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Gardening: Heavenly Hydrangeas

Is it just me or are the Hydrangeas particularly glowing this year?

Commented on Feb 09, 2013
Thanks! Let's just say I've grown a few K of the hydrangeas in the blue and white pots.

Followed 7 people on Jan 13, 2013

Gardening: Does anyone know what this is

Ordered this "cherry hedge" from an online source. This arrived today. Looks nothing like the picture on their website. Truly disappointed!

Commented on May 10, 2012
I am in the nursery biz and situations like this just tarnish all the good mail order and ...»
retail outfits out there. It is a little late in the season to be planting bare root in your area. However, it isn't that difficult to ship properly with moist packing to keep the plants viable. Good mail order firms do that. You may pay a little more but they also stand behind their product as many others have stated. Also, it don't know what type of cherry hedge you were expecting but these plants have opposite buds. Cherry (Prunus species) have alternate buds.

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Gardening: A friend sent a post from another site about killing weeds with vinegar. I'm posting the pix and part of the text from

that. This result happened in only one day. I brushed Roundup on some liriope volunteers over two weeks ago and they're just now puny and can be easily pulled out of the ground, but none are truly DEAD like in this photo. Will this be safe, do you think, if I put it on liriope volunteers and other weeds in my front yard? The yard has tree mulch, no grass, but lots of hostas, some hellebores, ferns, azaleas and other things. Guess I'd need to spray directly onto the potential victims, or brush it on with a sponge brush?

Commented on Apr 29, 2012
One more point on vinegar. It is a contact herbicide in this case. While effective on annual ...»
weeds, plants like Canada thistle will regenerate.

Rose Rosette

Rose rosette disease is devastating to roses and will be extremely hard to control if it becomes widespread. Now is the time you might notice it on new growth. ...»

Commented on Apr 24, 2012
The disease is not soil borne so a healthy rose can be replanted where the infected one was ...»
removed. However, if wild multiflora roses are near by the chance of infection is great. The disease vector is tiny microscoppic mites (eriophyid) that are carried by wind.

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Landscaping: Have any ideas on how my sellers can change their terraced backyard from awful to awesome?

All buyers have rejected the spectacular house because of the steep but terraced back yard. There is a walkout door from the basement about 20 feet from the first wall. They are willing ...»

Commented on Apr 23, 2012
Some taller light canopied shade trees on the lowest level like single stem Heritage birch ...»
would soften the hard vertical lines and lessen the drop-off from the home.

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Gardening: Trail of dead grass mystery?

Trail of dead grass appeared two weeks ago that starts in neighbor's yard and goes to the sidewalk, then continues past the sidewalk in a line into the grass into my yard all the way to ...»

Commented on Apr 21, 2012
Have you had frost on the lawn recently? If actively growing grass is walked upon when frost ...»
covered, the leaf blades brown.

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