Spring Garden Maintenance to Start Your Garden Growing
Posted On 31 Dec 2011 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
Follow these easy spring garden maintenance tips and you will be enjoying your yard. Even after one weekend of spring garden cleaning you can have leaves raked, trees and shrubs pruned and ground ready for planting new plants. A little spring garden maintenance means less yard ... Read More
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Protecting Banana Plants Over Winter
Posted On 04 Sep 2011 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
Concerned about how to care for your Musa Basjoo (Cold Hardy Banana) plants for winter weather?
Visit Greenwood’s Musa Basjoo plant page for how to protect your ornamental banana plants during cold weather and frosts.
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Warm Winter Days Work
Posted On 03 Feb 2011 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
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Drift Roses
New from the Knockout Rose Family, are the Drift Roses. Drift Roses are gorgeous compact growing groundcover-like roses with miniature roses that will bloom continually from early spring to frost. Like their Knockout Relatives, the Drift Roses are tough, disease ... Read More
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Planting Strawberry Plants
Posted On 11 Sep 2010 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
Here are a few tips that will get your strawberry plants off to the best possible start.
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Growing Muscadines
Posted On 27 Jul 2010 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
A fun fact about muscadines is that all varieties bloom at the same time even
though they may bear fruit at different times. So, when you see them noted
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Growing Blackberries and Raspberries
Posted On 17 May 2010 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
All blackberry and raspberry plants are self-fertile or self-pollinating.
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Growing Knockout Roses
Posted On 17 May 2010 By Cheryl Jones. Under Plant Care.
What can you plant in your landscape that will bloom beautifully from spring
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