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Comment on Enter to WIN a New iPad! by Pat Wagner

Pat Wagner — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:01:22 +0000

I am usually not lucky to win things, but I keep trying. I would love a new I-Pad or I-Pad2, since I can’t afford to buy one. Please make my unlucky streak change. Thank you.

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by Jackie Starns

Jackie Starns — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:55:22 +0000

Here’s how I enjoy wisteria without any aggravation. Out in your yard where you would like a small tree (NOT in your garden area) cement a metal fence post (five feet or higher) into the ground and plant a wisteria plant next to it. Tie the plant to the post as the plant grows, and eventually you will have a wisteria “tree.” Since the tree is out in the yard you will be mowing down any errant runners it produces every time you cut the grass. The tree gets quite heavy, so you need to secure the tree to the post with the strongest rope you can find. The notches on the fence post will keep the rope from slipping down. To have a tree shape you will have to prune off any runners on the lower part of the plant; or you can just let the runners alone and have a bush instead of a tree. My wisteria is just BEAUTIFUL in the spring.

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by Pat Wagner

Pat Wagner — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:53:21 +0000

I have had snake plants for the past 17 years. In the summer I keep them on a very sunny deck. In the winter they are in a cool dark basement. They get watered occaisionally during the summer when there hasn’t been rain. In the basement they get watered only a few times. They grow a stem which has sweet fragrant flowers which last a couple weeks. They are now about 3 to 4 feet tall and keep on starting new growth.

Comment on 3 Ways to Make the Most of Your British Airways Visa 100,000 Mile Bonus by Jana

Jana — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:30:38 +0000

I have tried to book domestic flights on AA using these miles and am unable to find availability even looking six months in advance from new York to Miami or new York to Seattle. Very frustrating.

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by Yucca

Yucca — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:09:26 +0000

Yucca: the state flower of New Mexico… is hearty in the high mountain desert of the Southwest, where we live. Several varieties exist. The white bloomed kind grow wild in NM, & there are popular variations that are used in xeri-scaping. Iris is hardy (some people say it can grow on a rock, or a wall.) Roses grow like weeds with all the heat & sunshine & are hard to kill… (thriving on neglect). Stonecrop can live through a good bit of driness, coming back when it’s watered & tended. Rock gardens do well. (The rocks hold moisture in the ground & a few plants, strategically placed among the rocks is striking. Cactus do great. They can also stand guard on yard borders, fending off all comers with their spine covered body & leaves. Sun flowers are happy in this environment. Salvia provides bursts of color in desert gardens. De3sert-scapes leave a lot of room for: “…junk art…”, “sculptures”, & other non-plant decorations.

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by Judy

Judy — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:08:49 +0000

Pothos comes from the area along the Amazon River that floods parts of the year and is super dry other times so it does not care if it is over watered or underwatered.

I am a gardener who assists people with problems growing plants. I always recommend the Blanket Flower (politically correct name of the Indian Blanket Flower) because it tolerates all kinds of abuse and is a native plant. (Gallidaria is its fancy name.) It blooms all summer.

Comment on Enter to WIN a New iPad! by ronald

ronald — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:51:42 +0000

i feel lucky

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by Pat Maryniak

Pat Maryniak — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:46:32 +0000

Pothos (devil’s ivy)

Tolerates all kind of light, watering and temperature.

Bejay, what kind of orchids do you have?

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by bejay

bejay — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:23:24 +0000

I love orchids! They really don’t take much care – decent lighting, a watering regularly and probably a little plant juice although I don’t do much. Every Dec. they start to bloom and last all spring. Unbelieveable. Such a nice decoration. I even like the earthy look of the roots spreading out.

Comment on The Top 3 Plants Even You Can’t Kill by Rhapsody

Rhapsody — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Amaryllis. I have not killed mine yet and I’ve had it since 1993. In fact it has split and then each of those bulbs split. I only have to water it once a week. Only inside plant I’ve never killed. The outside ones are on their own.