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Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Cockscomb; Celosia argentea var. cristata
I mow them over, pull them or relocate them...and am grateful for the free plants! If you want to save the seeds, just cut the crests and turn them upside-down in a paper bag each fall.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Tough Plants for Southern Gardens
This book is also unique in that it has a section for plants normally grown in containers, which Mr. Rushing lovingly dubs ‘porch plants'.head up the list of plants that happily spend their lives in various cachepots or containers.
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Coleus
Moisture is important, but they can't stand wet or boggy conditions. These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great show.
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Caladiums
(including myself) They will make your containers and gardens shine! I plant the tubers about 3" deep (7.6cm) each spring in the containers, as soon as there is no chance of frost.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles For New Gardeners: Sempervirens tectorum, Hens and Chicks
Many new gardeners are starting to plan their first adventure into our crazy, wonderful world. This little succulent is native to the dry slopes of southern European mountain ranges like the Alps and has been a familiar house-hold plant for over a thousand...
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Zinnias
Even if you have a preference for a specific color,. If you have your heart set on giant red flowers or the neon combination of purple and chartreuse, chances are, it is available.Zinnias are surprisingly drought-hardy when established.
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: The Alba Rose
Gardeners in the southern part of its territory should plan for a larger shrub than northern gardeners. It takes up a large footprint in my garden. It produces copious amounts of the palest pink blossoms that turn pure white as they mature.
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Daylilies
Most hybridzers time their plantings so that they can set their seedlings out in spring or early summer. Originally, yellow, orange and red were the only colors available and the flowers all had a similar shape.
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El Segundo
Can Plants Grow in Other Liquids Besides Water?
Tomato plants, for example, can't absorb most of the nutrients in milk, so if you're watering tomato plants with milk only, the plants will eventually die. Hydrogen peroxide can be sprayed on plants to provide supplemental oxygen and prevent mold and...
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Santa Monica
Indoor House Plants That Do Not Require Sunlight
The plants do not like cold drafts and prefers warmer temperatures. It will grow 1 to 4 feet tall and the soil should completely dry out before watering. The blades grow straight up and the plant likes cool to hot temperatures.
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Santa Monica
How to Grow Salvia Divinorum
Roughly 1% of all Salvia Divinorum seeds will ever germinate, so don't use seeds. If your Salvia roots are around 1 inch long then you know it's time to get some soil on it. If you're using Salvia seeds, check out something else I guess.Each glass should...
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Santa Monica
Does Bleach Affect Plant Growth?
While chlorine in small doses is harmless or even beneficial to plants, concentrated chlorine such as bleach will destroy a plant and the network of life that plant depends on to obtain nutrients and thrive.Plants depend on multitudes of fungus and bacteria...
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Santa Monica
How to Use Root Stimulator When Planting
Use the root stimulator very early in the growing season, when the plant's root development is in its most crucial and important stage.Fill a bucket with water, and add in enough root stimulator formula to make a diluted solution as stated on the package.
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Santa Monica
How Does Altitude Affect Vegetation?
Elevation may affect the type and amount of sunlight that plants receive, the amount of water that plants can absorb and the nutrients that are available in the soil. However, recent climate change has dried up many streams and caused a lot of water to...
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Santa Monica
Can Plants Live Without Sunlight?
A question that always arises among people who care for plants is whether those plants can indeed live without sunlight. These cells, called photoreceptors, are highly attuned to the red and blue colors within sunlight.
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Santa Monica
Is Plant Food the Same As Fertilizer?
Fertilizers also contain micronutrients such as calcium and iron. Some fertilizers contain more of one of the nutrients. The bulk of the fertilizer, however, is made up of fillers which are designed to help distribute the nutrients and increase their...
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Santa Monica
How to Cut Dieffenbachia Plants
Cut the second stem back to approximately the same height as the first. Dieffenbachia requires less water when producing fewer leaves. An overgrown dieffenbachia produces tall stems with top heavy foliage growth at the top instead of even leaf distribution...
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Santa Monica
How Plants Grow with Different Kinds of Liquids
Plants require a basic combination of ingredients to grow. As saltwater enters the plant cells, all other moisture instantly leaves through the cells permeable membrane. These bacteria can accidentally be absorbed into the plant's roots and promote disease.Believe...
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Santa Monica
How to Prune a Pothos
Inspect the plant for mealy bugs, a common pest of pothos, which appear as a white fuzz under the leaves.Treat mealy bugs, if necessary, on the leaves that remain on the plant by rubbing them off with an alcohol-soaked cotton swab.
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Santa Monica
How to Grow Ferns From Clippings
They can be any vascular nonflowering plant that has a root system and stems with a set of complex leaves that reproduce by spores neatly aligned on the backside. Don't make it too wet and muddy – just moist enough to adhere together.
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Santa Monica
Nitrogen-Loving Garden Plants
But while all plants require nitrogen, some really crave it. Lettuce takes calcium nitrate at the rate of 2 pounds per 100 feet of bed and 1 pound of ammonium nitrate for the same area.
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Santa Monica
Using Aqua Globes to Water Plants
Using less water in the Aqua Globe, increasing the angle the globe is pushed into the soil, or using a second Aqua Globe to balance the weight help make the plant more stable. The globe will drain at different rates depending on how much water the plant...
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Santa Monica
The Effect of Infrared Light on Plant Growth
Infrared light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Exposing the plant to ordinary red light reversed this effect. The radioactive substance emits infrared waves, which can be picked up by the camera.
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Santa Monica
How Do Acids & Bases Affect Green Plants?
In one test, plants in soil with lower pH levels (acidic) tended to result in burnt leaves and lacked sturdy stems. The effect of acid on plants become most evident in the 1980s as people saw the tops of trees being killed by acid rain.
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Santa Monica
Does Pepsi, Water or Apple Juice Make Plants Grow Faster?
Even natural apple juice has sugar in it, so while it may not be as bad for the plants as Pepsi or other cola, it certainly is not good for the plant and will not promote accelerated plant growth.In nature, plants survive on water and sunlight.
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Santa Monica
Tropical Dry Forest Plants
Characteristics that define tropical dry forest plants are the way they use water or nutrients and their methods of protection from grazing herbivores, reports the Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation (CFTC).Columnar cacti are an excellent example...
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Santa Monica
How to Plant Frangipani Cuttings
Pack the soil once again if the water loosens it. Frangipanis are very tolerant of drought conditions, so it's okay if the soil is dry for several days to several weeks. The cut ends need to scar over before you place them in the ground.
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Santa Monica