 Thanks to NGA member @LCL for sharing with us this beautiful and inspiring photo of sunflowers in his Eastern Massachusetts garden.
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 How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. -Benjamin Disraeli
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Sunflower Savvy
The sunflower is the hottest garden flower going. Landscapers love them, kids crave them and flower arrangers seek them out in all their glory. Sunflowers are the toast of the country-living crowd -- even those who live in the city. |
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Grow Wisteria for Winning Color
For those who can never get enough of wisteria's tremendous displays of fragrant spring flowers, there's good news. A new everblooming variety of American wisteria (W. frutescens). 'Amethyst Falls' begins its impressive floral show of densely clustered, 4- to 6-inch-long bluish purple flowers in spring, and continues throughout the summer in three waves of bloom. |
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Delightful Delphiniums
The stalwart of many perennial borders and quintessentially 'English', delphiniums have broadened their range, both in size and heat tolerance -- good news for gardeners with small gardens or in warm climates. |
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Growing Flowers 101
This basic guide to growing flowers in your landscaping will help get you on your way to having the best lawn in your neighborhood. |
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Bigger roots make bigger fruits
The key to a healthy root system starts with the soil, and the key to a healthy soil is having a soil rich with beneficial microbes. Lack of balanced nutrition and beneficial microbes in soil results in stressed plants, which attract pathogens and predatory insects. In order to grow healthy, stress free plants, it is critical to understand what is happening in the rhizosphere. The rhizosphere is the tiny layer between the roots and soil, where all interaction between microbes and plants take place. |
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Sargent Viburnum (Viburnum sargentii 'Onondaga')
Plant Habit: Shrub, Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade, Partial Shade to Full Shade
Plant Height: 6 to 12 feet
Plant Spread: 6 to 8 feet
Leaves: Good fall color, Unusual foliage color, Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Bi-Color
Flower Time: Spring, Late spring or early summer, Late winter or early spring
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Various insects
Miscellaneous: Monoecious
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Dwarf Fothergilla (Fothergilla 'Blue Shadow')
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet (1.2-1.8m)
Plant Spread: 4 to 6 feet (1.2-1.8m)
Leaves: Good fall color, Unusual foliage color, Deciduous
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Miscellaneous: Patent/Plant Breeders' Rights
Parentage: Sport of: Mount Airy
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Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Tardiva')
Plant Habit: Shrub
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic, Mesic
Plant Height: 8 to 15 feet, even to 25 feet
Plant Spread: 8 to 15 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy, Blooms on new wood
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Pollution
Pollinators: Bees
Awards and Recognitions: Other
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St. John's Wort (Hypericum 'Hidcote')
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic, Mesic
Plant Height: 4 feet
Plant Spread: 4 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer, Summer
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West Clandon Bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 2 to 4 feet
Plant Spread: 2 to 4 feet
Leaves: Unusual foliage color, Fragrant, Deciduous, Other
Fruit: Showy, Other
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant, Other, Blooms on new wood
Flower Color: Blue
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Hummingbirds, Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant, Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem, Cuttings: Tip, Division
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
Parentage: Caryopteris incana x Caryopteris mongholica
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"Young offsets propagation, late Dec 2021."
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 Photo by Hendrikus1967
"Photo is courtesy of Bx Butte Daylilies who owns rights hereto"
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 Photo by Hendrikus1967
"Photo is courtesy of Bx Butte Daylilies who owns rights hereto"
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The numbers from this week:
499 members joined.
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 Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
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 I am more at home in a garden than anywhere else on Earth -Doug Green
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