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If you live in USDA Hardiness Zones 11 or 12, you can grow desert roses outdoors in a sunny area of your garden Plant desert rose nursery plants in the spring. Choose a potting soil formulated for ...

The family of a worker killed in an explosion at a Louisville manufacturing plant says they begged authorities to search the ...

Cockscomb flowers are a type of celosia, a plant with unique inflorescences—a.k.a. many-flowered spikes. These ...

Many flowering bushes call the Pacific Northwest home, and while hummingbirds are always on the move, these plants will coax ...

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Roses can suffer from dehydration as much as ... they can lose 25% of their roses in a year. These are a delicate plant to say the least. Every week, Growing Things Outdoors runs online at ...

With our warmer-than-average fall and plants holding onto leaves, I’ve been asked if trees are at risk of cold-weather injury ...

Even some of her fellow tree-planters that day were to blame. Salimata Diabate, who took part in the ceremony last month, ...

That's because the additional petals are bred into the cultivar by patching out nectar and seeds. In other words, avoid ...