Growing Cannas is a little like bringing a piece of the tropics to your own garden. If you live in USDA growing zones 8-10 than Cannas can be treated as perennials but for the rest of the country...
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After gaining some experience growing plants in general during my teens my gardening interest seemed to gravitate toward flowers as an adult. The more I read and learned about this aspect of...
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When you’ve finished planting your flower beds and you can’t fit another container on your porch or deck it’s time to do what I call “going vertical”. An often...
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Every year I get catalogue after catalogue in the fall with what seems like an endless parade of new daffodil varieties. While some of us are partial to tulips I enjoy daffodils. I’m the...
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What’s a tree worth? A lot more than you might think! Trees are often taken for granted but they have both monetary and non-monetary value and their importance to our environment and to...
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Over the past several years most gardeners have become aware of a significant decrease in the honeybee population. There are many theories as to what is impacting the bees ranging from concerns...
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Container gardening can be an awful lot like a chicken recipe (My apologies to our readers who are Vegetarians. Please don’t hold it against me!). Think of all of the different ways that...
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This is a quote by Claude Monet and this is how we feel after attending Day 1 of the 2014 California Spring Trials.  Two of the biggest trends we observed coming out of the trials are colors...
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