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With winter just around the corner its about time to think about winter care for those tropical plants – this winter care tips should work for curry leaf plant, banana tree, jasmine plants.
About a year ago I had a blog post on curry leaf plant and had a mention on CFL light bulbs for [...]

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Ah Fall is here. Its the nicest time of the year in St. Louis area with warm weather during day time (around 70 F) and breezy nights (in 50s). It is definitely time to prepare your curry plants, and/or container grown banana plant, and/or Jasmine plant for indoors. Here are few things you may [...]

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It is about 2 years now since we have been growing this small banana plant on a container - got this from a good friend of us living here in St. Louis. I think this is Hawaiian/tropical banana tree and so far it has survived couple of winters - since it is container grown [...]

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Finally after 3 years of planting our Hydrangea(s) have started to bloom. When we had bought it in fall 2005, it had blooms and we had planted them in a spot where it would get morning sunlight. The second year we didn’t see any bloom (though the plant looked very green and healthy). I [...]

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Here are some pictures from our little flower garden. We have teeny tiny space for gardening and most of the space is planted with perennials.
Daffodils:

Hyacinths:

Kaleidoscope Tulips:

No yard is complete without dandelions

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The other day I had a blog post titled Call me Mr.Brown Thumb. Basically, I was mystified by the caladium tubers after taking them out of the sack as there was no indication on which side should face up when planted or which side should go down. They pretty much looked like a hardened ginger [...]

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About a month or so I bought a sack of caladium bulbs from Costco.
With the weather getting better these days I thought, I will get a jump start on spring and grow these indoors before planting them outside. I was a bit puzzled when I took out the bulbs from the sack. I know these [...]

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Ah spring is finally here.
Seems like winter has been unusually harsh here in St. Louis this year. I have been wanting to plant my garlic bulbs for some time now before spring arrives and had to wait until the snow from last week melted away.
Weather was real nice today here with about 50 C [...]

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Ah its that time of the year again - when you are inundated with catalogs on mail from seed/plant/bulb companies. Over the past few years I regularly receive catalogs from Brecks, Michigan Bulbs, Bluestone Perennials, Springhill, and Territorial seed.
Based on my personal experience, I like ordering from Bluestone Perennial for perennial plants and Territorial [...]

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The other day I had posted an article titled Curry leaf berries.
So we thought we will try our green thumbs on growing curry leaf plant from the seeds. We knew its going to be a big challenge growing this indoor and winter isn’t really a favorable time to grow plants from seedlings/berries. Anyway, I had [...]

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