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How to Dig & Store Gladiolus Corms
Directions how to lift, divide, dig & save gladioluses for planting in your flower garden next year to increase and grow more of your favorite varieties or save money.
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Greenhouses in Summer
Greenhouse gardening is not just about watching the plants grow in the summer. As well as watering, other tasks need attention.
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Cypella under another name.
What's in a name? Everything, if you are in the position of ordering plants! The changing names of plants often leave us all bewildered. So let us look at a Cypella which is a Hesperoxiphion and another which is a Phalocalus.
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Tigridia Pavonia - Facts and Myths:
Tigridias are bulbous plants, which have been in cultivation since the 17th century. Even so, there still remains many myths regarding their growing requirements.
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A Gladiolus Makes Me Glad
You'll be glad you gave Glads a try in your cut flower garden.
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Growing Chinese Water Chestnuts
Growing edible and nutritious Chinese water chestnuts is a simple process which produces masses of this delicious aquatic vegetable.
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Overwintering Seeds and Tender Perennials
By properly storing seeds and tender perennials in the fall, you can ensure an early and less expensive start to next year's garden.
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Bearded Iris
Beared iris apart from the initial establishing are trouble free perennial plants which will reward you with their propagation and blooms over the years.
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Books for Christmas - Part 3:
Top Shelf Garden Books, real winners
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Books from Peter Goldblatt:
Books from Peter Goldblatt, who is the world expert on Iridaceae.
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Bulbous plants.
As often the culture of bulbous plants is poorly understood, it is you the reader who using your common sense and experimenting with which grows best in your climate hold the key....
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Bulbs and Trees.
The benefits of micro climates created by incorporating trees with the bulbs you grow.
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Flower Bulb FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions about bulbs and corms and climate of growing these.
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Grow Saffron
Expensive to buy, saffron can be grown in your yard easily and inexpensively, making this popular and pricey spice a practical addition to your menu.
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Our Changing Climates and Mulches.
Changing Climates and Mulches in the garden. Climate change is impacting now. Have you noticed?
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Weedy Watsonias
Weedy Watsonias that have escaped into our bushland environment, spreading quickly and thriving on neglect. What should we do?
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Edible Chinese Water Chestnuts
Edible Chinese Water Chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis), sometimes known as Matai, can be an excellent backyard or medium-scale crop.
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Crocuses for Spring and Fall Color
Crocuses are native to Eurasia and North Africa, but at least 30 species have been widely cultivated. They have traditionally been associated with the arrival of spring.
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Plant Cuttings in Agriculture and Horticulture
Vegetative propagation of plant structures is an important tool in horticulture and gardening. The use of cutting is one method of propagating plants vegetatively.
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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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Spotlight on Crocosmia
The Montbretia or Crocosmia, (Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora), is more than a beautiful bloom. It attracts tiny friends to your garden that help to remove garden foes.
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Support and Food Storage in Stems
All stems perform three basic functions: support of the leaves and flowers, fluid transport between leaves and roots, and food storage.
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Veltheimias
Veltheimia is a winter growing, summer dormant bulb from South Africa which is both easy and a joy to grow.
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Moraea - Part 4
Moraea to grow with growing and flowering requirements. A matter of climate.
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Hawaii's Poi - Spirituality, Food and Medicine
There are few plants that rival the Taro plant for being a food source that is so strongly linked with the spirituality of a people.
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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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The Hard Work Starts Here!
Autumn is a season to enjoy. Mists and mellow fruitfulness, you can almost smell autumn. Whilst spring is busy autumn too has many jobs for the gardener. I explore the jobs that we can tackle at this season.
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Sexy Plant Stems and Bulbs (What You Don't Know May Cost Y ou!)
Part Two in Plant Anatomy 101: A Beginner's Guide to Garden Plants.
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How to Plant and Grow Freesias
A native to South Africa, freesias are a perennial single or double blooming favorite in many arrangements.
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Tips for Optimal Frugal Summer Gardening
Creating a beautiful garden plot can be expensive, especially if the yard is large and plants have to be replaced. Here are a few ideas for making a dollar go further.
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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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Bulbs add colour to the fall garden
Plant drifts of autumns crocus, colchicum, cylcamen and lycoris to brighten the fall garden.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 1
Gardening in Shade - Bulbs for Shady Places - Part 1
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 4
Bulbs for fall bloom in the shady garden.
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Gayfeather for Garden Color
Gayfeather or liatris is a plant that is native to both western and eastern North America, but different species occupy different areas of the continent.
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Moraea - Part 5
Moraea for the average gardener to grow, the delight of their hue and flowering times.
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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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How to Overwinter Tender Perennials and Annuals
It can be difficult to let a garden go for the winter after weeding, watering and feeding plants all summer. Here are tips for maintaining plants over the winter.
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Fall Flower Care after Frost
Fall is a busy time in the flower garden. Use this list of reminders and tips to keep up with your fall garden chores, prepare for winter and anticipate spring!
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Books for Christmas - Part 1
Books for Christmas buying. All solid works and a sound investment of hard earned money.
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Ixia in Spring
My favourite species, the Ixia is flowering its way through spring and providing some marvellous flowers. They will continue through summer, bringing delight to my garden.Come in and enjoy looking at "Ixias in Spring."
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Empanadas de Carne Argentinas
Empanadas are a great item to keep around as a quick snack, or a full meal. You can make a bunch and freeze the rest.
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Geranium Heliopsis Crocosmia and Miscanthus
Plant communities work well together because of similar growing needs. The geranium, heliopsis, croscosmia and miscanthus combination is one example for summer gardens.
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Planting Bearded Irises
What is "not as hard to grow" as people say? Not so temperamental, and rewards you with big, bold, and beautiful blooms? The bearded iris, that's what!
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Book Review - Armitage's Native Plants
Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens is a treasure trove of information for gardeners wanting to design landscapes with native flowering plants and ferns.
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Cottage Garden Flowers
Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.
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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 In Shade - Introduction
Shade:. Shade can be cool, dappled, heavy, light, dank, dry and wet. It gives relief from summer’s unrelenting heat. Shade provides a home to some of the most beautiful of plants.
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Plant Dormancy
For sustained good health, plants must experience a period of partial or complete inactivity. This dormant state is necessary for the continued survival of the plant.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 7
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part 7 - Mostly Natives
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