Hi! Just wanted to add, this is great information. Plese don't throw those leaves away. They're so valuable and beneficial to the earth!

I know this is an old post, and I wish I had know about this site sooner but I will try to help anyway in the off chance that you check in. After planting in a decent potting soil, water regularly, but most important, I found that my spider plants thrive in filtered (not direct) light in a nice 65-ish degree room. If you can find a spot to put your plant that is similar to these conditions, you will have significantly less or even no browning. Give it a try.

New to gardening and I bought a Crocosmia "Lucifer" it bloomed when I first planted it and now I am losing it. I thought rabbits were eating it but it is rabbit resistanat. I sprinkled blood meal around it and then I started to lose it. I sprinkled Sevin on it for insects but I have cut off 2 stalks so far and am losing another. I took the mulch away thinking it was holding too much water around it and so far nothing is helping. If there is anybody that can help please do so before I have to cut it all down.
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Quote:I fell in love with giant red cannas given to me by a friend. Last year i also purchased 5 different colored varieties. In the fall I dug them up and seperated each color variety in its own labeled box for easy planting in the spring. This year they ALL grew into giant red cannas. None were the yellow, pink, or orange varieties. This strange phenomenom also happened to two of my friends. What happened to our yellow, pink and orange canna? Thanks..Marie [color:red] [/color]

I have to stake my Glads every year and that is the only way to keep the from flopping over.

the video showed using leaves for mulch around a plant, but also using petunia's just pulled out of the ground in the fall and placed over the plant being mulched whith a layer of leaves over that.

Before you move your clematis, consider that clematis "like their heads in the sun and their feet in the shade." Are you shading the roots with a shorter plant or a thick mulch? Are you fertilizing? I have no experience in moving clematis, so I can't help you there.

Sounds like a chipmunk to me. Try a google search for a picture and see if it is!

Your lotus is beautiful
nice pond

MY MONARDA, HYSSOP ANS HELENIUM GROW MUCH TOO TALL. I DON'T WANT TO MOVE THEM. CAN I PRUNE THEM BACK IN SPRING TO KEEP THEM THE HEIGHT THAT I WOULD LIKE WITHOUT LOSING THAT SEASONS BLOOMS? IF I CAN PRUNE BACK WHAT WOULD BE THE LATEST I COULD DO THAT?
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