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On Gardening: This daylily is so pretty you will 'scream'

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Five years ago, I started growing and writing about Rainbow Rhythm daylilies from my landscape perspective in Muscogee County, Georgia. That first year I reached out to Jenny Simpson, who along with husband Jerry, owns Creekside Nursery in Dallas, North Carolina. At the time I told everyone to follow them on Facebook, and that recommendation is ...Read more

The Greener View: Cactus Diseases

Gardening / Jeff Rugg /

Q: Last year, the cactus plants in our neighbor's yard developed a disease where white stuff that looked like snow was coming out of the spine pores, and the main branches were turning yellow. Now, one of our main focal point cactus plants is beginning to look like it has the same disease. What do we do?

A: Cacti get many of the same insects ...Read more

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On Gardening: Hallelujah, it's hydrangea season! Let's Dance!

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Hallelujah, it's hydrangea season! Actually, hydrangea season comes early in the Deep South and even more so if you are growing Let’s Dance Sky View hydrangea. This will be my third year, and the first week of May always brings a bubbling of blooms.

To me this explosion of blooms with the onset of spring makes it the most precocious variety ...Read more

The Greener View: Lawn Weeds, Everyone Has Them

Gardening / Jeff Rugg /

Q: My lawn is being overtaken by wild strawberry, which is spreading. The only thing that I have been told to do is to wait until it rains and pull the plants out by hand. Do you have any other organic suggestions to get rid of these plants? I am open to herbicides if that is what it takes.

Q: We have quack grass in our lawn, and it seems to be...Read more

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On Gardening: These Surefire begonias will bloom all season

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Wondering if this begonia can provide you color for the entire garden season? Well, you are Surefire shootin' straight. The commercial landscape industry is showing the Southeast that this is one tough flower for home or business and the award-winning Surefire series is leading the way.

There are four colors in the series: Surefire Red, Rose, ...Read more

The Greener View: Floppy Perennials, Holey Vegetables and Wet Soil Gardening

Gardening / Jeff Rugg /

Q: We have several tall perennials that flop over when they go into bloom. When we try to straighten up the iris, peony and delphinium plants, they crack and break. How can we keep them growing straight up without having a whole bunch of poles sticking up in the yard?

A: Check with your local garden center for a horizontal fence, sometimes ...Read more

 

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