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I decided to share some of my personal gardening endeavors from the last couple of months. Gardening is one of my favorite past-times. It is such a satisfying feeling to know the plant I started from seed has now sprouted into flowers or vegetables as a direct result from the nurturing and care I have [...]
There are many tricks to make a small yard seem larger. Place bold, bright colors in the front to catch attention. The landscape beyond will appear to recede making the yard appear larger. This small back yard has lots of shrubs which blocks out the view beyond. This gives a feeling of coziness. The small scale [...]
As the snow is melting off our lawns, it’s time to start thinking about your Lawn care needs, after all Spring is just around the corner and now is the time to start planning for those lawn care needs. Is your lawn overcome with weeds, or have dead patches, do you yearn for a plush [...]
If you missed us at last week’s Garden Show at the Kansas Expocentre, here are a few tips and tricks our librarians handed out to more than 600 people who stopped by our booth. Get a library card, and start using the gardening books mentioned in this post, plus hundreds others in our collection.
The lawn and garden programs with the Master Gardeners have started at the library and our first one, Starting Seeds, was a great success. In February we will be having another one, Pruning on February 21, 7:00-8:00 pm in the Anton Room. I think this is a great program because, if you are like me, [...]
I know it is December and not much outdoor gardening can be done but I always look for gardening books. I was also looking because I had a question about pruning. For me and for maybe for you, pruning can be tricky. Do I prune a certain plant now or in the spring or maybe [...]
As you know, fall is upon us and it won’t be long until winter is here. Outdoor gardening is done for me and it is probably a good thing. I was very frustrated this summer with trying to keep all my plants growing in the very hot summer. So now my attention is on my [...]
Well, we are coming to the end of the Lawn and Garden programs with the Master Gardeners. They have been here every month presenting at least once and sometimes twice on gardening and in particular gardening here in Kansas. I so appreciate the information they have given me especially with the hot summer that we [...]
Just a few weeks ago, the Master Gardeners had a program here at the library about fall lawn care. Well, they are coming back for a program on ornamental grasses on Oct. 18th 2012 from 7:00-8:00 pm in the Marvin Auditorium. Ornamental grasses are grasses that are grown as ornamental plants. Some of the more [...]
Yes, I know it is still summer and yes, I know it is very hot out there. But now is the time to be thinking about planting your fall bulbs for spring color. By fall bulbs, I mean tulips, daffodils, crocus, allium and muscari (grape hyacinths). I have been looking through catalogs and I have [...]
So, let’s start with the pretty part of this blog post. On Thursday, August 2nd from 7:00-8:00 pm in the Anton Room, Jeff Hansen from the Kansas Native Plant Society will be here talking about native flowers here in Kansas. You will learn the fundamentals of wildflower identification and information on local wildflower walks will [...]
