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Maintaining Container Gardens

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Maintaining Container Gardens

These simple maintenance tasks keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for...
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Crabapples for the Low Maintenance Landscape

Crabapples for the Low Maintenance Landscape
Whether it's the soft pink blossoms and attractive weeping habit of 'Louisa' crabapple, the canopy of deep pink blossoms of 'Indian Magic', or the cheery fragrant blooms of the 'Donald Wyman', spring-flowering ornamental crabapple trees are delightful calling cards of a new season. Flowering crabapp ... [more]

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Control Borers on Iris

Iris borers cause foliage to be ragged and yellow-streaked and rhizomes soft and mushy. The tunneling in the rhizome allows rot diseases to invade. To control, dig up, remove, and destroy severely infected rhizomes.


 
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