Create a new hybrid

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Plant companies offer exciting new hybrids each year. It is possible for the patient home gardener to also produce hybrid flowers. Parent types should be selected for such traits as unusual color, or resistance to disease. Step-by-step instructions are given starting with cross-pollination.

Methods, Hybridization, Flowers, Pollination

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The remedy for problem plants

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Homeowner may decide to remove a tree for reasons such as it is no longer producing, it blocks sun from the house, or shuts out a view. Trees which seem only to be unhealthy may be saved by a tree doctor. It is best to get several estimates before having professional tree removal work done.

Management, Trees, Trees (Plants), Diseases and pests, Tree felling

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Late-blooming lilacs

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Lilacs now exist as thousands of cultivars because of the hybridization of the common purple Syringa vulgaris. The late-blooming varieties have a lighter fragrance that is compensated by the number of blossoms per shrub. They require full sun and prefer organically rich soil.

Lilacs

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