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Arkansas-specific tips for vegetable gardening and home landscaping.
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Make sure that you choose a plant that will fit the size of your home and receive the light and conditions it needs for proper growth. When purchasing plants: -Check foliage of plants for insects and plant disease, especially the undersides of foliage and the axils. -Select plants that look sturdy, clean, well potted, shapely, and well-covered with leaves. Visit our website for more tips.
How to keep your plants healthy and beautiful.

Houseplant Care

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Summer bulbs include elephant ears, caladiums, dahlias, gladiolus, lilies, lycoris (surprise lilies), amaryllis and pineapple lilies. To protect your investment and to ensure you have these bulbs every year, you should lift and store them either before a frost or immediately after one. Visit our website for tips on lifting and storing bulbs.
Is it dangerous to grow Wolfsbane? Having monkshood in your garden amongst all the other theoretically poisonous plants — everything from azaleas to potatoes — is not by itself dangerous. Brushing against the plant or even accidental ingestion of a small amount of leaf tissue is not going to be fatal. As with any poison, the dose is what causes the problem. Not planting any potentially poisonous plant with easy to confuse tubers in the vegetable garden is a common-sense precaution.
The winter hardy camellias, mostly hybrids between Camellia oleifera, C. hiemalis and C. sasanqua, are dark evergreen shrubs reaching 6 to 10 feet in height in 10 years. Depending on the cultivar, 3-inch blooms in shades of white, pink and rose appear from late September until the first really hard freeze. Plants are sprawling and open while young but eventually form a respectable presence in the garden.

Home Landscaping

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Native plants are great for the home landscape because they are reliable showy performers that need minimal care. There are many definitions for native plants—native to Arkansas, native to the south, or simply native to the United States. See a list of Arkansas native plants and shrubs to suit the conditions in your yard.

Arkansas native plants

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