Welcome to Plant Exchange! We’re thinking about colors we’d like to include in flowerbeds and containers this season. Annual flowers definitely add pizazz. Greenhouses will soon be filled with annual transplants ready for outdoors in May after the last frost. If you are willing to wait until July for plants to mature and flower, direct … Continue reading
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Midwest Flower Field Trial Results
Welcome back to Plant Exchange Blog. We’re thinking about annual flowers for the coming season. Today we’ll find out what flower field trials at University of Minnesota-Morris, Reiman Gardens at Iowa State, and North Dakota State University reported as top performers. In the November Greenhouse Grower, a horticulture industry magazine, Midwest flower field trial results … Continue reading
The Best Flowers Of The 2012 South Dakota Drought
Dr. David Graper of McCrory Gardens in Brookings, SD selected his star performers among the trial garden plants that grew as annuals during the 2012 drought. His cultivar picks of coleus, hibiscus, and petunia are detailed along with others that grow well and are showy under minimal maintenance conditions. See article: http://www.yankton.net/river_city/article_3adb923a-e508-11e2-b979-001a4bcf887a.html
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