Slide show: Columbine
Bringing home a flat of columbine is like bringing home a rainbow. These beauties burst on the scene every spring with color that lasts for several weeks.
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April 2008
Shepherd’s purse
You might be familiar with this annual weed’s triangular, “purseshaped” seed pods that follow its tiny white flowers in winter, spring or summer.
Wine bottle garden lights
Here’s a clever idea for lighting your garden path that uses empty liquor or wine bottles and icicle holiday lights.
Lambsquarters
This annual weed can grow up to 5 ft. tall if you let it. The stems are grooved with red-pink spots where the leaves attach.
Grape hyacinth
If you’ve ever planted grape hyacinth in fall, you know that they sprout leaves in just a few weeks after planting.
Tarnished plant bug
Medium brown and about ¼ inch long, tarnished plant bugs don’t look like garden menaces, but they are.
Video: Baby your house plants
A buildup of dust and grime makes it hard for your house plants to absorb the light they need to stay healthy.
Hemlock wooly adelgids
Hemlock woolly adelgids are relatively easy to identify because they’re woolly. You will find wooly adelgids on the undersides of hemlock needles and twigs.
Pop starts
In spring, most gardeners have a cluster of newly purchased plants waiting to be set in the ground.
Multiflora rose
Multiflora rose has many characteristics of ornamental roses, but this plant is an aggressive shrub with wicked hooked thorns.
