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  • pike36 : Kudos to you folks on the Garden List of Common Poisonous Flowers. Excellent job...great source of information.
  • pike36 : I may have to order more lilies from the co-op!
  • pike36 : Spring needs to come soon.
  • pike36 : distantkin, are you snowed under? we received about 8" of new snow
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  • cocoon72 : still not understanding the water district-- like municipal water dept?
  • cocoon72 : on purpose-- and act surprised about our weather!
  • okiebum : yes we have water districts here, drinking water
  • cocoon72 : --where who come here for say work or school
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  • cocoon72 : I get a kick out of people from else--
  • AggressiveNa : nice chatting, cocoon.
  • AggressiveNa : Well have fun at the meeting, Okie, and good luck with the DR. appointment. Gotta run for a bit and do some work. HAGD
  • cocoon72 : oh, it's just weather.
  • AggressiveNa : If I were you, I would too, cocoon.


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For the Love of a Gardener PDF Print E-mail
Written by Sandra Mason Illinois Extension   
Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:00

image by Sister72

Plant lists can read like a dime store novel: love-in-a-mist, love-in-a-puff, love-lies-bleeding, lovage and even love grass. The garden is one big love fest. If you spend even a miniscule amount of time in the garden you know it's not always party time. Each year we gardeners must survive and hopefully thrive through pestilence, drought, flood, wind, and woes. We do it because gardening is so much more than just a pretty plant or a tasty veggie. For survivors, however, we have surprisingly delicate garden egos.
Last Updated on Monday, 01 February 2010 09:20
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Ditch Lily Latin: Hemerocallis fulva PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gerald Klingaman, retired Extension Horticulturist U of A   
Friday, 05 February 2010 00:00

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BURST OF ORANGE -- The commonly seen and often maligned ditch lily was one of the plants that helped unlock the success of modern daylily breeding.

Daylilies are common fare in gardens with modern kinds displaying an array of pastel shades in bi- and tri-color combinations, wavy margins and about every other imaginable variation. The modern daylily is an engineered plant and very different than the dozen or so species from which modern cultivars were produced. One of the parents of the modern daylily, Hemerocallis fulva, gets little respect and goes by such derogatory names as ditch lily, outhouse lily or officially, the tawny daylily.

The ditch lily is the vigorous orange-flowered deciduous daylily with typical inch-wide linear leaves that arise from a central clump and reach about 2 feet long. The flowers appear on a 3- to 4-foot tall scape held well above the foliage in June and July. Flowers are 5 inches across and orange with a yellow throat. Blooms open mid-morning and wither by the end of the day.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2010 20:21
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White Russian Fig Latin: Ficus Carica PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gerald Klingaman, retired Extension Horticulturist U of A   
Friday, 05 February 2010 00:00

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Blanche (White Russian) is one of the cold-hardy figs commonly grown by southern gardeners.

Figs have lingered in the back of my consciousness since I was a child. Fig Newtons were offered up occasionally as snacks during the week, and on Sundays we were served up stories about the Garden of Eden and how fig leaves were used to clothe the nakedness of Adam and Eve. But, not being a child of the Deep South, it was years before I encountered my first fig tree.

The common fig (Ficus carica) is the most cold hardy of the 2,000 or so species of Ficus that grow as trees, shrubs and vines in tropical regions around the world. It’s a deciduous tree in the mulberry family that can reach 25 or 30 feet tall and wide. The original range of the tree was probably in western Asia from Turkey to India, but it has been grown in the Mediterranean region for at least 4,000 years. It came to the New World with the first Spanish explorers.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2010 20:21
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