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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Some Like it Hot – submitted by Mary Dawn Pugh Not that I’m any kind of Marilyn Monroe, but I do love hot-season gardening. Some of the best things to grow (in my humble opinion) are already ripening in May – and going full speed into June. The tomatoes are getting ready to pick, and
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The City Council of New Orleans has proclaimed April 2011, Louisiana Iris-Fleur de Lis Month. In the 1920s, Dr. John K. Small, Curator of the New York Botanical Garden, dubbed New Orleans the “Iris Center of the Universe.” This was based upon the extraordinary variety of native irises he saw in the wild. Of the
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