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Take steps to strengthen summertime plants

June 10, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden, Plants

Summer officially arrives this month – the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer that the song recalls. Schools get out, lemonade stands appear and the scent of freshly mowed grass fills the air. In the garden, birds, bees and bugs are already busy, and even weekend gardeners have realized that it’s finally warm enough to [...]

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How to plant beautiful window flower boxes

May 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Plants

Window boxes provide a way to expand your horizons, beautifying beyond the lawn and garden.
For some advice on what works best in window boxes and how to ensure plants and flowers in them survive the season, we turned to Jen Cummings, an educator and longtime amateur gardener who teaches classes in beginner container gardening. She [...]

Successful weeds arrive even before the flowers in some gardens

May 06, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers

I was out working in the yard recently and there it already was popping its head up: ground ivy.
And believe it or not, a remaining snow pile wasn’t but four feet away. Then, a bit later, I took my dog, Rocky, for a walk down the road for our daily check on the beaver habitat [...]

n stone and vines, a flower show exhibit captures Ireland

March 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Events, Flowers

With St. Patrick’s Day approaching and the “The Legends of Ireland” at the Philadelphia Flower Show last week, I got my Irish on and drove to Philly. Normally I sit out the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s big botanical blowout and wait for the real thing to arrive, but the lure of the old sod and a [...]

Philodendron SPECIES AND CULTIVARS

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

Fiddle Leaf Philodendron (P. panduriforme): This philodendron is a climber with 12-to 18-inch, fiddle-shaped, leathery leaves that are olive green. It is slow growing and durable.
* Blue Fiddleleaf-is a variety with small waxy blue gray leaves that are closely spaced.
* ‘Splash Gordon’-has leaves variegated with splashes of [...]

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VIRGINIA OR SCRUB PINE

Mature Height/Spread: Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) grows 15 to 40 feet in height with a 10 to 30 feet spread. Growth Rate: The growth rate is slow, less than 12 inches

LONGLEAF PINE

Mature Height: Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) grows to 55 to 80 feet. Growth Rate: Longleaf pine grows slowly during the first five to 10 years, after that the growth rate is

GLOSSY PRIVET (Ligustrum lucidum)

Mature Height/Spread: This evergreen tree will reach 35 to 40 feet, but can be kept lower as a big shrub. The spread is about 5 to 10 feet. The leaves

MUGO PINE

Mature Height/Spread: Mugo pine (Pinus mugo) grows to a height of 15 to 20 feet and a width of 20 to 25 feet. The mature height and spread of some

JAPANESE PRIVET (Ligustrum japonicum)

Mature Height/Spread:This is an evergreen shrub with a compact growth habit to 10 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. The foliage is 2 to 4 inches long and

JAPANESE BLACK PINE

Mature Height/Spread: Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergiana) reaches 20 to 80 feet in height with a greatly variable spread, usually 20 to 40 feet under cultivation. Growth Rate: Japanese black pine

LONDON PLANETREE (P. x acerifolia)

This hybrid is the result of a cross between P. occidentalis and P. orientalis. It is sometimes listed as P. x hybrida. Mature Height/Spread: This tree grows 70 to 100 feet

Japanese Cryptomeria LANDSCAPE USE

The Japanese cedar is a handsome specimen for windscreens, borders and groupings on large properties. It works well as a lawn specimen on smaller properties because of its narrow canopy
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