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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Water Container Gardens – A Water Feature in a Flower Pot
All the rain we’ve recently gotten (and my flooded flower pots) has me thinking about water gardens. Specifically, water gardens in flower pots. Water container gardening allows you to introduce an entirely new subset of plants into your patio, porch … Continue reading
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Tagged container gardening, getting started, How To, water garden
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Grow Bags – An Easy Container Solution
If you look in gardening centers right now, you will see all kind of grow bags. Everything from the hanging upside down tomato bags made of nylon fabric to the “tater totes,” bags made of landscape fabric and used to … Continue reading
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What To Do When Your Planter Floods
Over the past couple of days, my area has gotten several deluges at once. My largest planter — which drains quite well when we receive normal amounts of rain – was not prepared to cope with 4 inches of water … Continue reading
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Caring For Your Potted Easter Lilly (Lilium Longiflorum)
Easter is just behind us, and many people received a potted lily (lilium longiflorum) during March or April for the holiday. Although you could let that potted plant wilt and die, you can also preserve it with proper care. Lilies … Continue reading
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Reasons to Container Garden (Even If You Have the Space for an In-Ground Garden)
I have both an in-ground vegetable garden, and a container veggie garden. Of the two, I prefer my container garden for several reasons. Container gardens are mobile. When I moved into my home 8 years ago, my veggie garden was … Continue reading
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April Showers and Hand-Me-Down Flowers
While I’ve posted information from my trip to Las Vegas this week, outside I’ve been hurrying to get my garden in before the spring weather hits. The western edge of Arkansas is at the edges of what Midwesterners charitably call … Continue reading
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Vegas For Gardeners (part 4) – The Best of the Rest
Although I was fortunate to find several gardening attractions during my stay in Vegas, it appears that I missed a few. But just because I missed a couple of gardening attractions in Las Vegas doesn’t mean that you have to. … Continue reading
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Vegas for Gardeners (Part 3) – The Palazzo Atrium Gardens
The Palazzo Las Vegas is the sister hotel to the Venetian. But where the Venetian has an old-world European look to it, the Palazzo has a modern-Euro theme. The hotel is known for having all-suite rooms and The Shoppes at … Continue reading
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Vegas For Gardeners (Part 2) – Sigfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat
Most fans around the world are familiar with Siegfried and Roy through their illusions that incorporated wild animals including elephants and white tigers. Although the duo retired from the stage following an accident in which Roy was injured by … Continue reading
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Vegas for Gardeners (part 1) – The Bellagio Conservatory
Las Vegas never struck me as a gardening Mecca. From what I’ve heard of it, there are miles of concrete, people handing out x-rated fliers on street corners and over-the-top attractions such as reproductions of the Giza Sphinx, the Statue … Continue reading
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