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By Melody Hill Mercer Botanic Gardens Program Coordinator On August 27, 2018, one year after Hurricane Harvey, Mercer Botanic Gardens opened the Tropical Garden. One year before, up to 12 feet of flood waters covered this garden, but now it resembles the lush Yucatan...
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MANY SAGO PALMS WILL DIE (if action by owners is not taken) by Patrick Hudnall, Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society Many homes are landscaped with Sago Palms. Not actually palms, these plants are cycads. (Cycads are very distant relatives of ferns but some are often...
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MAGNOLIA SCHOOL CHILDREN EXPANDING GARDEN EXPERIENCE AND HABITAT WITH AQUAPONICS by Merrie Decker Montgomery County Master Gardener Bear Branch Elementary, Magnolia ISD, has introduced aquaponics to their well-established gardening program. The six-year-old state...
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LOW SPOT IN YARD? BOG-DWELLING CARNIVOROUS PLANTS LOVING OUR RAINS . . . & first ever Free Texas Carnivorous Plant Show, Sale & Swap! By MIKE HOWLETT | Petflytrap.com Springtime in the Houston area is known for being a good time to be outdoors, and also for...
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LOSING LEAVES A POTENTIAL OAK PROBLEM By: Laura Medick Arborist, Mercer Botanic Gardens In order to address any tree problems, it is critical to first understand tree decline. When identifying a cause for progressive loss of tree health in the urban landscape, it is...
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LOOKING FOR EDIBLE FALL GARDEN WINNERS? BY BARBARA BUCKLEY Fort Bend County Master Gardeners Pictured above are two of the plants FORT BEND COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS expect to be best-sellers at their Sat., Oct. 7, Fall VegetableHerb Plant Sale — Mexican Mint Marigold...
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LOOKING FOR FERNS IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES BY PANAYOTI KELAIDIS Denver Botanic Gardens Senior Curator / Director of Outreach If you want to see a fern in Colorado, good luck! Although we have nearly a hundred kinds of ferns and fern allies, most are tucked on...
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Little-known facts behind our everyday botanical landscape … By MATT WARNOCK TURNER, Ph.D, Naturalist, Author, Teacher University of Texas drmattturner.com / Photos by Matt Warnock Turner EDITOR’S NOTE: Matt Warnock Turner contact: drmattturner.com For the...
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM FREEZE COMPILED BY MEAGAN TERRY | URBAN HARVEST CLASSES COORDINATOR “The most significant change I’m doing is not being as cavalier with the potatoes (Irish) planting time,” reports Pilar Hernandez, Garden Coordinator for Dominican...
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…NOT THAT Landscaping with our ecology in mind BY MARTHA RICHESON Clear Lake Chapter, Native Plant Society of Texas (Excerpted from Martha’s “This Evergreen Instead of “That” article on the CLC NPSOT website...
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KOKEDAMA —PERFECT FOR SMALL SPACES! BY KAT TONDRE Galveston County Master Gardener Welcome to a new way of gardening! This art form of gardening, Kokedama, was created in Japan in the early 1600s. Kokedama translates “moss ball”, basically a plant...
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JULY & AUGUST IN HOUSTON AREA VEGETABLE GARDENS by Bob Randall, Ph.D. Excerpted from ” Planning the Fall Vegetable Garden” (Houston Chronicle) By August, warmth-loving quick-growing veggies can go in the ground. Plant bush snap bean seeds, Edamame...
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JOURNALING – YOU’LL BE SO GLAD YOU STARTED ONE By Tiffany McElweenie Naturalist, Houston Arboretum & Nature Center What is a Nature Journal? Keeping a journal to document the world around us is a centuries old tradition. It’s a way to jot...
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JEWELS OF THE JUNGLELOW USING BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL PLANTS THAT CLEANSE YOUR INDOOR SPACE By Linda Gay Beauty and Breath is what tropical plants create in our home. You could say we have a symbiotic relationship with plants. They breathe the carbon dioxide we exhale and...
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INVALUABLE UNDERSTORY PLANTS THAT PROVIDE FOOD SUPPORT FOR MIGRATORY AND RESIDENT BIRDS By ROBBIN MALLETT President, Cullinan Park Conservancy Pigeonberry (Rivina humilis), left above, and American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana), right, are invaluable understory...
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“It Is As Hot As H____” by Baxter Williams ARS Master Rosarian Houston Rose Society The roses seem to handle the heat much better than I do; at least they don’t show sweat and need to have their clothes washed every evening. Since...
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By Angela Chandler The Garden Academy (www.thegardenacademy.com) www.facebook.com/thegardenacademy Organic gardeners often speak about beneficial insects. They are one of our front-line, chemical-free defenses against pest species. But how do we get the army of...
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IT’S ALMOST VALENTINE’S DAY — TIME TO PRUNE MOST ROSES! by Baxter Williams Houston Rose Society Your roses are at their most dormant state, so they will not even notice what you are doing to them. Prune bushes to prevent disease, and to produce more...
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IS YOUR CLUB PLANT SALE WILTING FASTER THAN PLANTS IN AN AUGUST GARDEN? By Diana Miller Program Director, The Great Grow Now that many Fall Garden Club Plant Sales are wrapping up, some with disappointing results, the rash decision may be to give it all up. Time,...
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I.W.M. – Integrated Weed Management by Anna Wygrys, Galveston County Master Gardeners Integrated Weed Management? Never heard of it? Integrated Weed Management is an international educational program researched, designed, implemented, and sponsored by...
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IS IT DEAD-DEAD? OR JUST DORMANT? By Barbara Canetti | Galveston County Master Gardener Sometimes that sad, droopy, brown plant can surprise you. It may look dead, after the two super cold snaps in the Greater Houston area this season. But those plants may be more...
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By Dennis Werner | Dept. of Horticutural Science, North Carolina State University There are certainly many shared similarities between crape myrtle and redbud as it relates to the available genetic diversity that can be exploited in a breeding program, and the...
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Indoor Composting for Outdoor Success By Angela Chandler | The Garden Academy (www.thegardenacademy.com) | www.facebook.com/thegardenacademy Everyone wants to compost. We all know composting is good for the garden and good for the environment. But physical...
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IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, TRY NATIVE PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN! by BOB DAILEY | Pines and Prairies Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas They’re diverse. They’re beautiful. They’re hardy. And they’ve been around well before humans ever set foot on this...
