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Woolly Yarrow

Perennial gardens are a great area of your landscape where you can sit back and enjoy the plants that are growing in your garden and bloom every year.  Perennial gardens will give you a wonderful opportunity to create the garden that you will not have to spend a lot of time in each day.  You will able to enjoy the flowers that you love most often. 

 

The Woolly Yarrow is a hardy plant that will bring on many yellow flowers for the enjoyment of your summer landscape.  They will last through the mid summer heat and in areas of the country, or anywhere that it does not get too hot.  Your Woolly Yarrow will keep blooming and giving you wonderful colors each year. 

 

The plant does not grow to be high.  Some will only grow to be about two to three inches high and the highest they will get is about a foot.  It will depend on if you are growing the Woolly Yarrow in a container or in your landscaped garden, the plant will spread out about five to eight inches wide making it a great flower for window boxes, hanging planters, containers by the deck or patio, in a greenhouse or in your perennial gardens. 

 

This plant also does well in zones three through seven where they will grow well in moist areas of your landscaping. They will not grow in a pool of water.  The Woolly Yarrow does like the partial shade and dies off when the heat gets too high and humidity sets in.  Living in the cooler climates but with a spring like temperatures most of the time the Woolly Yarrow will do well in the garden. 

 

The Woolly Yarrow does not have many problems in growing except for survival in the high temperatures, so it will make a good plant for most of the beginner gardeners who have a shaded or partly shaded landscaping.  If you have a hillside where the soil always seems to be wet at the bottom, this would be a good spot for the plants to grow without having to deal with the hill maintenance that can be a pain. 

 

 

 

Beautiful Maples

A flowering maple may sound like a tree that would be grown in your backyard.  However it is really a plant that will grow inside your home.  In the warmer months, this plant will grow outdoors but in the wintertime, you can bring it inside for a new home.  A flowering maple is a distant relative to the hibiscus plant and you can make the plant bloom all through the year when you keep the environment just right inside the greenhouse. 

 

The plant needs to have five or six hours of sunlight a day and you can get this inside a greenhouse during the shortest days of winter.  The longer summer days are not going to hurt the flowering maple when you have this plant on your deck or porch but the flower will appear to be brighter and more colorful in this time. 

 

The one pest that will bother the Flower Maple is the spider mite and this will cause spots of yellow streaks and even brown leaves.  Washing down the pot with soapy water, and treating the plant with superior oil is going to help get rid of the spider mites.  This will increase the environment humidity that the flowering maple is growing and will keep the spider mites from wanting to be on this plant at all.

 

If you find that your flower is dying and your plant is looking bare, you will want to pinch the new leaves and promote the addition of new flowers.  This can be done at any time of the year, as the flowering maple is a plant that will flower all year round.  The flowering maple does have a few different names like the Parlor Maple, Yellow Maples and the Chinese lantern. 

 

 The Yellow Maple will do well in temperatures that are over fifty degrees and where they will not fall below forty degrees during the nighttime.  Misting the plant and keeping the humidity levels high is what the plants need to keep on growing. 

 

The leaves on the plant are oval in shape and have a light green texture about them.  The leaves on the flowering maple are different sizes and new leaves are always forming on this plant. The leaves will only grow to be about one inch with flowers that range from one inch to one and a half inches wide.  The flowers are different shades of yellow where the petals are going to be a lighter shade to the center of the bloom. 

 

Growing the plant in a larger container, a hanging basket or in the outdoor gardens when you live in a warmer growing zone will bring more flowers to your home all year round.  During the wintertime, pruning off about a fourth of the plant will keep this plant in shape and give you the best results.