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Gardening

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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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  • Succulent Gardens are easy to create and super easy to care for.
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How to Build and Plant a Succulent Garden

Succulent Gardens require very little water and almost no maintenance. And they can be gorgeous!
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Hoosier Homemade Laporte, IN Yesterday
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    Hoosier Homemade 27 minutes ago
    Hi Deborah, If you click on the link, it will take you to my blog post, I have very detailed ...»
    directions and also a video showing you how to create the garden. Let me know if you still have questions.

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  • This is how our Lithodora looks today in our front garden bed! (May 2013)
  • One year ago, here's the Lithodora, w/ a newly planted patch in lower left. (April 2012)
  • You can see how much fuller and bushier it is this year! (May 2013)
  • I love how the newer plant and original plant spread and combined together! (May 2013)
  • The buds are a medium purple color, which look so pretty mixed with the intense blue flowers! (May 2013)
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Blue Perennial Flowers? Try Lithodora (an Update with New Images!)

This is an update to my original Lithodora post here on Hometalk -- http://www.hometalk.com/1047300/lithodora-ev... -- with new pictures so you can see how this plant has grown in just ...»
one year! Can you tell that I adore this plant? :) #MayGarden

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    Alexandra Arena 52 minutes ago
    WOW! These are just lovely. I'm always looking for pretty blue flowers.
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Gardening: Is This a Daylily or Something Else?

Hi, this is a (bulb) flower that grows out back. The stalks are very tall (3-4 feet?) and the blooms are about 5-6 inches across. They're beautiful! Please help me identify them. Thank you!
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Julie Searcy, AR Yesterday
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    Alexandra Arena 1 hour ago
    What a gorgeous flower!
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Power to the Lemon: 10 Amazing Household Tips

Lemons may seem pretty run-of-the-mill as far as fruit goes, but this citrus has hidden potential! Since they're highly acidic, lemons have a ton of simple and helpful applications around ...»
the house. Want to keep ants away? Or maybe you'd like to give your windows and mirrors an extra shine? Look to the lemon! Here are ten amazing uses for our yellow friend.

More: https://brightnest.com/posts/power-to-the-le...

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    Alexandra Arena 1 hour ago
    This is an amazingly informative post! Lemons are great and smell so good! Love your graphics!
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Gardening: Please help tell me what this is called

Can anyone tell me what kind of flower this is, we just bought a home and it was planted in a flowerbed?
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Chris Woods Gonzales, LA 2 days ago
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    Terresa K 1 hour ago
    It's a Lily
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Gardening: A mystery plant has shown up in my flower bed. Any one know what it is

At first I was worried that it was Hog Weed, but after looking at photos on line I'm not sure.
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Aimee Maas Fruitport, MI 2 days ago
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    Rhubarb plant
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  • Vetch spreading randomly throughout some of my gardens, especially the flowering raised beds.
  • Vetch invading some of the perennials, choking them
  • More vetch randomly invading phlox and other perennials ~ my columbine, butterfly bush, flax, etc.

Gardening: Vetch

Does anyone have a solution to ridding my raised beds of vetch ~ it keeps invading my perennials here in southern Maine and the more I try to remove it and its roots, the more that seems to appear. Suggestions, PLEASE!

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Kate Young Sanford, ME 2 days ago
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    Vanessa Godfrey 2 hours ago
    Spraying Round up will kill every thing, and if you use enough to kill that infestation you ...»
    could have in your soil for weeks. Dig out all you can, spray a natural weed killer on the soil, cover with cardboard/paper which every one you have the most of and use a watering bottle at the roots of you larger plants you can't move. Vinegar, salt, and Dawn works well to spray it on the weeds as it comes up, this will kill the roots as well, but you have to spray just about every day. recipe 1 gal vinegar, 1/8 cup salt, 1/4 Dawn dish soap. mix and spray,

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Plant Identification

Looks like I planted this in my garden but I have no idea what it is. Any ideas?
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  • Rose at dusk
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  • One of the many varieties of peonies at Goodstay Gardens.
  • Columbine & painted fern by a rock wall.
  • entrance in the stone wall
  • Flowerbeds filled with peonies scent the air.
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May Garden ~ Historic Goodstay Gardens

On a recent balmy spring evening, the Arden Garden Gild visited the grounds of the Goodstay Gardens on Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware. At the height of its spring bloom, the ...»
collection of six enclosed gardens was a sight to behold. Breathtaking peonies planted in long flowerbeds filled the air with a lovely scent. Roses, iris, columbines, rhododendrons and many other lovely blooms filled the garden with color, accompanied by bird song as dusk approached.

Dating back to the late 1600′s, this colonial garden has undergone several restorations and improvements: in the 1920′s by Ellen Coleman duPont Meeds and Robert Wheelwright and, for the past twenty years, by the Friends of Goodstay Gardens group.

Goodstay Gardens is an oasis in the city, a trip to the country through a stone gate entry. Here is a small sampling of the beauty contained within. I hope it inspires a trip of your own to discover this garden gem.

see more pictures at http://ourfairfieldhomeandgarden.com/springt...

See a wonderful article by Moira Sheridan on Goodstay Gardens at http://www.delawareonline.com/article/201305...

Face Book site for The Friends of Goodstay Gardens https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfGoodstayGa... (with many more pictures)

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Barb Rosen Wilmington, DE 4 hours ago
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    Julie @ Wife, Mother, Gardener ~ This one is for you!
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  • The same White Christmas cactus that bloomed once back in December of 2011 is now budding  in May 2013.
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  • White Cactus bloomed in 
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Gardening: What is the secret for carrying for Christmas cactuses?

I love the Christmas cactus but try as i may...I have never understood how to keep them healthy and alive. I have read instructions on how to water... ...»

Don't over water, do not allow them to dry out...Place them in well draining soil... Blah, blah, blah,...... I purchased a couple two years ago and as usual they still remain a mystery to care for.

In December of 2011 my white cactus bloomed, the pink one did not.

When I moved to a new apartment the following year I placed them at the window with my other sun loving plants as I did in my last apartment..

That December, neither bloomed.......I assumed it was the change and like the other plants... they needed to get acclimated...

I changed their soil and pots over and over again...Some dried them out to quickly like the clay pots...Others like ceramics, would keep them appearing healthy for a while but then they would stop growing.

This year the only thing I've done differently was to change the pots again!. I purchased two cheap little plastic pots from the dollar store and forgot to place holes in the bottom, however, when I watered them... I allowed them to dry out between watering...and did not bother to punch holes in the bottom because they seem fine..

I than decided this month to place them on the balcony where they receive indirect light... And guess what...They began to bud!

I still can't figure this out...What did I do right/wrong? They are blooming in May??

are they not Christmas cactuses?.

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Vetsy Spartanburg, SC Yesterday
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    Roxann 2 hours ago
    Karen B's husband is right. Filtered sun and water when dry. No special pots, no special soil. ...»
    My family call all of mine Holiday cactus's because they seem to bloom every holiday! I have 18 of them. One pot with three in them came from my mother who had them for over 30 years. No special work is involved with the old ones and the new species are even easier.

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