Smart Shopping, Healthy Seedlings and Other April News
View as a PDF “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy plants, and that’s the same thing.” – Unknown Smart Shopping At The Garden Center! This time of year is when the trucks start filling the garden centers with fresh plant material and new varieties! Growers who have been growing their new stock […]
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Start Now For a Rosy Summer
View As PDF By Dawn Pettinelli, UConn Home & Garden Education Center The warmer days of spring will soon be upon us and it is time to think about spring rose care. Any winter protection such as mounded soil, mulch, leaves or rose cones that were placed around grafted bushes should be removed. Release […]
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- Vernal Pools April 25, 2024It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see –Henry David Thoreau Vernal pools are unique wetlands that have a cycle of flooding and drying every year. They can occur in woodlands, open areas, swamps and even fields or other places where a depression allows water to collect over winter and spring […]uconnladybug
- Bulb Diseases April 21, 2024Gardens in New England come to life in spring thanks, in large part, to bulbs! Spring bulbs are reliable, perennial color-bringers and seem equally at place in landscapes and containers. Daffodils (Narcissus spp.), grape hyacinth (Muscari spp.), and tulips (Tulipa spp.), are just some of the bulb plants that grace our gardens this time of […]uconnladybug