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Red Christmas Cactus in window
June 6, 2022

Caring for Christmas Cactus

A beautiful holiday plant, the Christmas cactus unsurprisingly blooms at Christmas and sometimes around Easter if cared for properly. A month prior to Christmas you’ll be able to watch the tips of the leaves beginning to grow. The tips grow darker as each day passes until a bud forms. At Christmas time, as if by […]
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Pink Caladium
November 3, 2022

Caladium: A Tropical Houseplant

Caladiums are tropical perennials that have almost unparalleled foliage and make showy houseplants. They can also be grown outdoors, but unless you live in zones 9 to 10, you should plan to grow them as annuals, or dig up the plants’ tubers at the end of the growing season and store them for winter. Care […]
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Blue Campanula
June 6, 2022

Caring for Campanula

Campanula, otherwise known as bellflower, are attractive perennial garden plants with profuse, colorful flowers and a lengthy blooming period. They are also known as bluebells, but the name is misleading–campanula are available in many shades, including palest white, cherry red and deep purple. While it may not be practical to grow the giant campanula varieties […]
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All About Canning
July 19, 2022

All About Canning

Canning is a method used to preserve fresh food in jars using high temperatures to kill microorganisms and inactivate enzymes that could cause food to spoil. The heating process pushes air from the jars, creating a vacuum seal as jars cool. Without air, the bacteria, yeast and mold will not grow and food won’t spoil. […]
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Catmint
November 3, 2022

Catmint Care

If you’re looking for a perennial that is long blooming, heat tolerant, resistant to pests and diseases, and easy to grow, then catmint is the plant for you! It has attractive gray-green foliage that emerges in neat, tidy mounds in April. By May, the plant fairly explodes with a profuse haze of soft lavender-blue flowers. […]
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Catmint
May 17, 2022

Blue Wonder Catmint

Blue Wonder is a fragrant, low, soft green/grey silvery foliaged catmint that forms a spreading mound with larger than usual lavender-blue blossoms in summer, from May to July. Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Shearing off the spent flowers will promote rebloom on this tough, tolerant, […]
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May 13, 2024

Japanese Catmint

Nepeta Subsessilis ‘Blue Prelude’, known as Japanese Catmint, will flower for months in the spring and summer. Attracts pollinators with its fragrant leaves. It is first-year-flowering, a robust plant in the landscape with large flowers and medium controlled habit. Optimal Growing Conditions Hardiness Zone Zones 4a-9a Water Needs Medium Sun Needs Full Sun Appearance and […]
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Walkers Low Catmint
May 6, 2022

Junior Walker Catmint

This selection of catmint is a sterile dwarf of Walker’s Low and only reaches approximately 16 inches tall. It features blue-green leaves that are highly aromatic when crushed or bruised, so it’s  an excellent addition planted along a garden path. Small pale lavender flowers are densely clustered and bloom from May to September. Shear back […]
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Six Hills Giant Catmint
July 19, 2022

Six Hills Giant Catmint

This robust grower is known for its billowing, violet-blue flowers that arch over fuzzy gray green foliage, its rounded spreading form and its ability to perform in some of the more challenging spots in the landscape. This tough, long-lived, reliable bloomer loads up with buds in late spring and explodes into color in late May […]
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