Video: Getting to the roots
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April 2009
Aphids
Orange, green, yellow, red, brown, black or covered with a waxy white or gray coating — there are all kinds of aphids out there.
Fernleaf bleeding heart
Unlike old-fashioned bleeding heart, which usually goes dormant in the summer, fernleaf bleeding heart blooms from midspring to fall.
White clover
This low, 4- to 12-in.-tall spreading weed has white flowers and roots wherever stem nodes touch the soil, but it also spreads by seed.
Container design tips
There’s more to beautiful containers than just the right planting and care. Design plays a role, too.
Anthracnose
When anthracnose strikes after a cool, wet spring, you’ll find irregular dark blotches on leaves.
Soaker hose tips
Soaker hoses are a gardener’s best friend. Just set them in your flower garden once in spring and don’t move them again until you put them away in fall.
Eastern chipmunk
You’re looking out your window and you see it — a striped rodent feasting on your birdseed.
