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Divide Those Daylilies -- The dependable daylilies, members of the genus Hemerocallis, provide a multitude of brightly colored flowers in mid summer. As their name implies, each individual flower lasts only one day, but the large number of flowers on each stem provide a three week period of bloom for most cultivars.
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Basic Plant Requirements -- Anyone interested in gardening has one question in mind when choosing a new plant: Will it thrive in my garden? Many factors come into play to determine whether or not a plant will perform well for you.
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Blueberries -- Blueberries facts, how to grow your own blueberries.
**Article includes recipes for Blueberry Orange Whirl and Blueberry Muffins.
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Aquatic Plants Questions and Answers -- Can I grow any canna in my pond?Cannas are native to moist areas and many do quite well if grown in water, as long as they are not submerged too deeply.
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Bamboo Questions and Answers -- How can I keep my bamboo in bounds? Most bamboos have a strong will to spread. The woody rhizomes explore the soil in all directions and use the hydraulic pressure of growth to pry open any small crack in most kinds of barriers that are constructed to contain them.
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Rose Question and Answers -- How should I prune my roses? Prune your roses lightly in autumn, removing canes long enough to be whipped by winter winds and those canes with signs of disease. Pruning to remove remaining dead, diseased, and damaged canes is done in early to mid-March just before growth starts. Species and climbing roses are pruned by removing entire canes all the way to the ground to encourage an open, vase-shaped habit. The rest of the roses get pruned to knee height at an outward facing bud. You can do some light pruning to shape the plants during the summer as needed.
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Native Plants Questions and Answers -- What is a native plant, anyway? A native plant is one that occurs naturally in a particular region, ecosystem, or habitat without direct or indirect human intervention. We consider the flora present at the time Europeans arrived in North America as the species native to the eastern United States. Native plants include all kinds of plants from mosses and ferns to wildflowers, shrubs, and trees.
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Azalea Questions and Answers -- I planted a new azalea and it died. What did I do wrong? It may have simply dried out. If you plant azaleas in late spring, it is very important to give them some extra water while they are growing new roots.
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Camellia Questions and Answers -- How hardy are camellias that were introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum? Quite hardy. The cold hardy camellias introduced by Dr. William Ackerman have experienced temperatures as low as -12 degrees F without injury and are fully hardy in USDA hardiness Zone 6B. The hardiness of these hybrids comes from a seedling tea-oil camellia, Camellia oleifera, that was planted in Asian Valley in 1949. It was one of the few camellias to survive the brutally cold winters of the late 1970s and is itself a U.S. National Arboretum introduction named 'Lu Shan Snow'.
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Fern Questions and Answers -- What are ferns? Why don’t they have flowers and fruits? Ferns are an ancient group of plants dating back about 300 million years. They are most closely related to mosses and liverworts. They never have flowers and fruits but instead reproduce by spores typically produced on the lower side of the fronds or ‘leaves’ or on specialized spore-bearing fronds.
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