Professional Gardening Tips
There are exceptions, as may well be imagined, among the wonderful variety that is found in roses at the present day. The first exception is found in those varieties that make vigorous growth even when hard pruned; this would seem to […]
A hardiness zone is a defined geographical area in which a specific category of plant life can grow, according to the climatic conditions, including its ability to withstand certain minimum temperatures of the zone. For example, a plant is described […]
John Innes Potting Compost JI #1 Base 7 parts sterilized loam 3 parts peat 2 parts sand or grit Fertilizer: 4 oz / 8 gallons (3 grams / liter) Lime or chalk: 3/4 oz / 8 gallons ( 0.5 […]
Broad-leaved ACER CAPILLIPES Young bark striated with white; young growths coral red, leaves turning crimson in autumn. A. davidii, young bark shiny green, striated with white; leaves usually turn yellow and purple in autumn. Long chains of keys striking. A. […]
The umbrella plant may be seen as octopus tree—both names from the spreading leaves with large leaflets in an umbrella spoke pattern. It often goes just by the genus name of Schefflera (said as scheff-Lair-ah), named after the nineteenth-century German […]
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Columnar or Fastigiate trees To the botanist, the word fastigiate means ‘with parallel, erect, clustered branches’. It has become more widely used in a more generalized sense for trees with narrow crowns. All those mentioned are derived from natural sports […]
Standard Potting Mix 1.5 Bales of LakelandCoarse Peat2 Bags of Supreme Perlite1 Bag of TurfaceTotal: 9.75Bushels6.00 Bushels1.50 Bushels 17.0 Bushels Add by weight: DolomiteGS AG;MicromaxAquagro `G’Osmocote 18-6-12 950gms (56 gm per bushel)515 gms (30 gm per bushel)515 gms (30 gm […]
Cornell Epiphytic Soil Mixture Recipe The Cornell Epiphytic Mix was developed for plants that require good drainage and aeration and can withstand drying between waterings. Plants having coarse, tuberous, or rhizomatous roots are in this category. * Fir bark comes from […]
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN There is a beautiful, rather elegiac song by the American composer, Samuel Barber called “Sure On This Shining Night”. The piece has a particularly luscious phrase–“high summer holds the earth”. Right now in my garden, that […]