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4 Easy Tips for Getting Started with a Flower Garden
Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are four simple hints to make your garden bloom with health The Essentials Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any lack of these basic…
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Dealing with Rose Diseases
Roses are great plants to grow in the garden. They smell nice, are easy to maintain, cultivate easily from cuttings, and add a lot of structure to the garden. But sometimes our roses start to look a little sick and need some extra care. Roses can suffer from a wide range of diseases and blights.…
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Forcing Paperwhites to Bloom in Winter
February is a great time to force paperwhites indoors. While, for many, it’s a tradition to force paperwhites to bloom around Christmas, you’ll get much bigger and brighter blooms a little later in February. The best thing about forcing paperwhites a little later in the year is that you’ll get great blooms that can help…
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Caring for Houseplants in February
While houseplants tend to slow down their growth in winter, they don’t go dormant in the same way that plants do in the outdoors. Outside, trees and shrubs loose their leaves, stop growing, and slow their metabolism almost to a stop. That’s a great time to transplant or move outdoor plants. But indoor plants are…