 Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful ~ Luther Burbank
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Peony: The King of Flowers
Colorful peony flowers can reach 10 inches in diameter, blooming in early summer to herald the upcoming summer season. This long-lived perennial can thrive in your garden with little care. |  |
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How to Grow and Care for Grapes
It's a wonder more gardeners don't plant grapevines. Just 2 years after planting, you can be sampling your own grapes; in 3 years, you can be harvesting up to 15 pounds of grapes from each vine -- plenty for eating and making jellies, juice, or wine. |  |
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Growing Leeks
Leeks are the easiest to grow of all the alliums. Not only do they perform well in a wide range of climates, they can also be harvested at almost any stage for use raw as baby leeks in salads or cooked in soups and sautes. |  |
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Preventing Apple Pests
Growing your own apple trees is relatively easy, but avoiding insect and disease damage to the fruit requires pruning and prevention. Here are some tips to help you prevent pest problems. |  |
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Sunflower Savvy
The sunflower -- a native American -- is the hottest garden flower going. Landscapers love them, kids crave them, and flower arrangers seek them out in all their glory. |  |
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Planning A Hummingbird Garden
With their lively chirp, stunning agility, and brilliant colors, hummingbirds have captured our imaginations as no other flyers have. Best of all, they are easy to attract with flowering plants or strategically placed feeders. |  |
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Growing Dill
Pickles, salad dressing, seafood, potatoes, and cucumbers: these are just a few of dill's culinary dance partners, making it a favorite in the herb garden. |  |
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Together with Victory Seed Company Extreme Bush? What's that? Well, it's an old-fashioned tomato from the 1950s that makes short little plants who grow only up to around 28" tall, are tremendously productive, and produce fruit over a long period of time. The leaves have this really weird habit of curling up and inward, which looks odd but doesn't mean anything bad. The fruits are very flavorful, weighing about three ounces, are globe-shaped and red in color. One of the earliest tomatoes in existence, you should have fruit in 50 days after transplant. And once it starts, it just can't stop producing fruit after fruit after fruit. You'll have more than enough for you and every one of your neighbors and friends. Is it the best tasting tomato? Not at all. Is it the easiest, earliest and most bulletproof tomato you've ever grown? Probably! This is an especially great candidate for our gardening friends with limited space or wishing to container garden. Grab your packet today at VictorySeeds.com.
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Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Titanic's Nemesis')
Hybridizer: David Miller
Year Of Registration: 1999
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2000
Seedling Number: 93-27A
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 38 inches (97 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Light blue
Bloom Color Description: White, very light blue toning
Beard Color: Blue, tipped white
Style Arm Color: White
Fragrance: Slight, Musky
Awards: Honorable Mention
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: Tetraploid
Parentage: Honky Tonk Blues X Cuss A'blue Streak
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Mysore Trumpet Vine (Thunbergia mysorensis)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 11 +4.4 °C (40 °F) to +7.2 °C (50 °F)
Plant Height: 10-25 feet or more
Plant Spread: 4-8 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Flowers: Showy, Other
Flower Color: Bi-Color
Bloom Size: 2"-3"
Flower Time: Spring, Late spring or early summer, Summer, Winter
Wildlife Attractant: Birds, Hummingbirds, Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots, Suitable for hanging baskets
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Baby Rubber Plant (Peperomia obtusifolia 'Variegata')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb, Cactus/Succulent
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade, Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9b -3.9 °C (25 °F) to -1.1 °C (30 °F)
Plant Height: 6-10 inches
Plant Spread: 12-18 inches
Leaves: Evergreen, Variegated
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: Other
Flower Time: Other
Suitable Locations: Houseplant, Terrariums
Uses: Groundcover, Will Naturalize
Resistances: Humidity tolerant, Drought tolerant
Containers: Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Rose (Rosa 'Christian Dior')
Bloom size: Large: 4-5"
Bloom shape: High-centered
Petal count: full: 26-40 petals
Rose bloom color: Dark red
Rebloom: Good
Class: Hybrid tea
Growth Habit: Medium-tall, 4-6 feet, upright
Fragrance: Mild
Hybridizer & year: Francis Meilland, 1958
Optimal growing zones: USDA zone 7 and warmer
Awards: AARS
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Plant Height: 4-6 feet
Plant Spread: 2-3 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant
Flower Color: Red
Flower Time: Spring, Summer, Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Parentage: (Independence x Happiness) x (Peace x Happiness)
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Princess Flower (Pleroma semidecandrum)
Plant Habit: Shrub, Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 10a -1.1 °C (30 °F) to +1.7 °C (35 °F)
Plant Height: 10 to 20 feet
Leaves: Evergreen, Other
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Other, Purple
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Summer, Late summer or early fall, Late fall or early winter, Fall, Other
Suitable Locations: Patio/Ornamental/Small Tree
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Containers: Needs excellent drainage in pots
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"photo by: David J. Stang"
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"The new blooms are double petals instead of the normal mutipetals."
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"My grafted desert rose."
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