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One of the subjects TheGardenLady has been planning on writing about is invasive plants. Today she received this notice of a seminar at Rutgers on this very topic. If you are interested in learning how you can help in preventing foreign plants and insects from crowding out our natives, please contact [...]

 
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TheGardenLady received this question from Liz on her “Caring for Marigolds” post.

I am growing marigolds in tall (3″) pots in a very sunny location of my backyard. In the pots I have also planted white flowering bacopa, ivy and a browny spikey grass (not sure of the name).  Everything in the pots were growing [...]

                                                                            
TheGardenLady received this question from Joyce.
I love marigolds but am unable to keep them healthy. I have had the same problem in the past and gave up on them for a while. Now several years later the problem still persists. The foliage looks fine but the flowers and buds (all stages) are full of worms. [...]

TheGardenLady received this question from Joy:
Are you aware of the honeybee crisis and do you think that it will have an
effect on gardening and domestic plants?
The Garden Lady has been hearing about the bee crisis for a number of years.  The Garden Lady has noticed fewer and fewer bees on her property even though she [...]

TheGardenLady received these questions about vermicomposting from Ashley -
I have recently started a barrel composter. It is a modified 55 gallon foodsafe drum/barrel that is working nicely. Can I add worms to this? Because it is off the ground they will not enter natually, and I have been hearing so much about [...]

TheGardenLady received emails from two people asking questions that are similar. I will try to answer both together as well as saying a few words separately to each.
Laura King wrote:
I wanted to know more about composting and what kinds of things I can put in it. I heard so many different things, I know what not [...]

*Start tidying up for winter - Leave seed heads for birds
*Bring in houseplants
*Bring in summer bulbs for storage
*Start digging, manuring and rotating heavy soils for next year’s planting

My nom de plume is Lilac.  So what’s in a name?  What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” from Romeo and Juliette.  But I wondered how many of my readers’s names come from flowers, shrubs or trees? Or, how many of my readers want to [...]