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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!

Alexandra Arena 8 minutes ago

What a gorgeous flower!

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?

Terresa K 32 minutes 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.

Terresa K 34 minutes ago

Rhubarb plant

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!

Vanessa Godfrey 39 minutes 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,

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... ...»

Roxann 48 minutes 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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Gardening: What is this??

It is growing beside the road, at my neighbors house. It is growing up into a tree. I think its kind of pretty .. but would like to know what it is first, before I go poking around in it.

Vanessa Godfrey 52 minutes ago

there are two separate plants here, the tube flowers are Honeysuckle. Climbing Hydrangeas is a ...»
maybe for the other ball shaped cluster of flowers.

Gardening: How do you get rid of nut grass permanently?

We have a problem with nut grass. (My mother bought dirt from a nursery and it was in the dirt) We pull it and its back in back in a week. She has used Roundup and it doesnt work. She bought a " nutgrass killer selective herbicide" by a company called Monterey this also had no effect. As you can see from pics below.

Karen Goddik 2 hours ago

We farm, and this is the hardest weed to control. Even in my garden, I too, pull and pull and ...»
pull. Stay on top of it and maybe you could slow it down with putting bender board around the area. It is the little nut on the end of the roots, thus the name "nut grass" which you need to get rid of. Once you pull it, burn it and be extremely careful where you put it because chances are, you will have nut grass where it lays.
Birds are notorious for helping to spread this lovely noxious weed.

Gardening: Vinca having a bad year??

I have planted Vinca for years in my sunny spots and it has always done well. This year I have replaced it for the 3rd time and now I'm giving up. Anyone know of a disease Vinca has this year?

Carolyn E 2 hours ago

A lot of vinca bedding plants this year are suffering from powdery mildew. If you are getting ...»
replacement plants from the same source each time, you are probably just repeating the infestation. You could switch to the other vinca variety which has larger blooms (I can't think of the name of this variety) and does not seem to have this problem. I have noticed in my area that many of the vinca (such as bright eyes) offered in my area show signs of powdery mildew or the plants are spindly and leggy. I would avoid buying these plants.

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,

Nicole 4 hours ago

it looks like Swiss chard to me.

Gardening: Question ? any ideas on how to get rid of an acre yard of grass,with little cost ? Tired of mowing and wasting money on

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KMS Woodworks 35 minutes ago

Are you allowed to "go native"....ie let the yard convert to your local natural landscape? my ...»
entire yard is "native" with a mix of pines, wild flowers, and a bit of grass. A couple times during the summer I will use a string trimmer to knock down a little of the grass along the edge of the drive...but other than that my place is maintenance free.

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