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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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Eugenia uniflora (Surinam cherry)

April 29, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Plants

Indigenous to Surinam and French Guiana, the Surinam cherry has become naturalized throughout the Caribbean. It’s also a very popular hedging plant in southern Florida. A slender shrub or tree, it grows up to 25 feet tall and produces spreading branches with aromatic foliage. The flowers are white and long-stalked, and look like powder puffs. [...]

Recent snow, low temperatures damage trees and plants

April 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Herbs, Plants

We definitely have our limits when it comes to tangling with Nature.
There was very little that could have been done to prepare for last weekend’s cold spell except move container plants into a protected area and cover small stuff, but it’s a little hard to cover a tree. After the event there’s even less that [...]

‘Green’ the watchword at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show

March 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Events, Home & Decoration

You saw it everywhere you looked at this year’s Architectural Digest Home Design Show: Green, green, green. Not the color, but the concept.
Consumers are increasingly asking for “green” furniture and accessories, or those with an ecological sensibility. And designers are responding with enthusiasm and thoughtfulness, while still maintaining a level of high style that often [...]

Colorful Shade Garden Plants

December 10, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Garden

When self-proclaimed plant nerd Jack Driskell bought his house four years ago, he started with a clean slate. In the front yard was a bit of grass, along with a sloping, woodland area. Above the stone retaining wall along the entire length of the driveway, the ground was completely bare.
Having been a plant collector for [...]

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Eugenia uniflora (Surinam cherry)

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STAR MAGNOLIA (M. stellata)

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Dracaena

Most dracaenas grow best in bright, indirect light, but many are also tolerant of lower light. If a plant that has been growing in dim light is moved to a

Leyland Cypress LANDSCAPE USE

This is a fast-growing evergreen when young and will quickly outgrow its space in small landscapes. It is an excellent choice for quick screens, hedges and groupings, especially on large
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