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| Wake up your garden! Expert tips to revive your outdoor space this weekend Gardening has a green and wholesome image, but a total dependence on plastic is its less eco-friendly secret. Short-lived black plastic is everywhere, precisely because it doesn't break down when exposed to the heat and damp of a plant nursery – unlike biodegradable alternatives. At my nursery ...
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| Look at native wild flowers to bring some color into your garden And remember that even though they have a shorter bloom cycle, wild flowers are great for attracting pollinators like bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Have a gardening question? Use the form below to ask the folks at Bennett Nurseries. We may feature this in an upcoming Garden Tips segment!
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| Check Out These April Classes and Events at San Diego Botanic Garden Planting for Pollinators & All Things Gardening. This fun and informative class will cover many gardening topics, including how to attract and support the various pollinators that visit your garden. Other topics include creating good soils for your garden, tips on planning and planting a healthy garden and ...
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| Between the Rows: Tips for planting lilies this spring In my Heath garden, I grew sturdy white and gold henryi lilies which were about five feet tall. The golden orange L. henryi had speckled reflexed petals, and white henryi had a golden heart with a bouquet of blossoms on its stem. Needless to say, they were chosen because my husband's name is Henry, ...
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| Easter kicks off growing season says ALAN TITCHMARSH The practice continued through Georgian and Victorian times among farm workers and country cottagers who needed gardens to support their large families. Today Easter weekend is often the first chance busy people have to get out into the garden and start getting to grips with all the work that has piled ...
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| Flowers and fairy tales delight at annual Macy's show Learn how to create a springtime container garden with tips on choosing and grouping plants, and keeping flowers blooming all summer long in a "Container Garden Seminar & Social" from 2 to 4 p.m. April 12 at Aldersly at 326 Mission Ave. in San Rafael. Admission is free; refreshments served.
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| Power for Your Flowers Our gardening guide, "Green Your Thumb!" (page 35), starts with a look at (and expert flower-growing tips from) the charming Zephyros Farm and Garden in Paonia—famous for its wide variety of gorgeous dahlias—and continues with a roundup of our favorite local garden shops (and their unique ...
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| Geauga Master Gardeners plans classes for April, May Get tips from award-winning gardener, landscape designer and floral judge Phyllis Mihalik from 7 to 9 p.m., May 2, at Best Plants for Northeast Ohio Gardens. She will share her ... Attendees will plant a mini succulent garden in a teacup and learn how to propagate and care for them. Class size limited so ...
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| 3 Practical Tips for Eating Organically on a Budget Joining a community garden can be a great way to not only get tasty, organic produce on the cheap, but you'll be contributing to the bigger picture of health in your neighborhood. "I have to vouch for homegrown tomatoes, because they taste a million times better than anything in the store," says Sauceda ...
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| La Plata County Extension Office offers bindweed starts Editor's note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office's Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your garden and landscape.By Carolyn Brown. Calendar spring is barely a couple of weeks along, and true spring arrives ...
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