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14 Mar 2009Scale dracaena and Container gardenThis guy has been growing beautifully, but now it has scale on the bottoms of it’s leaves. One of the staff at Stonybridge told me today that scale loves Dracaena and Ficus. Tomorrow I’m going to try to scratch the stuff off and if that doesn’t work I’ll try to get some h...9°C / 49°F
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14 Mar 2009Ahhh! 2 38°C / 46°F
Ahh, spring is definitely coming. My favorite nursery (Stonybridge -Lebanon, PA) opened back up again yesterday. I stopped in today. They had been closed all winter, and I was feelng the blues. Lowe’s and Wal-mart just don’t cut it. The sight of those poor plants shoved under she...
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14 Mar 2009Coming up Sweet Woodruff and Shade gardenI raked my leaf “mulch” in my flower bed today and I can see some of this pretty herb beginning to come up again.8°C / 46°F
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14 Mar 2009Coming up! Daffodil 'Rosy Cloud' and Shade gardenOvercast 8°C / 46°F
My daffodils have started coming up out of the ground. I have a feeling they will not bloom this year however. I just don’t get enough sun. Thinking about transplanting them to my in-laws.
-Update (3/26/09) I now realize that these are my tulips coming up, and not the daffodils. Not sur...
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24 Jan 2009Master Gardener Presentation 4 5As part of my requirements for completing the Master Gardener certification program, I must give a ten minute presentation on anything I want that is related to horticulture. So I decided to do my presentation on . . . My Folia!! Unfortunately since the presentation was early Saturday morning, t...Cloudy 0°C / 32°F
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18 Jan 2009Blooms again Christmas Cactus Budding and Container gardenThis cactus is beginning to bloom again. I think it must just be the perfect temperature in my classroom at night for it.Snow -2°C / 28°F
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07 Dec 2008Small blooms Poinsettia FloweringSunny -2°C / 29°F
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01 Nov 2008Purchased Christmas Cactus Purchased and Container garden
I couldn’t resist the color of these flowers. Didn’t get a picture ‘til it had passed it’s peak flowering.
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01 Sep 2008Boo hoo 1 3It has been so long since I have had time to visit my favorite site. To give some idea, I see that 95 posts have been added to groups since I was last on! I’ve been working in my classroom for the last month with few days off. Then, six days before school started I was asked to switch gr...Sunny 22°C / 71°F
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18 Jul 2008Many blooms Bee Balm Blooming29°C / 84°F
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