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		<title>Succulent Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<title>Rust on Oxalis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flower Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is so delightful when plants are opening and the weather isn&#8217;t too hot and the pests and diseases haven&#8217;t yet struck the garden. This year everything seems to be accelerated.  Even though I have been spraying my roses with horticultural oil (including a pinch of baking soda as directed), black spot has already damaged the ones in my front garden. This afternoon I saw that one of my purple oxalis plants has developed bright orange rust. I&#8217;m going to try spraying it with the same oil mixture, as it is supposed to be a fungicide. It&#8217;s almost impossible to get rid of oxalis once it gets going but it has looked so pretty in my border. I hate to see it fall prey to the rust so early in the season.]]></description>
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		<title>Fun in the Shade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gardening Info]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aucuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[azaleas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hydrangea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us love living in Atlanta partly because we live in a forest. The canopy of trees softens the concrete aspects of the big city. The drawback to those stately old trees is the heavy shade beneath them. It&#8217;s a challenge to have an interesting garden in the shade. Ferns If you have a very shady area under your trees, try planting a variety of ferns. Our humid summers are perfect for ferns. When we have droughts they do need to be watered, but they are surprisingly hardy. There are so many varieties of ferns and they blend in well with other shade tolerant plants, such as Ironweed and Lenten Roses. The fern featured above, Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis), also called Bead Fern because of the appearance of the seed stalks, comes out with all other ferns in the spring, but at the first touch of frost, withers and retreats. It is a very delicate light green fern and spreads profusely. In the picture above, it is growing in pleasant contrast to the lenten roses in my garden. It is also very striking next to the bold-leaved dark green of the holly fern, or nestled at the base of azaleas or nandinas. Some other ferns that do well in Atlanta gardens include lady fern, red stemmed lady fern, Japanese painted fern, autumn fern, cinnamon fern, chain fern, and horsetail (yes, horsetail is a fern!). Shade Shrubs Azaleas and nandinas also do well in the shade, as do aucuba, mahonia ...]]></description>
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		<title>Plant Summer Bulbs Now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bulbs, Corms & Tubers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget to plant summer bulbs this spring. In July, August and September, you will be delighted that you did. This beautiful Oriental lily is an example of the wonders in store &#8211; it perfumes the area around it as well as being exotically beautiful. I have listed these bulbs by their common names rather than botanical, since most of us are just garden hobbyists and not botanists! Alliums Alliums &#8211; Onions, leeks, chives, garlic &#8211; these are all alliums. However, there are a wide assortment of showy flowering varieties. They can be planted by scattering the seeds directly into the garden, where they will mature into mass displays of bulbs. One of the showier varieties is the drumstick. The flower starts out round headed, but as the blossoms open they elongate, and create the shape of a pear or a drumstick. Since these plants have very slender sparse foliage, mix them in among shrubs or perennials. They reach a height of about 18 inches and flourish in full sun or light shade. Caladiums The shade gardener&#8217;s jewel &#8211; tucked in clumps among ferns under trees, or massed in spectacular borders, the caladium brightens the shade. Every year more varieties come out, some more sun tolerant than the old varieties. For best effect, mass these plants. They are not winter hardy &#8211; dig in the fall, let the foliage die off and pack in loose sphagnum and store over winter in a cool dry spot (not a freezing one!). Canna ...]]></description>
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		<title>Daylilies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gardening Info]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daylilies were considered a simple roadside wildflower, always orange singles, when I was growing up. Admittedly, that was a while ago, because now there are over 1100 varieties available. People simply fall in love with this hardy lily and cross breed it, creating wonderful varieties. It has everything you could ask from a perennial. The daylily blooms in June and July in the summer heat, usually for about a month. Every morning the long stemmed trumpets open with the daylight. The daylily can thrive in poor soil, in full sun or partial shade (this means six hours of sunlight a day). Daylilies are generous, they multiply readily. They come in single varieties, or double. If you search the Internet, you&#8217;ll quickly find gardening societies and nurseries dedicated to this stalwart plant. You&#8217;ll find a link to the Daylily Society on our page. Daylilies are often &#8216;passalong&#8217; plants, shared from one gardener to another. In my tiny garden I have three varieties, a pure gold single, a double orange, and the beautiful dark red lily that is shown on this page.]]></description>
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		<title>Between the (Backyard) Hedges with Coach Vince Dooley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lynn Coulter “I can’t tell a gladiola from a grapefruit,” Barbara Dooley says with a laugh. “But that’s okay, because I’m married to my yardman.” Barbara’s husband isn’t just any yardman. He’s former University of Georgia Bulldog Coach Vince Dooley, and while he handles more peonies than pigskins these days, he isn’t complaining. Since giving up coaching in 1989, Georgia’s winningest football coach has made a name for himself on a new playing field: the 2-½ acres he shares with Barbara at their home in Athens. While Barbara loves flowers, she’s happy to leave the digging and watering to Dooley, who has landscaped their property over the years with hundreds of dogwoods and dahlias, Japanese maples, hydrangeas, camellias, and other trees, shrubs, and flowering plants. “My goal is to have a garden that blooms in every season,” Dooley says. He credits his friends Dr. Michael Dirr and Dr. Allan Armitage, both horticulture professors and former colleagues at UGA, for helping him find his green thumb and inspiring his passion. “Gardening is my golf.” The couple’s garden started modestly, with potted plants on the patio in their back yard. Today it’s expanded to include garden benches that provide restful places to sit, paths that meander past magnificent azaleas and rhododendrons, a bridge over a small creek, and a fountain that splashes into a pond ornamented with statues of children. Dooley, who enjoys growing new introductions that haven’t been named yet, is an enthusiastic collector who always looks for something new ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bulbs, Tubers, Corms and Rhizomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gardening Info]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulbs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chet Hastings Bulbs are a large group of flowers that produce beautiful displays year after year and require little care. Included with true bulbs are corms, rhizomes, tubers and tuberous roots. Plan your garden and yard program to create a colorful display that will continue to bloom from early spring through late fall. Make a list to see which will work best for you, how many of each bloom you will need and the color scheme you would like to create. Early bloomers include crocus, tulips, hyacinth, daffodils, lilies and iris. These are considered hardy bulbs. Different varieties of all of these flowers bloom at various times throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons. Plant your bulbs in the fall before a deep frost hardens the ground. In areas with frigid winters, plant early so bulbs can produce a good root system. The areas you have chosen for your flowers should provide a little shade at the warmest times of the day. This will help your flowers thrive and grow bigger and better. Drainage of the soil is another important factor in the growth of healthy plants. In heavy clay soil mix in sand and peat and work it to a depth of twelve inches. If soil is sandy add peat or compost. To prepare the bed it is wise to add a fertilizer high in calcium, phosphorous and magnesium. Work it into the soil evenly or you can work in bone meal at the bottom of the bed, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning Young Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a reprint of an article by International Society of Arboriculture. Proper pruning is essential in developing a tree with a strong structure and desirable form. Trees that receive the appropriate pruning measures while they are young will require little corrective pruning when they mature. Keep these few simple principles in mind before pruning a tree. •Each cut has the potential to change the growth of the tree. Always have a purpose in mind before making a cut. •Proper technique is essential. Poor pruning can cause damage that lasts for the life of the tree. Learn where and how to make the cuts before picking up the pruning shears. •Trees do no heal the way people. do. When a tree is wounded, it must grow over and compartmentalize the wound. As a result, the wound is contained within the tree forever. •Small cuts do less damage to the tree than large cuts. For that reason, proper pruning (training) of young trees is critical. Waiting to prune a tree until it is mature can create the need for large cuts that the tree cannot easily close. Making the Cut Where you make a pruning cut is critical to a tree&#8217;s response in growth and wound closure. Make pruning cuts just outside the branch collar. Because the branch collar contains trunk or parent branch tissues, the tree will be damaged unnecessarily if you remove or damage it. In fact, if the cut is large, the tree may suffer permanent internal decay ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hardy Phlox for Atlanta Gardeners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardy phlox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When my next door neighbor decided he didn&#8217;t care for phlox, I was happy to give it a home in my border. Although phlox has been cultivated and now comes in other colors and various sizes, the native variety is pink, and grows on tall, graceful stems of four to five feet, making it an excellent plant for the back of the border. In Atlanta it blooms from mid-June to mid-July. The hot pink flowers make a nice contrast to the single white daisies blooming just in front of them. Combined with the blue salvia, the back of the border shines. In the evening, it perfumes the garden. Phlox multiplies in clumps. It is an excellent passalong plant, hardy and disease resistant, although it does fall prey to mildew.]]></description>
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		<title>Amaryllis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bulbs, Corms & Tubers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks are worried about the warming trend, but this giant red amaryllis bloom in my back yard makes it a little more acceptable for me! This bulb has wintered over at least five years in my garden. I can remember a time in Atlanta when that simply would not have been possible. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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