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Portulaca: This plant thrives on neglect!

Laura — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:20:00 +0000

Portulaca (also called Rose Moss or Moss Rose) is an annual that thrives on neglect yet blooms non-stop Summer into Fall. Learn how to grow these pretty flowers easily. Perfect in hanging baskets and in the garden! If the idea of watering your garden often is not your cup of tea, you should consider drought-tolerant...

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How to Plan a New Garden

Laura — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:50:55 +0000

How to plan a new garden with detailed advice about effort, sun, soil, deer, rabbits, trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals. With careful planning, you can have a new garden that will thrive! Planning a new garden — especially when you’re starting from scratch or are new to gardening — can seem overwhelming! But the...

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Geranium Care — How to Grow Annual Geraniums

Laura — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:51:20 +0000

How to grow annual geraniums — also known as pelargoniums — including watering, pruning and taking cuttings for new plants. A complete geranium care guide! One of my fondest memories is when I was a young child taking piano lessons, and the wonderful woman teaching me had a giant picture window where she placed all...

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Lantana: A flower garden rock star!

Laura — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:30:36 +0000

Why is Lantana a garden rock star? Here’s just a few enticing answers: non-stop blooming time; easy-care flowers; and the color combinations are ah-MAZ-zing! Pull up a chair and let me tell you more . . . Lantana is a must-have for your flower garden. This plant — which can be grown as an annual or...

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Marigolds and Vegetables: experiment update!

Laura — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:48:00 +0000

Last month, over at Live Creatively Inspired, I shared the start of our garden experiment: adding marigolds to our vegetable garden perimeter, with the hope they would repel bad pests and rodents, while encouraging beneficial insects like bees for better pollination. And now it’s time for an update! In summary? So far, so good! It’s...

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Plant Marigolds in the Vegetable Garden!

Laura — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:37:00 +0000

Do you plant flowers among your vegetables? We’re planting marigolds in our vegetable bed this year, after I read about the possible benefits of doing so. I’m sharing all the benefits today over at Live Creatively Inspired. Click here to read: Marigolds in the Vegetable Garden? Yes! And if you’re curious how we built our...

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I Love Petunias!

Laura — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:31:00 +0000

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I love perennials and try to use them whenever possible in our gardens. But there are some annuals that also have my heart, like petunias. With the official beginning of Spring just a few days away — and even though we’re getting another 6...

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Dry Your Own Strawflowers – It’s Easy!

Laura — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:22:00 +0000

I love Strawflowers!They are the perfect flowering annual to refresh your mid- to late-Summer gardens.Strawflowers are super-easy to grow, not needing anything in the way of special care. They are drought-tolerant, which makes them my favorite for containers that can dry out easily in between waterings. I wrote a post about Strawflowers last Summer, and...

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Strawflowers: Long-blooming drought-tolerant flowers!

Laura — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:08:00 +0000

Some women get all grabby and hot-and-bothered over a fashion sample sale, or a shoe sale. Me? I get grabby over plants. Just ask my husband. It has gotten to the point where the usual conversation, once my hands are gripping a potted plant and my eyes are looking a bit wild, goes like this:...

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Container Gardening Mini-Series: Fertilizer

Laura — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Welcome to the third installment of our Container Garden Mini-Series. Today’s post is a bit more lengthy as there’s lots of info I want to share with you. First, to catch up on this mini-series, you can read Parts One and Two by clicking below: Part One: Commitment ...

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