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0 vote!	Preview of 2008 Chicagoland Flower & Garden Show ...Rich and Susan Eyre of Woodstock always do an inventive array of unusual conifers and foliage plants."" Leisure Woods and Cypress Group: The two west suburban firms will again team up for a garden that displays their gazebos amid colorful plantings.""...
0 vote!	Back from glass, Phipps blooms anew ...stipulations of the nine-month-long Dale Chihuly glass exhibit that ended Feb. 24 was that only foliage plants be used around his sculptures so as not to detract from the artwork. While designing with foliage and texture was an interesting challenge,...

0 vote!	Blue Rozanne deserves award ...center eye. Each flower tops its own thin flower stalk and gracefully blankets the delicate foliage below, nearly coloring the plant in blue from spring to fall.""Full grown, this incredibly long-blooming geranium covers 24 inches of garden space while...
0 vote!	New crop of books covers all the angles ...knows her stuff and brings a fine introduction to these diverse plants to print.""These lovely foliage plants, often seen in Grandma's garden have come a long way. Once relegated to shady corners, they now thrive in full sun and everything in between....
0 vote!	More garden blogs than you have time to read ...my plants, visiting birds and wildlife and video footage too. I am very keen on foliage plants. My garden is located in the centre/east of Scotland.""I'll be spending some time here, watching bird videos and poking through her links. Many photos are...

0 vote!	A look at upcoming gardening events ...shade garden and the best ways to care for it.""April 19, 11 a.m. -- Knock-Out foliage plants: Learn what great shrubs, perennials and groundcovers you can add to your garden for year round, no fuss, low maintenance color.""April 20, noon -- Growing Great...
0 vote!	10 design pointers to brighten your space ...the garden a vibrancy that is missing in monoculture. Combine big wide leaves with strappy foliage; pair orange and purple; plant a shrub with stiff, spreading branches next to an upright shock of grass. Live it up!""There's always more room in the garden...
0 vote!	10 fabulous summer perennials ...in the middle. The flowers are held on 3-foot stems, rising above most of the foliage below. This carefree plant blooms without fail and doesn't flop over. It will take dry summer soil if planted in shade.""'Monch,' which itself has a long bloom period,...
0 vote!	Chocolate Candles Make Scents As Unique Gifts ...Chocolate' candle is now available through the Chocolate Flower Farm, a specialty nursery featuring dark foliaged and flowering plants. The candle scent is an elegant gourmet chocolate, not a sweet chocolate, and it scents a room without even being...
0 vote!	Vegetables in Containers Often Surpass Results From In-Ground Plants ...be happiest in a protected location where the wind can't batter and dry out their foliage. Clustering potted plants together provides some wind protection and also helps raise humidity levels, keeping plants more productive. ""Climbing or vining vegetable...
0 vote!	Irises always steal the show ...stems don't blow over in the wind as easily as bearded irises, and their grasslike foliage looks good even when the plants aren't in bloom.""Siberians are native to most meadows, so they like water more than the bearded varieties. If your soil is sandy,...
0 vote!	The Perfect Tomato Plan ...plant into the ground when the soil is cold causes it to turn purple (purple foliage means the plant can't take up phosphorus). Wait a week or two after the average last-frost date. ""Plant deep, up to the first set of leaves. Tomatoes develop adventitiou...
0 vote!	Urban Gardener: Getting your lawn ready ...beauties available to fill the space. You won?t succeed with roses, but you can grow foliage plants like ferns, hostas and heuchera; flowering perennials, such as tiarella, columbine, viola, astilbe, aster, Soloman?s seal and epimedium; shrubs like...
0 vote!	What to do for rest of weekend ...Road next to Fifield Hall. UF's Department of Environmental Horticulture is selling landscape plants, ornamentals, foliage plants and dorm-room plants as afundraiser.""While past years' sales have featured mostly bedding plants and shrubbery, today's sale...
0 vote!	Gardening the Mickey way ...built into a fence across the front of the children's garden. Tropical plants with striking foliage colors and textures are planted as bold accents both in flower beds and containers.""Garden experts from around the country give presentations on weekends...
0 vote!	Golden rules ..."Green rules when it comes to plant foliage. The vast majority of plants sport leaves in some shade of green. So when plants with foliage in any other color come along, gardeners tend to sit up and take notice. And the rich glow of gold-foliaged plants is...
0 vote!	Easter lilies ...the stem. Deadhead spent flowers by removing only the seed pod, and leave stems and foliage in place. When the plant yellows in the fall, cut it back to the ground. The following summer you should have a whole new display.""I love the note of regal...
0 vote!	Live Oak Pulic Libraries book review: It's gardening time again ...love the rainbow of color plants produce, you have to love the coleus. No other foliage plant offers such a range of hues - ivory, yellow, chartreuse, green, pink, red, purple, black - or such an incredible variety of patterns and leaf shapes. In ""'s new...
0 vote!	Search dailypress.com Web enhanced by ...collection that thrives in the poorest of conditions.""Instead of planting one basic color family, add foliage plants or succulents with variegated leaves as an accent. Let one or two of the colors in the variegated leaves pick up color from one of the...
0 vote!	Beauty abounds ...garden, but other well-known landscapes in their area.""Their own garden features a wonderful range of foliage plants that include thousands of extraordinarily colourful bromeliads, and these not only enhance their personal surroundings, but occupy the...
0 vote!	World of wonder ...the garden is also designed.""Modern sculptures by Dennis Kilgallon peep out from under ferns and foliage. Based on plant forms, their shapes complement the textures and colours of the surrounding flowerbeds.""The garden is open to the public every day of...
0 vote!	Edition 1, Saturday 22nd March ...coarse sand and as soon as roots form, transplant into individual pots containing potting soil. ""foliage plants suitable for clipping are very trendy. Favourites include Abelia "Cardinal", Abelia "Confetti" and Abelia "Dwarf Gnome", Cuphea mexicana "Whit...
0 vote!	Plant of the week: Planting peanuts is a pleasant pastime ...prepared the soil well you won't need to fertilize. Adding too much nitrogen will encourage foliage rather than fruit. Plants are ready to harvest as foliage begins to yellow and their inner shells have gold-marked veins. Loosen the soil then pull out the...
0 vote!	Arboretum to host educational event on container gardening ...add interest to a patio or entryway with a splash of colorful flowers or interesting foliage plants, she said.""Containers offer gardeners the opportunity to grow something that may not do well planted elsewhere, such as a plant that needs a lot of water...
0 vote!	Expert Curtis Short shows how to be one with your shrub and maybe ... ...creeps beyond an acceptable size, there is nowhere to cut back to.""Pruning from within encourages foliage in the center of the plant, making it possible to maintain the plant at a more desirable size over time. Renewing interior growth like this, says...
0 vote!	GREENTHUMB: A replacement for monkey grass ...shown good resistance to heat. Flowers are white, and a nice contrast to the bright foliage. Plants spread about 3 feet. ""Abelias require good soil and grow reasonably fast. They have no particular problems, except aphids sometimes. You can deal with tha...
0 vote!	Bizarre beauties boast unique qualities that add to allure ...[love the line] think they are sick plants," says Lo, who began creating these enticing foliage plants 10 years ago. "People seem to like to see the contorted look.""" Topped with clusters of foliage, the attractive feature of the ginseng ficus is the...
0 vote!	Plant hunter ...seasonal interest, perhaps a burst of colour early or late in the year, or a foliage plant with sculptural leaves? Or perhaps you want something to fill a bare patch under a tree, or a difficult shady corner where nothing has managed to survive ... up...
0 vote!	Cardoon looks great in garden and on the plate ...cardoon is being planted in home gardens and in many commercial landscapes.""There is a new foliage plant called cardoon that is sweeping much of the country in popularity, and it?s being used extensively in commercial landscapes. We?ve been growing this...
0 vote!	YARDSMART: Thanks to the greenhouse, bromeliads bloom for all ...small group of Floridians. It??s the rest of the family that is pure tropicalia. These foliage plants are so unique in color, flower and character that they spawned an avid plant hunting trend that brought the full range of qualities into the breeder??s...
0 vote!	10 best perennials for your summer shade garden ...needs in shade beds and containers. It's a tender, reseeding perennial. ""The curious round, yellow-spotted foliage of the leopard plant, also commonly called giant ligularia, makes this long-lived rhizomatous perennial a must. It was a favorite among...
0 vote!	Find the answers to common plant problems ...least productive foliage in response to a drought. The lower interior foliage is the oldest foliage on the plant, and it receives the least amount of light for photosynthesis; therefore, off it goes.""Plants will also respond to root rots in the same...
0 vote!	Flowering plants add beauty, color to garden ...in full sun and well-tilled moist soil. After the lovely blossoms are done blooming, the foliage of this plant is a delight in the garden. Colors and varieties are numerous -- from a pure white to cream, yellow, pink, rose, red and purple. They are a real...
0 vote!	Dry green - Pasadena Weekly ...came from their original homeland, areas like Nevada before the climate changed. Like most silver foliage, this plant is great for a moonlight garden, reflecting light.""The seeds of the juncus, or wire grass (Tongva name soar, pronounced with two...
0 vote!	It?s Home and Garden Time! ...cut flowers," Hall said.""Combinations that bloom together can be more striking if they have different foliage, for example big leafy plants next to those with "feathery" leaves. """A peony with a short iris in front of it looks good," she continued, "wit...