Garden Thyme with the Creative Gardener: Garden Blogger's Bloom Day

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day - May 2010

Happy Gardening from the Creative Gardener!

2 comments:

Hocking Hills GardenerMay 16, 2010 12:56 PM
Hi Debbie. Your peonies and roses are so beautiful. Great time of the year for blooms. Love your bed bed. Everything looks so green and lush.
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Catherine@AGardenerinProgressMay 17, 2010 8:45 PM
Your garden is just gorgeous! I think I have the same peony, but it'll be a little while before mine bloom.
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Welcome to "Garden Thyme with the Creative Gardener". I enjoy hearing from all my gardening friends. Thanks for sharing and visiting my blog! Please invite your gardening friends to visit "Garden Thyme with the Creative Gardener".
Debbie

Gardening Definitons

PERENNIAL - A plant that survives year after year.

in the garden.ANNUAL - A plant that completes it's life cycle in one year or less.

BIENNIAL - A plant that completes it's life cycle over two years. The first year it produces foliage and the second year it produces fruit, flowers and seeds then dies.

STANDARD - A woody plant trained to one single trunk.

DEADHEADING - removing aging flowers before they set seed. Keeps the plant flowering longer.

CULTIVAR - Any plant name enclosed in single quotes like "New Dawn". A cultivated variety by selection, cloning or inbred seed.

HEIRLOOM - A variety that has been around for generations with superior taste, adaptions to local climate and has disease or pest resistanance.

Ph - A measure of acidity or alkalinity in soil. Ph ranges from 0 to 14 with below 7 being acid and above 7 indicating alkalinity.

PINCH - To prune with your fingers.

B&B - Balled and Burlaped

TOP DRESS - To spread manure, compost or fertilizer on top of the soil not disturbing roots.

ALKALINE - pH value above 7.

SPORT - Mutation of a plant. A genetic change in a parent plant producing a shoot different from the parent plant.

MONOECIOUS. - Separate male and female flowers on same plant.

DIOECIOUS - Male and female parts on separate plants. Both plants are needed to produce fruit.

Great Gardening Books to Read

Eco-Yards by Laureen Rama
Herbaceous Perennial Plants by Allan Armitage
Hydrangeas for American Gardens by Michael Dirr
Ortho's All About Pruning
Ortho's Home Gardener's Problem Solver
P. Allen Smith's Colors of the Garden
P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home
P. Allen Smith's Living in the Garden Home
Plant Propagation by Alan Toogood
Taylor's Guide to Shade Gardening
The Color Encyclopedia of Hostas by Diana Grenfell and Michael Shadrack
The Hostapedia by Mark R. Zilis