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Today’s Boston Globe carried an interesting article about how climate change has caused and will continue to cause species to evolve as they adapt to new conditions. It seems that scientists have identified five species that have …
Source: Caroline Brown
A major blow this morning for horticulturalists everywhere - all gardening books are now out of date thanks to climate change. “Books that were written in the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Geoff Hamilton’s The First Time Garden from …
Source: Richard Davies
Can peonies really change color?
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All winter I complained about how screwy the weather was (recall the tornadoes that affected the area twice this winter). Well, today's weather was simply unreal: High 70s, with a dewpoint in the 40s: Another backdoor front passed …
Source: Central FLA Gardener
We have been having weather in the low to mid 20's the last few nights. Obviously things like Hibiscus and Bougainvillea are at risk in this kind of weather. What many people do not know is that other evergreen plants…
Source: Jungle Jim
Gardening Books 'Dated By Climate Change'Life Style Extra, UK - 9 minutes agoGardening books have been rendered out of date because climate change has altered growing seasons, an expert said today. …
Source: "gardening" - Google News
Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:
Express Yourself In The Garden
QUOTE: It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
Gardens offer you one of the best opportunities to express yourself.
You can often get a good idea of a person's personality just by looking at their garden. It can show you whether they are free spirited with color and plants splashed everywhere or prefer a more organized and regimented approach to life.
Planting your garden gives you the freedom to choose the colors that make you feel good. The colors and plants that make you feel happy.
You have the choice to add the flowers that have the fragrances that you love to smell or remind you of some place that you might have once visited.
You can change with the seasons just as your garden does and add color to a gray day. It gives you an excuse to get outside on a gray day and enjoy all the color that you might have missed inside avoiding the weather.
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Adding colored pots and sculptures can brighten a winter and add more contrast to the colors of spring, summer and fall.
You can change the style and look of the garden as you make changes in your life so that one year is never the same as the next or you can choose to keep everything the same if you don't like change just as an old tree stands from one year to the next.
A garden can change your moods and make you feel good just being there with the beauty all around.
It can make you realize that the important things in life are the little things that are all around us all the time.
There is life in the garden and the garden will always welcome anyone who wants to share in the beauty of that life.
It's no wonder that so many people love gardening, because there is so much to love about it. Doesn't that just make you want to get outside right now and get into the garden?
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Thanks,
Annie
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Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:
Plants Have a Mind of Their Own
QUOTE: If I'm ever reborn, I want to be a gardener?
There's too much to do for one lifetime!
- Karl Forester
Plants are a lot cleverer than we might think. If you are aware of the changes that occur with the plants in the garden, you can sometimes predict everything from the coming weather to the changing of the seasons without ever having to consult the weather charts or your diary.
The weather can, however trick flowers into 'thinking' there has been a change in the weather or even the season.
This can be seen when there is unseasonal hot weather after a cold snap in winter. Plants can 'assume' that it is the start of Spring and bulbs will start flowering.
In recent years many areas throughout the world have experienced unseasonal weather and extremes of weather and this has caused many problems for people growing crops.
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Creating sheltered areas on your property can help you to control your plants and ensure that you get the flowers or fruits when you expect them to be ready. This will also help you to reduce damage that might occur from conditions such as hail or heavy rain.
Shading plants can also create a false reduction in daylight hours, which will affect the plants growth patterns as they measure the seasons by the amount of daylight.
Hothouses can create a false environment and this can be beneficial if you want to produce plants throughout the year for flowers or fruit.
Temperature can be adjusted to control the plant growth and to a lesser extent this can also be done by the placement of your plants in various different positions on your property depending on their exposure to sunlight, wind, cold and rain.
Designing your garden by taking into account all these factors will allow you to read your plants mind in advance, allowing you to get what you want, when you want from your garden.
It will allow you to plan the progression of plants from one season to the next.
Website Of Interest. Check out the following:
http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/plants.html
Thanks,
Annie
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Finally, we have some decent gardening weather. Mike and I were outside early today planting the morning glory, sweet pea and Velvet Queen sunflower seedlings that we started under grow lights three weeks ago 
Some drizzle this …
Source: Carol
74*, 37% humidity, S 11 mph wind, partly cloudy Work is never all that bad in rotten weather. When it is cold and blustery outside it is so much easier to come in to work at the hospital. But when the days are nice, brilliant, …
Source: Nickie
