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Start your garden with natives

June 04, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

I truly believe that good landscaping and gardening should be compatible with the area – both visually and environmentally. This season, the emphasis is on plants that appear at home in our mountain settings. On that note, we will again make fun of gerbera daisies.
We have a number of plants native to our area, such [...]

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Growing goodness

June 02, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Whether it’s a bite of melon or a hot, juicy pepper you’re after – or maybe a tomato plant or two – the thought of growing your own food needn’t be unappetizing.
Fresh vegetables from the garden can provide a fun family activity, incorporate healthy foods into the diet and serve as an introduction to sustainable [...]

It’s not too late to add color to the garden

June 01, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Garden

It’s not too late to fill your garden with color that will last through the sultry summer season. That’s the word from a green-thumb who knows this area well: Kim Fogarty, manager of Blooming Colors Nursery and Landscaping in Grapevine. Here are the top 10 plants she recommends planting now if your yard still [...]

KEN WEBER: Several flower varieties are worth looking for each spring

May 29, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers

There it is, by that log. I have to bend low for a good look. The flower’s color is far more impressive than its size. It’s a rich magenta, almost a purple-pink. Absolutely beautiful.
This flower, barely 3 inches tall and growing beside a moldering log on a riverbank, is called the fringed polygala. It resembles [...]

How the gardens grow at Ingliston

May 27, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

IT promises to be one of the most spectacular displays in this year’s Gardening Scotland extravaganza. Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden’s 16m by 17m exhibit, to be unveiled at the show which opens on June 1, will include 25-foot trees, two ponds and a summer house, as well as hundreds of plants from across the world.
So [...]

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Lilyturf SPECIES AND CULTIVARS

Big Blue Lilyturf (Liriope muscari): This lilyturf grows in a clump form, making it well-suited for edging. The leaves are a little wider and the flowers somewhat bigger than those

Coleus CULTIVARS

Sun-Tolerant Coleus * ‘Alabama Sunset’ is an old favorite but still exceptional for its tolerance of sun. The brick-red leaves have a thin

Common Mallow: (Malva sylvestris)

Common Mallow: (Malva sylvestris) generally behaves as a biennial in the southeast, with young plants appearing from seed in late summer or fall and blooming the following summer. It

Barberry CULTIVARS AND VARIETIES

Cultivars of Japanese Barberry: There are many cultivars available. Some of the more common ones are: * Var. atropurpurea – The leaves assume reddish to purplish shades.

Fennel (Florence) (Foeniculum dulce)

Description Fennel is a perennial (but usually grown as an annual) that grows to about 3 to 4 feet tall. The leaves are finely divided into thread-like segments and are

Annual Vinca CULTIVARS

# Apricot Delight’ has flowers white-flushed with apricot and a bright raspberry eye. # ‘Blue Pearl’ is the closest to a blue vinca yet developed. It is a soft lavender blue

Verbena CULTIVARS

Brazilian Verbena (Verbena bonariensis) This 4 to 5 foot tall species is sometimes called "verbena on a stick." Clusters of tiny lavender flowers appear above the tall, thin square stems

CULTIVARS OF CARPET BUGLEWEED

Selections for flower color: * Var. alba has creamy white flowers. * ‘Catlin’s Giant’ has tall (up to 8 inch long) spikes of blue
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