In a store, as I walk between shelves filled with different plants, tiny containers with Venus Fly Traps (Dionea muscipula) catch my eyes. They are fascinating carnivorous plants.

Carnivorous plants have caught the imagination of many minds including Charles Darwin, w

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Trees and shrubs
Plant or transplant all bare-rooted trees and shrubs. Prune fruit trees, berry bushes, and summer and fall flowering shrubs. Don’t trim spring flowering shrubs until after they bloom. Remove branches damaged by winter cold. Prune grape vines while they are still dorm… Continue

The temperature is in teens outside, and our gardens will stay dormant for about two more months before starting to awaken with the first warm sunlight. Fortunately, gardening is not confined to just outside, and majority of us probably have a few indoor plants which are happily growing and even blooming this ti

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Every year, Chester Garden Club sells freshly cut hydrangea flowers on the Craft Fair. Many people ask how to dry them.
The best way of drying is just to put them into a vase filled with water and let the water naturally evaporate from the vase. Do not refill the water. This h… Continue