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WHERE TO PLANT BULBS........

Plant your daffodil bulbs among plants like daylilies, hostas, and euphorbia. Since the bulbs need their green leaves to die back on their own so that they can 'recharge' for the next year - as the daylilies, hostas, and euphorbia grow they will 'hide' the daffodil leaves as they are turning brown.

HOW TO….
…………Make bulb planting easy and fast…

My friend, Helen, showed me something several years ago.

A LARGE drill bit called a bulb auger that you can use to drill holes in the ground to bury your daffodil and tulip bulbs.

Use the small auger to plant crocus and other small bulbs. I really like this tool!

Talk about fast! With the help of a long heavy duty extension cord, or better yet, a heavy duty cordless drill –
you can quickly drill lots of holes to the depth you need. Even in dry hard soil.

The sizes of augers I’ve seen are 1 1/8”, 2 ½ , & 3” widths and are priced from $20 to $45.
If you cannot find these locally try the Internet garden resources and search for ‘plant augers’ or ‘bulb augers’.

Then in the spring – use the auger for gladiolas, Peacock Orchids, making holes for rooted plants, etc.

HINT: Use 10” bamboo skewers to mark where you have planted your bulbs. I just stick one in the ground after I have buried the bulb with soil. These skewers will decompose by next summer if you leave them in the ground – so you don’t have to remove them if they are not in the way of other plantings you are doing.

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Potpourri Gardens -

belongs to Master Gardener - Sandy Kailing

She specializes in Lilies, Hostas, and Coleus

14100 220th Ave., Big Rapids, Michigan
231-796-8457

However, she sells a lot of other perennials and
annuals from her greenhouse, and the best scissors a gardener could ever use.

Or just come and take a walk through her garden..........
site seers are welcome!!

Click here for more gardening hints from
Sandy Kailing

These are photos of the
Peaches & Dreams Hollyhock
that grew to 17 feet
in my garden.

Holly's list of 151 Deer Resistant Plants
for the Midwest States
Great Gardening Reference!

I have been researching deer resistant plants & testing them in my gardens for over 17 years now. My list will give you a guide to start planning. I also include several successes I have had with repellents. Photos, and the plants are listed by categories alphabetically.
Item #	Description	Price
DRPG1	Deer Resistant Plant Guide - Hardcopy version	$2.99
DRPG2	Deer Resistant Plant Guide - Email version	$1.59

Garden Conveniences use mailbox to hold tools

This is a photo of my back lot 'veggie' and sunflower garden all ready
for winter.

This back lot garden is across the road behind our house and many times I
take a stroll out there & wouldn't you know it - there is something I want to
trim or dig or whatever. So I mounted this mailbox my Mom got me at a
garage sale to hold an extra pair of hand trimmers, small hand shovel, duct
tape (to patch the black porous soaker hoses I have laid out there. I have
to 'string' several hoses from the house to get water to this back lot) and
extra seeds, etc.

It comes in handy when I stop to take a peak on my way in from work or whatever & I don't have to remember to
carry everything with me.

HINT: Perennial of 2008 - Geranium ‘Rozanne’

For more info on this plant go to Perennial Plant Assoc. web site

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Click on the above photo to enlarge it.

Indian Pipe.....

Is the name of the plant I have been trying to get identified.
Thanks to Helen, a Holly's Hints newsletter subscriber,
we now know what it is.
To find out more about the Indian Pipe go to http://www.wellesley.edu or go to www.google.com ,
type in Indian Pipe in the search box, and you will
get several sites for more information on it.

This is a photo of our 20'
Maple tree stump that I
have fun decorating.

To get a better look at
the photo just
Click on photo to enlarge it.

To RECORD in your
Garden Journal

Click here for the AVERAGE Monthly Precipitation amounts for Mecosta & Osceola
Counties, Michigan

January 2006 to Current

Paris Weather Forecast, MI (49338)

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