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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 – 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 – September 2011

September 1, 2011 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Insects Pests and Diseases, Roses, Warm Season Plants

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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Gardening Tips – June 2011

June 3, 2011 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Insects Pests and Diseases, Roses, Vegetables

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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Gardening Tips – July/August 2010

July 21, 2010 / Garden Maintenance, Garden Tips, Insects Pests and Diseases, Pollinators, Vegetables, Warm Season Plants

The Giant Swallowtail lays it’s eggs on Citrus trees While the high temperatures outside in July and August may not agree with us humans too well, insects are a-buzz this time of year and it’s a great time to observe the many forms of insect life in your garden. Many kinds of flies, bees and

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