Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera truncate) Notes from a Master Gardener’s Notebook November – I’m a shutterbug…so I have a camera in my hand whenever I want to make notes about my garden. As I stepped out onto my patio, I saw my ‘Thanksgiving Cactus’ is in bloom; it blooms every November. With the cooler weather coming, […]
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Chrysanthemum AgCenter’s tips for a successful fall garden Remove all existing weeds including the roots before you plant vegetables. It is essential to remove all weeds, especially perennial grasses from the garden. If you simply till the grasses in and then irrigate, you’ll end up with a relatively nice lawn. Use herbicides if you must;
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Rose (Claude Monet’s Garden) Preparing Roses for Fall Blooms Rose gardens need pruning, disease management and proper fertilization now for flowering in September and October. Late summer pruning of modern rose varieties such as hybrid tea, floribunda, grandiflora and shrub roses should be completed by early September. Pruning should be less severe than that done
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Zinnia Hot Flowers for a Hot Summer Garden For sunny beds or containers, choose periwinkle, melampodium, blue daze, purslane, portulaca, pentas, torenia, perennial verbena, salvias, sun-tolerant coleus, lantana, zinnia, marigold, abelmoschus, globe amaranth, cosmos, balsam, celosia plumbago, black-eyed susan, purple cone flower and vinca . For shady and partly shady beds and containers, choose impatiens,
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Perennial Care Our long growing season and sporadic summer storms can produce abundant and even rampant growth during the summer. 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
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