Articles related to "Dianthus"



Divine Dianthus
The history, folklore, and uses of garden pinks.
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Dianthus
Dianthus--suitable plants for the rock garden, planted wall, or perennial border.
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In the Pink with Dianthus:
Growing garden pinks, they are easy and come in other colours. Oh, the heady scents, bliss.
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Year of the Dianthus
Year of the Dianthus presented by the National Garden Bureau
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History and Culture of Dianthus
Pinks have a long history as a flower of religious symbolism with a variety of culinary, medicinal, and aromatic uses.
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Dianthus: Border Carnations
Dianthus: Border carnations
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Have an Explosion of Pinks in your Garden
Grow this cheerful flower in your garden or in containers for a brilliant profusion of pinks and reds.
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Early Spring Flowers Can Take the Cold
As winter fades into memory, plant these hardy annuals for a burst of spring color. Each flower can withstand typical spring weather and chilly nights.
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The Propagator's Calendar - Part 1
A guide to when to propagate your plants
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New Plants for 2004
Many new plants are introduced each year. I trialed these in my home garden last year.
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Fall Wedding Bouquets
Fall wedding bouquets can include late Summer flowers such as Sunflower and Carnation; add Myrtle to represent the change in seasons from Autumn to Winter.
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Perennial Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new perennial plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.
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Plants with Fine-Textured Foliage
Often when combining plants to create dramatic containers you want to select plants with contrasting foliage type and color. Choose some fine cut foliage plants.
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Summer Flowering Plants for Hot Humid Weather
Grow these summer flowering plants in gardens during hot humid weather. Types of Achillea, Ajuga, Dianthus, Rudbeckia and Scaevola tolerate damp summer heat.
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Sweet William Old-Fashioned Favorite in Gardens
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) is a very popular garden ornamental in colors ranging from burgundy, purple, red, pink, white or variegated.
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Adding Color to an Early-Spring Garden
Cool-season annuals provide early color in a spring garden. They also provide the gardener with an opportunity to start planting before the weather warms.
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Spring Blooming Annuals
These annuals all provide exciting color in the spring when gardeners are ready for the first signs of life in their garden. Here are some favorite early annuals.
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When to Plant Desert Garden Seeds
When you plant seeds which you will transplant outside in your garden depends upon many factors.
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Flowering Plants for Garden Walkways
Consider these planting ideas to soften the appearance of a sidewalk or finish a pathway garden. Flowering plant groupings make beautiful landscaped walkways.
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Fragrant Garden Perennial Plants
What could be more wonderful than strolling through a flower garden full of scent and fragrance? Here are some top perennial picks for a pleasing fragrant filled garden.
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Adding Color to Your Winter Garden and Getting a Jump on Spring Planting
Cool-season annuals provide early color in a spring garden—and an opportunity for you to start planting when you just can't wait any longer. And speaking of waiting—gardeners usually can't wait until the last frost to begin planting. Fortunately, there are some ways to plant crops early, even if there is still a chill in the air.
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Cool Season and Cold Tolerant Annuals
Now we can plant cool season and cold tolerant flowering plants to reward ourselves for making it through another winter. Just don't forget that they were raised in greenhouses and need to be acclimated to the weather before you leave them on their own.
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Patriotic Themed Garden Plants
What better place to celebrate Independence Day than in a garden full of plants that celebrate that spirit of "freedom and liberty for all".
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Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
Spring is glorious in the Cottage Garden -- find out what's in mine.... I hope you like purple! Don't you just love spring!?!
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Let Freedom Ring in a Fourth of July Garden
Let freedom ring in a festive Fourth of July garden of floral fireworks.
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Birth Flower for January
The language, legends, and history for the carnation; the flower for those born in the month of January.
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Cool Season Containers
Cool season annual flowers bloom into late fall and earliest spring and sometimes flower all winter. Ideal in pots or planters by the door, walk or mailbox.
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Echinacea Purpurea Plant Profile
Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.
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Gardening in Containers to Enhance Small Spaces
Combine different shapes, sizes, and colors of flowers to make your small area more beautiul and interesting.
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Halloween Themed Garden Plants
Spooks, magic, ghouls, and black cats. October's All Hallow's Eve can be fun to celebrate in the garden with these Halloween named plants.
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Plant A Fragrant Flower Garden
Plant these flowers to grow a garden that is deliciously, wonderfully, romantically fragrant, perfumed with floral scent and in bloom all season from spring through fall.
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Container Gardening (part two)
Discover all sorts of plants for the perfect containers as well as themes and style suggestions. This is the second part of a two-part article.
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Come Wine and Dine with My "Flying Flowers"
Summer has finally arrived! It's time for the butterfly gardener to enjoy the wonder and delight of watching magical "flying flowers" come to wine and dine! It's also time for the gardener to take a small respite from gardening tasks. I invite you to enjoy a "virtual" stroll with me as I show you the results of just a few of my spring gardening efforts.
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Starting Perennials from Seed
How to start perennials from seed, taking into consideration how they differ from annuals.
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Kusamomo-- Accent Plants For Bonsai
Describes the art of accent or companion plants and their use with bonsai.
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November Desert Gardening Chores
No matter if your garden is high plains (above 4,000 ft.) or low desert; there are some chores you need to do for November.
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Cornell Plantations Flower and Herb Garden
A walk through the Flower and Herb Garden of Cornell Plantations with photographs, descriptions and links.
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All-America Winners for 2000
Each year the All America Selections committee announces several new flowers, vegetables and bedding plants which have won their coveted medal. This article reports the five flower/bedding plant winners for 2000.
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Flowering Herbs for Flower Gardens
Many herbs have pretty flowers and should be grown in flower gardens. Many favorite flowers are also herbs. Do you grow these herbs in your flower garden?
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New Unusual Flowering Annuals for Summer Gardens
Here are four unusual annual plants gardeners will find worth growing in summer gardens. These recently introduced flowering plants will tolerate hot weather.
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Red, White And Blue
While Memorial Day is still warm in our hearts, our eyes wet with pride, and our prayers with loved ones in the military, did the thought come to your mind that you wished you had landscaped your yard more? And there's plenty of time to get your yard's spirit up before the next Fourth of July weekend.
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Winter Garden Flowers for Texas Landscapes
Try planting pansies, viola, cyclamen and other cold tolerant plants to add color to a winter garden. With a bit of special care, these flowers brighten dark days.
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Herbaceous Borders - Part Two
Herbaceous borders were very fashionable during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Spring Container Gardening
Try these combinations of favorite spring flowers in your next container gardening project.
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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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Deer-Resistant Perennials Part 3
Outlines deer-resistant perennials for sun, and loads of links on the deer-resistance topic.
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Create a Garden Wall
Today's article tells how a few plants will make a living wall out of a dry stack rock wall.
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Fall is for Planting
Fall is for Planting
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How to Grow Bachelor's Buttons
Long used as a cutting flower or dried in everlasting flower arrangements, the Bachelor's Buttons also go by the common name of bluet or ragged sailor.
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Organic Garden Autumn Projects
The end of summer does not mean the end of gardening chores. There is plenty to do before the days become too short to complete chores and winter sets in.
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