http://gardening.bloginky.com Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:15:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Heptacodium miconioides          7 Son Flower of Zhejiang    You've probably never heard of this small tree, or perhaps what you'd call a large shrub.  After one glance, you may want to hear more, because this time of year it is a standout in the landscape.  Loaded with fragrant white flowers in late summer, then ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/11/18/heptacodium-miconioides-7-son-flower/ For a review of Farm City please click HERE. http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/11/10/book-look-farm-city-a-humorous-look-at-city-farming/ Wondering what to do to get your perennial plants ready for the winter?  For a timely review of William Cullina's new book Understanding Perennials, click on the following link: Master Gardener Book Looks http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/10/16/book-look-william-cullinas-understanding-perennials/ Deer, rabbits, squirrels, mice ... all are animals with which we homeowners and gardeners sometimes co-exist, but often engage in a battle for territorial control.  Then, there are moles: not so often seen, but their work just as ruinous.  Sweeney's, a company which offers products to help keep invaders at bay, hears a ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/10/07/of-pests-and-people/ Bulb Time! Want to learn some quick and easy gardening tips that will bring you early spring blooms, even if you've never gardened before?   CLICK HERE FOR BULB-o-RIFIC ideas. http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/09/28/bulbbulbbulb-easy-going-gardening/ [caption id="attachment_2016" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Flower by Setsuko Fukuda, Kokubunji City, Tokyo Japan"][/caption] Rug hookers, that is.  Here's a Post Script to this Saturday's Herald-Leader Inside/Out feature story about Rug Hooking. (Click HERE to read the original feature article.)   The P.S.: If you're interested in rug hooking , there is also an international exhibit up ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/09/20/hookers-meeting-in-louisville-cross-kentucky-river-to-visit-stripes-exhibit/ If your only connection with Orioles is a baseball team from Baltimore, here's a chance to broaden your awareness.  I've been reading a brand new garden blog posted by Richard Weber, the very knowledgeable proprietor of Springhouse Gardens, which is a landscape and garden complex located just south of Fayette County on Harrodsburg Rd.  Weber ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/09/13/orioles-a-home-run-for-springhouse-gardens-blog/ Many folks are establishing home rain gardens, both as a water feature in the landscape plan and as a way to handle storm water runoff by conserving and spreading out the effect of natural rainfall.  Want to learn more about rain gardens?  To read Fayette County Master Gardener Sherry Thomas' review ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/09/11/rain-gardening-in-the-south/ [gallery]Hard to believe, but the same insect can take on many different forms during tis life cycle.  Take butterflies, for instance.  First, they're just tiny eggs, which hatch into caterpillars, followed by a dormant period in a cocoon or chrysalis, finally emerging as a classic fluttering butterfly.  Don't expect them to ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/09/06/butterfly-metamorphosis-migration/ The Emerald Ash Borer has been in the news recently because it was just spotted in Kentucky earlier this year.  This exotic insect pest, thought to have originally arrived in North America in wood aboard ships coming from Asia into Great Lakes ports, was discovered in Michigan about 2002, and has ... http://gardening.bloginky.com/2009/08/29/ash-tree-id-take-a-look/