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Hi everyone

Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:

Choosing Plants That Are Healthy

QUOTE: Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
- Russell Page

When you are buying or receiving plants from someone there are a few things that you need to look at before deciding to plant them in your garden.

You will generally get a better quality plant from a garden center and it will be less likely to have disease or other problems that could spread to other plants in your garden.

There is still the possibility that the garden center plant might not be the healthy specimen that you might expect so you should still check it out before parting with your money.

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The first thing you need to do is look at the plant and see whether it looks healthy.  This might seem very obvious but we often assume that buying from a garden center will assure us of a healthy plant when in actual fact even garden centers can have problem plants and you don't want to be the new owner of their problems.

Plants are very good at showing any signs of distress so a plant that doesn't look healthy, generally isn't.

Check the conditions of the leaves, stems and roots of the plant where possible.  You should also look at the condition of the soil that it has been growing in, as this will have had an effect on its health.

If you are buying flowering plants it is always best to buy the ones that have yet to flower, as they will withstand the trauma of transport and transplanting better than those that already have flowers.  If there is no alternative but to buy or receive plants that already have flowers then many people suggest that you should remove all the flowers to give the plant a better chance of survival.  While you might be reluctant to do so, you will probably have a better plant that will produce more flowers in the future.

If there is anything on the plant that concerns you seek advice or decide against having that plant in your 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.

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http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/plants.html

Thanks,
Annie
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… uses the term "pass-along" plants to cover those perennials that need dividing and thereby produce plants to give away. Seeds from annual plants can be pass-along plants as well. It seems like a nice way to spread the fun of gardening.

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