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By Jacob Martin | Greenhouse Manager at Mercer Botanic Garden Mercer was hit hard by Harvey and we lost many of our structures and plants. Our entire nursery including some of our larger specimen trees floated away. But sometimes you have to find the good in the bad....
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By Ceil Dow | MERCER HORTICULTURIST | HARRIS COUNTY MASTER GARDENER Bring on the heat! Gingers wait out the drab, cold winter days and rainy spring just to bloom when our weather gets nice and hot! Try a variety of rare and exclusive ginger plants: HIDDEN GINGERS: ...
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by Jean Fefer | Harris County Master Gardener The Fall vegetable garden is my favorite garden. No rush to get my tomatoes in to win the earliest and the biggest. No waiting for it to warm up enough to plant cucumbers, peppers and eggplant. August is a busy planting...
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GET OFF TO THE RIGHT START WITH BULB & PLANT MART AMARYLLIS by Nancy Wilson Kelley | Garden Club of Houston Amaryllis (Hippeastrum Amaryllidaceae) are among the easiest bulbs to grow in Houston. Each year at The Garden Club of Houston’s annual Bulb and...
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GET MORE AND GIVE MORE WITH YOUR PLANTINGS! By Erin Mills Cockrell Butterfly Center We all love to attract butterflies with sweet nectar-producing plants. Spying these delightful flutterers brings joy and a sense of purpose and accomplishment to our gardens. Plenty...
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By William Isbell Adapted from William’s full “GARDENING WITH CHILDREN” article on the Harris County Master Gardener website http://hcmga.tamu.edu/Public/childGarden.aspx Many of my fondest childhood memories center on gardening with my...
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John’s Corner: Gardening Q&A By John Ferguson My name is LaShonda Potter. I had a few questions in regards to rubber mats or rubber mulching. My 18 month old son received 1st degree burns yesterday from standing on a rubber hump looking thing at the...
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John’s Corner: Gardening News By John Ferguson A new study from the University of Otago in New Zealand has found that after ingesting very small amount of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, honeybees suffer severe learning and memory problems (they could not remember...
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GARDENING FOR WILDLIFE AS A CITIZEN SCIENTIST By Lauren J. Simpson We know that birds, butterflies, and bees are in trouble. We want to help, but we don’t always know the best ways. After all, most of us are not entomologists, wildlife biologists, or even...
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GARDEN CLUB TOURS WIN-WIN FOR EVERYONE, ALWAYS SURPRISES by the League City Garden Club, League City, TX | Leaguecitygardenclub.org Everyone should join a local garden tour…any place, any time. Surprises await you just beyond the garden gate: Displays are...
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GARDENING FOR AMPHIBIANS By Cassidy Johnson, PH.D. T.O.A.D. (Texas Organization for Amphibian Diversity) www.thehoustontoad.org The greater Houston area is home to several species frogs and toads, many of which make their homes in our outdoor spaces. These...
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FRAGRANT AND NIGHT-BLOOMING GARDENS by Judy Jones Ulke | Enchanted Landscapes & Nurseries Spring is FINALLY here….seemed it was a loooong time coming! When you own and work in a garden center the word “Spring” brings to mind many things. Truth be...
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JOHN’S CORNER: FLOURIDE Update #3 By John Ferguson I was reading another article on the dangers of fluoride in our water system this week. According to the CDC dental fluorosis continues to rise in the USA as shown in the chart below and it is hurting our children the...
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JOHN’S CORNER: FLOURIDE Update #2 By John Ferguson A customer wrote in this week about removing chlorine and other chemicals for a community garden. Hence today’s topic. Martha, There are three toxic ingredients found in municipal water in Texas that have the...
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JOHN’S CORNER: FLOURIDE By John Ferguson Over the years I have found that when I visit properties or talk with customers, over watering is the problem at least 85% of the time. I have also known for years that chlorine and chloramines that are added to our...
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JOHN’S CORNER: FOOD FOR THOUGHT by John Ferguson More and more Americans are growing their own food, from vegetable gardens to fruits and berries. Did you think about “Why”? In previous articles we have talked about the dangers and problem caused by...
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“FIREFLIES OF TEXAS: GLOWING, GLOWING, GONE”! By Ben Pfeiffer | Firefly.org Gardeners often don’t realize gardens make for great firefly habitat, helping to replace lost natural habitat. The common firefly — the Big Dipper firefly (Photinus...
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JOHN’S CORNER: Fire Ants by John Ferguson We often get asked questions from customers to readers of the newsletter on how to control fire ants. There are both cultural and physical/chemical methods to help control this pest. Managing fire ants starts with observing...
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FERNS FOR TERRARIUM OR BOTTLE GARDENS By Darla Harris | The Fern Plantation | Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society Who does not love that pop of nature in our homes, but growing plants in our humidity free homes in the Houston area can be a challenge. Glass containers can be...
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Feng Shui Your Garden for a Happy Home ©2016 Katherine Ashby www.fengshuihouston.com 713-688-0980 together8@gmail.com Feng shui deals with the energy of a place, called qi (chee). The goal of landscape feng shui is to harness beneficial qi from the land and direct it...
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FALL INTO WINTER (& FOOTBALL)WITH LOTS OF COLOR IN THE YARD! By: LINDA B. GAY | Horticulturist and Gardener | lgay4756@gmail.com Nothing says Christmas like red and white cyclamen. In the shade container, I like to use mixed red and white cyclamen – not...
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Fall Care for Daylilies (Includes planting new ones!) By MARY GAGE & JEANNIE MALICK | Cypress Creek Daylily Club October is the prime time in the Houston area to plant daylilies. Plant daylilies now to reestablish a strong root system that will be better able to...
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FABULOUS & FRAGRANT SHRUB ROSES OF DAVID AUSTIN by Gaye Hammond | Master Rosarian & Past President Houston Rose Society As one of the most famous rose breeders, David Austin introduced over 190 rose cultivars during his lifetime. Many of them not only send out...
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MAKE PRUNING MISTAKES . . . by Baxter Williams | Houston Rose Society The Houston Rose Society has partnered with Texas AgriLife Extension’s Harris County Office and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer to evaluate a collection of modern hybrid tea and...
