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Cincinnati Flower Show 2009

April 12, 2009

The 20th Anniversary Cincinnati Flower Show is April 18-26. If you've never been, it is an inspiring way to kick off the Spring gardening season! This year the show is being held at a new location, Symmes Township

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Flower garden with pink, yellow, red, and white flowers

Snow Showers and Easter Flowers

April 7, 2009

Well, there may be snow flurries floating in the sunshine, but Spring is here, and Easter is this Sunday, April 12. However you choose to celebrate the season, take along some beautiful blooming bulbs and lilies.

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Colorful dahlias

Featured Bulb: Dahlias

April 6, 2009  |  bulbs

Dahlias are easy plants to grow and yield beautiful blooms from mid-summer through fall. In many respects, "dahlia culture" is similar to "tomato culture." If you can grow tomatoes in your garden, you can successfully

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Seedless tomato

World's First Seedless Tomato!

March 30, 2009  |  vegetables

This is truly an exciting introduction: a virtually seedless tomato! We don't think we can describe it any better than this excerpt from Burpee themselves: "We’ve come to appreciate seedless watermelons and virtually

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Yellow, orange, and red Begonias

Featured Bulb: Begonias

March 24, 2009  |  bulbs

In the dappled shade, they glow like brilliant, juicy fruits, rich and lush. Fanciful flower forms and intriguing foliage offer a feeling of abundance, filling the shadows with vivacious blooms in a myriad of colors.

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Lilies

Featured Bulb: Lilies

March 16, 2009  |  bulbs

Most people are familiar with planting bulbs in the fall to have tulips, daffodils and the like in the spring. Often overlooked are the bulbs we can plant in the spring for summer blooms. Starting many of these

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