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Elephant Ears for Your Garden Zoo
Drooping and upright elephant ears are tropical plants that thrive in our hot humid summers. These ornamental plants are deer resistant and love damp partial to full shade environments. Explore a few of the many colors, patterns, and leaf shapes available to discover what may fit into in your tropical garden.
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Native Ground and Stem Nesting Bees
Many of our native bees do not form social hives. Many are solitary insects that build their home nests in the ground or in the hollow stems of plants. Discover some of our native bees, their habits, and their lifecycles, and learn how you can identify and encourage these native pollinators.
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Stressed Out Trees
Tress can be stressed out for many reasons. Stress from improper mulching, incorrect planting, drought, and disease can show up in many ways. Sparse leaves, lowing leaves, roots on the soil surface are all ways trees tell us they are under duress. Learn now the signs the tree is exhibiting can help you pinpoint its problems.
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Made for the Shade
This member of the sunflower family loves growing in partial to full shade, unlike its sun-loving cousin. Except for some slugs and occasional powdery mildew, there are few problems that attack this plant. Even deer learn to leave it alone. Read about this late summer blooming plant that adds some color to your shade garden.
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A Vining Indestructible Weed
Bindweed grows fast and deep, making it difficult to control. Add that to its vining twining habit, and you might find it too difficult to eradicate. But, this perennial sun-loving produces flowers, similar to morning glories, provideng something to enjoy. Read about this and other similar weeds of the same family.
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Last Call for Vegetable Gardening
Many vegetables grow well in the late summer season going into the fall. Some are crops welcome the cooler temperatures of autumn, and some require a one or two month growing season – shorter than summer. Explore what you can plant at this time of year, and use August as a time to sow for one final fall harvest.
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