HAL - Industry Annual Report

Industry annual reports on various horticultural crops are available from the Horticulture Australia (HAL) site via this link: HAL - Annual Reports.

Let garden center leftovers feed your landscape

By Rhonda Stansberry

WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Need some color? Throw a couple of potted geraniums in the cart.
Have a puny pot of petunias on the porch? Pick up a pot of those new Supertunias as replacemets. It’s that time in the growing season when discounted plants create a new frenzy of garden shopping. By mid-July, many garden centers are taking stock, lowering prices and selling off one-season annuals, often called bedding plants, that will die with the first frost. Some shops practically give away vegetable plants. And depending on the store, you might find discounts on perennials, roses, woody shrubs and trees. Various discounts could be found at most area garden shops last week. Read more>

Deadhead flowers to encourage more blooms

Barbara Raskauskas
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Wilmington Gardening Examiner

You plant perennial flowers and annual flowers in your garden for their beauty. Once the blossoms live their short life, the plant switches its energy to seed production unless that blossom, which is now the dead head of the stem, is removed. However you see it, dead head, deadhead, deadheading, the action represents removing the expired flower from the stem of the plant.

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