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Holiday Houseplant Care
Gifts of blooming plants are an often given gift during the holiday season. Plant lovers like to give and receive flowering houseplants looking their best during the winter season.. Weeks later, however, after the fruitcakes and candy-canes are gone, these once-gorgeous gifts often struggle to survive, much less to bloom. We can help. Read on to learn some tips and tricks to your plants thriving well beyond the holiday season. |
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Dwarf Alberta Spruce
The spruce is a great accent plant in a landscape bed among perennials, roses or deciduous shrub plantings. If you need a great evergreen for a tight space for as a unique centerpiece- this one is for you. |
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Preparing a New Garden Plot
Eliminating weeds and getting the soil ready for your flowers and vegetables are important first steps in growing a successful garden. Time spent in preparation reduces the time you'll have to spend maintaining and weeding your garden over the course of the growing season. |
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 Winter is a season of recovery and preparation
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Snowflake Euphorbia (Euphorbia leucocephala)
Plant Habit: Shrub, Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic
Plant Height: 8 feet to 12 feet, should be pruned for shape in late spring after flowering
Plant Spread: 4 feet to 6 feet
Leaves: Fragrant, Evergreen, Semi-evergreen
Fruiting Time: Late winter or early spring
Flowers: Fragrant, Other
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late fall or early winter
Uses: Flowering Tree, Provides winter interest
Dynamic Accumulator: B (Boron)
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies
Resistances: Humidity tolerant, Drought tolerant
Toxicity: Other
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Chesty Puller')
AHS link: http://www.daylilies.org/DaylilyDB/detail.php?id=165315
Hybridizer: Bachman
Year of Registration or Introduction: 2010
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 32 inches
Bloom size: 8 inches
Bloom time: Early midseason
Plant Traits: Diurnal
Bud Count: 21-25
Branching: 3-way
Fertility: Pollen Fertile, Pod Fertile
Bloom Traits: Eye or Band
Bloom Form: Unusual Form - Cascade, Unusual Form
Color description: light orange with dark orange to red eye, yellow throat
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Flowers: Showy
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Diploid
Parentage: (sdlg x Lavender Handlebars) x Beyond the Rim
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Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
Plant Habit: Fern
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade, Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet, Wet Mesic, Mesic
Plant Height: 4-6 feet
Plant Spread: 24-36 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color, Deciduous
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Underground structures: Rhizome
Suitable Locations: Bog gardening
Uses: Groundcover, Will Naturalize
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Other info
Propagation: Other methods: Division, Other
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Miscellaneous: Endangered
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Amaryllis (Hippeastrum 'Tinkerbell')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 18 inches to 24 inches
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruiting Time: Spring, Other
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink, Other
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring, Winter, Other
Underground structures: Bulb
Suitable Locations: Houseplant
Uses: Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Humidity tolerant, Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Bulbs
Containers: Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Large-cupped Daffodil (Narcissus 'Berlin')
Division: Division 2 - Large-Cupped
Color: Perianth (Petals): Yellow
Year of registration: 1980
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Spring, Late spring or early summer, Late winter or early spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Groundcover, Cut Flower, Will Naturalize, Erosion control, Provides winter interest
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Squirrels, Gophers/Voles
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous, Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets, Bulbs
Pollinators: Bees, Flies, Moths and Butterflies
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon, Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant
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"Late Morning Image"
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 How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were not winter in our year!
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"My sister’s coleous."
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 Winter is not a season, it's a celebration. - Anamika Mishra
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