Let’s talk about silent fireworks from the garden. It’s the season for sky booms which stress the four-legged denizen with…
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summer gardens
Flowers for Remembrance and Unity on Memorial Day
Memorial Day was set aside officially for a day of remembering and honoring military personnel who died in service to…
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Pentas for arrangements without ants
Dear Carol: My lovely pentas always have so many ants on them that I don’t want to bring them into…
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Cooling White for the Summer Gardens
Is there anything more cooling than beautiful, white blooms and leaves nodding in the shade of a pretty summer garden?…
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Red flowers and Foliage for Summer Gardens
Rangoon Creeper is a tropical vine planted for its showy, color-changing blooms and tough habit. The flower color is white when they first open and darkens to pink and finally dark red as they mature. The name of the genus Quisqualis is Latin for “What is this?” because early plant explorers would collect the various forms of the plant, shrubby, vine, with or without spines and varying foliage and flower colors. It must have been a frustrated taxonomist who eventually applied the quizzical name.