When To Plant:In the spring after the soil becomes workable or indoors 4 to 6 weeks before the threat of the last frost Mature Size:1to 4 feet tall, 1 to 2 feet wide Flowering:Orange, yellow, and creamy white flowers from early summer until the fall Light Requirements:Full sun 4. Bed...
Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors Zone 7 Sow seeds of warm-season annuals Set out summer-flowering bulbs Plant fall-blooming bulbs Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root fruit trees Apply dormant spray to fruit trees before buds swell Spray apples, peaches, and pears that ha...
 Am I crazy to admit that I actually prefer the greens of spring and fall to the fruits of summer?  This might explain my obsession with season-extending and focus on coaxing harvests during the shoulder seasons – because greens are what grow best when its cold. Many people ...
Divide and transplant summer- and fall-flowering perennials. Fertilize spring bloomers when they start to grow. Divide early spring bloomers when they finish blooming. Thin out overgrown plantings. Fertilize as growth starts. Cut back ornamental grasses. Stake plants. Weed beds and borders. Water ...
Trees growing in the temperate zone show clear seasonality, actively photosynthesizing and investing in growth in summer, preparing to cease growth in autumn, and stopping growth by the time winter arrives. This growth cessation stage in winter is called dormancy, and is characterized by the inabil...
Woody ornamental plants comprise a large number of genera, species, and cultivars that display a huge amount of phenotypic diversity. New introductions mainly result from natural existing variation or from selections in open-pollinated populations. Syste
And even there, if I were to have picked an early blooming Magnolia and put it against near to a wall on the south side of my house where it woke up “early,” where those buds, I would’ve had them blasted every year practically and never had flowers.And if I put it somewhere ...