for young emerging fern fronds - croziers. Better late than never"
Bird's Nest Fern (<i>Asplenium nidus</i>)

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Madawaska Mist')

Daylily (<i>Hemerocallis</i> 'Madawaska Mist')

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Orchid (Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry')

"Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann Buckleberry - Laughing at us?"
Orchid (<i>Bulbophyllum</i> Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry')

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Dwarf Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nana')

"spectacular bright blue fruit hidden under the foliage in late fall"
Dwarf Mondo Grass (<i>Ophiopogon japonicus</i> 'Nana')

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'A.J. Monnin')

"Near perfect bloom"
Daylily (<i>Hemerocallis</i> 'A.J. Monnin')

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Mexican Fire Barrel (Ferocactus pilosus)

"After the rain"
Mexican Fire Barrel (<i>Ferocactus pilosus</i>)

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Brain Cactus (Stenocactus multicostatus)

"bud formation"
Brain Cactus (<i>Stenocactus multicostatus</i>)

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Euphorbias (Euphorbia)

"Euphorbia milii x"
Euphorbias (Euphorbia)

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Orchid (Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry')

"Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann Buckleberry - tentative ID (no pot label)"
Orchid (<i>Bulbophyllum</i> Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry')

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Pantone announced two colors of the year, Ultimate Gray and Illuminating (yellow). Be a trend setter by including these hues in your landscape. Click here to learn more!

THE NUMBERS FROM LAST WEEK


832 members joined.
3,498 posts written in our forums.
416 photos posted to the plant database.
328 plants added to personal inventory lists.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

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