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Creating a pollinators’ garden is an easy and inexpensive way to start an adventure in gardening. Anyone with a desire to grow plants and affect the environment in a positive way can grow a pollinators’ garden. These are things to consider before starting the garden: Pollinator plants are just as the name describes, plants that…
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By Amy Rhoads, Paulding County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer With Spring nearly here, the thoughts of many new plant enthusiasts turn to beautiful flowers and luscious gardens. The phrase, “right place, right plant,” is a guiding principle in any gardening effort, and brings our attention to basic horticulture practices. “Right place” refers to light, temperature,…
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By Rachel Dutton, Paulding County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer Every Spring and Fall, when wildflowers, ferns, native shrubs, and native trees awake from their dormancy, I have noticed the variety of ferns and wildflowers in my yard. Being a curious gardener, I wondered how many varieties of ferns could be found in Paulding County. One…
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Do you have a Christmas cactus that seems to bloom early each year, and you wonder what you’ve done wrong? It could be that Thanksgiving is in fact the right time for your plant to flower. The sharp-toothed edges of this plant suggest it is a Thanksgiving cactus, a species of its own. A Christmas…
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Have you enjoyed the sweet smell of Chinese privet blooms or the loved the privacy provided by Callery pear trees? Have you wondered why so many plant enthusiasts hate them? Sometimes it is hard to see beyond our own backyards to the ecological and financial harm afforded by privets, kudzu, mimosas, English ivy, Callery pears…
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Summer is here and so is the onslaught of summer weeds. A weed that is problematic for many gardeners is Chamberbitter (Phyllanthus niruri). It is also referred to as “Little Mimosa” because its leaf resembles the Mimosa leaf. Another name for it is, “Gripeweed,” maybe because folks “gripe” about how hard it is to eliminate.…
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Poison ivy Photo by David J. Moorhead, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
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Every year at Easter, you can find the beautiful white flowers of the Easter lily, Lilium longiflorum, gracing the altars at churches and for sale in nurseries. Covered in large, showy white flowers, Easter Lilies have come to represent the essence of Easter: purity, virtue, innocence, hope, and life. If you receive an Easter lily…
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Making seed tapes are a good project for doing with children and those that have physical limitations that can keep them from spending much time in the garden. The seed tapes can be made in your home and be ready for planting when Spring comes. Seed tapes are an easy way for children and gardeners…
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The dazzling display of crimson and orange as autumn summons the changes in the colors of leaves will soon fade within a matter of weeks as tree leaves settle to the ground at our feet. To the untrained eye, their purpose seems to have ended only to be tossed to-and-fro by the wind across our…
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