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Gardening is one of the hottest topics on Hometalk. Whether you're gardening as a profession, or as a hobby, you'll find awesome gardening inspiration on Hometalk. Do you need to identify a plant? Post a photo of it, and a gardening expert will be able to identify it for you. Is your garden blooming in a spectacular way? Share the joy with fellow gardening buffs. All garden talk is welcome on Hometalk; so whether you're planting a flower garden, looking for green gardening tips, or researching the perfect gardening tools, you've come to the right place.



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Gardening: Suggestions for window boxes. No fake plants.

So very hot here in the summer. Any creative ideas for window boxes. No real or fake plants, please.
Tina R
Tina R 21 hours ago
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    Pat S 9 minutes ago
    other than a succulent rock/pebble garden box, treat it like a seasonal outside display of ...»
    things you like... when I get to working outside again I am going to line it with the coconut fiber, add seashells, flip flops, beach toys, pinwheels and flags.... if you walk through the dollar store you can come up with combinations of all kinds... use floral styrofoam to stick things in and floral wire to secure; use pebbles or marbles for color and weight... display old or new garden tools; tea cups and saucers glued together and teapot for height, look for red, white and blue items and flags... ceramic birds and nests, little watering can; wrapping lights around the items is really pretty at night... have fun!

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  • Good landscaping turns your home into a show-stopper.
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  • #1 - Use as many free materials in your landscape as you can. Every part of the world has at least one thing in abundance that you can use for free, be it gravel, rocks or stones; wood, pallets or pine needles; dumpsters, landfill sites or Craig's List and Freecycling networks as cheap sources for repurposed items. Find out what's in your own neighbourhood or town and use it!  I've used my local freecycling network to find plants and shrubs for free. I got a whole lilac hedge that way, it really works!!
  • #2 - Beg for plant divisions or cuttings from family, friends and neighbours. Anyone who has perennials , bulbs or tubers will have to be dividing them up every so often and will be happy to let you have the extras. 1
  • #3 - Look for local gardening clubs, they usually have plant sales once or twice a year to raise money for the club and you can get beautiful plants for much less than gardening centers sell them.  Plus you know they will survive in your climate because the local gardeners have grown them.
  • #4 - Watch for end-of-season sales.  You can pick up loads of plants at a discount from department stores that have seasonal garden centers.  That's where you can pick up your trees and shrubs for less and save big!
  • #5 - Grow your own plants from seed.  Some plants are super simple to grow, you can even just toss the seeds out in your garden at the right time and they'll grow well.  Hardy geraniums, sunflowers and pansies are easy to start from seed.  Poppies and cosmos are good examples of seeds you can just sow directly in the garden.  Opium poppies can even be sown while there is still snow on the garden!
  • #6 - Grow plants that self-seed or spread easily.  Examples are creeping thyme, culinary thyme, Johnny Jump-ups, Ladies' Mantle, campanula, euphorbia, lamium, bugleweed, poppies and bee balm.  I don't quite understand the desire for growing borderline plants in the garden.  I personally don't want to drag some plant kicking and screaming into my garden, I'd much rather have ones that are happily growing and flowering and self-seeding all over.
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6 Ways to Landscape Without Breaking the Budget

I'm back to my first love these days - gardening! I love being in the garden, digging, planting, sowing and enjoying. This house will be the 6th that I've landscaped and because I always ...»
seem to buy houses that have no landscaping, I have learned how to do it on the cheap.

Here are some of my best tips: .

#1 - Use as many free materials in your landscape as you can. Every part of the world has at least one thing in abundance that you can use for free, be it gravel, rocks or stones; wood,pallets or pine needles; dumpsters, landfill sites or Craig's List and Freecycling networks as cheap sources for repurposed items. Find out what's in your own neighbourhood or town and use it! I've used my local freecycling network to find plants and shrubs for free. I got a whole lilac hedge that way, it really works!!

#2 - Beg for plant divisions or cuttings from family, friends and neighbours. Anyone who has perennials , bulbs or tubers will have to be dividing them up every so often and will be happy to let you have the extras.

#3 - Look for local gardening clubs, they usually have plant sales once or twice a year to raise money for the club and you can get beautiful plants for much less than gardening centers sell them. Plus you know they will survive in your climate because the local gardeners have grown them.

#4 - Watch for end-of-season sales. You can pick up loads of plants at a discount from department stores that have seasonal garden centers. That's where you can pick up your trees and shrubs for less and save big!

#5 - Grow your own plants from seed. Some plants are super simple to grow, you can even just toss the seeds out in your garden at the right time and they'll grow well. Hardy geraniums,sunflowers and pansies are easy to start from seed. Poppies and cosmos are good examples of seeds you can just sow directly in the garden. Opium poppies can even be sown while there is still snow on the garden

#6 - Grow plants that self-seed or spread easily. Examples are creeping thyme, culinary thyme, Johnny Jump-ups, Ladies' Mantle, campanula, euphorbia, lamium, bugleweed, poppies and bee balm. I don't quite understand the desire for growing borderline plants in the garden. I personally don't want to drag some plant kicking and screaming into my garden, I'd much rather have ones that are happily growing and flowering and self-seeding all over.

The best part about rampant growers and self-seeders is that every year, you can dig up the extras and sell them at a yard sale to make some extra cash for the landscaping items that you can't get for free.

Hope I've been able to give you at least one tip you can use. Happy gardening!

#landscaping #gardening #Maygarden

Anne @ DesignDreams by Anne
Anne @ DesignDreams by An... Canada 19 hours ago
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    Somewhat Quirky 12 minutes ago
    great post Anne! It's amazing what a pack of seeds can do!
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Gardening: What is This Orange Fuzz on My Apple Tree?

It is also on a couple of pear trees.
Kathy
Kathy Gig Harbor, WA 11 hours ago
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  • Linda Hinchey
    Linda Hinchey 19 minutes ago
    It depends on weather it's fuzzy like a lichen or more gooey like a tree stump slime ...»
    mold.http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Pests/slime.htm It says in this article that it comes in many different forms and colors and is harmless to the tree, humans, animals, but an indication of high humidity. It says not to use chemical treatment to rid it, that it won't work and it's more harmful than good. It says that you can adjust the level of moister by watering less frequently or pulling away some of the mulch that holds in the moisture where molds, fungus, etc. like to grow. Btw, lichens are harmless, as well.

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  • This is what it looked like when I first transplanted it. It's about 1 1/2 inches taller now and has more leaves on the top. But not much growth to the "trunk".

Gardening: Silver Maple Sapling.

I had a silver maple sapling come up in one of my flower baskets when I brought them inside last fall..It stayed alive in the basket all winter and even had 2 little leaves on it. This spring, I transplanted it in a 5 gallon bucket making sure to get all of the roots even the tap root. It's doing wonderful and now has at least 10 leaves on the top of the "knitting needle" sized stem (or should I say trunk?). It's definitely getting taller but I'm not seeing much growth in the ...»
circumference. Is there something I can do to help it along? I really don't want to lose it as it's an offspring of a very large Maple we recently had to cut down due to disease. Thank you for any advice you can give me.

Donna N
Donna N Weatherford, OK 22 hours ago
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  • Linda Manning
    Linda Manning 20 minutes ago
    I have a huge silver maple in our yard - limbs come down easily during windstorms - love the ...»
    beautiful silver of the leaves but would definitely put it somewhere away from any buildings or structures. Living in Oklahoma means lots of wind & storms but if you plant it in the right place you can enjoy it for many years. Lots of sun & good drainage.

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Updated an Old Light Fixture With an Edison Light Bulb

Give your outdated light fixture a new lease on life. With a coat of paint and an Edison bulb you can create a vintage industrial look.

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Picture Frame and Pen Holder for Your Desktop

Driving myself crazy for an idea of what to do with this, multiple uses, a plant holder or in this case I made a Picture Holder as well as a pen and pencil holder. The picture that you all see is a bear that was in my neighbors house in Pa.

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Phil Ruston, LA 36 minutes ago
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  • Black eyed susan vine.
  • Clip your seeds a little with nail clippers.
  • Soak in water overnight.
  • 3 days later, your have seedlings!
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How To Start Seeds In Just 3 Days!

Life got busy around here this spring, and I forgot to plant my seeds inside. I was just going to forget it and move on until I read about clipping and soaking your seeds to help them ...»
germinate faster. Well, I tried it out, and it worked perfectly!

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Mom4Real Lexington, KY 5 hours ago
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    Bridgett G 42 minutes ago
    Morning Glory seed packets suggest doing this.
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Gardening: Persistent crape myrtle

I had two huge crape myrtles taken out, thought I had the stumps ground. But they keep sending up suckers in my papyrus. Anyone know how I can stop this, it's constant.
Evelyn McMullen
Evelyn McMullen Montgomery, AL 2 days ago
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    Tammy Pearce 45 minutes ago
    I have 2 crape myrtles ,that we have also cut back and would like to get rid of . They was ...»
    here when we bought our house one in front of the porch and one in front of a bedroom window ,they are planted to close to the house and had to cut them for house insurance purposes . Thanks for the question Evelyn !!! I am going to also try Judy idea ,don't want to kill the rest of my plants with root kill or herbicides that also might dogs will get into !!!!!!!!!

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  • Indigo and bees....May in our cottage garden. #MayGarden
  • Roses on the flower cart....May in our cottage garden. #MayGarden
  • Orange Coneflower....May in our cottage garden. #MayGarden
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May in Our Cottage Garden

May and June are my favorite times in our garden-everything is fresh and bursting with new growth. We have an English cottage garden here at Oak Cottage. Take a stroll down the garden ...»
path and see what's going on in our cottage garden right now:

#MayGarden #SummerStyle

Daune | Cottage in the Oaks
Daune | Cottage in the Oa... Greenville, NC 13 hours ago
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    Miriam I 1 hour ago
    Love your garden, Daune!
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  • The planters are watered with an automatic drip irrigation system.

Wood Planter Boxes

We wanted to grow some pole beans, but there wasn't any room in our raised beds, so my husband built some wood planter boxes. I designed and stained the boxes and planted the beans and ...»
added bamboo for them to climb on. You can read more about them here: http://diydesignfanatic.blogspot.com/2013/05... #MayProjects

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diy Design Fanatic Charlotte, NC 22 hours ago
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    Douglas Hunt 1 hour ago
    Very handsome.
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