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Between extremes in the weather, the proliferation of diseases and pests, and the growth of plants through the years, our landscapes evolve – and usually need help at one time or another.
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First day of fall signals pumpkin time
They may not be soft, but pumpkins are the throw pillows of the garden, Jimmy Turner, director of gardens at the Dallas Arboretum, says in the fall issue of Country Gardens magazine.
Summer’s flower warriors
Since the weather has cooled down, I’ve been enjoying some renewal of plants, including a pot of red and green caladiums planted alongside red and green spikes of Fireworks fountain grass. When the sun sets behind the pot and shines through the leaves, I suspend life to gaze in wonderment.
Botanica a stop on Garden Railway Tour
Bob and Nancy Marin travel often to Colorado, where they love to ride the narrow-gauge railways. Back home, they try to re-create a bit of the magic in their backyard.
New options for finding, landscaping with native plants
Graceful waves of ornamental grasses dotted with bright-colored wildflowers and perhaps anchored with an occasional evergreen is a landscape picture that I’m loving more and more these days.
Dry lawns go green with paint
First, artificial turf moved from the playing field to home lawns. Now there’s lawn paint to cover up the brown blades that so many of us have been looking at these past two droughty summers.
A bit of earth
“I would like to see a story about the heat and the damage to lawns, especially relating to planting new grass this fall,” Bruce Cole of Wichita e-mailed me a few weeks ago. The questions he went on to ask cut to the heart of what many of us are grappling with: The weather has turned beautifully cooler, but we’re still waiting for rain.
Annie Calovich: After the heat wave, what plants have survived, thrived?
I had been wondering, when the temperatures were unceasingly in the 100s, how the 90s could possibly feel.
In times of drought, help your plants and yourself
After waking one early morning to the sound of a rain shower that dried up after a few minutes, I fell back to sleep and dreamed I was driving. And the roads were slick. Suddenly I realized why.
It may be Tomato Day, but I’m seeing white
I liken it to going to a restaurant where someone else does the cooking. If you’re tired of fighting the water battle and have lost some of the joy in your own plants because of it, I recommend going someplace where the plants look fantastic and are taken care of by someone else.
Trees and shrubs cry out for water
Watching the trees, ground covers and shrubs along the side of my neighbor’s house wilt and start to brown lit a fire under me last weekend, causing the hoses to start a 24-hour-marathon trickle at various shrubs and trees.
The hibiscus mysteries
Every now and then, after years of considering a plant on its periphery, my lack of knowledge reaches critical mass, and I have to finally dive into its depths.
We all face challenges in the garden this summer
In the past week, little chances of rain have sneaked into the forecast when no one has been looking.
It’s raining on the pond tour
The pond tour not only has ideas for those of you who have or want to have water gardens. And what other kind of garden could you possibly want in this heat?
Trees need a good soaking to stay alive in this heat
The watering rule-of-thumb went hitch-hiking this week.
Summer scorecard: We’re keeping tabs
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy — at least compared to last year.
Varied systems to extend tomato growing season
After last summer’s bust, people are more eager than ever for the homegrown tomatoes of summer. The favorable weather of spring has paved the way for an early harvest, but even so, if you’ve been to the farmers markets, you’ve been seeing tomatoes for a while now.
Hail can’t batter neighborhood bond
The number of roofing-company signs sprouting in the North Riverside neighborhood rivals the flowers that are trying to come back from a hailstorm that hit the area particularly hard last week.
Hit the road for a small-town garden tour
We’re entering the road-trip part of garden-tour season — though we still have a few local tours coming up, too. To me, these tours are an easy and charming way to get a taste of vacation without the long road trip. You just start to relax, too, in a small town.
Memorial Day weekend offers garden-related events
I love the French gardens that are being sold at garden centers to decorate graves for Memorial Day. Before we take a solemn pause Monday for that holiday, the weekend offers prime gardening and garden-related events. Some of the events start with breakfast Saturday morning, so it’s time to get cracking.
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