Garden Pictures: Mid-March, 2023

Yesterday eve I was feeling a little better so I headed out to the garden to take some pictures . outflow is here , and the plant life are respond . Here ’s the kitchen garden , right off the back terrace orbit . Some of the beds are n’t finished yet , and many things are still sleep , but others are awake and grow . This strawberry mark plant is out front of the remainder ....

March 17, 2025 · 3 min · 638 words · Tiffany Morrow

GPOD Vignettes: Small Gardens with Big Impacts

Three gardeners prove you don’t need a big footprint to create something special Happy Friday GPODers , and welcome to our 2d installation of GPOD Vignettes ! In case you missed it , check out our first episode of this series here : GPOD Vignette # 1 . When I was assembling this collection of entry , I did n’t pull in at first that all of these photo and garden fit into a plebeian melodic theme : modest spaces ....

March 17, 2025 · 9 min · 1809 words · Kelly Raymond

How to Get Blood Out of Clothes

Rescue your favorite garment with method for removing rip stains that actually process . Blood is one of the trickieststains to treat . Like other somatic fluids , such as emesis , water , andsweat(sorry ! ) , blood is a protein stain . But unlike other protein stains , blood stains alter over time , as oxidation of hemoglobin begin to happen when bloodline exits the body , causing blood stain to morph from brilliant red to dark brown ....

March 17, 2025 · 8 min · 1644 words · Brian Brown

How to Get Those Begonias Blooming This Season

Begonias in full blossom are one of my preferent heap in summer gardens . These shade - loving flowers produce flower in all sorts of size of it and colors . Begonias are broadly easy to worry for , and some miscellanea actually make enceinte houseplants . But when they are not growing in their idealistic atmospheric condition , begonia will stop blooming . A few common things can stimulate this , but the effective news is that most of them can be fixed if happen early on ....

March 17, 2025 · 12 min · 2431 words · James Richard

How To Make Tipsy Pots

This post contains affiliate connection . study full disclosure instruction here . Tipsy pots , also known as topsy turvy planters , are flowerpots arrange in a stack to look like they might tip over . But they wo n’t ! They ’re an easy - to - make , whimsical garden idea . This is part of a series featuringcreative garden container estimation . Tipsy pots with pansies...

March 17, 2025 · 4 min · 846 words · Deborah Clark

How To Prune An Overgrown Laurel

The mountain laurel(Kalmia latifolia ) , also call American bay wreath , originate wild in flaxen or rocky woodlands throughout the easterly United States . They sometimes grow wild in yards within U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 9 , but cultivars are available at garden center field . This evergreen bush grows between 5 and 30 foot tall . It normally blooms in May , featuring large clusters of five - sided pink or clean blossoms ....

March 17, 2025 · 4 min · 790 words · Marvin Bartlett

Is Dragon Fruit A Cactus?

When exploring the plant kingdom , the Dragon Fruit industrial plant inevitably captures attention . With its vibrant appearing and alone characteristics , it stand out in the botanical world . One of the challenging aspects of the Dragon Fruit plant is its classification as a climbing cactus . allow ’s dig deeper into the intricacies of this captivating species . Cactus Characteristics of the Dragon Fruit face nearly at the Dragon Fruit works , one can observe distinct cactus traits ....

March 17, 2025 · 4 min · 717 words · Dalton Mosley

Is Leaving Leaves On The Lawn Good?

will fallen foliage on your lawn can actually be quite good for the overall health of your grass and soil . These born mulch materials make a protective layer that acts as insulation during the stale winter month . Not only does this help to observe a more stable soil temperature , but it also promotes a healthier growth environs for the pot rootage . Natural Mulch and Soil Enrichment As the leave of absence break down over meter , they decompose , loose valuable food back into the soil ....

March 17, 2025 · 4 min · 795 words · Joe Hawkins

Lathyrus chloranthus ( Lathyrus )

Lathyrus chloranthus bears bright yellow flowers singly or in brace in summer . The substance abuse is either erect or scrambling , with few offset and mid dark-green leaves . A climbing , old - fashioned plant that is priceless for providing attractive bunches of flowers in pink purple and whites , it is touchy look with large and pea - shaped , pastel , fragrant flowers . Really needs reenforcement to make its full potential drop ....

March 17, 2025 · 18 min · 3695 words · Kimberly Richmond

Laurel’s Gardens at a Vineyard

Replanting after a devastating freeze Today on the GPOD we ’ve got photo from Laurel Prothro , gardener at Arrington Vineyards in Nashville , Tennessee . We just went through an exhausting reset of thehardscape , take out masses of dead laurels after the catastrophic freeze we had earlier in the year . We had to remove our master front and center deodar cedars(Cedrusdeodara , Zones 7–8 ) at the entrance to the Lodge and Cellar Patio ....

March 17, 2025 · 4 min · 785 words · Nicole Smith

Lotus Flower Growth

Step 1 For lotus flowers to grow right , they take sure elements . As with other aquatic works , the white lily ask environment with abundant wet , such as swamps and the boundary of ponds and lakes . These tropic plant want temperate climates and may go bad to produce flower in temperature that do n’t rise above 75 degree Fahrenheit . Lotus industrial plant grow good in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 9 through 12 ....

March 17, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Stephen Stevenson

Problems With Lilac Bushes

What Is Wrong With My Lilac Leaves? Spring is n’t fountain without theheavenly scentand grand flower of the lilac bush . But as the flower melt , you might acknowledge that your shrub is suffer , because lilac are prostrate to several fungal diseases — although sometimes shrubs are damaged by instinctive causes as well . If your lilac ( Syringaspp . ) has chocolate-brown spots on its leaves or they are wrinkle and drying out , several effort might be at play , not all of them disease - pertain ....

March 17, 2025 · 5 min · 987 words · Tyler Chapman

READER PHOTOS! Julie’s garden in Pennsylvania

Today ’s pic are fromJulie Witmerfrom her Zone 5 Pennsylvania garden . She says,“I am quite surprised and pleased with myself at how sound everything is still looking in October . Our first freezing will be here in a couple of workweek so I am trying to soak it up!”So middling , Julie ! Thanks for sharing ! As I say yesterday , keep those exposure coming , folks ! While I ca n’t station everything that arrive in ( please do n’t be offended if I do n’t feature your picture – they’re all beautiful !...

March 17, 2025 · 4 min · 678 words · Justin Yang