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Month: August 2007

Primula denticulata Alba

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Gardeners rarely go a-wandering without bringing back a plant that they haven’t been able to find at home. The Corning trip resulted in two new additions to our gardens. Mary Jo was delighted to find two varieties of hardy anemones that she has been reading about. The other discovery was a white drumstick primrose that […]

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Words of Wisdom from Beneath the Ground

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Each growing season reveals to an observant gardener new secrets of his craft. Over the years those observations become the accumulated garden lore that separates the novices from the wise old gardeners. With all of the books, journals and internet sites at our command the really viable information comes from our fellow gardeners. One of […]

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Favorite Colors

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Do you have a favorite color? If you do has it ever occurred to you that there might be an advantage to being attracted to certain hues? There haven’t been very many studies done on color preferences but it is indicated that animals and insects that can perceive color are often attracted to specific colors. […]

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Cyclamen Hederifolium

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There were a number of interesting plants available this year at Elliott Park; one that I have never seen at any of our local plant sources is hardy cyclamen. This plant is hardy to zone 5 unlike the florist’s cyclamen which we buy in the spring to brighten our windowsills. That variety is Cyclamen persicum […]

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Agrilus Planipennis

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We have gotten three e-mail messages with the information that the Emerald Ash Borer has been found infesting trees in Butler and Montgomery Counties. Both counties are now quarantined and ash trees, ash firewood or any other part of the tree cannot be exported from these areas. The Emerald Ash Borer is an Asian import […]

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