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Spring is usually the best time for division, since the plants are actively growing their leaves but are not so developed that the root system can't take a little disturbance and still feed the top of the plant. |
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Make homemade plant supports out of colorful fruit and vegetable cans. Look for canned goods with pretty labels. Use a can opener to remove the top and bottom, leaving smooth edges. Then poke a hole on one side of the can and slip a plastic-covered plant tie through. Secure the tie to a thick stick or bamboo plant stake in such a way that you can slide the can up or down the stake as needed. In use, you’ll stick the stake into the ground next to a young plant, guiding the shoot through the can. As the stem grows taller, slide the can upward to provide continuing support |
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Flower Tip of the Day
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Garden design is often broken down into design principles: Order/Balance/Proportion, Harmony or Unity and Flow, Transition or Rhythm. These categories contain the basic elements that, when combined together, constitute the generally accepted version of good garden design. |
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
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 “I like to think a flower opens itself to outgrow its ‘plantedness’. That it yearns to be ‘carried away’.” |
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