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A decorative light, like this squirrel, runs about $150, but generally only one or two is used in the landscape.

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TUPELO – If you’re thinking about putting some landscape lighting around your home, your first step is not a trip to the home store.

Rather, it’s a phone call.

“I like to start with a licensed, bonded electrician,” said M.J. Justice, manager of the Lighting Gallery in Tupelo.

“He will educate you on what he can do as far as the power you have available. You’ve got to have transformers in place before you can have lighting.”

The next thing to determine is the type of lighting you want.

“In the back of the house, I feel like you need landscape lighting to show off trees,” Justice said. “In the front, you’re showing off the architecture of the house.”

Lighting from the ground up is practical and probably shows everything off to the best advantage, she said.

“When you light from above – called moonlighting – you have to think about changing those bulbs,” Justice said. “One lady had to hire a bucket truck to change her bulbs.”

The number of lights you need depends on the size of the area and the

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A variety of landscape lighting, from practical to decorative, is available at the Lighting Gallery in Tupelo. size of your house. Justice recommends lights be placed no closer than 3 to 5 feet apart, depending on the wattage of the bulb and the type of fixture.

“First, you have your all-purpose, standard, functional lighting,” she said. “Well lights, wall washes and bullets fit in this category. They’re basically functional, so you kind of want to hide them. Bronze is the most popular finish – they need to blend in with the ground. You don’t want to draw attention to these fixtures.”

Well lights are the least expensive, starting at about $55 each.

Then you have your decorative lights, which can run $150 each or more.

“A decorative fixture is nice in the garden, but

they deserve attention,” she said. “So you’re only going to want one to an area.”

Justice said chain stores have landscape lighting kits that come with a transformer and three or four lights, for the do-ityourselfer.

“The drawback to those, though, is you can’t add lights to it,” she said.

“You get what you get.”

Kathryn Gatlin, owner of the Lighting Gallery, said LED lighting is becoming more popular in the landscape.

“It is more expensive, but you will save money with LED in the longrun,” she said. “You get the most lumens for the least amount of wattage.

And one advantage of LED is you don’t have to change the light bulbs very often.”

Neither Justice nor Gatlin recommend solar lighting for the landscape.

“It’s a great idea, but they aren’t perfected yet,” Justice said.

“Technology hasn’t caught up with them.

They’re not for the long term,” Gatlin added.

Justice said the biggest mistake people make when lighting the landscape is using too much.

“It’s the biggest mistake, even when professionals do it,” she said.

“We call it light trespass,” Gatlin said. “It’s when you have too much of a good thing. When you have overdone it and your neighbors are talking about your landscape lighting, that’s light trespass. You’re not aiming for a Disney World effect.” ginna.parsons@journalinc.com

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Blooms for all seasons

Plantersville gardener specializes in flowers for cutting “They’re perennials and very fragrant and I use them mostly as a filler. The PLANTERSVILLE – Mar- lisianthus I started in Noian Fay Maloney’s flower vember because it’s slowgardens don’t look like growing. It almost looks much right now. Some like a rose. They’re great for daffodils and hyacinths bouquets, but they’re not are blooming and camellia perennial.” bushes are loaded with If you don’t have a greenbuds, but much of the house, all you need is a landscape is still brown. controlled situation to start That will all change in a seedlings, Maloney said, few short months, when like a kitchen window or a perennials and seedlings space beneath grow lights. from the greenhouse begin “Then move the plants to show their true colors. outside in the spring to “It will be something to harden off, but don’t put see then,” she said. them in the ground until Maloney’s farm in you think they’ve got a Plantersville, called Mem- good chance of germinatory Orchard, has row after ing,” she said. row of raised beds filled Maloney still has packwith flowers she will sell to ets of seeds she will sow florists or use in her own directly in the ground or home. Some years, when broadcast on top of a bed she has time, she has a when the weather turns stall at the Tupelo Farmers’ warm, including stock, Market. statice, celosia, zinnias, Maloney mainly grows sunflowers, gomphrena flowers that can be cut and and poppies. used in arrangements.

Other flowers Maloney Among her perennials likes for cutting are lace are salvia, dianthus, shasta flowers, columbine, sweet daisies, sage, flowering al- peas, helenium, geum, lium, dahlias, foxglove, sweet William, helianthus, clematis, peonies, Asiatic bells of Ireland, calendula, lilies, yarrow, mums, orna- lobelia, nicotiana, kissmental thistle, sea holly, me-over-the-garden gate, coral bells, love-in-a-mist, marigolds, cosmos and solidago, larkspur, coneazuratum. flowers and guara.

“I have something grow“I like to grow these in ing all the time,” Maloney raised beds because I find said. “While you’re waiting we can control the wetfor your flowers to come feet problem we have if we up, you can use bulbs and use beds,” she said. flowering shrubs in the In a small greenhouse winter. Then your perenon the property, Maloney nials carry you through has started several trays of the fall. In the fall, replant seedlings, such as agaszinnias, lisianthus and tache, lisianthus, rudrudbeckia. Sunflowers can beckia, gerbera daisies even be reseeded to bloom and tall snapdragons. again in the fall.”

“Agastache is in the bigMaloney said the key to ger mint family,” she said. cutting the best flowers for

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Marian Fay Maloney shows off seedlings she has growing in her greenhouse at her farm in Plantersville called Memory Orchard. an arrangement is to get them before they’ve matured.

“If it’s already formed pollen, you don’t need to cut it,” she said. “It’s not going to last.”

Maloney likes to grow yellow jessamine to use in cascading bouquets.

EARLY START

Maloney said her love of flowers started when she was about 9 years old. Her father always had a little garden in a vacant lot and he would let her plant zinnias in it.

“I was growing peppermint zinnias and my mother had me make a small arrangement and she took it to the fair and I won a little ribbon for

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it,” she said.

Another influence was her grandmother.

“She had a flower garden and she always let me pick a bouquet of flowers from her garden and I’d take it home and put it in my room and look at it all

week,” she said.

Maloney said her grandmother’s grandmother brought the concept of the English garden to the family.

“She had a picket fence where there was nothing but flowers in that area,”

Maloney said. “That’s what most old country people had back then. Flowers, rather than a yard, in front of their homes. You didn’t grow grass, you grew flowers. That’s what I do.” ginna.parsons@journalinc.com

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Butterfly bush, butterfly weed welcome namesakes

GARY BACHMAN

Butterfly weed is a common sight beside Mississippi roadways and a surefire butterfly magnet. This lowmaintenance plant was a Mississippi Medallion Native Plant winner in 2012. eral colors.

Treat butterfly bush like a flowering perennial.

When new shoots start to appear in the spring, prune last year’s growth back to about 6 inches from the ground. This encourages new growth and allows the flowers to bloom on new wood.

Deadheading helps side shoots develop larger flower heads.

Butterfly bush has few pests, but it may get spider mites. Use the hose to give the foliage a hard spray to discourage the pests.

Butterfly bushes are beautiful and easy to grow.

They take hot and dry weather in stride and keep the butterflies coming to your garden.

The other surefire butterfly magnet is butterfly weed.

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mon sight along interstates and highways during the late summer. The deep orange flowers stand out on cut embankments as a testament to the plant’s low maintenance requirements. This plant was named the Mississippi Medallion Native Plant winner for 2012, and it deserves a place in your garden.

Butterfly weed grows up to 36 inches tall and 24 inches wide with an upright, clumping growth habit. The clusters of tubular flowers are various shades of orange, and some are shaded towards yellow or red.

Remove seed pods after blooms have faded to reduce reseeding. Seed pods removed and dried just before opening make a good material for dried arrangements.

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think all gardeners love to see butterflies visit their gardens in the summer months. If you want more butterflies this year, start planning now what to plant this spring to attract them.

I want to tell you about two of my favorite plants that are guaranteed to attract these garden visitors.

Butterfly bush has a loose growing habit that should never be contained by pruning. The flowers are sweetly fragrant clusters of tiny GARY blooms BACHMAN that come in various shades of white, blue, purple, pink, red and even yellow. Flowers are displayed on arching, graceful stems.

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Tips to start composting for your garden It doesn’t matter if you’re a gardening novice trying to supplement your dinner table with some home-grown veggies or an entrepreneur that earns a living off the land, composting is a simple way to go green and help save the environment.

You don’t have to be an environmentalist to compost, either.

Compost, which is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled and used for fertilizing soil, is great for your garden and will help reduce landfill waste. In addition, composting in your home garden will help you save money.

“Using compost means your garden will be more cost-effective because you will have to spend less on fertilizers, insecticides, and fungicides for a given harvest of any crop,” says Brett L. Markham, author of “The Mini Farming Guide to Composting,” the latest in his Mini Farming book series.

Across the country people are embracing the concept of selfsufficiency and preparedness, “mini farming” anywhere, from rooftop urban gardens to suburban backyards to larger land plots. Growing food is easier than ever and composting is a huge part of this movement.

Markham, who also has written the bestselling “Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre” as well as mini farming guides to fermenting and vegetable gardening, offers these gardening tips to get started on composting: • Composting is a natural form of recycling, so use food waste, grass clippings, coffee grounds and even paper as compost. Just be sure to shred the paper first to speed up the process.

• Start your compost pile in a convenient spot, and make sure it is semi-shaded and welldrained.

• Add bulking agents such as wood chips to accelerate the breakdown of organic materials,

‘Using compost means your garden will be more cost-effective because you will have to spend less on fertilizers, insecticides, and fungicides.’

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author of “The Mini Farming Guide to Composting,” allowing the finished material to fully stabilize and mature through a curing process. Add leaves, straw, or hay along with grass clippings or green manures for plenty of bulk.

Each layer should be no more than two inches so that the grass clippings or leaves don’t get matted down to form a layer impermeable to air.

• Keep the compost moist. Either water it yourself or let rain take care of it. The compost should be moist, but not soaked.

• Cover the compost pile to help retain moisture and heat.

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• Turn the compost pile with a shovel or a fork to aerate the pile.

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Take the stress out of spring cleaning Throw open those doors and windows – there is no better cure for months of winter than some fresh spring air.

But with spring, comes spring cleaning. And if the thought of pulling out mops, buckets and brooms brings on more stress than serenity, remember that a few tricks and some great tunes can make cleaning easier and perhaps even fun.

SET THE MOOD

There are work playlists, workout playlists – why not a cleaning playlist? Put together some of your favorite, preferably upbeat tunes to motivate you while you’re working and keep that music playing when you’re moving from room to room.

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Spray a fresh clean scent to remind you of what’s to come when the work is done.

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what’s old, pull out what stays and roll up your sleeves.

Clean door gaskets, racks and drawers with warm water and mild dish detergent. Don’t forget to clean underneath the refrigerator and the vent of the appliance. Proper air flow provides better performance and optimum efficiency.

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dust below it safely with a coil brush.

While regular kitchen Then remove everything chores like doing the in there, discarding any dishes and taking out the out-of-date items. Clean trash are almost impossievery surface with soap ble to ignore, it can be easy and water, including the to forget certain maintedoor seals, which are nance tasks that keep your prone to collect crumbs ship smoothly sailing. and food debris. For tough Spring cleaning season gunk and odors, use bakis the perfect chance to ing soda. take care of those often Drawers can be removed overlooked items that deand cleaned in the sink. serve your semi-annual atBefore putting the food tention. So between back in the fridge, ensure dusting the cobwebs and everything is wiped down organizing your pantry, be and clean – especially posure to do the following: tentially sticky items like jelly jars.

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If you don’t have a selfcleaning oven, and want to avoid caustic products such as ammonia, baking soda and diluted vinegar can work wonders. Apply to spills and splatters and let it sit for a few minutes before wiping down.

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Spring cleaning is more than just an annual liaison with your mops and brooms. Use the time to maintain the tools and components of your home that you take for granted.

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BACK HOE SERVICE by:

ORNAMENTAL CONCRETE by:

RAFCO Mobile Home Supplies Owner: David Miller Hwy 6 E • Nettleton, MS Phone: 662-963-2825 Fax: 662-963-3904 E-mail us: rafcombs@gmail.com

STORAGE by:

Main Street Mini Storage “Engineered to Fit Your Business and Personal Storage Needs” Brightly Lit • 24 Hr. Access 627A West Main St. • Tupelo Check With Us About Special Rates 662-346-9966 The Attic Climate-Controlled, Self-Storage 1098 Cliff Gookin Blvd (Off S. Gloster by Medical Center) 662-840-5300

STORM SHELTERS by: SS & G Contractors Licensed and Bonded 662-869-0052

TORNADO SHELTERS by: Greer & Greer Lifesaver Storm Shelters “Your Best Protection Against Nature’s Worst!”

805 S. Central • New Albany 534-8640

TREE SERVICE by: American Tree Service & Stump Removal Licensed, Bonded, Fully Insured, Pruning, Cutting, Removal, Emergency Storm Work John Zinzer • 662-266-9021 Brewer Tree Service Insured • Trimming • Removal 844-7737 • 401-0742 • 871-9451

VACCUUM CLEANER, SALES & SERVICE by: Oreck Floor Care Authorized Sales & Service Home Air Purifiers 4340 Mall Drive 662-840-0006 or 1-888-41ORECK

VINYL SIDING by: Mitchell’s Vinyl Siding & Replacement Windows Residential Sales & Installation • Home Improvements • New Construction “Quality Is Our Specialty” 662-840-0660 or 662-871-6412 cell Window World “Simply The Best For Less” 223 Franklin • Tupelo, MS tupelo@windowworld.com 662-842-5201

WINDOWS by: Knights Awning, Windows & Doors Windows, Canvas Awnings, Patio Covers, Sunrooms, Screen Enclosures 840-0999 Window World “Simply The Best For Less” 223 Franklin • Tupelo, MS tupelo@windowworld.com 662-842-5201

Wheeler Roofing, Inc. “A Family Business Since 1946.”

Commerical • Industrial • Residential Licensed & Insured 411 Clark St. • Tupelo 844-4481 www.wheelerroofing.com

RUGS by: The Cotton Bolt Take A Rug Home & Make Sure It’s Perfect Before You Buy 1727 McCullough Blvd • Tupelo, MS 662-841-2621

SECURITY ALARMS by: Security Alarms of Tupelo Residential • Commercial • Industrial Locally Owned & Operated www.securityalarmsoftupelo.com 662-842-7221

SEPTIC TANKS & SYSYTEMS by: Custom Service Company Commercial or Residential Field Lines Trenching • Site Preparation Work • Installation Treatment Plants • Irrigation • Licensed • Bonded • Insured Northeast MS - 662-678-6094 Nights & Weekends - 662-348-2420

Grisham Lumber SS & G Contractors “For All Your Building & Home Improvement Licensed and Bonded Needs” 165A N. Guyton (Hwy. 15) • Blue Mountain 662-869-0052 662-685-9444

MANUFACTURED HOME SUPPLIES by:

STONE by:

SOUND & VIDEO by: MAP Sound & Video Home Theater & Custom Music Installation Indoor & Outdoor 2611 W. Main • Tupelo, MS 662-842-3753

See display ad in Home, Lawn & Garden Section.

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