January Gardening Thoughts

Article by: Bill Hirst

I look forward each day durring the winter. , Beat the Heat - choosing an Air Conditioner To some, lamenting the past days of fall , Borrow on a Budget: Getting the Cheapest Home Improvement Lo with its bright foliage in the landscape, , Hemorrhoids - What Do I Need To Do? and feeling down that the dull days of winter , Growing Hybrid Grapes are here. For me I have grown to appreciate each day and look forward to interests in landscapes , Can your sundial really tell the time? that are there knowing that many dazzeling displays can be found by careful observation. The days are short and the nights are long. Yet growing plants , The Garden As Healer and enjoying plants , Can your sundial really tell the time? are year round activities that bring many quality hours of enjoyment. Water , How to choose the right HDTV antenna for your set-up ing plants , Is Big Brother Watching You? Or Are You Watching Big Brother can be be on your list of things to do. Make it a point to get out and check on your plants. , Fertilizing Your Flowers And The Importance Of Choosing The Right Flower Food The ground may not be frozen and plants , Granite Preformed Rock Pond Kits still use water. , 8 Simple Tips to Keep Your Lawn Mower Running If the ground is not frozen you can still water , Granite Preformed Rock Pond Kits if the ground will accept the water. , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien Most plants , How to 100 Tulip Bulbs in 30 Minutes are dormant so the amount of watering is not as high as in the hotter seasons. , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien Evergreens lose water , FALL IS THE TIME TO WINTERIZE YOUR DECK through their needles in the winter. , A Look at Electrician Training So if one keeps watering as long as possible into the winter, , Some Like It “Hot”: Ten Products to Keep Your Home Warm and seedlings and plants , CHOOSING A VINYL REPLACEMENT WINDOW CONTRACTOR will suffer less stress. Winter , A Look at Electrician Training drying of evergreens is a major stress factor in overwintering. Snow , Carpenters and ice on your plants , A Look at Aluminum Awnings can be problematic. Tall thin plants , Granite Preformed Rock Pond Kits are not as sturdy a plant. , Part VI: Home Buyer Terms and Definitions They tend to bend under snow , How to Plant 100 Tulip Bulbs in 30 Minutes loads and may require staking later to train them strait. If your small plants , Tips for Growing Healthy Potato s have a light , Native Trees and Plants For Carbon County, PA amount of snow , NON SLIP MAINTENANCE OF HONED INTERIOR MARBLE covering them you may ease the snow , Layer Your Plantings burden by lightly sweeping the snow , Tips for Growing Healthy Potato Plants with a broom. Don't shake them, they are like babies ... they get shaken baby syndrome. If snow , A Look at Aluminum Awnings or ice is frozen to the branches, allow it to melt rather than attempting to correct. If any branches are broken, you probably don't need to do anything unless there is a split in the trunk. If the breakage of the plant , A New Outdoor Craft Idea for All Ages is sever, the seed , The Garden As Healer ling or liner shoud be discarded. The labor , Geomantic Rules in the Living Room to correct is not worth the value of the plant. , ing your Roses Also a poor quality seedling will probably be a poor quality mature plant. , Repairing holes in Sheetrocked Walls There is a market for such plants , Extending the living space outdoors – working with color however, we have had many customers who want, " Charly Brown Trees" or stunted trees , Outdoor Patio Heaters for unusual customer needs. Warm spells in the winter , Are you in search of the latest opinion regarding lighting. occur. Suddenly, there can be days of warmer temperatures. , Decorating a Bedroom using Color Psycology This should not be a problem. When a warm spell occurs, get out and use some shoe leather and wear out those leather gloves. Its a great to have a break in mid winter , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing and you can prepare for spring. , Is Big Brother Watching You? Or Are You Watching Big Brother If you have covering on or over the plants, , CHOOSING A VINYL REPLACEMENT WINDOW CONTRACTOR you may need to ventilate. We normally open the door , Safety Concerns with Heat Exchangers s to our greenhoses and this is usually all that is necessary. Cold , A Look at Aluminum Awnings frame temps may rise so ventilation will be helpful. Close up as nightfall arrives as the temperature , Outdoor Patio Heaters will fall , Beat the Heat - choosing an Air Conditioner . Note that when sunlight intensity is high, plant , Beat the Heat - choosing an Air Conditioner tissues become active. Water , How To Create Your Own Humming Bird Nectar... loss at this time can't be replaced if the root , Hemorrhoids - What Do I Need To Do? are frozen. This is called plant , Extending the living space outdoors – working with color desiccation. Also if there many freeze-thaw cycles, the crown of the plant , NON SLIP MAINTENANCE OF HONED INTERIOR MARBLE will be heaved up exposing the roots. , The Garden As Healer Root , Some Like It “Hot”: Ten Products to Keep Your Home Warm and systems have a lower tolerance to temperature , Remodeling Your Kitchen extremes and can killed by freezing low temperature , Geomantic Rules in the Living Room s.A common way to prevent desiccation is to screen plant , FALL IS THE TIME TO WINTERIZE YOUR DECK s in exposed areas with Burlap . Varmit control is important in the winter. , Rustic stone house signs Mice and rabbits feed constantly . Their teeth grow , Is Big Brother Watching You? Or Are You Watching Big Brother constantly and they love to chew on tender plants. , The Garden As Healer We spread rat and mice bait about every two to threes weeks as long as we see it being consumed. Try and place , A New Outdoor Craft Idea for All Ages the baits in a place , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen where its easy to moniter, dry, and accessable only to the varmits. When the snow , Culinary Herb Gardening gets deep mice will feed up higher on the plants. , Repairing holes in Sheetrocked Walls They don't like to dig in the snow , Bathroom Remodel - The Plan for food. , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen They take the easy to reach food , Choosing A Realtor first. Thus tracks in the snow , Next Day Flower Delivery are an important sign to watch for. Mouse damage is usually not correctable. You may not see root , The Garden As Healer feeding damage to stock till spring, , Bathroom Remodel - The Plan so over baiting is the best solution. Care should be taken that the baits are only available to the target varmit. Viburnums are the most attractive, versatile, adaptable shrubs , A New Outdoor Craft Idea for All Ages for any landscape. , 8 Simple Tips to Keep Your Lawn Mower Running They can be used as hedges , Planting your Roses or screens and in mixed perennial/shrub borders. They can also stand alone as specimen plants. , Are you in search of the latest opinion regarding lighting. They usually take the form of shrubs, , FALL IS THE TIME TO WINTERIZE YOUR DECK but some species can become small ornamental tree , Extending the living space outdoors – working with color s. They range in size from the Dwarf American Cranberrybush at 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide, to the Siebold at over 15 feet tall. We feel that Viburnums are plants , Next Day Flower Delivery that have great winter , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing interest. All Viburnums have white , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen to pink flowers , CHOOSING A VINYL REPLACEMENT WINDOW CONTRACTOR in the spring , Repairing holes in Sheetrocked Walls . The foliage is large, attractive and often textured leaves. Some viburnums have fragrant flowers , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien that are produced in snowball shaped clusters in April. Their flower , Tips for Growing Healthy Potato Plants clusters can consist of pink buds, , The Garden As Healer which develop into white flowers. , Granite Preformed Rock Pond Kits Some fruit , Granite Preformed Rock Pond Kits s are red and turn black with age usually bitter tasting. Leaves can be glossy, dark green , Hemorrhoids - What Do I Need To Do? and turn a burgundy color , How To Create Your Own Humming Bird Nectar... in the fall. , A New Outdoor Craft Idea for All Ages Midsummer berries are an important food , Developing the Perfect Landscaping Idea source for bird , The way of the future is turn to solar s. Viburnums have colorful red to purple leaves. Some viburnums can become medium-size trees, , Is Big Brother Watching You? Or Are You Watching Big Brother especially if they are prune , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen d. Viburnums excel as specimen plants , Part VI: Home Buyer Terms and Definitions or as anchors in mixed borders. You won't find a more versatile group of shrubs , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing for hedges , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen or for massing in groups, since viburnums hold their own in every season. , Planting your Roses Some viburnums, such as Prague viburnum 'Pragense', are evergreen. Others, such as leatherleaf viburnum, are semi-evergreen in colder climates, , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen losing their leaves when temperature , A Look at Aluminum Awnings s dip below 10 degrees. The great feature , Repairing holes in Sheetrocked Walls of Viburnums is that they are adaptabe. While they would like full sun , Some Like It “Hot”: Ten Products to Keep Your Home Warm and and moderately watered, well-drained rich soils, , Multi-Purpose Pond Pumps Ideal for Small Water Gardens they will grow , ing Hybrid Grapes very well in part shade, and in clay soil , Common Garden Flower Diseases s. Diseases , Hemorrhoids - What Do I Need To Do? and pests , Culinary Herb Gardening rarely attack them and they don't tend to have to be spayed. My kids have run over them with brush hogs and they survived. Their fibrous root , How To Create Your Own Humming Bird Nectar... system makes them transplant easily. In your search for a good, hardy shrub , Borrow on a Budget: Getting the Cheapest Home Improvement Lo with winter , A Look at Aluminum Awnings interest consider the Viburnum family. Viburnums have long been popular garden , Fertilizing Your Flowers And The Importance Of Choosing The Right Flower Food plants, known for their white , Multi-Purpose Pond Pumps Ideal for Small Water Gardens , sometimes fragrant spring flowers, , Beat the Heat - choosing an Air Conditioner and their fall , Tips for Growing Healthy Potato Plants color. But it's the Asian viburnums that have so far been most noteworthy. Perhaps the most liked viburnums are the Burkwood viburnum (Viburnum x burkwoodii), and the Korean spice viburnum (V. carlesii), both of which fill your landscape , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien with pleasant odors in the spring. , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing Also popular is the doublefile viburnum (V. plicatum f. tomentosum), valued for its layered habit, fall , Are you in search of the latest opinion regarding lighting. foliage, and clusters of red fruits. , Planting your Roses Viburnum acerifolium (Maple-leafed viburnum) Although I wouldn't plant , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing a landscape , Sedona Arizona Real Estate is Red Hot without viburnums, I have a special fondness for several of our native viburnums. They may not provide the great flower , Common Garden Diseases fragrance of their Asian counterparts, but I love them not only for their rich fall , Carpenters colors ,but for that fact they help attract and feed so many of our wild birds , A New Outdoor Craft Idea for All Ages that liven up our landscape , Part VI: Home Buyer Terms and Definitions durring the long winter. , Can your sundial really tell the time? In addition, several are great for urban conditions. They require only corrective pruning, , Homeowner Demand Sparks Innovation in Hardwood Flooring and seldom commonly suffer from pests , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien or diseases. , Are you in search of the latest opinion regarding lighting. I would be hard pressed to say which viburnum I would choose if I could only have one. Viburnums are moist woodland plants. , FALL IS THE TIME TO WINTERIZE YOUR DECK In nature , Safety Concerns with Heat Exchangers they are found along steam banks from Long Island to Florida. When you come to our 5275 West Swamp Rd. location , Multi-Purpose Pond Pumps Ideal for Small Water Gardens ask us to show some in their native habitat , Beat the Heat - choosing an Air Conditioner that we found along our stream bank. These plants , The way of the future is turn to solar perform well under normal landscape , Borrow on a Budget: Getting the Cheapest Home Improvement Lo conditions. I especially like the floral display in the spring , Fertilizing Your Flowers And The Importance Of Choosing The Right Flower Food and these viburnums that bear fruit , Carpenters in the fall. , Borrow on a Budget: Getting the Cheapest Home Improvement Lo Winterthur has great red leaves and abundant fruit , FALL IS THE TIME TO WINTERIZE YOUR DECK in the fall. , Creating Wildflower Meadows This cultivar needs a cross pollinator such as viburnum nudum. If you want things to do in the winter , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing this is when I cut back our viburnums. Pressing issues of the other seasons , Are you in search of the latest opinion regarding lighting. always leaves my viburnums to stand alone untouched. It is mid winter , Growing Hybrid Grapes and I always enjoy trimming back these plants , Kitchen Trends: Adding Spice to your Kitchen then. I see all the nests that the birds , Repairing holes in Sheetrocked Walls haver built and can work without disturbing their families. It seems to me that it is easier to cut back and trim now for I always feel bad in the summer , Tips For Successful Backyard Grape Growing when I trim out green , A Look at Electrician Training foliage. When trimming foliage I always guilty cutting greens , A Look at Electrician Training off of the plant , Some Like It “Hot”: Ten Products to Keep Your Home Warm and s. Wintertime frees me from those demons. You can see more out plants , A New Outdoor Craft Idea for All Ages at the following web , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien site http://www.seedlingsrus.com

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