New Rose Varieties for Easier Garden Beauty
Kansas gardeners can grow easier roses by choosing disease resistant, own root varieties. Avoid grafted types, prune in spring, fertilize three times a year, and mulch. Water weekly with a deep 1 inch soak. restrict after mid August. Call Douglas County Extension Master Gardener hotline for guidance.
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Favorite flowering trees for spring blooms and care tips
Landscape pros Reed Dillon Alan Branhagen and John McCaffrey share preferred dogwood crabapple magnolia redbud and cherry varieties with notes on site needs bloom colors and late season fruit and fragrance plus memories tied to specific trees. The piece highlights Cherokee Brave Kousa Hearts of Gold Bracken's Butterflies Daybreak and Snow Fountain among others.
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Powell Gardens
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Bittersweet Garden & Floral
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Wetlands fundraiser benefits Baker Wetlands support concert
Environs sponsors a benefit at Jackpot Saloon and Music Hall featuring Clearview Sick Bird Dead Man Flats and Device at 8 p.m. on Monday to raise money for maintenance of the Baker Wetlands. A second show at The Bottleneck in Lawrence follows at 7 p.m. April 10 with Russian Discussion Loglady and Lloyd Likes Mike. Proceeds from both events support Habitat’s Hawk House project with a $5 suggested donation and raffle prizes including a Mass Street Music guitar and a KU signed basketball. Local artists Joe Garvey The Sporadic Thought and Russian Discussion will perform. donate or volunteer via lawrencehabitat.org.
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What's Blooming in Silk and Woods Names
The clipping lists flowering trees and shrubs across parks and campuses including lilacs magnolias crabapples and dogwood. It cites locations such as Veterans Park Sunnyside Drive Potter Lake KY campus and several Tennessee Ohio and Louisiana sites with various flowering cultivars described.
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