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Add Summer Color with Lantana
Lantana is a useful choice for color in a sunny summer bed or container. Its clusters of small flowers appear as the weather warms…
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Always Blooming Camellias
For flowers in the cooler months, start by choosing the camellia for the season when you want it to bloom. Camellias keep their broad green leaves through the year, but an individual shrub does not flower all year.…
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Pruning Hydrangeas
You do not have to prune a hydrangea to make it bloom. If it has room to grow, leave the healthy stems alone and…
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Find Friends in the Garden
To make a garden more useful to pollinators, keep something suitable in bloom across the growing season and be careful with pesticides. Sit still…
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Get Hellebores for Early Color
For flowers when most of the garden is still quiet, try a hellebore in a spot with partial shade and soil that does not…
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Love Your Crepe Myrtles
Prune a crepe myrtle lightly in late winter or early spring if it needs tidying, and leave its natural shape intact. Because it flowers…
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Viburnums are Lovely
If you are choosing a shrub for spring flowers, put viburnums on your list, then check the requirements of the particular kind you like.…
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Do You Have Daffodils?
Plant daffodil bulbs in a spot that drains well, with the pointed ends facing up. Choose early-, mid- and late-blooming varieties if you want…
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You Don’t Have to Prop Up Those Perennials
If your perennials fall over each year, look at their growing conditions before buying more stakes. Crowding, weak growth or a plant that has…
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