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Leona Gardiner
- Howey In The Hills, FL
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It is about 8 inchs tall so does well as a fore ground plant. Doesn't get any extra water and very little fertilizer. I just ignore it till it blooms around christmas. They come in yellow, orange, pink, and red. The foliage looks good all year.
The can get straggly but you can prune them to keep them in shape. They are frost and cold sensitive. You will also get the added benefit of butterflies. With an HOA I might put them in the back and just enjoy them. African Iris might work better al…
The nights are to hot for the tomatoes to set fruit. If he can keep the plants alive till Sept. when the nights start to get cooler he will have a head start on fall tomatoes. The shade will help the plants from getting sunburnt but won't help the n…
The hibiscus will have leaves that yellow from irregular watering. If you are in CFL we have diffinetly had irregular rain and heat. It will not kill the plants and there really isn't a whole lot that you can do except irragate when we don't have re…
There is a cycad scale that is hitting the sagos pretty hard. Neem oil and horicultural oil are about the only thing you can use. There has been some added control with the addition of malathion. Make sure to get the bottom of the fronds as well as…
Try this website it is for Texas A&M extension. http://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/
It has a search section it may help. Southern Texas is zone 9, Central is zone 8 and the panhandle is Zone 6 with zone 7 between the two according to the map that I h…
We've gotten about 15". They just finished paving our clay road and boy are we glad. Paul we are still 40" short. We just don't need it all at once.
The problem with the peony is that it needs to cold period to set bloom. If you get sufficent amount of cold then they might bloom for you. I live in FL. zone 9b and can not grow them because I don't get enough cold. There is a book called Heat Zone…
How much did you cut them back? Have you fertilized them? Sometimes a severe pruning can throw blooming plants into a vegetative state, if that happens it just takes time. But a bloomboost fertilizer might help. Also have the other plants around sta…
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- Master Gardener Certification
- What kind of gardening do you like to do?
- flower,vegetable,water
- How much time do you spend a week on average in your garden?
- 20 hours
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- At 9:51pm on July 16, 2009,
Brent Campbell said… - Leona,
Thanks for the reply. My magnolia has been replanted for about a month. I water it every other day. It was in a very sunny place and then I moved it to a more shady spot. It has been sprouting new growth and leaves but the new growth has started wilting.
Regards
Brent
- At 12:54pm on June 21, 2009,
Kay McWhorter Zone9/TX said… - I LOVE your pond!!! *pond envy* it is beautiful!
- At 5:26pm on May 31, 2009,
Char Smith said… - That picture of the black butterfly is GREAT! AND your Orchid is WONDERFUL ALSO.
Char
- At 5:05pm on May 6, 2009,
Margaret A Poole said…
- Leona: I love your pictures! They remind me of my cousin, Chuck and Rosie Poole's flowers and plants...they live in Howie-in-the-Hills also (Poole Farm on Buckhill Road). My hubby and I hope to move there in about 10 years so maybe someday we will be near neighbors. Enjoy your gardens...
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Lydia, it sounds like you have a much bigger groundhog problem than I do! Funny thing is that our groundhog does not touch the tomatoes (although the chipmunks eat the ones that hang low on the plants). I guess that's because he is so obsessed with…
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Thanks Mia and Tanya. These busy eaters will pretty much polish off all the Passion Vine leaves. Not to worry, they come back with a 'passion.'
Pretty boisterous thunderstorms in the middle of last night. Hubby slept through it. Our lovable mutt Rudy had to be sedated.. poor baby but he was fine then. JoJo, our 7 mo. old goldendoodle almost bounced off the bed when one super loud thunder cl…
We have had emails asking if we are gardeners well how is this our family farm 5 generations good enough.
love the hairstreak's antannae...black/white and black with a yellow tip..is that cool or waht???
Thank you Judi & Fred! :)
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