 Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
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Make Your Own Compost
While compost can be purchased, making your own is easy and has numerous benefits besides helping you grow healthy plants. |  |
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No More Trenching!! -- Tool for Nearly Painless Irrigation Pipe Installation
After having installed several PVC-based irrigation systems in my Utah yards, there had to be a better way. There is, and I found it. This article describes a nearly painless way - using a tool that I invented - to install black poly irrigation pipe with little impact to the lawn or gardens. It's been an incredible sweat/labor-saver for me. |  |
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Creating a Butterfly Garden
Butterflies bring an added dimension to your landscape. Lured by scent and color, they visit certain plants to feed on nectar, a sugary solution containing the carbohydrates that butterflies need for energy. Create a welcoming landscape by including butterfly-friendly plants and features. |  |
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Edible Landscaping - Planning Your Landscaping 101
Once the construction of your landscape actually begins, an odd thing happens. As soon as the first section of fence is hammered into place, or your future herb garden starts to fill in with the delicate sprouts of your favorite edibles, your imagination takes over and completes the project in your mind's eye. |  |
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Power Plants
Because of variables such as erratic weather and fickle pests, growing a beautiful garden is always a bit of a gamble. Want to tip the odds in your favor? Choose plants that have performed so well they've won awards--and not from mere beauty pageants, either. Although different award programs, from the venerable All-America Selections to trials by horticultural societies, have varying rules and procedures, they share a common goal of helping gardeners find reliably high-performing plants. |  |
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Edible Flowers
Edible flowers turn foods and drinks from ordinary to extraordinary by adding color and flavor and a beautiful garnish. Picked straight from your own garden, you can add flare to your table with little effort. |  |
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Honey Euryops (Euryops virgineus)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F)
Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet
Plant Spread: 2 to 4 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Fruit: Other
Flowers: Showy, Fragrant, Other
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring, Late winter or early spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies, Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant, Humidity tolerant
Pollinators: Bees
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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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Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema 'Silver Bay')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 10b +1.7 °C (35 °F) to +4.4 °C (40 °F)
Plant Height: 30 to 32 inches (76-81cm)
Plant Spread: 30 to 32 inches (76-81cm)
Leaves: Evergreen, Variegated, Other, Broadleaf
Fruit: Showy, Other
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: White, Other, Green
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Other
Suitable Locations: Houseplant
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Toxicity: Other
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
Parentage: Manila Whirl x Ernesto's Favorite
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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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Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans Chocolate Chip)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade, Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet, Wet Mesic, Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Plant Height: 6 inches
Plant Spread: 6-9 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color, Evergreen, Other
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Groundcover, Will Naturalize, Erosion control, Provides winter interest
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Drought tolerant, Tolerates foot traffic
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Pollinators: Self, Bees, Moths and Butterflies
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"Rooted cutting, midwinter, 6 inch pot"
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"First seedling to bloom! More expected to follow."
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"Charity in Action"
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"one of the various patterns of this flower looks like arrows"
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