Anya Lautenbach on Instagram: "COLLECTING GAURA SEEDS & PRUNING GAURA I have created my garden by growing plants from seeds and cuttings and gaura is one of them. Gaura is brilliant and growing your own will save you a lot of money! COLLECTING SEEDS WHEN?⬇️ 🧚🏻 Let the seeds ripen on the plant and collect when they get dry in the autumn. WHEN TO SOW⬇️ 🧚🏻 Sow indoors January-April or outdoors sow outdoors May-July 🧚🏻 Your plants will flower the same year if sown in early Spring or they’ll flower the following year if sown in the summer GERMINATION⬇️ 🧚🏻 Your seeds will germinate within 14-28 days 7 to 15 days at temperature 15-20°C 13º to 18º WHAT’S NEXT⬇️ 🧚🏻 Transplant seedlings into individual pots when large enough to handle. 🧚🏻 Plant outside May-September when frosts a
Maryland Cottage Garden Design on Instagram: "Save your hydrangeas and roses from black spot the organic way! 🌹 🌸 All it takes is horticultural cornmeal. Your first choice should be horticultural cornmeal versus corn starch, cooking cornmeal, or corn gluten, because it’s milled from the outer shell of the kernel and contains more protein that feeds the beneficial fungi that outcompetes black spot. 💪🏻 The second choice is livestock feed cornmeal, and the third, cooking cornmeal. It’s hard to find horticultural cornmeal locally, but you can shop this via the shop link in my bio. I have that, livestock feed cornmeal, and cooking cornmeal linked and all will help fight black spot! To use, apply one cup per each large shrub. One bag has enough for 16 cups—or 16 large roses or hydrangeas.
Yvonne Tsikata on Instagram: "Groundcovers. At this time of the year, I start planning how much and what kind of mulch I will get in the Spring. Over the years, I’ve expanded my use of groundcovers. Apart from reducing the amount of mulch I have to buy, they have other advantages: By blocking sunlight, they reduce how much weeding I need to do. Fit my aesthetic, which is to reduce the amount of bare earth and create lush green garden beds. Prevent soil erosion. Help retain soil moisture. Here are some of my favorites in my garden. Most like a fair amount of shade. No need to fertilize! 1- White Tiarella ‘Running Tapestry’ 2&3- Lamium ‘Purple Dragon’ 4- Lysimachia nummularia (Golden Creeping Jenny) 5&6- Mazus reptans 7&8- Heuchera 9- Heuchera & Acorus ‘Ogon’ (Sweet Flag) 10- Stachys ‘He
Floricult Gardens 🌸 Get Your Dream Garden on Instagram: "it’s time to buy bare root roses before the best varieties sell out! they’ll be shipped to you in march or april, whenever is best for your zipcode. all of these roses will grow in full sun but will still grow in bloom with only 4-6 hours of direct sunlight! #shadegarden #cottagegarden #gardendesign"
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