Subtle springtime
It’s that time of year when you want to spend every minute watching your garden come back to life!
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March 2011
Tatarian honeysuckle
Birds eat and spread the seeds of this 10-ft.-tall-and-wide shrub. It grows into dense thickets that can force out other plants you want to keep.
How to stake a tree
Now’s the perfect time to plant new trees. Trees need time to develop strong roots to feed themselves and anchor into the soil.
Bring birds to your feeder
Early spring is when you’ll see lots of birds returning from their winter range. What do you do if you’ve put up a bird feeder and filled it with black oil sunflowers or some other good quality seed but the birds aren’t flocking to it?
Slide show: A bouquet of hyacinths
There are plenty of gorgeous, fragrant hyacinth cultivars on the market, including singles, doubles, those with fancy petal markings and ones that are easy to force.
Peony botrytis buster
Botrytis is a fungus that often attacks peonies as they sprout, causing leaves and buds to turn brown and stems to rot and fall over.
Using focal points in design
A focal point is an object or area that attracts the most attention. Focal points lead visitors to a specific place in a landscape and then encourage them to experience the spaces around it.
Field pennycress
Field pennycress seedlings overwinter as a small rosette before sending up branched 4- to 24-in.-tall flower stalks in spring.
‘Curly Fries’ hosta
Would you like fries with your shade garden? If it’s ‘Curly Fries’ hosta, you might want to super-size your order and get several because this is one small hosta.
Deer
Deer have adjusted well to urban and suburban living. In fact, their populations are growing because of the lack of predators.
