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Leggy Flowering Maple
Posted by Kim Raney | August 21, 2023Hi! I purchased a flowering maple and it is about 3 feet tall with one stalk. I watched your video on pruning but since this one has only one stalk I am not sure how and when to prune it. It has one flower about to open and is very sensitive to touch. It has started producing little leaves on ...
Correction to recent question
Posted by Debbie Nighswonger | August 19, 2023I mislead you telling you the plant flowered purple. But now I’m not actually sure it flowers at all. I honestly can’t remember and I don’t have a picture of it in flower (if it does flower). Sorry. This second picture gives you the height but there is a clematis behind it that could complicate ID’ng it.
What is this shrub
Posted by Debbie Nighswonger | August 19, 2023I have had this shrub for many years. It lived in my Renton garden and I transplanted it to my Port Townsend garden. It is about 6’ tall and has been that for its entire mature life. Sadly, it struggles some, grows kind of straggly and gets lots of dead wood every winter. I am not the best with gardening ...
Why Are the Leaves on My Elephant Ear Plant Turning White?
Posted by Toni Golden | August 16, 2023Elephant Plant or Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a tropical plant that likes filtered shade and warm weather. It can also get too much sun!
What’s Wrong with My Dahlias?
Posted by Lorene Johnson | August 12, 2023I have planted Dahlia's before and have had pretty good luck. This year, I bought a couple of new ones and one flowered and looked great, the other, no blooms at all. I also had some that I wintered over, some in the ground and some in pots and many that grew lots of great foliage, but no buds or ...
Coping with Climate Change in the PNW Garden
Posted by Olysailor | August 9, 2023How to cope with increasing dry conditions in the Puget Sound area. Yes, gardening conditions are changing. You CAN adapt!
What is a “sun” Hellebore?
Posted by Patrick Schiermeyer | August 2, 2023I have a hellebore that blooms all year round. It blooms during 90-degree weather in summer and in the cold of February. What's going on, here?
What Does My Asian Lily Have No Buds?
Posted by Lillian Henderson | July 28, 2023If you know your Asian Lily is getting at least six hours of sun a day then just give it more time. It should flower again next year.
Best Varieties of Agapanthus for the PNW
Posted by Lorene Johnson | July 28, 2023There is an agapanthus called Hardy Blue Nile that can survive winters in zone 7 which is most of Western Washington and Oregon but only if the bulbs have perfect drainage such as in a raised bed or containers.
Pot size
Posted by Myrna R Filipczak | July 28, 2023My Christmas cactus has been 'limp'. It is in a plastic pot about 8" wide X 7" deep. Good size plant and water it with about 16 oz. water on Mondays...only. I recently moved it outside on our shaded deck and watered it as before. It's not getting any better. Is this plant 'root bound'? If needed, what is the ...
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