Crape Mrytles: Summer Show Stoppers
Shorts, sun tan lotion, t-shirts, the beach. All are symbols of hot summer weather. Ah, but we've forgotten the summer garden show stopper: none other than crape myrtles! Yes, Lagerstroemia is another way to gauge hot weather. Crape myrtles are ... [... more]
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What's New In Gardening, March 16 2000
What's new - this month we have nursery sales and internet only specials, space saving garden systems and cold hardy crape myrtles - plus hope for those who forgot to plant daffodils last fall. It's spring! In my yard right now I have snowdrops ... [... more]
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Summer Shrub Hit Parade Part Two
In my experience, from about zone 6b north, crepe myrtles often grow as "dieback" shrubs, meaning they may winterkill to the ground in bad winters. That's okay since they bloom on the new wood anyway. In spring, simply remove any truly dead [... more]
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October Questions & Answers
October garden questions and answers. Crape myrtles, hollyhocks and hydroseeding lawns. It's the last of the month, which means garden questions and answers again! Q. We have five crape myrtle trees in our back yard. They were planted about four ... [... more]
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June Garden Questions & Answers
June Garden Questions & Answers. Includes weed-killing recipe utilizing sulphate of ammonia fertilizer, recommended pink roses and crape myrtles. Q. I was really interested in your weed-killing recipe utilizing sulphate of ammonia in a recent ... [... more]
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The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town
 True To Life: As an Interior Designer who grew up in the bayou, I find this book to be right on the money. It's better than I ever expected. Anyone who is trying to learn more about Louisiana living or just wants to reflect on childhood memories would [... more]
CDN$45.15
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Simon & Schuster'S Guide To Bonsai
Encyclopedia Bonsai: The first one hundred or so pages of this book are devoted to the art of Bonsai before it goes into description of the different types of Bonsai. For each listing there is a photo of the tree in Bonsai form, as well as four icons. [... more]
CDN$24.50
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The Natural Shade Garden
From Amazon.com: Shade can be a gardener's curse or delight, depending on how it's managed. Even a heavy grove of mature trees needn't have bare ground beneath; they can be surrounded with any number of shade-loving foliage, grasses, or grasslike ground [... more]
CDN$68.00
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The Hillier Gardener's Guide to Trees and Shrubs
Superb! Better than Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: Every connoisseur of ornamental trees & shrubs will love this book. Containing more than 3,000 crisp, very detailed color photos, including the most awesome Cedar of Lebanon photo one can imagine, it [... more]
CDN$59.95
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