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SOME WORDS TO HELP YOU THROUGH FALL AND WINTER GARDENING Making Horticultural Communication More Understandable, Graspable, and Thorough

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I think gardening is one of the most fascinating of languages. It's full of wonderfully lively, descriptive, and curious words. How many "technical" gardening words do you know?

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TOP MAILORDER SEED CATALOGS The Better “Shops” for All Your Flower and Vegetable Needs

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Okay, so maybe you've shut down your garden(s) for the year. Now you're thinking: "What will I grow next year and where will I get the seed?" I got ya covered.

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I watered a few times to germinate the seed and then a few deep soakings thereafter. I stopped watering altogether in June. It made it through a very hot, very dry summer and into fall. Parts of it struggled but after a handful of rains, it looks like this. The red circle indicates the one tiny spot that’s still a bit bare. This is after a mowing today (yeah, needs a trimming/edging). Overall, it’s a bit “lumpy” but since I’m not playing bocce ball nor practicing putting, I’d say it’s level enough for now. Looks kinda like a shag carpet from the 70s. I use a battery-powered mower with a mulching mode. I shall not water it nor fertilize it in the future. My 14-year-old dog needs a place to go out to at night.

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I sowed a small lawn for my small dog in March. It was sown with a mix of seven native species of grasses, clovers, and a sedge. No amendments, no fertilizing, nothing special. More info in "ALT Text."

THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN ONE’S GARDEN LIFE A Quick Read on the Progress of Fifteen Months in My New Garden

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For those who might be interested in the progress of my 15-month-old garden and landscape...

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RESPECT AND APPRECIATE YOUR GARDEN TOOLS With Gardening Winding Down for Many Gardeners, It’s Time to Hit the Garden Shed

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Garden tools need love, too.

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I'd like to try a poll/survey. Now that the season is coming to a close, I'm interested in what varieties (by name) of DAHLIAS you think were the best as cut flowers (in the vase).

An arrangement of dahlias with XAmarine.

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An arrangement of dahlias with XAmarine.

WHERE THERE IS NO END OF THE GARDENING SEASON Southern California Gardens Will Have a Lot Going for Them in the Next Many Months Before Spring

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For those of you who don't already know, I have a page on Substack. It's all about gardening -- with a science base. This is my latest article, a long one, but a very special one.

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DEER MANAGEMENT Allowing Nature to Do Its Thing While You do Yours

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A quick(-ish) read on how to keep your garden and landscape free from marauding deer...

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THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES GIVEN TO US BY THE INDIGENOUS AMERICANS – Part 3 Where We Look at Wapato, Chia, “Olives,” Bay Nuts, the Not-Well-Known Ogeechee Lime, Linden “Lime,” Sassafras, and a Whole Bunch of Well-Known Berries

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Here's Part 3 (now of 4) on the food plants native to the Americas. For gardeners, foragers, ethnobotanists, paleoanthropologists, and people who want to know where their foods REALLY come from.

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MY FAVORITE GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE PLANTS Just a Few of the Thousands of Plants that I’ve Found to Fit my Gardens Best

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I've been asked a gazillion times the proverbial question "What's your favorite plant?" The answer: The one(s) that do well in my garden -- with minimal care.

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A few more plants that need a good spot in the garden. Replacing a Hibiscus killed by -30C cold snap, Coreopsis, Heliopsis, Agastache. Elsewhere and growing well, Geranium 'Rozanne' blooms forever. Limelight hydrangea. Oenothera missouriensis keeps pumping out the flowers.

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Mutant semi-double Hollyhock when you ordered single-flower seeds. Gaillardia. State of Phlox. (You've been here before. Pink and white created a lavender hybrid.) Hydrangea. Not to be confused with the much shorter H. serrata or Lowdrangea.

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EASY PLANTS? Yes, No, Not Exactly

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I think all plants are easy to grow. I also think all plants are difficult to grow. Wanna know why?:

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THE TALENTED PERENNIAL SUNFLOWERS Keystone Species that are Beauty and a Bit Beasty.

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I love perennial -- yes, perennial -- sunflowers. And there are many species, hybrids, and cultivars; probably at least one for every garden in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K.

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Japanese Anemone, Dalmation Foxglove, Rudbeckia hirta, and R. fulgida. Garden getting hammered by sun and heat but still plenty of flowers. R. hirta was in full bloom a month ago. Now some flowers are fading. R. fulgida just coming into bloom and we have 3 large patches.

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THE ORNAMENTAL MORNING GLORIES They Look Antiquey, Tropical, Magical, and Most of All, They Look Like You've Succeeded in Your Garden

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Who loves morning glories?!

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Lilium 'Dizzy', orange Asclepias tuberosa (milkweed) vs yellow, and A. incarnata. Swallowtail butterflies but no Monarchs. Lots of native milkweed down by the lake but we're way up in the hills in Ponderosa forest. Maybe if I add some Showy milkweed next year.

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Robin nesting on a turf rake. Hydrangea paniculata. Sanguisorba obtusa. (Next year, I'll use a tomato cage instead of bamboo.) Room with a view and Yucca filamentosa.

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Delphiniums and geraniums cut back to ground level for increased airflow and second wave of flowers late summer. Already about 1 ft tall. And the Mother of All Rhubarb is starting over. One geranium was about 4 ft wide x 3 feet tall. We've had some huge flowers this year.

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CREATING A MOON GARDEN The Features, the Plants, and the Newest "Enhancement"

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Moon Gardens are one of my favorite landscape "themes." They go beyond plants and design -- they create a spirit as well as a special place for the pollinators of the night.

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Purple-blue flowers with speckled white on the nectar guide

Salvia forskaehlei, native to Bulgaria and Türkiye, has one of the most intricate colorings of any salvia I've seen. It glows in shade but looks more washed out in sun. The basal rosette is deciduous in winter and quite drought tolerant in a #summerdry garden. 🌱 #gardening

Stalks of pale blue flowers over a shrubby mass of small aromatic grey-green leaves

Close-up of the flowers with a pale blue "hood" and white "lip" backed by reddish calyxes

Salvia africana from the #summerdry area of S. Africa's Cape grows about 4-5ft and is a welcome early summer bloomer. The calyxes are colorful even after the bloom is done. The tea has numerous medicinal uses #gardening 🌱 #salvias

(EVEN MORE) RANDOM BITS OF "DID YOU KNOW" Volume 3. Another Mixed Bag of Those Miscellaneous Things I Can’t Turn into Full Articles.

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Some fun, quick reading for gardeners, horticulturists, botanists, and other gardening people...

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SLUG/SNAIL MANAGEMENT Terrestrial Mollusks in the Home Garden and How to Beat Them

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TAKING CARE OF SNAILS/SLUGS -- all the safe ways, including and especially ways to prevent them and to encourage Mother Nature to lend a helping hand.

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Just finished rejuvenating this bed. Added Oenothera missouriensis (yellow -- Missouri Evening Primrose) and Geranium 'Rozanne'. Also Buddleia, Siberian Iris, Veronica, Astilbe, Caryopteris, Salvia, Hydrangeas, Aster. Shade and full sun. Gardening under Ponderosa Pines.

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GOD'S THOUGHTS ON LAWNS An Old Story, Author Unknown, with My Tweaks. Just for Fun.

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Something light for the holiday

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First hollyhocks -- Alcea rosea--Indian Spring mixed colors. And fornicating hollyhock weevils. If not caught and squished between thumb and finger, the female bores into the seed pod and lays her eggs. I cut off each seed pod when its done flowering. No more weevils.

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Delphiniums from twilight (with flash) to morning.

"Delphinium elatum 'New Millennium' refers to a series of delphinium cultivars known for their strong, tall flower spikes, vibrant colors, and improved disease resistance."

Glorious.

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