http://www.beginner-gardening.com/beginner-gardening-blog.html Hi - this is the place to get all the latest gardening blog articles, gardening questions and answers and notices of photography posted on this site. en-us beginner gardening Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:07:05 GMT Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:07:05 GMT beginner-gardening.com http://www.beginner-gardening.com/losing-silver-lace-vine.html My two yr old silver lace started turning yellow and now seems to be dying, any ideas? i put some ironite around the base to no avail. zone 6, thx! Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:07:01 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/dogwood-tree-and-shade.html I have purchased a new home in Redford Michigan (i don't know what zone that is). In the front yard is a lovely mature (12 feet tall) Dogwood with Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:55:50 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/late-tulip-bulbs-from-amsterdam.html I recently purchased tulip bulbs at a flower market in Amsterdam (November) They are meant as a Christmas gift for my green-thumbed sister in law Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:50:26 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/pink-bulb-flower.html This flower is grown from bulbs. Please if anyone can give name and other details for the Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:47:31 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/pruning-a-spirea.html When is the best time to trim a bridal wreath spirea? Ours are @ 5 feet tall and quite wide. They are right beside our veranda railing. We are a Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:23:56 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/lumpy-lawn.html Yes my lawn is full of weeds and moss, but I'm getting those under control. what I can't control is the extreme lumpiness! There are some serious Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:18:30 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/patio-blueberry-plants.html I bought 2 patio blueberry plant roots this past spring. One survived and one did not. Will it thrive as a self pollinator or will it require another Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:08:34 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/plum-fruit-falls-off-before-ripening.html My plum trees get plums every year but they all fall off when size of prunes and are hard. I have 18 fruit trees and 3 are different plums, all Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:04:14 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/garden-picture-contest.html This garden picture contest is open to all subscribers (or visitors) of Doug Green's garden newsletter. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:10:21 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/climber-flowering-problem-iceberg-rose.html Climber roughly 8 years old - facing north on brick wall; plant looks really healty; have fed plant with liquid seaweed and rose food in spring; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:02:36 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/this-is-a-hardy-bush.html Nice medium-green leaves all summer, but unlike its burning bush neighbors, this bush turns kind of a luminescent gray/bluish/purple color. I really Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:57:43 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/creeping-gloxinia.html I bought a plant that has the name lophospermum and erubescens. That is all the information I have. It is a vine with beautiful flowers. What is Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:43:39 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/campsis-madame-galen.html Flowers of campsis 'Madame Galen' (Campsis x tagliabuana). The flower bundles are significantly larger than those of campsis radicans. I cannot get Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:39:20 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/pruning-rosemary.html Hi Doug, My Rosemary bush, grew too much out of shape. My father in law has cut the plant on one side because it was overhanging, so now I got a very Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:29:53 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/foxgloves-roots-rotted.html What could have cause the roots to rot on this plant? Doug says that foxglove roots are interesting 'critters. Generally if you overfeed them, they Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:59:59 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/peonies.html What a delight even the little one think Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:38:58 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/all-finish.html Pretty to the end this flower makes nice Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:38:35 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/bunches-of-color.html The garden is abounding in color: pink cosmos, purple petunias, yellow marigolds, double petunias, zinnias, and Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:38:12 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/fancy-columbine.html a spring Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:20:25 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/a-field-of-phlox.html It's uplifting to see the Phlox in spring, it's a sure sign of flowers to Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:20:04 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/fall-roses.html As you can see it is October 23ed, I still have blooms on my roses. In August I had went to WA for the birth of my grandbaby and my husbnad and son Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:19:42 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/wet-dandy.html Dandilion seed head after a Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:19:02 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/frost-on-coneflower.html Now that's the icing on the cake!!! Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:18:23 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/yellow-picotee-begonia-w-orange-edges.html Every now and then there's a spot of sunshine in my shaded garden. Most of the time, the sun arrives in the form of a bright begonia in a hanging Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:18:04 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/white-picotee-begonia-with-hot-pink-edges.html I have four hanging baskets in my yard and each year I try different varieties of begonias. It's a flower that keeps on giving all summer long, with Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:17:47 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/tree-peony.html My tree peony lives happily in a large container, under the eaves of our house. It produces huge blooms that, although they do not last very long, are Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:17:32 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/from-barren-to-beautiful.html After moving to the country, we called the view from my mom's window a barren wasteland. Unfortunately I am not, and have never been, a gardener. My Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:17:02 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/swallowtail-butterfly-on-coneflower.html The grace and beauty of butterflies and flowers always amazes me, no matter how many times I see them, no matter how many pictures I take. I'm much Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:16:41 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/grasshopper-on-cosmos.html I couldn't believe the wind died down enough to get this picture! And that the grasshopper sat still long enough! The cosmos hadn't done well until Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:16:20 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/close-up-toad-lilly.html Macro photo of a fall Toad Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:16:01 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/frosted-rose.html Took this shot just before my morning walk...I never noticed the face till I downloaded...Burrr Its cold out Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:13:51 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/the-fly-and-the-flower.html a wasp mimic fly on a False Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:34:14 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/frosted-susan.html fall frost on a Goldsturm Black eyed Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:31:25 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/ivory-queen-allium.html This is the first year for 'Ivory Queen' allium in my garden, and I planted 6 bulbs last fall in a bed of woolly thyme. They all came up in the Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:35:19 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/iris1.html The Iris had a fantastic year in my gardens...this particular one was really quite Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:34:58 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/cyrtanthus-falcatus.html This is one of my favourite flowers in full bloom during September and October 2008. It is an amazing experience to see the florets open and going Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:34:27 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/rudbeckia-maxima.html Rudbeckia maxima in my gardens are so huge that I looked for another way to photograph them- looking skyward seemed an obvious Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:34:02 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/finnegan-and-the-cosmos.html Finnegan was patiently waiting for me to play w/ her while I snapped more and more photos of my flowers. I looked over and saw her laying by the Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:33:19 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/tobacco-hornworm.html Not exactly a garden shot, but I did find him in my garden, munchin' down on some of my Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:32:40 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/ferns.html I took this picture at the Maine Botanical Gardens - a wildly beautiful place in Boothbay, Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:32:17 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/monarda-plus-bee.html This bumble bee looked exquisitely happy- almost like he was in heaven playing around on the Monarda in my Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:31:55 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/lysimachia-plus.html The bumble bees just adore the Lysimachia this particular one was very patient while I composed this Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:30:51 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/autumn-afternoon-anemones.html One day this week, I came home home early from work to find the afternoon sunlight doing beautiful things to the plants in my front yard garden. Here Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:11:10 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/blooming-skyvine.html This is a photo of a skyvine that I have been trying to get too bloom for two years. So far it has about 10-12 blooms, but I am hoping for more Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:09:37 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/pink-roses.html The Roses also had an exceptional year in my gardens. While the Pink ones are not typically my favorite this shot Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:09:10 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/allium.html I'm always amazed at the intricacy of flowers. The close up of this allium in my garden demonstrates Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:37:22 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/daylilly.html I took this picture of a most gorgeous DAYLILY shortly after it had rained- water droplets just enhanced the all ready beautiful Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:36:48 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/zinnias.html This was the year I featured zinnias as the primary annual in my front garden. What a treat! They were colorful and very low Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:36:18 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/jeweled-dew-drops-in-the-early-morning.html This wild petunia stood out jewel-like in its morning tinsel of dew. While out for a walk on our trails, I was in awe of the beauty of the many Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:12:18 GMT http://www.beginner-gardening.com/black-knight-iris.html I often take 30 or 40 digital pictures at a time in my garden and if one or two of them turns out, I'm pleased......as with this one - a close up of Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:12:01 GMT