The winter rains have arrived, my rose pruning was done a week or so ago, and these blooms are already appearing. I’m seeing lots of growth on all the rose plants, some of which we transplanted into pots so we can move them to a sunnier place in the garden.
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Dazzling Dahlias – 15 in a series – Growing and Caring for Dahlias via The Spruce
Dahlias are mid- to late season flowers that come in a vast array of colors and forms. There are small flowered bedding dahlias as well as plate-sized blossoms on 6 ft. plants. It’s hard to give an overview of dahlias when there is so much diversity.
Dahlias are often grown for their long-lasting cut flowers. There are some 30 species of dahlias and over 20,000 cultivars. Native to Central America, they have become darlings of plant breeders and flower shows and every year they become more dazzling.
Most of us think of dahlias as cut flowers. They do make exceptional cut flowers, but they also deserve some recognition as garden plants. Although they can be a little temperamental and fussy about the weather and growing conditions, many of the newer cultivars have been bred to be more reliable and easy growing.
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DON’T, because you ad-
mire someone else’s
garden, try to make yours
exactly like it : no two women
can be charming in the same
way, and no two gardens !
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Remove overly-aggressive plants1. Remove overly-aggressive plants like Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ‘Goldsturm.’ Although this was a great plant in my garden when I watered with soaker hoses, it now takes over and crowds out other, more desirable plants. I blame its bad behavior on my having a better watering system. I’ve used drip irrigation since 2008. ‘Goldsturm’ is also only good for skipper butterflies in my garden. Bees like wood bees and honey bees don’t go near it. I am going to keep it in this one terrible part of the garden where very little water and clay soil remain. It’s near the air conditioner so the area is also very hot.
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This paddle cactus is a favorite among indoor and outdoor succulent growers. The green pads of this cacti form shrubs. The pads are not covered in spines, but white or yellow aureoles that look like tufts of cotton. Although they may look soft, use caution when handling them!
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THE advantages of gardening as a source of health, recreation and profit are being recognized more and more with every year. It has been taken up by clever and capable people as a livelihood, and shown to be extremely profitable.
The up-to-date farmer recognizes its value as a profitable adjunct to more extensive operations.
Thousands who have been compelled by ill health to give up active business life have been restored to strength and self-support by contact with the bountiful earth.
The wonderful results thus obtainable are now too well known to be questioned anywhere.
But there is another vast field open for gardening, the development of which is still in its infancy.
It possesses wonderful and largely unrealized possibilities for busy men and women who dwell in towns and cities, or their suburbs — who live, in the main, sedentary lives, with little time for recreation.
Many persons so situated are deterred from taking up gardening by the fear that it will necessitate too much hard work, or a large amount of land or expense.
Nothing need be farther from the truth. In fact, no hobby or recreation returns a larger interest in proportion to the original investment.
With proper care, vegetables and flowers more than repay any outlay on seed, plants, fertilizer, tools or other accessories.
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This year’s paper whites have already flowered due to our Winter rains and I always make a point of photographing the first set to bloom. These are one of my most favorite flowers in the garden and are always harbingers of our California Spring.
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First Paperwhites (Narcissus papyraceus ) 2019
The first blooms have shown their cheery face for the season.
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DON’T say to those who
come to see your garden:
‘Ah, you should have been
here last week; I have never
seen such a blaze of colour.
Now, of course, everything is
over ;’ or (knowing they are
just going abroad), ‘If you
could only come in a fort-
night’s time, I should really
have something lovely to
show you.’
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