Articles related to "Cannas"



A Tropical Garden With Cannas
At the nursery this year, we have many landscape customers buying tropical plants. Cannas are a top seller because they are easy to use in the garden and in containers.
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How to Plant and Grow Cannas in Sunny Gardens
Cannas are sun-loving plants that can quickly fill a garden spot with lush foliage and brightly-colored flowers. They require little care and look great in any garden.
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Canna -- An Old Garden Favorite Returns to Popularity
Canna are old fashioned garden plants returning to popularity once again. Learn how to take care of these wonderful plants and about the varieties now available in this new book.
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Growing Cannas
How to grow beautiful cannas (Canna generalis). The most common is the red canna, but others can be found with burgundy leaves and hot orange flowers.
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Pickeral Weed
Pickeral weed is an easy-to-grow pond plant and a true native of North America.
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How to Dig and Store Canna Roots
Save your cannas for replanting next spring! In fall, canna rhizomes or roots are dug up after frost and stored for the winter. Learn how to dig and store canna roots.
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Bulbs to Plant in the Spring
While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.
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Choosing Plants for the Flowerbed
Colors, textures, blooms, and types--so many choices are available to the gardener in creating a beautiful yard. Here are some helpful tips to make choices easier.
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Fall Comes Unexpectedly
Frost strikes. A few things need to be rushed in and cared for. Many just keep on keeping on. But that first frost is the clue. Start planning for next year.
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Gardens for Exotics - Getting Away at Home
Creating a tropical look in a temperate climate.
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Just Pretend it's an Annual
Roses as annuals? The idea sounds not only crazy, but wasteful at first hearing. But maybe it's not such a wild idea.
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My Garden
Tour our Garden Design editor's garden.
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Summer Flowering Bulbs
Included in the wide array of summer flowering bulbs, you will find cut flowers, fragrant blooms and colorful foliage plants.
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Wintering Over Frost Tender Bulbs
How to store the frost tender bulbs of cannas, dahlias and gladiolus plants over the cold winter months.
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Container Plants for Summer Color
Summer is a time for enjoying the outdoors. These colorful summer container plants make it easy to create interest and drama in an outdoor porch or sitting area.
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Online Nurseries 2000-Crownsville Nursery, Bridgewood Gardens-p2
Continuation - page 2 - The Crownsville Nursery and Bridgewood Gardens
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Tropical Plants In Cold Climates
Winter is fast approaching. Which tropical plants are best to overwinter and which ones should you save seeds from to start each spring?
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Beef Up Your Borders
How to use short-term planting to fill out a newly planted border
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Gardens for Impatient People
Are bare dirt and green fuzz the look you really want for that first-year garden? Or is there a way to fool the innocent onlooker into thinking you've been tending it for years?
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Plants, Shrubs and Trees with Red Foliage
Very few foliage plants have firecracker red leaves, but many have burgundy or maroon foliage that glow red when the sun shines through them - and some are truly red.
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Tropical Pleasures
Before frost's icy caress blackens their leaves, a handful of tender plants turn part of my garden into a tropical paradise.
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Upright Growing Container Plants
These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.
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Using Foliage to Create Three Season Interest
Leaves are around the garden for three seasons. Flowers last a few weeks. It stands to reason that getting the foliage right is a crucial element in great garden design.
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February Gardening In The Low Desert
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February Gardening In The Low Desert
Prepare for spring in the low desert. Now is the time to plant, prune, and enjoy our marvelous weather.
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Gardening In The Low Desert, February 2000
Gardening in the low desert for January, including companion planting, citrus care, starting seeds for vegetables and other things to be done this month.
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Tall Flowering Plants for Back of Borders
Home gardeners can mimic the success of professional landscapers by using plants of varying heights. These tall growing plants do well for behind shorter flowers.
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Gardens - Call Them Like You See Them
What's in a name? A lot - because what you call your garden style may deeply affect the way people view it. At the least it will affect how you see it and how much enjoyment you get from it. Let's look at what's in a name and what it says both about us and our gardens.
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Overwintering in the Greenhouse
With proper overwintering techniques, which are made much easier with the use of a greenhouse, many plants can be preserved only to be more vigorous beautiful producers.
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Bulbs from the Tropics
Bring the colors and scents of the tropics to your garden by planting a few tropical bulbs. Learn the different types of bulbs you can grow in your garden to enjoy their beautiful summertime blooms.
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The flowerless garden: Foliage can be beautiful
You can create a gorgeous garden with only foliage - and never miss the flowers at all!
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Relax, You're Gardening
Gardening should be relaxing. Too many people obsess about little details, and too many newcomers are overwhelmed by all the advice they receive. Plants are tough and here are some ways to make choices about your garden easier.
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Temporary Gardens
Give your garden a whole new look with the seasons - or by the week.Then be sure to check out the accompanying book review on Annuals with Style.

The Garden gets Frosted - Some Fall Garden Tips and Tricks
The hard work of autumn begins now - right after that first killing frost. Make it easy on yourself.

The Plot I Planned to Plant: When your order is bigger than your garden. . .
How to make sure that your winter plant orders will fit into your spring garden.

Dyeing The Old Way
Flowers, bark and a few weeds are all you need to brew up some old country dye.
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My Plants Came But it's Snowing!
Your plants are sitting in cartons all over the living room - but the weather makes it impossible to plant. How do you make sure your investment in green things doesn't simply wither away?

Fall Cleanup of Perennial Beds
With a hard frost past in most areas, fall cleanup of the perennial beds should be underway. Here is what to do and why.
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Fall is the Time to Plant Spring Flowering Bulbs
Greet spring with color that contrasts beautifully with the dormant grass and leafless trees. Fall is the time to plant bulbs that bloom in early spring.
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Giant Black Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susans, with their conical brown seed heads and bold yellow petals, provide some striking contrast in any natural garden.
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How to Plant a Lotus Pond
While low areas in the garden are often landscape challenges - think wet - and plant a water garden.
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Winter Tasks in the Flower Garden
Don't stop caring for your roses, bulbs, and perennials when the first snow flies. They require your occasional presence to ensure a glorious spring performance.
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Fish Pond Maintenance for Fall
Maintaining a Koi pond or goldfish pond takes extra effort in the fall of the year to help the fish and plants transition to a dormant state for the winter months.
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Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew
Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!
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Gardening Gifts for Spring
This article contains and ideas for spring gifts of plants and flowers that children can prepare and give. Celebrate the growing season with these gifts of joy.
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How to Design a Tropical Garden
The following highlighted garden may inspire you to create a sunken garden like the famous Butchart Garden in British Columbia - with a tropical landscape twist.
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Plant Hardiness
Are you wondering which plants need special winter care? Which can survive the rigors of winter in your pond? Here is a place to start your research.
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The Cat Clinic Garden in Columbia SC
A perennial garden at The Cat Clinic in Columbia, South Carolina brings cats and their owners to their senses.
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Winter Garden Tasks and Plant Care
Autumn and Winter months signal a dormant time in the garden but gardeners don't have to hibernate as well. These are fall and winter tasks to care for garden plants.
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