How to Grow and Care for Natal Plum Trees The Natal Plum tree is a low growing evergreen shrub that blooms for months at a time. The star-shaped white blooms create a lovely contrast to the rich deep green foliage and will bloom longer and more frequently when presented by all day sun. Also, in…
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How Constant Trimming is Hurting Your Trees and Shrubs Pruning is important for training the plant; maintaining plant health; improving the quality of flowers, fruit, foliage, or stems; and restricting growth. Homeowners everywhere turn their attention to the yard when spring arrives. It seems to be an instinct humans have, the need to whip your…
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How To Add Layers of Interest To Your Landscaping It may be a lot easier to plan and implement a landscape design that is all on one level, but achieving this much interest on a flat piece of ground is difficult. There is just something about layers that instantly adds interest on well… so many…
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What Is Sustainable Gardening? Sustainable gardening is the idea that you can maintain a garden or landscape that is both healthy for us but good for nature as well by growing native plants, using less water and no chemicals. Sustainable gardening is very popular in the Southwest right now with much of the area in…
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Identify Hardy Desert Plants Besides the obvious method of looking at the nursery pot tag, there is an alternative method for discovering which desert plants will be drought tolerant. You may find it interesting to know that nature has endowed plants with distinctive features that make it possible to sort them into probable growing condition…
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