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How To Prevent Rose Diseases

How To Prevent Rose DiseasesHow To Prevent Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates. However, many popular roses are also susceptible to three fungal diseases, whose names black spot, mildew, and rust are descriptive of their appearance on rose leaves....

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How To Prune Shrub Roses

How To Prune Shrub RosesHow to Prune Shrub Roses Prune your roses to increase blooming and decrease disease and pest problems. Do most of your pruning in early spring just before new growth begins, but remove spent flowers and dead canes whenever they occur. The goal is to keep the center of the shrub free of twiggy, weak growth. Collect Your Equipment....

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How To Train Climbing Roses

How To Train Climbing RosesClimbing Roses, How To Train Them Climbing roses produce two kinds of shoots: the main structural canes and the flowering shoots, which grow from the canes. The long structural canes must be tied or woven into a support to keep the flowers off the ground. If possible, install the support before planting your roses. ...

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Impatiens

ImpatiensImpatiens America's favorite bedding plant It lacks the flair of the petunia. It's not as assertive as the marigold, nor as earthy as a begonia. Yet it has increased in popularity every season for the past five years, and it's now tops in bedding plant sales in the U.S., with growers' revenues exceeding $250,000,000 a year. It is the..

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In the Pinch

In the PinchIn The Pinch After summer's first burst of blooming flowers, you'll want to 'pinch back' young dahlias, pansies, petunias and snapdragons, all annual flowers. Why heartlessly cut away at the new plants? Because doing that gives them a fuller shape in the long run. So, once they've passed a half-foot in height, you can safely snip back the.

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Iris It's Spring

Iris It's SpringIris...It's Spring No Other Flower So Brilliantly Announces Winter's End In the legends of the ancient Greeks, Iris -- goddess of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods -- shuttled between heaven and earth atop colorful arcs. Wherever she stepped on earth, iris flowers sprang up in all the hues of the rainbow. To modern gardeners, these...

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Low Maintenance Gardens

Low Maintenance GardensLow-Maintenance Gardens For a hassle-free garden, plan before planting Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could enjoy an attractive, colorful garden without spending all of your free time working at it? It can be done, and all it takes is some knowledge about the right plants and techniques. Find out about easy-care trees, shrubs, and...

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Magnolias

MagnoliasMagnolias Starlike, Often Fragrant Flowers and Colorful, Lush Foliage Make These Trees an Early-Spring Delight When a deciduous magnolia blooms, everyone stops to admire. Its blossoms, on bare branches, are showy and often fragrant. But on some April mornings, the fragrant rose-pink flower buds on 'Big Dude' (a cross between M. soulangiana.

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