Calibrachoa Care

Many deer-resistant plants have a bitter taste, a strong fragrance, or rough or prickly leaves.Calibrachoa is a relative of the petunia. Deter deer with a combination of repellents, fencing and unpalatable plants, such as Calibrachoa xhybrida.Though a...

Place the plant at the same deepness it was growing at before.Fertilize container plants weekly with a complete, balanced fertilizer where all three numbers are the same. Keep the soil moist, but never soggy; too much water leads to root rot.

The open blossoms are small, with a diameter between 1 and 2 inches across. A soil test prior to planting can uncover excessive amounts of nitrogen in the existing soil, a condition that can result in a plant without blossoms.Providing a warm, sunny environment...

These crosses are marketed as having flowers as big as petunias but being as easy-care as calibrachoas. I soon concluded that "miniature petunias" and I were not to be. One big problem with containers is keeping plants adequately hydrated, and as calibrachoa...

For sunny areas, try trailing raspberry or strawberry, groundcover daisies (Bellis spp.), creeping phlox or succulents.Japanese forest grass, which comes in varieties with striped gold, green and pink, as well as white and green and solid gold, is a flowing...

Its other nickname, cornflower, has even become a color name.Irises, both the Siberian and Japanese types as well as the bearded varieties, offer many shades of blue, from pale to deep, early in the summer.

The caterpillars can be yellow, green, brown, pink or even maroon, depending on their age and their food source. By the time mid-summer rolls around here in Pennsylvania, I start to find the caterpillars and evidence of their damage.

I really like this color and the delicate appearance of the flowers.I just want to mention--as this article goes to press, the two front runners (I'm not telling) are only a hundred votes apart.

Stems of echinacea, rudbeckia, helianthus and hosta will make your winter garden inviting to finches, sparrows, chickadees, juncos and more. Then there are the plants that bloom so profusely, you can't seem to keep up with deadheading no matter how hard...