Poinsettia display Winter Garden Tips Begin to plant tulip and hyacinth bulbs that have been refrigerated for at least 6 weeks at the end of this month and early January. Roses can be transplanted through late February. Also cut back fall-blooming perennials after they have bloomed. Protect tender perennials from cold with several inches of […]
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Chrysanthemums Cool-Season Flowers Begin to plant cool season flowers this month such as petunias, chrysanthemums, pansies, viola, dianthus, snapdragon, alyssum, sweet peas, calendulas, forget-me-not, lobelia, cyclamen, primrose, nicotiana, ornamental cabbage & kale. Preparing for a fall garden It is essential to remove all weeds, especially perennial grasses from the garden. If you simply till the
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Rose – New Orleans Botanical Gardens Hurricane Clean Up With the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, many of us are starting to clean up the tree limbs & debris in our yards and gardens. Trim any hanging limbs from trees and large shrubs. Many of these limbs can cause damage to our homes, break up our
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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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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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