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Want a vibrant garden without breaking the bank? You can start these 13 flowers from seed and skip on buying the costlier nursey-grown young plants.
A gem of a plant. Lemon Gem is one variety of the so-called Signet marigolds (T. tenufolia), which you might grow just for their leaves. The plants are dainty, no more than about 8 inches high ...
A GEM OF A PLANT. Lemon Gem is one variety of the so-called Signet marigolds (T. tenufolia), which you might grow just for their leaves. The plants are dainty, no more than about 8 inches high ...
A GEM OF A PLANT. Lemon Gem is one variety of the so-called Signet marigolds (T. tenufolia), which you might grow just for their leaves. The plants are dainty, no more than about 8 inches high ...
You don’t need a lot of space or a big budget to grow and enjoy garden-fresh bouquets. Just fill a few vacant spaces, add an extra row in garden beds or fill a container with easy care flowers ...
Q: How do I save seeds from marigold plants? Do I pick the flowers and let them dry out or wait until the flowers dry on the plant? The fall flowers and even some summer ones are still beautiful.
My inner Augustus Gloop is out. Remember him? He was the insatiably greedy kid who gets sucked up the chocolate river pipe in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and it was while ...
In this June 2, 2014 photo, the small flowers of Lemon Gem marigold, a different species from common marigolds, stare out like stars from a backdrop of ferny foliage in New Paltz, New York.
Marigold is among the most widely planted and, hence, mundane of flowers. Yet I enjoy them as an essential part of summer with their yolk-like blooms and pungent foliage.
Like other marigolds, Lemon Gem is easy to grow. I sowed seed indoors about a month ago, but you could just plant it outdoors now. Sown directly in the garden, the first blossoms are a bit delayed ...