207 articles on "plants"

Pruning Your Orchid Plants

Pruning Your OrchidThe flowers have all died and when should you cut the stalk back and how far?Pruning an orchid stalk (spike) should cause no harm to the plant. However, some orchids will produce new bloom shoots from the nodes on the old blossom s...

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Ladybugs, Ladybugs, Come to My Garden

Ladybugs, Ladybugs, Come to My Garden by: Lesley Dietschy Ladybugs, also called lady beetles or ladybirds, can be a gardener’s best friend. The ladybug’s bright coloring brings welcomed cheer to the garden, as well as helping with pest contr...

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Grow Cantaloupes in Your Garden

Cantaloupe is a delicious and nutritious gardening crop. There are so many variations that sometimes it is sometimes difficult to choose which to grow. The the flesh of the cantaloupe fruit can have an orange or deep yellow color. The juicy, deliciou...

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Grow Carnivorous Plants with Conviction

In high school, my music teacher taught us that if you are going to make a mistake, do it with conviction.What he meant by that was that if our mistakes sounded sheepish and tentative, we were most likely playing sheepishly and tentatively, which rui...

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How to Grow Avocado

How to Grow Avocado by: Hans Dekker Fruit gardening and vegetable gardening is a very exciting venture. Growing Avocado's was one of the challenges I took on as a hobby fruit and vegetable gardener. When you are not an inhabitant of state w...

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Perennials in the Flower Garden

Perennials are the basic flowers of any flower garden. To many people, a flower garden is simply beds of perennials. Each year they die and renew themselves for the next growing season. They can be long-lived and last for many seasons. However, care ...

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What Do Sheep Eat? - Diet For Raising Healthy Sheep

Sheep are largely grazing herbivores, unlike browsing animals such as goats and deer that favor taller plants. With a much narrower features, sheep crop plants very close to the ground and can overgraze a grazing land much quicker than cattle. For th...

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Choosing Pond Plants

Choosing Pond Plants by: Brett Fogle A pond without plants is like cake without icing. Pond plants fight algae, give fish a hiding place against predators, and beautify our own little slice of paradise to plunk down in at the end of a tiring day...

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How To Use Biennials & Perennials In Landscaping Your Garden

BiennialsBiennials are generally very beautiful plants, with most attractive flowers. They are somewhat more trouble for the gardener, since they keep growing during their first year and do not bloom until the second. Their great advantage is that t...

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Understanding Your Breasts Making an Informed Decision About Breast Implants

A woman's breast is a gland that produces milk in late pregnancy and after childbirth. Each breast is made of lobes which are groups of milk glands called lobules. Lobules are arranged around thin tubes called ducts which carry the milk to the n...

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