September 29th, 2010 
admin Do you have some roses that you would like to have survive the upcoming winter, if at all possible? Or, are you one of those who had roses going into last winter, only to have many die while those of your neighbor lived? If either of these fits, you might consider mulching and mounding this [...]
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Tags: fall care, montreal rose, protect roses, roses care, roses fall care 
No Comments » September 22nd, 2010 admin Gladioli, asters, chrysanthemums, and everlastings are some of our common fall garden flowers. Have you ever wondered where these originally came from? I can tell you, with a little help from a book by Diana Wells entitled 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names. These are only some of the 100 flowers she describes [...]
September 14th, 2010 admin You may be surprised to learn that many of the same elegant flowers that inspired “Tulipmania” in the 1600s, and appeared in paintings of the Dutch Masters at that time, are still available to plant in gardens today. You can purchase many of these “time-traveling” tulips from garden centers and mail-order catalogs. While some are [...]
Posted in Fall garden, Tulips Tags: botanical tulip, garden centers, gardens today, Rembrandt tulips, Tulip tarda, Tulipmania No Comments » September 2nd, 2010 admin Scent not only changes over time, but with time of day. Early morning is when scents are strongest, the oils most powerful, and so when roses are harvested for rose oil. Rose scent may be more powerful with the first blooms of summer. Rose scent even can change from outdoors to indoors. Just the cutting [...]
Posted in Montreal Flowers, Rose, rose fragrance, Rose scent Tags: blooms of summer, flower scents, rose fragrant, Rose oil, Rose scent, scent in flowers No Comments »
