Garden Supplies News » fall cleanup https://www.garden-supplies-advisor.com/1 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:48:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The End Is Near and the Blue Rose https://www.garden-supplies-advisor.com/1/blue-rose/ https://www.garden-supplies-advisor.com/1/blue-rose/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:31:54 +0000 hughe https://www.garden-supplies-advisor.com/1/?p=108 “The End Is Near!” screams the headline, but all that it portends is the passing of the seasons as we come to the end of another gardening year. The article itself is a chatty interview with three gardening experts from the Twin Cities, “Don Engebretson, author of five garden books, who also runs the Renegade Gardener website; longtime garden writer Lynn Steiner, whose most recent book is “Landscaping With Native Plants of Minnesota” and Mike Heger, garden author, lecturer and owner of Ambergate Gardens in Chaska”. For three different views on bulbs, cutting back, mulching and compost, read more..

Of the many ways of propagating plants division is one of the simplest. There’s no fiddling with seeds or complicated grafts, just dig up the plant, divide it into smaller pieces and then replant small sections where you want them to grow. Of course this is not suitable for all plants, but works well for many perennials as Tony Tomeo explains. Read more..

“THE quest for gardening’s holy grail is over. It’s a blue rose – and it will be gracing flower arrangements near you thanks to an Australian company”. The article continues in similar vein and then almost breathlessly confides: “The blue rose has almost mystical connotations. Associated with royalty and ‘love at first sight’, they are also symbols of the ‘impossible dream’ – most likely because of the difficulty associated in developing them”. I’m not sure what all the fuss is about since we have had the rose “Blue Moon” for years although that is not regarded as a true blue, but rather more lilac or mauve. Then again this new Applause rose is being described by some as a “wishy washy mauve”. See what you think. Read more..

And finally I couldn’t resist this quote from Mel Gibson:
“Some of the best advice I was given, a long time ago, was from a guy who said, ‘You want to make yourself better, go and dig a ditch.’ So, a lot of that’s been going on, ditch-digging, vegetable-growing”.

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