Articles related to "Gladiolus"



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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A Gladiolus Makes Me Glad
You'll be glad you gave Glads a try in your cut flower garden.
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Plant Prejudices
Don't dismiss a plant family because you dislike one member!
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Books from Peter Goldblatt:
Books from Peter Goldblatt, who is the world expert on Iridaceae.
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Yellow Spring-Planted Bulbs
The bulb growing season can be extended by using tender bulbs or other summer flowering, perennial bulbs in the yellow themed garden.
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Birth Flower for August
The language, legends and history for the gladiola - the flower for those born in the month of August.
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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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Bulbs for Containers
Bulbs are a great way to add accent and color to mixed containers to increase the drama and impact. See some favorite bulb plants for baskets, pots and planters.
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Travelsleuth's Diary: September Garden Shows
The Travelsleuth chronicles the last warm days of of summer in his cottage garden and looks forward to the last of the year's summer Garden Shows.
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Go Green in the Garden
Go green in the garden by adding new varieties of green-flowering plants - old favorites have upgraded to green!
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Plants in Sympathy Flower Arrangements
A reader asked about the meanings of the FTD funeral flowers delivered online and sent same day for sympathy situations. Here's what the funeral arrangements meant.
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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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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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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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Best Flowers for Graduating Seniors
Certain flowers have specific meanings. Graduation is a special day, so say something meaningful with these graduation flowers.
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Love 'em and toss 'em: Summer bulbs for Ontario gardens
Summer bulbs make ideal container plants if you decide to adopt the "love 'em and toss 'em" philosophy of gardening,
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Wintertime Tasks for the Gardener
Wintertime should be anything but a slow time for the gardener. While you're waiting for spring blooms, here are two wintertime tasks that'll get your garden ready for spring. Learn the best ways to store seeds and tender perennials and discover the benefits of composting.
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Catalog Plant Shopping the Wise Way
Come spring, the mail order gardening catalogs flood into mailboxes everywhere - pages of temptation, enticing gardeners to want one of everything.
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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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Review of ITV1's Demons
ITV1's big new supernatural drama pitches Philip Glenister and young stars Christian Cooke and Zoe Tapper against London's hidden vampires and monsters.
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The Flowers of the Astrological Zodiac
Most people know their horoscope sign; there are garden plants associated with each zodiac sign as well. Perhaps we should ask "What is your bloom?" when we meet someone.
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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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Orchids In Your Garden
Have you always wanted to grow orchids in your flower garden? Here are some that most every one can grow in their garden!
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These Plants Came From Africa? Teaching Kids the Origin of Garden Plants
It's important to teach children the origin of plants. Plants we commonly grow can come from many different countries. This article is about plants from Africa. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Vase Shapes for Cut Flowers Style
As Spring to Summer makes flowers more strident, start sorting out different shapes of vases to display cut flowers when staging a home.
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Staking Flowers
Many perennial flowers should be staked. Learn the best techniques and methods to use in your flower garden and when and why to stake your flowers.
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The Beth Chatto Gardens - Part 1
A visit to the Beth Chatto Gardens in Essex - looking at the history of the garden and the creation of her famous drought-resistant Gravel Garden, which is never irrigated.
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Red White and Blue Flowers
Use these tips and plant lists to select red, white and blue annual and perennial flowers to plant a traditional flower garden design with a patriotic theme this summer.
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Bedtime Rituals In the Garden: Now I lay my Plants Down to Sleep
Advice and tips on preparing your garden for a long winter's nap.
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Let the Bulbs be planted.
Drought conditions for Bulbs and a Winter Bulb list to buy and delight the inner child within the Gardener.
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The Wizard of OZ
Throw off the winter blues with a cloak of bulbs.
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Hong Kong's Flower Market Road
As in many parts of China, it's still the custom in Hong Kong for a street to specialise in a particular trade. There's no mistaking what's on offer in Flower Market Road
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Shapes for Flower Arrangements
All flower arrangements, except the oriental or the abstract, are done in a specific shape or pattern. Starting with a shape in mind leads to a successful floral display.
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Summer Garden
Summer is the time to show off the rich colors of flowers in a garden. Optimum planting creates enjoyment throughout the summer.
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VIETNAM : Memories of Te^’t or Lunar New Year
Tet arrives on the twenty fourth of January this year 2001 It is the Year of the Snake. Every year , the arrival of the Lunar New Year brings back so many memories of my childhood. Te^'t is such a special time,
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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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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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Growing and Caring for Rudbeckia Plant Profile
Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan, is a beautiful daisy-like flower that adds a beauty and splash of color to the summer garden for weeks.
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How to Care for Cut Flowers
Whether you purchase a loose bunch of flowers from your local florist or pick them from your own garden, cut flowers should be conditioned to prolong their vase life.
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Spring is a wonderful time
On a beautiful spring day, what a joy it is to wander in the garden. My garden is full of pots - but beautiful flowers also.
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A Very Merry, Bulbous Christmas to you
Bulbs, corms, tubers, or whatever you buy, will give much satisfaction each year. I particularly like growing them, don't you? A merry Christmas to all my readers.
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Beautiful Wedding Flower Ideas
Top tips on wedding flowers for day and evening, as well as what goes best with your hair colour. Includes lists of seasonal flowers and inspiring ideas.
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Bridal Bouquet Colors
There are many choices of flower colors for wedding bouquets; bridal bouquet colors of white, pink, lavender, red, yellow, orange or blue flowers are always in season.
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Common Garden Plants Can Make Your Dog Sick
Spring is heralded by the appearance of daffodils, crocuses and tulips. Summer brings geraniums, baby's breath and morning glory. And if your dog eats them, he could die.
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Plants of Spain
Spain contains many of the Mediterranean plant species of Europe; plants of Spain include deciduous and evergreen trees, orchids and aromatic herbs of lavender and thyme.
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The Spring Flowers of Andalucia
Spring in Andalucia brings an unsurpassed wildflower display from January to its climax in May. See Mediterranean wildflowers at their best in the Alpujarras and Axarquia
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Visit Claude Monet's Water Garden
Giverny is the home town of painter Claude Monet, famous for his water lilies painting. Enjoy a tour or casual visit to this historic water garden in Normandy.
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Wedding Bouquet Styles
Flowers have a long history of use in weddings but it is only in more recent history that various styles of wedding bouquets have become available.
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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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