Powder Puff Flowers Add Charm In MR6 Garden Notes
Garden columnist L Roy Brace discusses how exserted stamens create powder puff and bottle brush appearances in flowers. He highlights caliandras albizzia mimosa and callistemon as showy varieties, notes their cold tolerance and salt spray resistance, and explains their appeal to pollinators and birds in Florida gardens.
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L. Roy Brace News
Georgia
Virginia
Garden Plant Clinics Set For Next Week In Sarasota
Garden clinics sponsored by four local garden marts offer plant disease diagnosis. Samples brought to Farm and Garden Supply No 1, Garden Mart Bee Ridge, Farm and Garden Supply No 2, and Johnson's Agricultural Supply will be examined by Shell Chemical Corp specialists. They warn nematodes such as root knot sting and stubby root cause widespread plant damage, with roots twisting and lawns browning.
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Sarasota
Fourth St
Garden Mart
Bee Ridge Road
South Osprey Ave
Johnson's Agricultural Supply
Fruitville Road
Shell Chemical Corp
Florida
Harry A. Johnson
Johnson
Controlling chinch bugs in June lawn care
Garden column advises homeowners on defeating chinch bugs in thick lawns. It stresses thorough watering before insecticide, wetting agents, and washing solution into thatch, plus a second application. Recommends Diazinon for homeowner use with proper precautions and equipment.
Summer vegetable gardening tips for a small yard
A tidy vegetable garden on Proctor Road near Mackintosh Road shows diverse textures with corn and peas. Cowpeas are recommended for soil improvement and as a rotation crop, while hot peppers and tomatoes can be added this month, not from seed. avoid replanting the same crops in the same spot.
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Proctor Road
Mackintosh Road
Garden notes on June plantings and rock garden tips
Seventy second page gardening focus with home plant ideas. Mentions John F Broadbent 4132 Swift Road Sterns blue hydrangeaEarnest Sears South Orange Avenue and Ford Street clerodendron fallax. June best for grass and ground cover plantings. Dry season seen as chance to overhaul rock gardens and collect rocks along roads or from traveling friends.
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John F
Jack) Broadbent
Swift Road
Boyce Street
South Osprey Avenue
Sterns
Earnest Sears
South Orange Avenue
Ford Street
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