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How to Grow: Helenium

Listen to this podcast on how to grow Helenium or sneezeweed perennial flower.     Watch this video about Helenium:   It's August and soon we'll hit that quiet time in our perennial flower garden after the early summer flowers fade, but before the fall flowers shine. We're always looking for plants to fill this late summer void and one of the best is Helenium.  Helenium is a hardy, native, aster-family perennial with few pests. It grows in the wild in damp areas in meadows. It also goes by the unfortunate common name of...

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How to Grow: Hellebores

Learn about growing hellebores or Lenten roses in your garden as a groundcover. Listen to Podcast: Although we grow this plant as a perennial flower, it also has other devious uses. During the siege of Kirrha in ancient Greece, the invading armies poisoned the city's water supply with crushed roots and leaves of this flower causing the protecting armies to be weakened by diarrhea and overwhelmed. That's a good reason not to eat the leaves of your Lenten rose. Lenten or Christmas rose is more widely known by its botanical name, hellebore....

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How to Grow: Hybrid/Heirloom Tomatoes

Listen to this podcast to learn about the new Hybrid/Heirloom Tomato varieties.   It's time to start thinking about tomatoes. If you're growing tomatoes from seed indoors and under lights, you should be starting them about six weeks before your last frost date. Depending on where you live in Connecticut, that would be sometime this month. While we all love the old fashioned heirloom varieties such as 'Brandywine', there are some new hybrid heirlooms on the market. It sounds like an oxymoron to have a hybrid heirloom, but these new...

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How to Grow: Hydrangeas

Watch this video about some new, smaller hydrangea types how to care for them in your yard. Learn about hydrangeas, including how to plant care for, and grow them. Listen to podcast: Listen To Podcast on New Hydrangeas:   podcast transcript How to Grow: Hydrangeas Hydrangea spp and varieties   Other Name hortensia   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun, part shade   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Mid to late summer in colors such as white, pink, red, and blue,   Mature Height x Spread 3 to 15 feet x 3 to 12 feet   Added Benefits...

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AnnualsDiseasesPodcast

How to Grow: Impatiens

 Learn how to grow impatiens including disease resistant varieties of this flower. Listen to Podcast podcast transcript How to Grow: Impatiens Impatiens walleriana Other Name busy lizzy   Sun Requirements part sun, part shade   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color spring until frost in colors such as white, pink, red, orange, purple and bi color   Mature Height x Spread 6 to 24 inches x 6 to 24 inches   Added Benefits attracts beneficials   Impatiens is the classic shade-loving annual flower that brightens up dark areas with its colorful...

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HerbPodcast

How to Grow: Indoor Herb Garden

Learn about the best way to grow an indoor herb garden in your home this winter. Listen to Podcast: There's nothing like the taste and smell of fresh herbs in winter. Thyme, basil, oregano and rosemary all remind us of warmer days ahead, but why wait? You can grow your own herb garden indoors, right now. You just have to the right herbs in the right conditions. It's best to select herbs that grow well indoors this time of year. While cilantro and dill are tasty, save those for the summer garden. Mediterranean herbs, such as rosemary,...

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How to Grow: Interesting Barked Trees

Listen to this podcast different deciduous trees with interesting bark for winter.   It's been a great fall, but the leaves have dropped and it's “stick” season according to my neighbor. But those “sticks” don't have to be uninspiring. There are many trees that have attractive bark making them focal points in your winter landscape. Choosing a new tree based on the bark color or texture certainly should be a considered since we look at many leaf-less trees for a good 6 months in Vermont. Here are some choices. Birches are beautiful...

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PerennialsPodcast

How to Grow: Iris

Learn about iris, including how to plant and grow them.   Dividing Iris Video: Listen to podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Iris Iris spp and hybrids Other Name Many different types   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Spring to early summer in colors such as black, white, blue, peach, pink, yellow, red, and purple.   Mature Height x Spread 8 to 36 inches x 1 to 2 feet   Added Benefits Attracts beneficials, deer resistant   Iris is a diverse group of plants that add color and splendor to...

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How to Grow: Italian Herbs

Learn how to select and grow Italian herbs in your northern garden. Listen to podcast:   What's the key ingredient to Italian food? I think it's all in the herbs. When you're enjoying your summer dinners potato salad, pizza and grilled meats you can thank some Italian herbs for making them so tasty. While basil gets all the attention (and rightly so), oregano, thyme and flat-leafed parsley also give Italian food that unmistakable flavor. Oregano and thyme are perennial herbs hardy to zone 5. They can survive the winter in our climate...

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How to Grow: Joe Pye Weed

Listen to this podcast about growing and caring for Joe Pye weed perennial flowers. I love plants with interesting stories. Take Eutrochium purpureum. Don't know that plant? Well, I'll tell you a story that will make it much more familiar. Back in colonial times there was always a constant threat of typhoid fever. Luckily there was a Native American medicine man who knew that a tea made from a certain wild plant would help cure the disease. He saved the colonists and the man's name became synonymous with the plant; Joe Pye Weed. Joe Pye...

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