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Luckily, all over the country, spring comes in February in the form of colorful, fragrant, and wonderful flower and garden shows! These shows are a showcase of beauty and fragrance, but also provide practical ideas for your home gardens and landscape! They are a great place to get gardening tips and ideas ranging from landscape design and plant selection to advice on hardscaping projects.
Take That You Thieving Squirrels!
The squirrels are hungry. I know that ? but this winter has been plenty warm enough that they shouldn't have to be chowing down on all our birdseed! Yet, there they are every morning swinging from the feeders, hanging upside down or sitting in the seed trays, joyously dining at the "Jones' Bird Cafe". For [...]
"Clear Moon, Frost Soon"
Old-time saying? Yes, but this age-old bit of weather lore is nonetheless a fairly accurate predictor. Moonlit nights are clear nights. Clear nights mean no cloud cover to hold in daytime warmth which results in a rapid temperature drop through the night. Sunday night we had a beautiful, bright, almost full moon and by Monday [...]
Help! My boxwood is turning ? Orange?
We recently received an interesting question on our discussion board: I'm curious to know what has caused the leaves on some of my boxwoods to turn orange during the past two months. Here's a snippet of the answer I wrote out to him: "If exposed to full sun and frequent frost and wind, the foliage [...]
Such a Strange Winter
What a strange winter we are having this year! Warm and wet, then colder and dry. Mother Nature can't seem to make up her mind. Personally, I've been waiting all winter for a nice snow storm. Even while we were in Vermont over Christmas and New Year's, there were just a few snow showers ? [...]
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