Hi there! My name is Jill and I'm new to this community. I work for Bell Nursery USA and just recently got into gardening in my own time! I had my eye on some hibiscus plants we had in stock so I took two home with me. I'm knowledgeable of most gardening things and have been reading up on hibiscus care. I wanted to ask you guys for tips/advice/
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We've had a couple of unseasonably warm days here in USDA zone 7A, and the daffodils think it is spring! April 30 is our average last frost date, which, now that I'm thinking about it, sounds rather late for the daffodils - my calendar says their last bloom began March 20, 2010. But, I don't have a record of when we saw their first green, and I'm
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We were pruning fools, we got all the soft fruit done, each one gets treated a little differently so we had our smart book on the topic out there with us. We also gave the apple trees their first haircut and they are all looking smart. Our Victoria Plum was a big big mess and got ruthlessly cut back till there is very little left of the poor tree.
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We need to prune our apple trees. They are about two years old, maybe 10' high, and still small. Just a few apples last year, but they are growing wrong as we know it and need to be pruned
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My buddleia plants have gone a bit crazy this year. The worst of them are new plants that I just planted from cuttings last year. They've got really really leggy (as they tend to) and are actually leaning on our fence a little. I really need to cut them back quite heavily. I know that spring is the best time for brutally pruning these plants,
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What with daily life interfering (killer semesters in school, new job end of last year), I'm embarrassed to say that while we watched our landscaping for a year before making too many huge changes, we then watched it for another 7 months... and let it get horribly overgrown. ( Behind cut for length. )