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Name This Plant Game: Foliage Shrubs 1

Chuck — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:00:55 +0000

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This simple game tests your gardening knowledge by identifying five plants shown in photos from a list of possible names. Photos of each plant are accompaned by a clue describing the type of plant or its broad characteristics. To play the game you identify the [...]

Garden Journal: August 15, 2010

Karen — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:11:08 +0000

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Heat humidity and showers are still our constant companions. Sometimes we even have a deluge aggravating the root rot and blackspot problems that have plagued us for several weeks. He good news is that we are in mid August and soon the summer will be just a [...]

Plant Profile: English Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa’)

Karen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:10:17 +0000

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There is nothing I like better for a formal garden than English boxwood. I use them now to edge the parterres of my rose garden where they provide a strong structure in winter when the roses are nothing but canes but I have also used [...]

Garden Journal: June 14, 2009

Karen — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:31:53 +0000

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Read 'Garden Journal: June 14, 2009' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com. Warm, humid, sunny days ending in thundershowers have given the garden good conditions for growing and thriving, especially the fungi. Some plants, like the spiderwort (Tradescantia) and yarrow (Achillea) have grown so tall and lanky, I have had to stake them (ugh) or cut them down. The [...]