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Horticulture on Social Media |
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Written by Lettie
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Monday, 18 March 2013 19:04 |
Social media can provide you with a wealth of information on any topic; this includes horticulture. We recently found a wealth of knowledge and discovered it was hard to pull ourselves away from all of the information.
Twitter is our favorite tool to locate the latest tree or horticulture news. It acts like an aggregator, pulling all of the information into one feed that is easy to track and look through. You can search the term Horticulture and either see recent tweets about the subject or find people to follow that will provide you with interesting news and content.
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Written by Lettie
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Thursday, 03 March 2011 23:56 |
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Elderberry bush is a great plant to consider when installing a natural landscape. It can be hedged out on a property line, mass planted in a large entry area or used as a focal point close to a house or commercial building. In the Northeast Elderberry bush will most often disappear in the winter months much like a perennial Hosta or Daylily, but its large white summer flowers and dark purple mass of fall berries makes it a great natural addition to any landscape.
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Written by Lettie
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Monday, 14 February 2011 02:23 |
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Buying plants online is as much about the process of receiving plant material and caring for them before you plant as it is how the plants are cared for before being shipped to you. This is not a blog about buying plants online per say because the experience of on-line buying is personal. There will be as many good as bad accounts of the process, some will be the fault of the seller and some the buyer and some no ones actual fault. Buying on line is about buying the right plants for your project or someone else’s project, as a gift. My expertise in buying plants online comes from selling and shipping bare-root plants for twenty-six years. Trees and shrubs in their dormant state, not actively growing, is the best way in which to buy plants on-line. Shipping bare-root, as opposed to potted, is a very inexpensive way to receive large plant material. Large is of course a relative term meaning large for a seedling, usually one to three years old, or transplant, usually three to five years old, tree or shrub.
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Written by Lettie
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Wednesday, 09 February 2011 00:38 |
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Forsythia is named after the English horticulturist William Forsyth, who served as gardener for King George II of England. The main attraction of the Forsythia plant would be the bright yellow bell shaped flowers. Besides their beauty these flowers offer an “early food source for pollinating insects” according to New World Encyclopedia; http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Forsythia. The growth pattern of the Forsythia, if left untrimmed, is eight to ten feet in height and ten to twelve feet in width. Part of their appeal is the ease with which they can be controlled and shaped into any smaller area of your yard or garden if you wish to make one a focal piece of your early spring landscape.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 February 2011 00:44 |
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Using the Hardiness Zone Map for Proper Plant Purchase |
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Written by Lettie
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Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:48 |
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The first step in planning a new garden or landscape project is knowing the “climate” you are planting in. This is important because plants thrive when matched with their native or similar climates. A great tool to help you determine this is a Plant Hardiness Zone Map. You will have greater success if you match your plant material with the climate in which it will be growing. Since temperature range is important, we would like to provide you with advice and information on it. The yearly temperature ranges for your area are easily available at www.weather.com. Once you have this information it can be used in several ways to help you decide which plants will survive in your project.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 February 2011 23:24 |
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