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Kinds of Flowers That Grow In The Winter

December 02, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Flowers

With all the work you do to keep your property beautiful from spring to autumn, why let your garden die down in winter? By selecting hardy plants that produce flowers when most other plants are dormant, you can bring color and interest into your garden even when the days are colder. The meaning of “winter [...]

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Choose the right plants for color that lasts until freeze-up

August 25, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Plants

We know how Sir John felt. By early August, many of our gardens are bereft of blooms. It’s tempting to hit the nursery for remaindered annuals, to extend the season just a little longer.
But if we’d thought ahead, our late-summer landscape would be bristling with homegrown hues: the purple plumes of Salvia plumosa, the pink-clustered [...]

GENERA, SPECIES AND CULTIVARS

August 01, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Garden, Herbs, Landscaping, Plants

Urn Plants (Aechmea species): Urn plants are easy, dependable bloomers. They have tremendous diversity of color, form and texture. Spiny-edged leaves may be solid green, other colors, speckled or have bands of silver scales.
Nearly all do well when mounted, provided they are started young, before the plants are large. Give them bright light and [...]

Bad Axe spike plant gets plenty of double takes

June 22, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Garden, Plants

Folks driving along M-53 often slow down in front of the Guza house. Some have stopped completely. A few have even knocked on the front door. They all want to know the same thing: Is that a palm tree growing in the front yard?
It’s not. For the last six years or so, Meinard and [...]

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