I have had the flowers start to bloom and niped them off before they bloom full and had good luck .I really don't know if this is a fact to keep them true to flavor but as so many require that I just do it automatically
I have beeen saving the seeds and sis sends me some from central Florida that do wonders in the summer and I need to gather the seeds yearly as they don't like being in the house!
Being From Florida I have been learning by doing and of course researching a group for zone 5 is a Godsend some maps say I am zone six but I do better with the lower zones. I am transplanting tropical s into it from Florida also!
Hello, I'm Sheri from the group "Funk & Flash From Junk & Trash and I'm stopping by to say
"Happy Birthday". If you get a free moment check out the group. It currently has 98+
discussions going on creative was to recycle for the garden & home. "Just because
something is "Old" doesn't mean it's not useful"! Cheers!
The Sassafras is a medium sized tree that normally grows about 30 to 50 ft high. Small trees like crabapples, serviceberry, flowering cherry, etc only grow about 20 to 30 ft high. Large trees like oak, hickory, Sugar maple, beech, etc grow abot 50 to 100 ft high.
Hello Julia! I am John Wagner from Burbank Ill a burb outside of Chicago, I am interested in a person that does research on Horticulture things as a friendly gardener here. I research Botnany! but does alot more growing odd plants and other things, godbless you Julia John+
Well I have several sources of water, 3 bird baths and our waterfall in our pond. Never had this problem before. I have always had hummers. Just wondering if the winter weather we had messed them up. Oh well maybe next year.
Clare, your Pinky Winky is beautiful - love the blooms and the pink coloring of the branches too. My paniculatas Pee Gee and Limelight are already blooming too, about a month ahead of schedule! Now I am wondering whether I should have done reshaping…
Diane, sorry for not making my message more clear - my reminder was about those shrubs that need to be scaled down and in my region (zones 5 & 6) the buds for the next season form on new growth in August so cutting the brunches after July would have…
Crazy rainstorm last night, ripped down half the ivy on the wall. Had to cut it down, so I figured what the heck I'll collect snails in my garden. Armed with chopsticks (they make it way easy to gather up tiny guys under plants if you are profficent…
Sheryl, that shouldn't be a problem, I have a seed feeder in close proximity and the humming birds seem happy enough to share. They just seem to perch on the tiny twigs where the big guys cant get to. Chech the surronding territory, perhaps someone…
What housework-What cooking-I am delegating so that I can go out in my gardens.Besides my gardens I am on my computer watching the lovely new photos come up on "latest activity" HELP I am soo hooked. Don't want to change. Don't want to give it up ei…