 Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
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How to Grow and Care for Tulips
A favorite spring blooming bulb, tulips are anticipated worldwide as a sign of spring. Tulip blooms come in a vast array of options in bloom color, petal differences (fringed, ruffles, single and double rows), plant height (6 inches to two feet) , blooms size, and bloom time (early, mid, and late-spring). |
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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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All About Chinese Tree Peonies
Holding a place of honor in Asia, peonies are worthy of a spot in your garden. Colors range from white through shades of pink, magenta, red, and yellow, as well as variable hues. But descriptions alone don't do justice to the way they look. Each petal has numerous shades that give the flower a look of shimmering silk. We'll help you find the perfect variety to grow. |
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Fancy Daylilies
Whether single-colored or intricately patterned, daylilies (Hemerocallis) are practically unmatched for their adaptability and versatility in the garden. |
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Forcing Tulips Indoors
In the realm of gardening, instant gratification is an elusive matter. For the most part, nature forces her rhythms on our desires. But find a way to speed up the seasons, and you can nudge spring-flowering tulips to bloom in winter. |
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Grow a Rain Garden
Rain gardens are gardens shaped like shallow bowls that are designed to capture storm water and hold it until the ground can absorb it. It can be an attractive addition to your landscape and, an added bonus, many of the plants that are suited to a rain garden are natives that attract beneficial and pollinating insects, butterflies, and birds. It's win win all round! |
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Soil for Seed Starting
It is one of the many paradoxes in gardening that the best soils for starting seedlings indoors contain no real soil |
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Upright Elephant Ear (Alocasia 'Serendipity')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 4 to 8 feet
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Other
Underground structures: Rhizome
Resistances: Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Other
Propagation: Seeds: Other info
Propagation: Other methods: Division, Offsets
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Spring Heath (Erica carnea 'Porter's Red')
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 6 to 12 inches
Plant Spread: 12 to 24 inches
Leaves: Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring, Late winter or early spring
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Pollution
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
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Buddha Belly Plant (Jatropha podagrica)
Plant Habit: Shrub, Cactus/Succulent
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic
Plant Height: 3-6 feet
Plant Spread: 2-4 feet
Leaves: Deciduous, Broadleaf
Fruit: Showy, Pops open explosively when ripe
Fruiting Time: Year Round
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange, Red, Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Other, Year Round
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic, Houseplant
Uses: Medicinal Herb
Edible Parts: Stem, Roots
Eating Methods: Tea
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Resistances: Drought tolerant, Humidity tolerant, Tolerates dry shade
Toxicity: Fruit is poisonous, Other
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ, Start indoors, Depth to plant seed, Can handle transplanting, Scarify seeds, Needs specific temperature, Days to germinate
Pollinators: Various insects
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil, Monoecious
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Rose F. Kennedy')
AHS link: http://www.daylilies.org/DaylilyDB/detail.php?id=158260
Hybridizer: Doorakian
Year of Registration or Introduction: 2007
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 29 inches
Bloom size: 7.5 inches
Bloom time: Midseason
Plant Traits: Diurnal
Bud Count: 21-25
Branching: 4-way
Fertility: Pod Fertile, Pollen Fertile
Bloom Traits: Edged
Bloom Form: Single
Color description: green with wide purple red picotee edge above green throat
AHS Awards: Stout Silver Medal, Award of Merit, Honorable Mention, RWM
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: Emerald Starburst x sdlg
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"in cooler temps a pattern emerges in the eye"
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"A Victoria Ann dahlia with some foliage."
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"A very attractive bluish body that can be quite vibrant in brighter light."
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"This cultivar takes a long time to reach flowering stage and plays with October frosts here in 7a."
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