Your All Things Plants weekly news: March 23, 2013

There were 7 new gardening ideas posted last week:

By weeds March 23, 2013 Pliers for Your Garden Use regular pliers to pull weeds that have long tap roots, especially sticky ones like briars. Put the nose of the pliers right at ground level to grab the weeds. I find them very good to pull the many baby oak trees that fill my garden each year. (one comment)

By wildflowers March 22, 2013 Grow Edible Flowers Maybe you've been considering the addition of edibles to your garden, but you aren't willing to give up the beauty that only flowers can provide. The solution: Grow edible flowers! This list of edible flowers can easily be grown in your garden. In fact, some of them might already be growing there. (2,062 words - Read the full article) (9 comments)

By Boopaints March 21, 2013 Keep Your Car Clean Keep a drop cloth and a box in your car for surprise finds at garage sales, bulk trash pileups, or plant nurseries. You never know when an unplanned surprise will come your way! (6 comments)

By dave March 20, 2013 ATP Podcast #10: Top Ten New Gardener Mistakes This week Dave and Trish give their usual reports: news about All Things Plants and what's going on in our gardens. For our main feature we discuss common new gardener mistakes. As an added bonus, Trish rants against people who refuse to grow ornamental plants. (3 comments)

By wildflowers March 19, 2013 Tree Planting Tip If you are staking your new tree, make sure to hammer the stake in first. If you wait and put the stake in after planting your tree, the stake could hit and damage the roots. (5 comments)

By LarryR March 18, 2013 Ice-Age Campion Comes To Life Again Growing at this very moment at the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow is a plant whose original tissue came from a 31,800-year-old specimen of Silene stenophylla (narrow-leafed campion). (135 words - Read the full article) (19 comments)

By clintbrown March 17, 2013 Turn Those Old Aquarium Decorations into Plant Creations If you're like me, you have bought an aquarium and all the decorations only to grow tired of all the effort of maintaining it. Why not turn that old aquarium decoration into something of beauty to enjoy in the garden? (167 words - Read the full article) (9 comments)

The most popular images last week from our plant database: Photo of Royal Paint Brush (Haemanthus albiflos) by eclayne: Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Smoky Mountain Autumn') by Claudia: Photo of Coral Bells (Heuchera sanguinea) by robertduval14: Photo of Gladiolus (Gladiolus venustus) by eclayne: Photo of Waved-flowered Corn-flag (Gladiolus undulatus) by eclayne: Photo of Hermanus Cliff Gladiolus (Gladiolus carmineus) by eclayne:

The most active threads this week:

Subject	OP	Area	Replies
Cheap Succulent Planter Ideas	Jookieblue	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	59
Jookieblue's tender succulents	Jookieblue	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	51
Semperviuvm week comes to an end	valleylynn	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	31
Replanting flying semps	jvdubb	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	31
Pinterest	goldfinch4	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	30
Using systemics for succulents	Cruddy	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	29
I would like to introduce a new member! She is 'Hemnuts' on the LA!!	virginiarose	Daylilies forum	27
What I've been up to	tink3472	Daylilies forum	26
New NOIDS	clintbrown	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	24

Some new recommendations from our members:

Lablady recommended Banner Daylily Gardens and wrote: Specializing in Northern hardy daylilies. Super prices and very generous!

Some numbers from last week:

• 76 new members.
• 171 new threads.
• 3,699 new posts.
• 1,246 new images to the plant database.
• 43 new comments in the plant database.