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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.
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Tina R 24 minutes ago
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Gardening: Please name this plant

This plant sheds its leaves in winter and in May bears new leaves then buds then these white flowers with yellow centers. It is a perennial and very hardy. This shrub is very old and does not need pruning.
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Judy S 20 hours ago
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    Judy 25 minutes ago
    Sharon, NOT Trillium! Trillium is not a shrub, it is a single flower which grows low to the ...»
    ground & has a 3 petal blossom growing directly from a 3 leaf (actually bracts) formation. BTW ppl, never pick a Trillium. It seriously damages the plant, preventing it from taking nourishment. It can take years for the plant to recover enough to bloom again.

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Gardening: Reclaiming a flower bed...

I need help! I am trying reclaim a garden bed in the side of my house. Someone laid several layers of black plastic down years ago it appears and it has been over grown with moss. I have gotten 3 hostas to take in it. Am I right that I should pull up the plastic, til it and start over??
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Jess W 33 minutes ago
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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.
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Evelyn McMullen Montgomery, AL 23 hours ago
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    Judy 34 minutes ago
    Cut it back as close to the ground as you can. Cover the area with heavy black plastic. Cover ...»
    plastic with mulch. Leave it for a year or so. Lack of light & water will kill it.

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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.

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Donna N Weatherford, OK 1 hour ago
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Gardening: Planting corn?

I'm looking for advice about growing corn. I'd like to plant some in my backyard, but I have a lot of questions. Does corn need a lot of sun? What type of soil is good for growing corn? Does it require a lot of water? Also, when is the best time to plant? Spring or fall?
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Aron Garfinkel Atlanta, GA Yesterday
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    Sia@South 47th 2 hours ago
    I grow and have been growing (seed saving as well), Heirlooms, for over 20 years. Here is a ...»
    great site for obtaining NON GMO Corn and anything else you may want. I've been buying from them for years and they're fab!

    http://www.rareseeds.com/resources/non-hybri...

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Gardening: My pomegranate tree is being attacked by ants!

I love looking outside and seeing how well our pomegranate tree is dong this year. We've raised it over the past 6 years from a tiny sapling and now it's producing some beautiful fruit. ...»

But the other day my daughter came running inside screaming, "The patio is swarming with ants!" I went out to see what was going on and I see a ton of ants making a line across the lawn and headed directly for the pomegranate tree. They were climbing up the trunk and crawling all over the leaves! By nature, I'm the "live and let live" type when it comes to insects outdoors. So I left them alone, assuming they could do no harm. But this morning I noticed that many of the tree's leaves have shriveled up and I'm afraid that ants will kill the tree or at least ruin the fruit.

Does anyone have any information that can help me?

First of all, why are the ants suddenly attacking this tree?

Can they do real damage?

If so, what is the simplest way to get them to stop and keep them off of the tree?

I prefer a natural remedy to using chemicals, but if only chemicals will help I'm willing to go that route.

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Yair S 6 hours ago
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  • This is what my other 2 rhubarb plants look like.

Gardening: Rhubarb Help Please!!

I am wondering why one of my rhubarb plants is thinking it is time to go to flower? or go to seed? I am not sure what it is doing. ...»

Can I cut the flower part off? Are there male and female plants?

Jayme
Jayme Bellaire, MI 2 days ago
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    Losvlam 11 hours ago
    the adult rubarb will make flowers every year and make great items in flower arangements with ...»
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Gardening: I accidently cut down my small trumpet vine

will it grow back this year
Martha
Martha Cincinnati, OH 2 hours ago
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Gardening: Bougainvillea's??

Can I get someone to feed me in on how to care for these beautiful fragile looking flowers? I've never had one, saw them at a market decided to try it since I understand it was a Texas ...»
tolerant flower. However, had it less then a month and all it's flowers have fallen off and it's close to death now :-(

I had it in my front yard when the afternoon sun hit it, then I saw it sadly go so I moved it to the back where it can get the morning sun, not as strong. I water it often.

Any help will be helpful, Thank you

Anna Ibarra
Anna Ibarra San Antonio, TX 15 hours ago
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