Articles related to "Scabiosa"



Cool-Season Cut Flower Annuals
Add a few cool-season annuals to your garden for color during off seasons. See five of the best cool weather annual cut flower plants.
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Perennial Plant of the Year 2000
The Perennial Plant of the Year is Scabiosa columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'. Learn how to grow this plant.
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Pincushions and Friends
The perennial plant of the year and it's buddies are on-track for summer gardening. How to grow them, how about them, how d'ja like 'em?
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Autumn Plants
Fall means a second gardening seasons for California gardeners. Chrysanthemums, salvias, scabiosa, daisies, coleus and more.
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Favorite Cut Flowers
Favorite Cut Flowers and how to make them last longer indoors.
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Designing Container Gardens - Part III
There are many striking plant combinations you can put in containers to enhance your garden, patio or balcony.
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Seedheads in the Winter Garden
Don't be so diligent about your autumn garden clean-up and you'll have a more interesting winter garden.
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Cut Flowers Bring the Garden Indoors
Cut Flowers Bring the Garden Indoors
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Theme Colored Combinations for your Garden
Examples of single colours, and harmonised and contrasting colour combinations.
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Flower Bouquets from your Summer Cutting Garden
When creating a bouquet to bring inside, choose a good amount of both annuals and perennials, and even some foliage plants such as Lamb's ear or artemisia.
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Adding Drama to the Landscape
Take your garden from ordinary to extraordinary using these four easy techniques.
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Easy to Grow Perennials
Perennials are those plants in the yard or garden bed that can be counted on to return and bloom every year. Here's a list of perennial plants anyone can grow.
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Fall Planting Combinations
Perennial gardens finish with a bang in autumn. Hot colors, made more intense by the changes in sun angle, render a garden complete for the season.
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Honey Bee, Come Home
In the fall of 2006 beekeepers nationwide began noticing honeybee colonies disappearing in large numbers without known reason.
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Organic Flower Gardening With Kids
The organic garden gives families a place to learn about life cycles of plants and animals using hands-on activities.
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A Stroll in the Cold
Notes on a brisk winters' day in Colonial Williamsburg.
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BRING THE OUTSIDE IN
Start next summer's cutting garden this fall but laying newspapers over a part of your lawn.
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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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Edging Plants for Kitchen Gardens
A border of plants around a vegetable patch can be useful and decorative. Here are ideas for edging plants to surround the kitchen garden.
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High Altitude Gardening Tips
Gardening at altitudes above 6500' is challenging, but with a little effort and proper plant selection, the rewards can be spectacular and unique.
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Plants That are Safe for Cats
To create a pet-friendly garden, choose non-toxic plants and avoid those that are highly poisonous.
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Take The Time To Smell The Flowers..

Winter Sowing
You can start your own plants from seed without buying a bunch of lights, cell packs, or pricey seed-heating mats. It's called Winter Sowing, and it couldn't be easier.
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Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
Here's a plant beloved for so many qualities -- for fragrance, butterflies, fragrance, container, fragrance, window sill, fragrance, Grandma's garden or cottage garden or ... fragrance? Try heliotrope, or as some people know it, old fashioned "cherry pie"! WOW!
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Is a Blue Daylily in Your Future?
Read about a theory on creating blue Daylilies. See if you agree that this would work. Offer some ideas of your own.
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Roses the Organic Way
Roses may not seem like the ideal candidate for organic gardening...but there are numerous effective non-toxic methods of controlling rose pests and diseases.
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Striking Cuttings - SUMMER BLOOMERS
How to take cuttings off perennials and root them in pots or flats.
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This Year's Favorite Flowers - and a Few that Fizzled
What plants surprised me with their fabulous performances this year - and which disappointed me enough to turn them into compost?

Perennial Article Index
An A to Z list of articles in the Perennials topic area on Suite101. You can scan the list by common or latin names.
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