MINERAL DEFICIENCIES ! Nutrient deficiencies of Nitrogen, Iron, and Magnesium are very common in containerized garden plants under automatic irrigation (it constantly washes the minerals away), but especially if grown in sand, stone, gravel, and soil less mixes – none of which hold the minerals in place. OH ! – not to mention those […]
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What happens to Christmas trees when they are pu...
One of the loveliest elements of the holiday season, the Christmas tree, can lose its luster pretty quickly once the new year arrives. Good news! the city’s Mulchfest program makes it easy for you to recycle your Christmas tree and do some good for the city’s parks and young trees. Here’s how get rid of your Christmas […]
Ho Ho Ho – or if you are a gardening Santa Hoe H
Grab a bottle of wine ( or two ) Turn the television off Ittttttttssss gardennnnn Trivia time – well really Christmas trivia ! A beautifully decorated ( by Plant Specialists ) front of townhouse, Manhattan How did red and green become Christmas colors? We mostly have holly the plant – ( not go lightly […]
Happy Happy Holidays
I’m not sure where this poem comes from but its a good one. If I have stolen it from you its by accident – sue me in the new year ! lol – seriously if its yours let me know and we will give you credit – Happy Holidays A Gardener’s Christmas ´Twas the night […]
HOW DO ROOTS BREATHE ?
Thank you GardenersPath.com for not leading us up the Garden Path with the above image. When it rains or one waters a plant, the water molecules pushes the air out of the soil. These then occupy the air spaces between the particles of soil. The more air spaces the soil texture had to begin with, […]
SENESCENCE AND MARCESCENS
Several common landscape trees and shrubs have physical or physiological traits that resemble a disorder but in fact they are fine ! Leaf shedding (senescence) and leaf retention (marcescens) many times cause confusion because we don’t see them as common or they are seemingly out of season. Natural leaf shedding is often mistaken for […]
Trumpets please – more gardening facts for drunk
The orchid plant has between 20,000 – 30,000 flowering species, making orchids, the flowering plant with the most flower varieties. And what beautiful little gems they are ! Black is back – I want my baby back ( could be a song – actually it is – by The Standells)No plant species has a flower […]
Husbandry
No its not a husband that does the laundry – although that is always nice ! Husbandry in Ants Nope – Ants don’t have husbands, although the queen herself may have a male consort!. Husbandry is the practice by many ants to farm, care for, tend to, and otherwise raise other insects like humans do […]
Good Gourd!
Pumpkins. Squashes and Gourds !!!! Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) is a genus of herbaceous vines native to the Andes and Meso America. They are grown worldwide for their edible fruit and seeds. We grow many of these in our customers rooftop gardens! The yellow or orange flowers on a Cucurbita plant are of two types: […]
