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Shady opportunists with delicate grace

May 02, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Spring-flowering woodlanders are nature’s opportunists. They creep through the bare earth, prompted by lengthening days and warmer temperatures, then flower just before the leafy canopy extends overhead. Many are diminutive and delicately proportioned, but they make a huge impact because they flower while most of the garden is still at rest.
Ideal conditions for growing woodlanders [...]

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The Lowdown on Bulbs by the Sea

April 13, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

By Jane Lappin and Adrienne Woodduck
As the dreary winter is ushered out, the lively blossoms of spring-blooming bulbs quench our thirst for color and tell us that the world of nature is reawakening. From below a wet, brown blanket of last autumn’s rotting leaves, tiny flowers of early-blooming bulbs will burst [...]

Question And Answer About Gardening

March 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

By Nancy Brachey
Q: A flower blooms this time of year in lawns of many of the older homes in the Myers Park area of Charlotte. The leaves are grass-like and the flowers are six white petals in a star shape (about the size of a quarter) with a small yellow center. They have an oniony [...]

Take charge of choosing which plants adorn yard

March 11, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden, Plants

If you leave everything to the landscaper, you’ll get the same plants and flowers everybody else does.
Contractors, and even many designers, don’t like to take risks with plant selection. And they don’t want to spend any more time than necessary to get your trees, bushes and beds planted. They’ll reuse the same palette of widely [...]

Great gardens come without help

February 27, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

If you leave everything to the landscaper, you’ll get the same plants and flowers everybody else does. Contractors, and even many designers, don’t like to take risks with plant selection. Plus they don’t want to spend any more time than is necessary to get your lawn planted. They’ll reuse the same palette of widely available [...]

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