Horticulture Buying Guide

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helpful hints Recommended Uses Osmocote® Outdoor & Indoor is designed for multiple everyday gardening tasks such as feeding container plants (regardless of indoor or outdoor location), cuttings, seedlings, and replantings. Our favorite use: add ½ teaspoonful to each hole when transplanting annuals from flats.

Directions for Applying Outdoor & Indoor Osmocote® Outdoor & Indoor Plant Food This is the most popular Osmocote® formula with more than 1 million passionate users. Each homogeneous granule combines all three major mineral nutrients (NPK) to provide proven, reliable results. Feeds up to 4 full months. Guaranteed not to burn when used as directed.

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Container Plants

Container

Indoor Amt. Grams

Outdoor Amt. Grams

Outdoor Garden Beds

1.25 lb. Bottle (w/ spoon) 3 lb. Bottle (w/ spoon) 10 lb. Bag (w/ spoon)

Sq. Ft.

Amt.

Grams

All packages are water-resistant and re-sealable.

Guaranteed Analysis Total NITROGEN (N)†

19.00%

10.00% Ammoniacal Nitrogen 9.00% Nitrate Nitrogen AVAILABLE PHOSPHATE (P2O5)† SOLUBLE POTASH (K2O)†

6.00% 12.00%

Derived from: Polymer-Coated: Ammonium Nitrate, Ammonium Phosphate, Calcium Phosphate, Potassium Sulfate. †The Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash sources have been coated to provide 16% coated slow-release Nitrogen (N), 5% coated slow-release Available Phosphate (P2O5) and 10% coated slow-release Soluble Potash (K2O).

Longevity At the following average media (soil) temperatures

HeavyDuty Cowhide Work Glove Thorn-resistant gloves repel moisture. Long-lasting, durable, comfortable leather. Available in three sizes. $26

Perennials Garden Wheel This 3-D tool makes it easy to plan a perennial garden with dynamic height, color and texture. $7.50

Paisley Floppy Sun Hat Stylish cotton hat has a touch of lycra for comfort and shape. $26

Sun Protection Basics

Gardeners are at high risk for sunburn, sun damage and skin cancer, but there are simple, very effective ways to protect yourself while you still enjoy your garden: ear a hat with a brim that shades your face and neck. Wear gloves, O Wsocks and shoes instead of sandals, plus UV-blocking sunglasses. ear long pants and sleeves. Dark colors and tightly woven fabrics proO Wtects the skin better than light-colored clothing. Consider special sunblocking clothing. sunscreen, pay close attention to the back of your neck O Wandhentheapplying backs of your hands, especially if you don’t like to wear gloves. heck your skin once a month, head to toe. If any moles or freckles O Cchange shape, let your doctor know. Visit a dermatologist once a year for a checkup.

Read more tips and the facts about SPF.

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Keepers of the Trees Engage in the life stories of 14 people whose lives have been shaped by trees. Meet a tree doctor, “big tree” hunter Will Blozan, Plant Amnesty’s pruner and 94-year-old logger Merve Wilkinson. Vietnam veteran Bud Pearson found healing and acceptance as a wood carver in the wilds of Montana. Andy Lipkis, founder of TreePeople, has spent 35 years ripping up concrete and planting over 2 million trees. Each tree keeper reveals detailed explanations and touching stories of how their lives have come to be shaped by the forests they are fighting to preserve.

Keepers of the Trees includes 100 color photographs of the tree keepers in action, as well as diagrams illustrating their work. These are inspirational stories of conservation, healing, passion and advocacy for any classroom, conservationist, activist or nature lover. $14.99

Healing with Nature When a serious back injury forced psychotherapist Susan Scott to abandon her office chair, she had to either walk with her patients during counseling sessions or give up her practice altogether.

On their walks, she and her patients found that the struggles of trees, birds and other elements of nature offered a healing mirror.

Filled with practical lessons, Healing with Nature will inspire anyone interested in spiritual growth and the healing power of the natural world. $16.50

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Keeping Chickens Colorful, lively characters, chickens have become the hottest new garden accessory. This book shows you exactly how to house and care for these endearing birds, who in turn provide bug control and fertilizer for your garden, and of course fresh eggs. Keeping Chickens guides you through choosing a breed, buying your first chicks, setting up a henhouse and more practicalities, plus egg recipes, feather-and-egg craft projects and even a look at how chickens interact with other pets and children. $14.99

Keeping Bees and Making Honey Whether you live in an apartment with just a small balcony or you have a farm with acres of land, this book will teach you how to get started in beekeeping, a safe and rewarding hobby. Find out sources of bees, how to get them home, where and how to house them, and the methods for collecting their wax and honey. Whether you want to start a home-based beekeeping business or simply enjoy a new hobby, you’ll become an expert in no time at all. The authors also relate the history of bees and beekeeping and provide honey recipes and beeswax crafts. $14.99

Keeping Ducks & Geese This comprehensive and attractive guide to keeping ducks and geese explains what to consider before buying them, how to house them and keep them healthy and even egg selection. The book includes a detailed section on all of the common duck and goose breeds, plus guidelines on how to manage the birds’ behavior and needs. A lavish lifestyle section provides recipes based on the rich eggs of geese and ducks, family activities, duck and goose folklore and much more. $14.99

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Mini Farming Learn how to supply your family with fresh veggies and make money on just a quarter of an acre! $16.95

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The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods Here’s how to identify tasty and safe nuts, berries, mushrooms and more. $16.95

compost hints There are only five words to remember when making compost: brown, green, chopped, water and air. Mix brown (dead leaves or straw, for example) with green (grass clippings, vegetable trimmings), chop them up with a lawnmower or shredder and add a little moisture. Toss it all together like a big stir-fry, and that’s it.

You need much more brown than green, but there’s plenty of leeway, so don’t bother measuring exactly. You can make perfectly good compost with 1 part green stuff and anywhere from 10 to 25 parts of brown stuff, so long as they’re somewhat chopped and slightly moistened. Try to get the mixture about as moist as a wrung-out sponge. Use The Joy of Keeping a Root Cellar a garden fork to fluff it when you make A root cellar is an energy-saving, it, and do this again after about a week. easy way to keep the harvest fresh all After that, you can leave it alone until year long. This book describes how you add more stuff, when you should to construct a root cellar or convert fluff it again, mixing old and new as an existing place, such as a closet, thoroughly as possible. into an effective storage area.

Continue reading compost basics. $14.95

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prune your climbing

roses Q: A:

I’ve never pruned climbing roses before and don’t want to jeopardize next year’s growth by being too much of a bully or too timid with my pruning shears. How do I know what to snip?

There are two main type of roses used as climbers, and they need quite different pruning treatments.

First, as a fundamental, when planting any climbing rose always train the shoots out horizontally to help cover the support and encourage flower-bud production. Continue reading “prune your climbing roses.”

Horticulture: Roses CD Learn the differences between tea roses, English roses, shrub roses and more. Find out the best varieties of each type of rose, including repeat bloomers, disease resistant and most fragrant, plus varieties for specific situations, such as humid areas and the seashore. Articles also cover incorporating roses into your garden’s design, companion plants and practical care. $10.00

Smart Gardening Techniques: Spring Tasks This downloadable pdf includes five illustrated two-page articles that each cover an essential, specific spring gardening task. You’ll learn practical advice for: “Growing Biennial Flowers,” “Planting a Climbing Rose,” “Taking Tip Cuttings of Perennials,” “Growing Columbines from Seed” and “Rejuvenating a Lilac.” $4.99

Smart Gardening Techniques: Flower Gardening This simple-to-use downloadable pdf includes five illustrated two-page articles about growing and caring for certain flowering plants. Text and images cover “Planting a Climbing Rose,” “Summer Care for Dahlias,” “Rejuvenating a Lilac,” “Growing Columbines from Seed” and “Growing Biennial Flowers.” $4.99

pruning sedges Should I prune my sedges (Carex)?

How and when?

Answer: You can prune your sedges (Carex spp.) to keep them within bounds. To do it, gather up the leaves in one hand and, using a pair of scissors, cut off the top third, including the long flowering stems. This will leave the plant arching out gracefully, but not trailing along the ground. It may be necessary to do this twice a year: at the beginning and end of the summer.

Sedge is not a true grass, but looks similar to ornamental grasses. Many sedges have attractive warm tan, brown or reddish foliage. They will tolerate some shade, while many ornamental grasses require full sun.

Read about ornamental grasses.

Reserve your plants now!

Pre-order for Spring 2011 Hardy Ornamental Grass Collection For years of maintenance-free beauty, Santa Rosa Gardens’ Hardy Ornamental Grass Collection is a mainstay of any sunny garden. Hardy, dependable and utterly carefree, Cortaderia ‘White’, Miscanthus ‘Gracillimus’ and Pennisetum setaceum look great season after season, and they need almost no attention from you for a lifetime of loveliness. Pre-order now to reserve your plants for spring 2011!

Moss Milkshake Growing moss from a traditional milkshake of shredded mosses and buttermilk (powder) has never been easier!

The Moss Milkshake™ is a convenient dry mix of mosses, acidifying agents and water-retention gel, all of which mimic the conditions mosses love in nature. Covers up to 20 square feet. Just mix with water!

Visit MossAcres.com or ask for it at your garden retailer.

Live Moss Garden Pack for a ready-to-plant moss garden Can’t wait for the Moss Milkshake to grow in? Try planting sheets and clumps of live moss for an instant moss garden. Each pack contains two square feet total of three different mosses (sheet, broom and cushion), shipped dry and dormant. Just add water and watch your mosses turn bright green.

Ask for them at your local independent garden center or nursery.

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plant bulbs

The original CobraHead® Weeder and Cultivator is a versatile tool beloved by gardeners everywhere. It weeds, digs, cultivates, plants and more. Its blade is a steel fingernail® that becomes an extension of your hand. No matter your gardening task, the CobraHead® can make it easier to accomplish. And it’s great for planting bulbs!

CobraHead Weeder And Cultivator $24.95

How deep to plant? Big bulbs, including daffodils, tulips and hyacinths, get planted eight inches deep; small bulbs such as grape hyacinths, crocus and others are planted five inches deep.

Read more bulb-depth guidelines.

CobraHead Long Handle (48” ) $59.95

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Why won’t my tulips come back? Hybrid tulips are not strongly perennial in most gardens. After the first year they typically split themselves into smaller bulbs that can take years to grow back to blooming size. Also, tulips are native to areas where they receive no rainfall in summer and enjoy excellent drainage. Even in moderately damp conditions they can easily rot. To increase your chances of having a repeat performance from tulips, there are a few things you can try. Read more . . .

we were green when green was just a color!

You have the bulbs and the tubers, now what? Check out this affordable and easy-to-follow downloadable pdf packed with practical techniques from Horticulture magazine for making the most of flowering bulbs. Five illustrated two-page articles show you how to care for popular plants that grow from bulbs or tubers.

Topics include: Daffodils” O “Dividing

“Storing Dahlias for the Winter” O O “Propagating Lilies” $5.99

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Horticulture: Bulbs CD Celebrate each season with familiar and unusual bulbs. This CD contains 16 Horticulture articles exploring the beauty and care of spring-, summer- and fall-flowering bulbs, plus tips for indoor winter forcing.

This keyword-searchable collection includes internal and external links so you can quickly flip between related articles and instantly visit helpful websites. All articles are in PDF format, makeing them viewable on both PCs and Macs with Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher. $18.75

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Smart Gardening Techniques: Propagation I This pdf downloads directly to your computer, instantly delivering illustrated instructions for five methods of propagation. $4.99

1987–1996 Classic Horticulture DVD Now on one searchable DVD-ROM, 106 classic issues of America’s finest gardening magazine, Horticulture. Issues are presented in pdf format. $60.00

1997–2006 10 Years of Horticulture DVD This searchable DVD-ROM compiles all the issues of Horticulture from 1997 through 2006. They are reproduced just as they appeared in print. $49.95

The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book Yo u r c o m p l e t e guide to planting, tending and harvesting vegetables.

New veg gardeners and old pros alike will enjoy this book. $15.95

2011 Horticulture Limited-Edition Calendar With breathtaking art and insightful gardening tips and hints, this 2011 wall calendar from Horticulture magazine is a beautiful way to celebrate your passion for gardening year-round. The days leave plenty of space to note appointments and occasions. $13.99

set of 4 gardening guides!

This exclusive set combines some of our most popular Horticulture Gardener’s Guides: The Winter Garden, Planting with Trees, Plants for Small Spaces and Climbers. $79.96 In Planting with Trees, learn which trees provide the greatest color, how different varieties look in each season and what to plant around and under them.

Climbers covers all aspects of the cultivation, training and care of climbing roses, mandevilla, clematis, various ivies and many more vines and trailers.

With Plants for Small Gardens, you will learn to choose and manage plants so you can make the most of every nook and cranny of a small yard.

In The Winter Garden you’ll learn to create year-round interest with seasonal plants, plus the fall and winter tasks that will best prepare your garden for spring.

One-Year Horticulture Subscription Your one-year subscription to Horticulture guarantees you six gorgeously photographed, information-packed issues, conveniently delivered right to your door!

Inside each issue you’ll find beautiful gardens and the stories behind them, advice for growing ornamental and edible plants, tips for welcoming pollinators to your garden and helpful hints on garden design.

You can cancel anytime, for any reason, no questions asked, and receive a prompt refund for any unserved issues. $19.95 (U.S. addresses) $26.95 (International)

Back issues of Horticulture $5.99 each. Print and downloadable pdf versions available.

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Save the Bees Mix This custom mix of annual and perennial flowers and fragrant herbs is proven to attract bees and other pollinating insects who will gather their pollen and feed on their nectar. The variety of colorful blooms in this mix will open from spring to fall and provide months of helpful sustenance to your local bees.

Whole Garden: Take the guesswork out of gardening!

The Whole Garden contains a pamphlet with detailed planting instructions, a planting schedule, design ideas, as well as recipes and useful growing tips.

Themed Seed Collections Botanical Interests’ themed collections make great gifts! Each collection comes with a hand-selected assortment of seeds and arrives in a lovely box adorned with a bow.

“The secret is BiotaMax”

—Chris Stevens, who used BiotaMax™ to grow the World-Record 1810.5-lb. Pumpkin in 2010!

Soil probiotics is an exciting new technology using beneficial bacteria and beneficial fungi to increase plant growth and reduce chemicals. BiotaMax naturally restores the soil organisms to help you grow bigger and better plants.

David Austin Roses After fifty years of intensive breeding, David Austin’s English Roses combine the forms and fragrances of old roses with the repeat-flowering of modern roses. They are very easy to grow, healthy and reliable.

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BiotaMax™ is an easy-to-use effervescent tablet that treats your entire lawn and garden, up to 1/4 acre. Tablets are so lightweight, CustomBio offers Free Shipping!

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McClure & Zimmerman Superior quality flower bulbs for the dedicated bulb enthusiast. Order from more than 600 tubers, bulbs, corms and other rootstocks.

Edmonds Roses Pick from the best roses money can buy. You will find exclusive varieties unavailable from any other source.

Edmunds is recognized by U.S. rosarians as the best money can buy.

New Millennium Stars Delphinium Mix (Delphinium elatum New Millennium Stars)

Vermont Bean Find a large selection of quality bean and pea varieties as well as flowers, vegetables, bulbs and garden supplies.

Totally Tomatoes You will find an extensive selection of tomato and pepper seeds and plants as well as other vegetables in this catalog.

Roots & Rhizomes Offers a selection of choice Siberian iris, daylilies, hostas and perennials for the discriminating gardener.

‘Jamaican Velvet’ Siberian Iris (Iris siberica ‘Jamaican Velvet’)

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