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Gardening Tips – August 2012

August 2, 2012 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Insects Pests and Diseases, Vegetables, Warm Season Plants

Coleus Hot Summer Flowers For sunny beds or containers, choose periwinkle, melampodium, blue daze, purslane, portulaca, pentas, torenia, perennial verbena, salvias, sun-tolerant coleus, cleome, butterfly weed, hard hibiscus (mallow), salvia, lantana, zinnia, marigold, abelmoschus, globe amaranth, cosmos, balsam, celosia, scaevola, Mexican heather, plumbago, black-eyed susan, purple cone flower and vinca. For shady and partly shady […]

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Gardening Tips – July 2012

July 2, 2012 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Perennials, Pollinators, Shrubs, Vegetables

Rudbeckia maxima, Black-Eyed Susan Perennial Care Tall plants can shade out or fall over onto smaller plants, and some plants will spread into areas where they were not intended to grow. Be sure to observe problems you see with your plantings and make decisions on what to remove, divide or transplant this fall. In the

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Gardening Tips – June 2012

June 4, 2012 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Herbs, Natives, Perennials, Shrubs, Vegetables

Rudbeckia maxim (close-up) Hurricane Season Again Hurricane season is here again. We should examine the overall condition of our trees. Trees that have large dead branches or whole trees that are dead should be dealt with as soon as possible. Dead branches should be pruned off, and dead trees should be removed. Trees that are

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Gardening Tips – May 2012

May 23, 2012 / Annuals, Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Insects Pests and Diseases, Vegetables

Evolvulus – Blue Daze Bedding Plants for Summer Color Continue to add summer bedding plants to provide color in your landscape. Heat-tolerant plants come in a wide variety of colors and growth habits. Here are some of the best: For low-growing summer bedding plants (less than 2 feet), choose Mexican heather, ornamental peppers, ornamental sweet

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Gardening Tips – April 2012

April 2, 2012 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Perennials, Vegetables

Irises Mulching All garden beds should be mulched with about 2 to 3 inches of material; such as chopped leaves, pine straw, pine bark, black plastic, newspaper, cardboard or other suitable materials. Mulches help considerably but are not totally weed-proof. If weeds manage to make it through the mulch, dig the weeds out promptly, making

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