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University of Georgia Classic City Awards
With help like this, selecting plants for our gardens is no longer the hit-and-miss proposition it once was. The "Classic City Award" winners are the ones that perform best in the UGA trial garden throughout the summer season.From these trials, the highest...
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El Segundo
How to Water Sedums
If it is dry at the bottom, soak each plant until the ground is damp 4 inches deep.Allow sedums to dry out between waterings. Press your index finger into the soil at the edge of the pot to see how deep the moisture level is.Place the pot into the sink...
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Santa Monica
How to Care for Papaya
They are currently cultivated in warm areas around the world, including Florida in the United States. A mature papaya is juicy, with a flavor not unlike a cantaloupe. The best guess is that most are wind-pollinated, but thrips and moths may also help.Two...
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Santa Monica
Divide Your Daylilies - (Then Share Them With Me)
The leverage you get with the handles makes this very easy. In bag or bucket, these plants are good for a trip in the car, several hours on the neighbor's porch, or a day or two waiting in the break room at work for a new home.What if you're the recipient...
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El Segundo
No Curse in These Black Pearls
Who could forget "The Curse of the Black Pearl," the first of the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean movies from a few summers ago? Or, pair it in an ornamental bed with some silver-leaved plants for a stunning effect.
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El Segundo
Blue to Die For -- Delphiniums
Other uses cited were anti-parasitics (especially lice), as a cure for asthma and dropsy, and as a preventative for eye disease. Larkspur is a serious problem for cattle ranchers in the western United States; if eaten, the animals die within a few hours...
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El Segundo
Stunning Historical Iris
I would suggest that the modern gardener look to the older historic iris as the backbone of any garden. This is an intermediate iris, good for the middle of the flower bed. This is not a tall bearded but rather a medium bearded.
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El Segundo
How to Cut Back a Dracaena Corn Plant
Dracaena corn plants (Dracaena fragrans 'Massangeana') belong within the family Agavaceae. Plumes of fragrant white flowers bloom periodically year-round. Cut the cane off using loppers and pile soil on top of the cut so it does not sprout back.
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Santa Monica
How to Kill Aphids on African Violets
Protect yourself from exposure by wearing long sleeves, pants, shoes with socks, waterproof gloves, goggles and a face mask. Placing the African violet in a sink or tub and hosing it down with a strong stream of water rinses the pests off your plant and...
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Santa Monica
How to Dry Tulips
Carefully dry each delicate blossom, and you can keep tulips in a vase all year.Success at drying tulip flowers starts with picking the right blossoms at the right time. Cover the box and set it aside in a warm, dry spot for two weeks.Chemical drying...
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Santa Monica
How to Revive Ferns
If the ferns are weak or dying, ensuring they receive what they need to remain healthy usually revives the plants.Move the fern away from direct sunlight, if applicable, as overly bright light burns the plant and causes wilting.
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Santa Monica
How to Plant Horsetail
One reason for this perennial's long survival is its extremely aggressive spreading habit, but growing horsetail in containers gives you some control.Horsetail spreads outward through underground stems called rhizomes, and containers provide a barrier...
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Santa Monica
Types of Bird of Paradise
Dwarf bird of paradise such as humilis and pygmaea only grow 18 to 20 inches tall. Caesalpinia (also dwarf poinciana) are evergreen or deciduous desert-adapted trees or shrubs with small, oval leaves and brightly-colored clusters of flowers.The orange...
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Santa Monica
How to Divide Anthuriums
In one year, up to 15 can appear from a healthy anthurium.Dig up healthy-looking offshoots. These aerial roots are necessary for successful propagation.Replant the divided shoots in 4- to 6-inch pots that are filled with rich, organic potting soil.
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Santa Monica
Kangaroo Paw Plant Care
Kangaroo paw plants (Anigozanthos spp.) have long green leaves and finely textured flowering stems in tones of green, red or yellow. You can treat plants that are already infected using a foliar fungicidal spray containing mancozeb.
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Santa Monica
How to Deadhead Balloon Flowers
Look for wilting flowers and forming seed heads. Pinch off the blossom head with your fingers, ¼ inch above the nearest set of leaves on the stem.Trim off any dead or damaged leaves from the balloon flowers with a small pair of shears.Cut back the balloon...
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Santa Monica
Native Perennials from Seed: Echinacea
Mist or gently water the seeds from the top until germination. Keep it well watered until the first frost; that will give the plants plenty of time to establish healthy roots in the garden.Fill a seed starting tray or container with sterile potting soil...
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El Segundo
The Little Healing Breads
Even now I can't eat or drink anything coming out of the fridge and don't ask how long it takes me to eat an ice-cream! But now I have a remedy in my own garden and I am going to try it.
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El Segundo
How to Grow Cattails
Be sure to remove the entire plant, including as many roots as possible. Push tablet fertilizers directly into the soil or wrap granular fertilizers in coffee filter paper so they are easier to bury in submerged soil.Cattails spread aggressively from...
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Santa Monica
The Story of Iris Part 5 - Historical Versus Modern
They are not going to putter out, die out, or just up and give up on life one day. It grew down the slope behind the house towards the creek. Plants that don't bloom, and bloom well, are not passed along.
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El Segundo
In with the old... Pulmonaria
Soil should be rich and moist with good drainage. It was believed the spotted leaves represented diseased lungs.Therefore, the plant was used to treat ulcerated and diseased lungs following the.[2] However modern scientists consider the doctrine to be...
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El Segundo
The Story of Iris Part 11 - True to Name
You have an imposter. I know what you are saying.You tell me to buy three of each and now you want me to pay a higher price too? Different flowers will look a little different in other areas of the world – or they might have the imposter.
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Hardy Euphorbias in the Garden - An Untamed Passion for \'Shrubby Spurges\'
Two exceptional Euphorbia introductions this past year,had already been planted in the gardens, but wouldn't they look terrific in containers as well? New cultivars now provide more choices for our gardens and I am rapidly developing an uncontrollable...
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El Segundo
Datura can be invasive if you let it
I use scissors to cut back the pods and have gloves on my hands for protection.which can be lethal if ingested. I was lucky I didn't hurt myself, or I would have been seriously injured and maybe even poisoned by the substances datura contains, especially...
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El Segundo
How to Care for Foxgloves
These European natives are deer- and rabbit-resistant and attract hummingbirds. Do this in early spring and again six and 12 weeks afterward. With their 2- to 5-feet-tall spikes and their bell-shaped, 2- to 3-inch flowers that have spotted throats and...
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Santa Monica
Can You Cut Bamboo & Have It Reroot?
While reproduction from seed is the easiest way for the species to reproduce, bamboo plants do not produce many viable seeds. With both culm cutting and branch cuttings, rooting hormone applications will help produce better and faster results.
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Santa Monica
Flowers That Bloom Twice a Year
The climate needed for a bearded iris depends on the specific variety you are trying to grow, so check carefully with your plant supplier. The cattelya grows best in tropical climates.Bearded irises are available in a range of colors, sizes -- under 8...
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Santa Monica