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Photo Contest Deadline?
Posted by Kathleen Haggar | October 7, 2020I have a couple of nice pictures from my pollinator garden 🙂 When is the Photo contest deadline? Thanks, Kathy Haggar
Root Hormones
Posted by Stan Hayes | October 5, 2020Hi Marianne, I am transplanting evergreen tree saplings from small containers to larger ones. The fellow at the nursery where I purchased said I should be using root hormone powder when first planting. He gave a small (tablespoon) of powder he called Rootone and that I could get it online. I could not find any, but did see a lot ...
Black Elderberry
Posted by sbox | October 2, 2020I have a Black Elderberry stump that I need to know how to kill. I had to cut it down as it was impeding my neighbor's fence. It keeps sprouting so I am constantly have to trim it. What can I do to kill the stump without doing damage to the other plants in the garden? Thanks.
Keeping a Mandevilla over winter
Posted by Linda Wagner | October 2, 2020I live in Wisconsin. I have a beautiful Red Mandevilla plant on my patio this summer. It flourished this summer and I am told I can keep it as a house plant over winter. Then bring it back outside next spring. I have started to carefully trim it back because it was huge. I am doing it a little at ...
Overwintering Shasta Daisy, potted, in Zone 6A
Posted by Diane Montague | October 2, 2020We have a "Whoops A Daisy" in a large pot. Can this we overwintered in our unheated garage? If so, should we add mulch to the top of the soil? Thanks, Diane
Golden Chain
Posted by denise boroughs | September 28, 2020A friend had given me, several years ago, a small golden chain. It has been in a pot for a couple of years and I decided to plant it as it was getting so tall. Now it is growing taller but not fatter. I have it staked but it is about 5/6 feet tall. Now the top is just hanging ...
Growing Clematis in Colorado
Posted by Anna Kramer | September 28, 2020Hello! I have purchased a clematis and it is still in its container that came with a trellis in the container. I have not yet planted it and it is starting to grow on the trellis I am providing for it. The clematis has had blooms that are now finished and I would like to know how to winterize for ...
Replaced Backyard Grass
Posted by Mary Ann Coty | September 28, 2020I had my lawn guy from my old house replace the grass in my condo's backyard but one area, on the south side, has shown hardly any new growth in between the squares and in the some of the squares which we laid. It grew like a wild fire except along side the square pieces of sod we laid and ...
The birds planted it
Posted by Leah Cottrell | September 28, 2020What is this plant?
hydrangeas for dry shade
Posted by esanita | September 28, 2020I know hydrangeas don't like dry soil, but -- what is the best hydrangea for dry shade (I'm willing to occasionally hand water).
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