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If your squash plant is wilting no matter what you try, you might have a squash borer. Fine Gardening’s Danielle Sherry shows Fine Cooking’s Sarah Breckenridge how to protect a squash plant with an unexpected household item – pantyhose!
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Chinese Forget-Me-Not, Cynoglossum amabilev Andreas Kay
TheGardenLady received this question from Sherrie about Bleeding Hearts and Forget-me-nots.
I was wondering can you plant these together? If you can plant them together what time of year do we need to plant them me? And my husband lost a baby and we want to plant flowers for the child.
What a lovely memorial you will have for your baby with a garden planted with Bleeding Hearts and Forget-me-nots. I have always loved both Bleeding Hearts and Forget-me- nots for their delicate, charming flowers and have both growing in my garden for spring bloom.
Both the old fashioned varieties of Bleeding Hearts and Forget-me-nots have spring flowers and should be planted in the spring. Since both enjoy partial sun, they should look beautiful together.
bleeding_heart_4-01_medres KimCarpenter NJ
Bleeding hearts are in the genus Dicentra – the old fashioned variety is Dicentra spectabilis and comes with pink or white flowers. There are also some old fashioned Bleeding Hearts that have golden foliage. (see here)
Continue reading “Bleeding Hearts and Forget-Me-Nots (Part I)”
Dior designer Raf Simons on Friday conjured up a tropical hanging garden as the backdrop for his spring/summer 2014 collection, as Paris fashion week reached its half-way point. The vast flower-filled set was described by Dior as the “experimental habitat of the new flower woman… an ordering of the artificial and real… the manmade and artificial.”
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When making a salad, tossing the greens, veggies, and dressing together doesn’t make for the most beautifully plated presentation. Instead, take a look at the video to learn the art of plating a restaurant-grade salad. After all, you feast with your eyes first.
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Black spot of rose Scot Nelson
TheGardenLady wrote about the roses in her garden that get black spot. Many roses, unfortunately, are affected by this disease. As I had written, one is never to water roses overhead. Mechanical watering devices that come on automatically at a set time are especially problematic in overhead watering. TheGardenLady has seen blackspot in some major rose gardens or botanical gardens that do overhead watering. Also, one should water in the early morning hours so that hopefully water will dry or evaporate from the leaves later in the day. Do not water in the afternoon. Always let the water run near the base of the rose. A soaker hose might be best.
But what should one do if it rains? Mother Nature sends the rain from above at any time of the day or night. And if it is a particularly rainy season, that is when you can usually see a lot of black spot on the rose leaves. Sometimes the black spot can get so bad that it can defoliate the roses to make the plant look unsightly even though the flowers look attractive.Then without leaves, the plant gets sickly and is susceptible to other disease or problems. So what should one do?
Uprooted by violent conflict overseas, refugees now find comfort cultivating nutritious food. The Post’s Zoeann Murphy harvests their stories at the International Rescue Committee’s “New Roots†gardens.
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Chicago Botanic Garden Horiculturist offers tips for growning beautiful flowers.
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The Hidden Gardens of Bury St Edmunds 19-06-2011 by Karen Roe
This Garden Lady loves to visit gardens in the US and around the world. This was on my “bucket list” from my childhood before that term became popular. And as I aged I have visited these places and check off all the spots I have seen. My most recent trip was to see the gardens in Ireland. Though I now am able to travel comfortably in my senior years, I wasn’t always able to afford to indulge my dream so comfortably, but that didn’t stop me.
As a child growing up, rather isolated in a small farming village, I always dreamed of traveling the world. One school teacher I had fed that interest by reading or telling the class stories of exciting travel adventures. My neighbor’s daughter became a teacher so that she could then teach around the globe. She would write home to her parents when she traveled, telling about her experiences abroad. Her mother would come to our house to read these letters. Thus I decided that was what I would do when I grew up; I wanted to travel and see all the world had to offer. But I was a poor child so I had to wait.
I held onto that dream when I got married and my husband knew of my desires. He was a graduate student at that time so once again there was little money to see the world. But he was determined to make me happy.
Himalayan blue poppy by Swamibu
When I visited Ireland recently, I did not rough it, but was lucky to find lovely hotels in both Belfast and Dublin. The choices of hotels, especially in Dublin, were enormous and the nicest part for me were some of the wonderful breakfasts and dinners served in those hotels I stayed in. I was especially pleased with the quality and quantify of food served in Ireland. To have a huge, delicious breakfast to start the day and a huge, delicious dinner in the hotel when I returned back after a long day of hiking around gardens is, to me, a special bonus. I like to plan on seeing at least two to three gardens each day.
Though I visited both large and small gardens while in Ireland, I am going to write more about the more intimate gardens we visited in Ireland where the owners/gardeners spent time talking to our group about their gardens.
But one large garden I want to mention is Mount Steward House and Garden in the Belfast area. Alas, when we arrived at this one estate garden, the heavens opened and it was the one time on our vacation when it poured when we were in am Irish garden. There is no good time to rain when one is on a garden tour, but I didn’t want to miss this magnificent garden. So we sloshed through the rain to look at the grounds after we visited the house which was having major work being done inside. In a few years, the house will be its magnificent old self.
One area of the garden was roped off because the owner still resides in the house and because of the work being done to the house. When I bemoaned the fact that we could not get into half the gardens, the sweet lady at the desk took our group through a side entrance to allow us to see one part of the gardens we missed. Of course, we didn’t get to see all 98 acres.
 
Gorse by l2x
I love having a garden. It is also so nice when passers-by stop to tell me how much they enjoy my garden, too. Besides having my own garden, I also love to visit other gardens as well, to appreciate what other gardeners are doing and get ideas for my own garden.
To visit gardens, I also enjoy organizing tours of gardens for myself and like minded gardening friends. I have done this for about 10 years, both in the states and in Europe. I do it purely as a hobby; so no need to ask to join any tour, it is only for friends.
This year friends asked me to plan a tour of Ireland’s gardens. To see as many of the gardens as possible, I planned trips to both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. 18 of us went in May; a bad time for our own gardens, but from all I read about Ireland, May was considered the best time to visit. So I hoped it would be a good time for Irish gardens this year even though Northern Ireland had more snow than usual.
We were lucky. Ireland, which was having a late spring and had had so much rain before we arrived hardly had rain when we visited and there were plenty of flowers in bloom for us to see. We were told when we returned home that we missed half a week of heavy rains where we lived. However, our gardens seemed a little bit ahead of the Irish gardens in that all the roses were in bloom whereas we did not see any roses in Ireland. I knew that the International Rose Festival in Belfast was held in July but I had hoped to see a few roses in bloom.