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Growing Tuberous Begonias in Pots or in the Garden: Caring for this Long Blooming Shade Plant
Article describes how to succesfully grow one of the most long blooming and beautiful plants suitable for partial shade: The Tuberous Begonia.
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Tuberous Begonias from Seed
Growing tuberous begonias from seed
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Types of Begonia Plants
Begonia is a genus of flowering plants which are divided into eight primary types, each with specific characteristics that allow the species to be easily sorted.
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Flowering Begonia Ideas for Shade Gardens
Hardy, tuberous and cane begonias are plants for shady gardens. Learn about these flowering begonias and which are best outside or as houseplants.
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How to Prepare Your Houseplants For Winter
Houseplants can provide color, cheer and comfort during the long cold winter months, but they'll need a little special care to do so. Here is a quick guide to help!
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Bloom where we are planted
A garden parable. What if each of us could choose one plant to grow?
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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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The Begonia is a Popular Home and Garden Plant
As a houseplant or an outdoor plant, begonias are a gardener's delight. Begonias can be used in flowerbeds, in containers, in hanging baskets and as houseplants.
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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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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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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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Coleus-Sunny Side Up
New coleus introductions for the sunny south broaden the color palette for your garden!
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Edible Flowers
Flowers are not only beautiful to behold, some are even edible.
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Meet the Begonia Family
Begonias are popular shade garden plants. Growing Begonias will help the newcomer learn to grow them well.
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Patio Gardening
Just about any plant can be grown on a patio or balcony in a container, with the right care and conditions - including shrubbery.
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Propagation Techniques Other Than Cutting
There are many methods of propagation including division, offsets, division of bulbs, tubers and plantlets. Different plants require different methods to grow.
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Rex Begonias Made for Shady Gardens
Rex begonias grow best in shade. The striking foliage of Begonia rex cultorum makes this a good choice as a houseplant or for outside gardens.
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San Diego Gardens: Part 3
San Diego horticultural wonders. San Diego County is the top county in the U.S. for value of floriculture, nursery, greenhouse and sod products.
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Growing Coleus Collections by Propagation
Plant propagation is an easy way to save coleus plants over winter. Growing coleus indoors, from plant cuttings, builds the garden.
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How to Spot and Treat Fungal Diseases
Despite a houseplant lover's best efforts, diseases can still strike. Fungal diseases are among the most common. Here's a quick guide to help spot and treat them.
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Annual Bedding Plants Old and New
Annual flowers are planted every year and are used for every purpose from bedding to containers to the mixed border design to the cutting garden. Here's what you need to know to be successful with annuals -- both old fashioned favorites and exotic new introductions -- this summer.
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Difficult Gardens -- Shady Northern Exposures-Part I
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Flowers of Summer
Dispel the dreary winter by remembering the flowers of summer.
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Shamrocks - Growing Oxalis
How to grow Shamrocks and Oxalis plants indoors and out. Shamrock history and origins. Part of the Suite101 St. Patricks Day Event
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Still Indoors
Grow indoors while in the grip of winter.
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Blooming Windows
Any gardener can make opulent and gorgeous window boxes. They are easy to fill, easy care for and easily grown.
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Quality Watering Techniques
Selection of a quality growing media and good potting techniques are the backbone in the production of quality bedding plants. What may not be so obvious, however, is that the why a growing media is watered can have profound influences on the final result. That plants need water to survive may not be a big surprise, but how to water, and how to avoid overwatering are techniques which must be learned. If you are not familiar with physical properties of water, such as cohesion, adhersion, and capillary action then this article is for you.
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Edible Flowers
Learn about the history and how to prepare flowers for eating. It is the new rage in haute cuisine. Don't be left behind!
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Selecting Spring Flowering Trees
One of the things I really look forward to after a long and often hard winter is the explosion onto the scene of the beautiful flowering trees. Here is some information on varieties that do well in the Great Lakes Region, with some planting and growing tips. Enjoy!!!
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