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Gardening

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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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
Barb Rosen Wilmington, DE 10 hours ago
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    Barb Rosen 22 minutes ago
    Lovely, historic gardens, Douglas Hunt ...»
    ! Mostly a spring garden but they are working on adding more seasonal color. The woodland is gorgeous too, but was past its prime when we visited.

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  • Planting small containers in existing planters
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Small Container Gardening in a Rotisserie

How to plant in a Rotisserie. Planting in unique small containers for more on this please visit http://www.onemoretimeevents.com/2013/05/how...
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Tammy H Corona, CA 44 minutes ago
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Gardening: What is this? Is it a weed or a type of spinach

I found this growing in my carrot bed this spring, I let it grow but I still haven't figured out what it is. I shared my vegetable garden with my neighbor last season and I know he planted something late last summer. The simple resolution would be to ask him but he moved. Anyone with suggestions would be much appreciated,
Sarah Maes Lieberenz
Sarah Maes Lieberenz Denver, CO 2 days ago
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    Karen 46 minutes ago
    That's what pigweed in Texas looks like before it grows tall and gets a beard ... we call it ...»
    spinach (slang)... but as a Master Gardener our version of pigweed looks like this when it first starts to grow ... maybe not so much since you are in another part of the country. There are MANY different species to amaranthaceae family

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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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Laura, The Shed blog by P... Little Egg Harbor, NJ 12 hours ago
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    Douglas Hunt 1 hour ago
    Don't you love plants that keep proving themselves?
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  • Trench planted tomato plants with slow watering upcycled milk jugs.

Trench Planting Tomatoes

This is the first year that I'm planting my tomatoes in a trench rather than vertically. I have read that this method will allow the root system have more area to grow. I also upcycled a few milk jugs as a way to get the water to the roots without having to go through the soil. The milk jugs were cleaned and have small holes poked through to let the water go directly to the roots. These tomato plants are two Early Girls and a Celebrity. I can't wait to see what they yield! I also ...»
planted a little basil around them because basil makes the tomatoes taste better.

Alysha Slater
Alysha Slater Gardnerville, NV 9 hours ago
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    Douglas Hunt 1 hour ago
    Good luck with your experiment. Keep us posted on how it goes.
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  • Bell peppers growing in my EarthBox.

Sharing My Flowers

A list of my garden, flowers, and veggies growing from Earth box.
Annette Keeling
Annette Keeling Dallas, TX 1 hour ago
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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!

Kate Young
Kate Young Sanford, ME 2 days ago
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  • Douglas Hunt
    Douglas Hunt 1 hour ago
    Roundup may be very bad for bees and come with a host of unknown problems, but it is a topical ...»
    herbicide. It kills what it comes in contact with, not other plants.

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Gardening: Black lines on sting ray plant

I have black lines on my sting ray plant, I didn't have them last year. The plant seems healthy, and is still sprouting. The lines look attractive. Is this suppose to be or is something wrong with it?

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Willow Titusville, FL 5 hours ago
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Gardening: Unknown plant taking over.

Can you telllme what this is and how to get rid of it???? Please ! At this time it has tiny blue flowers. Soon they will turn to blue/purple berry things. What a mess.
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Linda B Crescent City, CA 4 hours ago
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Gardening: What is this plant?

I bought these little plants a few years ago in early spring. The leaves were a little bit meaty, but not as thick as a succulent. Over the spring and summer the plants grew huge, with long vine-y parts, but the leaves stayed more or less the same size - no more than an inch or two long. At the very peak of summer they did have a little red flower that came out, one or two of them on each plant. It looked almost like a tiny red daisy.

Anyway, I brought them inside in the fall and ...»

they did not like it. I'd love to be able to buy some new ones, if only I knew what they were!

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Emily Handler
Emily Handler Hungary 2 days ago
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    Helen Cocuzza 3 hours ago
    I dont know what they're called but I bought these last yr in Lowes, and I know they have ...»
    the plant - just bought a few other plants to replace ones that died & they had plenty in several sizes, Hope that helps : ) Helen

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