 Anyone who things gardening begins in spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year. for gardening begins in January with the dream.
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Garden Design 101
A cottage cutting garden, a small orchard, a collection of useful herbs, or a private garden spot for morning coffee or evening relaxation — these are a few of the design elements you can incorporate into your landscape, no matter the size. The formula is simple. Your creativity + solid information + a plan. |  |
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How to Grow and Care for Rhubarbs
Although technically a vegetable, rhubarb is generally used as a fruit in desserts and jams. Attractive and easy to grow, rhubarb has a place in every home garden. |  |
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Plan Your Dream Garden
Seed catalogs arrive earlier and earlier each season, tempting us with glossy photos of vegetables that are still months away from our dinner plates. How do you choose what types of plants and what varieties from among the hundreds of beauty pageant photos of perfect tomatoes and blemish-free peppers? Start by selecting which types of vegetables you'll grow. |  |
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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 at all. Using real topsoil to start seeds creates more problems than it solves, even if your garden soil is a perfect loam. |  |
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Overhauling The Home Garden for Spring Plantings
In many parts of the country, the winters are severe enough that it prevents most gardening activities except for garden cleanup and pruning, which makes the winter season a great time to also start planning changes to the garden you want to make in the spring. These changes to the garden could be projects such as a new planting bed, renovating a garden, or even a large garden or landscape project that provides a new look to the front of your house or an entirely new garden space. |  |
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Dramatic Dieffenbachia
Houseplants are a necessity for gardeners in cool climates. We get desperate for greenery between November and April — and sometimes longer! If I can't schedule a tropical vacation, I buy a tropical houseplant to help me weather the winter and reduce the symptoms of spring fever. My latest favorite is Dieffenbachia. |  |
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Pruning Trees and Shrubs
Pruning is a task that few gardeners want to do, but it's essential. The more you do it, the more it makes sense, and the easier it is. With a little instruction and some common sense, you'll be able to prune your trees, shrubs, and roses like a pro and have beautifully shaped, flowering plants to boot. |  |
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What About Those Fancy Plant Names?
I have graduated, climbed another rung on life's long ladder of garden education. I now refer to plants by their botanical names. My conversion has been stimulated by gardening books and magazines. |  |
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Together with Victory Seeds Imagine growing a cucumber that has vines that only spread about 24 inches, produces high yields, AND is early to set fruit. It sounds like something from a dream, but it's actually a reality. 'Pick a Bushel F1' is a 2014 regional All-America Selections (AAS) winner and is a compact bush type cucumber producing sweet-tasting light-green cucumbers with a nice firm texture. Perfect for pickling when harvested early. Fruits left on the bush-type vines can get up to 6 inches long and can be enjoyed fresh in salads. An excellent option for container growing and for northern gardens due to its early harvest. We have it in stock, along with dozens of other exciting new varieties, plus over a thousand tried-and-true varieties, all at VictorySeeds.com.
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Heavenly Double Spiderman')
Hybridizer: Gossard
Year of Registration or Introduction: 2020
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 33 in, (83 cm)
Bloom size: 6 in, (15 cm)
Bloom time: Midseason
Plant Traits: Extended Bloom, Rebloom
Bud Count: 21-25
Branching: 4-way
Bloom Form: Double, Spider, Unusual Form, Unusual Form - Crispate
Color description: Red with forty plus sepals and petals, and a very green throat.
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant
Ploidy: Diploid
Parentage: Double Red Firecracker x Ultimate Spider-Man
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Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'My Beloved')
Hybridizer: Joseph Ghio
Year Of Registration: 2008
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2009
Seedling Number: 03-73L3
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Late
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: White
Flower Patterns: Self
Bloom Color Description: White, green midrib on standards
Beard Color: White, tangerine in throat
Awards: Honorable Mention, Award of Merit
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers: Showy
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Resonance X Pretty Bubbles
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Red Edge Peperomia (Peperomia tricolor)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade, Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 10a -1.1 °C (30 °F) to +1.7 °C (35 °F)
Plant Height: 6 inches to 12 inches
Plant Spread: 6 inches
Leaves: Evergreen, Variegated, Other
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: Yellow, Other, Green
Flower Time: Summer
Suitable Locations: Houseplant
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Containers: Needs excellent drainage in pots, Prefers to be under-potted
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Rose (Rosa 'New Year')
Bloom size: Medium: 2-3"
Petal count: double: 16-25 petals
Rose bloom color: Orange and orange blend
Extra Bloom Info: Medium to large, double to full, in clusters
Rebloom: Good
Class: Grandiflora
Growth Habit: Medium, 3-4 feet, upright
Fragrance: Mild
Hybridizer & year: Samuel Darragh McGredy IV, 1982
Optimal growing zones: USDA zone 6 and warmer
Awards: AARS
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6b -20.6 °C (-5 °F) to -17.8 °C (0 °F)
Plant Height: 3-4 feet
Plant Spread: 2-3 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant
Flower Color: Orange
Flower Time: Spring, Summer, Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Parentage: Mary Sumner x (Yellow Pages x Kabuki)
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Urn Plant (Aechmea fasciata)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade, Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 10a -1.1 °C (30 °F) to +1.7 °C (35 °F)
Plant Height: 1 to 3 feet
Plant Spread: 2 feet
Leaves: Evergreen, Other
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink, Other
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring, Late spring or early summer, Summer, Late summer or early fall
Containers: Preferred depth, Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs repotting every 2 to 3 years, Needs excellent drainage in pots, Suitable for hanging baskets
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
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"Has a velvety appearance and no apparent odor during the day."
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"Just beginning to split as the inner set of leaves expand while absorbing the outer sets store of liquid. The seed pod will develop and dry to brown. Seeds won't be released until triggered by next years fall rains."
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"First flowers on the way"
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"Bud is just beginning to come up with a beautiful starry pattern"
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