Foliage
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An Orchard View
Ledge and Gardens &bull Feb 3, 2012
It is Friday and time for another garden trip. Today takes us to the garden of Heather and Harry Brickford which is another beautiful National Garden Scheme garden. The NGS is an organization which features over 3,700 gardens. You can read more about this organization here. The Brickford garden is located in Essex is a bit north and east of London. This garden surrounds a very photogenic home which is made of brick with diamond shaped, leaded… Full Story »
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Garden Diary: Color ideas for fencing
View from Federal Twist &bull Feb 2, 2012
Here is one dark color that works well with green. Of course, this is a wooded setting without the unsightly buildingscape I have surrounding my new garden. Will a color like this highlight the very view I want to de-emphasize?… Full Story »
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Sweet on the Queen's Tears
Our Little Acre &bull Jan 29, 2012
About a year ago, I came across a photo online of a beautiful bloom. I read the caption, then read more about the plant sporting it. I picked a couple of things out, paid for them, and had them hold… Full Story »
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New Flower Introductions for 2012
Dave's Garden &bull Jan 26, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. The Proven Winners brand is actually owned by three U.S. plant propagators who founded the Proven Winners brand in 1992. This company produces liners under the PW. trademark which are sold to wholesale growers to "finish" and then sell to garden centers across the U.S. and Canada. You can find the Proven Winners brand at most larger garden centers. This new introduction is heat-tolerant and requires no… Full Story »
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The Color White in Folklore and in the Garden
Dave's Garden &bull Jan 23, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. White is usually a sorrowful color in the eastern world. In China, it symbolizes mourning, withering, and death. In India, white is a funeral color and traditionally widows could only wear white. In Japan, brides wear white because it symbolizes death to the former family and introduction into… Full Story »
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Succulents: What's Blooming in the Yard Now? January Edition
Dave's Garden &bull Jan 17, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. Throughout most of the U.S., there is not too much blooming the first month of the year as this is mid-winter for us north of the equator. Thankfully there are areas (such as where I live in southern California) that are not a frozen wasteland in January. There are actually are a number of succulent plants which have evolved so that January, the very middle of winter, is their preferred month of the entire year to… Full Story »
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Morning Eye Candy: Sublime
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Jan 2, 2012
A macro photograph of a perfectly lit drop on foliage at The New York Botanical Garden. Full Story »
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Botanic Notables: Ornamental Kales & Cabbages
Garden Design &bull Dec 30, 2011
Brassica oleracea var. Deeply hued and elegantly ruffled, they populate swaths of industrial parks in North Carolina, and tiny sidewalk boxes in Manhattan-individually, as the centerpiece of an arrangement, or in a group, as a phalanx of uniform rosettes. These… Full Story »
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Geraniums In My Window
Dave's Garden &bull Dec 29, 2011
As soon as the first frost is announced, I am moving all my potted plants back inside. I don't know how, but every year it seems this announcement is on the very same day when it happens, so every fall I'm in a big hurry. Usually, it takes me almost an hour just to get the pots inside, crowding… Full Story »
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Focus on foliage
Dirt Therapy &bull Dec 27, 2011
In my last post, I shared some photos of camellias and other flowers blooming in our late December garden. The flowers are fantastic this time of year but they are by no means the only areas of interest. Evergreen foliage… Full Story »
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Daily home & garden tip: Take paperwhites to a higher level
Oregon Live - Homes & Gardens &bull Dec 27, 2011
Here's a trick to get more foliage and flowers from these bulbs. Full Story »
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Dirt Therapy: Focus on foliage
Garden Voices &bull Dec 27, 2011Originally posted by Phillip Oliver from Dirt Therapy. In my last post, I shared some photos of camellias and other flowers blooming in our late December garden. The flowers are fantastic this time of year but they are by no... Full Story »
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Observations from a Strange Year
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 27, 2011
The other day in Manhattan I passed a man wearing a t-shirt. It has been unseasonably warm this year and this was the confirmation. Throughout the fall and winter, The New York Botanical Garden has been showing similar signs of seasonal displacement and confusion. I would like to spend the next few weeks… Full Story »
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Community Favorite: Blue Waterfall bellflower
Sacramento Bee - Home and Garden &bull Dec 24, 2011
This is one in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Community Favorites, 75 can't-fail, easy-care plants well-adapted to our region and recommended by local gardeners. Snapshot: This trailing perennial is a hybrid Serbian bellflower, featuring months of bloom for… Full Story »
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Citron can be among most fragrant of citrus
SF Gate - Pick of the Week &bull Dec 23, 2011
The Buddha's hand, one of the two principal forms of citron, does indeed resemble a hand, with six to 10 stubby or long "fingers." Mature trees produce fragrant 8-inch fruits nearly year round. Got citrus? You may think that if… Full Story »
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Winter Solstice - Light in the Garden
The Veggie Patch Re-imagined &bull Dec 22, 2011
For most veggie growers, light is a big preoccupation. Do you have enough in that hidden corner of the yard that has been given the utilitrian task of raising edibles? Is it the right kind? My answers would be why are you hiding your edibles? Deciduous trees provide a thick layer of mulch every fall enriched by nutrients their roots have liberated from the subsoil. Some, like Norway maple in my experience, can create dry, poor soil with their thick mat of feeder roots under and beyond their dripline. If you are going to grow a garden at the base… Full Story »
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Winter Solstice - Light in the Garden
The Veggie Patch Re-imagined &bull Dec 22, 2011
For most veggie growers, light is a big preoccupation. Do you have enough in that hidden corner of the yard that has been given the utilitrian task of raising edibles? Is it the right kind? My answers would be why are you hiding your edibles? Deciduous trees provide a thick layer of mulch every fall enriched by nutrients their roots have liberated from the subsoil. Some, like Norway maple in my experience, can create dry, poor soil with their thick mat of feeder roots under and beyond their dripline. If you are going to grow a garden at the base… Full Story »
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Poinsettia: A Reputation Ill-Deserved
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 22, 2011
You probably run into them nearly every day. Hardware stores, supermarkets, pharmacies-almost anytime you step out the door to run an errand this time of year, you'll see them lined up somewhere in the store. But the red velour leaves of the poinsettia weren't always the face of December decoration they are today. What's the… Full Story »
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Giving Plants the Cold Shoulder
Our Little Acre &bull Dec 16, 2011
It came as a shock to me when I first began gardening that not everyone can grow tulips and peonies. If you live in the south, most spring bulbs that we in the north take for granted, like tulips, daffodils,… Full Story »
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Vines Online
Garden Design &bull Dec 14, 2011
They're perfect tucked into small spaces and make for an ideal horizontal or vertical element, famously covering fences and houses swiftly and beautifully. Abetting this new interest is the Brushwood Nursery (gardenvines.com) in Athens, Georgia. Brushwood is the best mail-order… Full Story »
