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Re: tulip breaking virus?

Home › Forums › Flower-Garden Questions › Bulbs › tulip breaking virus? › Re: tulip breaking virus?

April 23, 2010 at 4:35 pm #29399

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They are pretty. I know I should dig them up, but what will happen if I leave them be? Will they affect my daylillies?

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Is food blogging perhaps in my future? I have neve

Is food blogging perhaps in my future? I have never had chocolate-covered pretzels before but ... My original recipe: After eating breakfast, stuff 1 fist of 88 percent chocolate and 1 fist of pretzels into 1 empty mouth. Chew and swallow. Repeat. Seriously, though, how’s your #lockdowndiet and do you have any #quarantinerecipes to suggest? #hellinahandbasket #awaytogarden

Leaf Love: @kendruse and both admit to being #foli

Leaf Love: @kendruse and both admit to being #foliageobsessed today on my podcast (link in bio), and my mania started with big leaves of 4 plants decades ago. In order: Astilboides tabularis; Petasites x hybridus (peeking out from left corner of photo...a total thug I would never plant today); Rodgersia podophylla, and good old tasty rhubarb. What leaves do you love? #awaytogarden #foliageplants #rodgersiapodophylla #astilboidestabularis #foliagefirst (and I would hashtag something here about the bigger the better and so on but those would link to soft porn probably).

The company I keep. #splendidisolation #froggirl #

The company I keep. #splendidisolation #froggirl #awaytogarden

“Hello, my name is Freckles and I’m a wormahol

“Hello, my name is Freckles and I’m a wormaholic. (If I am being totally honest, I am powerless over anything that moves, and chug down slugs or bugs or spiders too.)” #toadsofinstagram #toads #agirlsgottaeat #awaytogarden

“I’ll tip-prune that #chamaecyparis you let ge

“I’ll tip-prune that #chamaecyparis you let get too big and sparse, Margaret,” said the energetic gray squirrel, then made one cut and ran off to dig up an acorn across the yard or chew the buds off something about to bloom or fruit. #goodhelpishardtofind #coniferpruningjoke #awaytogarden

Podners, as @mroachsmith and I often called him, s

Podners, as @mroachsmith and I often called him, spent his career talking to athletes (including heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist Smokin’ Joe Frazier), as longtime sports editor at @thenytimes and for their @wqxr_classical radio station. I spend mine talking to gardeners, but I try to follow the same journalistic principles he taught us: always be curious, do your homework before interviews, take copious notes, and always double-check yourself. James Pilkington Roach, 1907-1978. #awaytogarden #fathersday @smokinjoefrazier

Seasonal Summer Color for Containers Tip #1: Try t

Seasonal Summer Color for Containers Tip #1: Try the little-used short-lived perennial Marmota monax (aka Woody You Fat Devil) in pots this week. What do you think? #awaytogarden #woodchuck #groundhog #trapset

Curbside Pickup Begets Curbside Pickup. or: Seed P

Curbside Pickup Begets Curbside Pickup. or: Seed Pod Takeout Pop Up Shop. No, those are not olives that are long overdue for a haircut. Longtime friend and gardener neighbor @ripvanmodern wanted seed of celandine poppy aka Stylophorum diphyllum (see its flowers in second pic) ... and I said sure, and packed up recycled takeout containers of pods from my latest curbside pickup food binge at our pal David’s @crossroads_food_shop and left them at MY curbside, and Mark did a drive-by. That’s how we do it here ... what comes round and all that. #awaytogarden #stylophorumdiphyllum #celandinepoppy #curbsidepickup #notolives #passalongplants

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From the Podcast: Doug Tallamy’s ‘Nature’s Best Hope’

“Nature’s Best Hope” is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s newest book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are nature’s best hope. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share. (Stream our conversation below, read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)

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