Your All Things Plants weekly news: May 3, 2014

There were 7 new gardening ideas posted last week:

By dave May 3, 2014 The All Things Plants Top 25 List of Shade Garden Plants Let's open Shade Gardens week with a list of the most active entries in our database. Among the thousands of plants that want full or mostly shade, which ones have the most pictures, comments and other details added? Let's find out! (2,554 words - Read the full article) (2 comments)

By Bonehead May 2, 2014 Incorporating Native Plants into Your Landscaping Well worth the effort, and easier than one might think. (560 words - Read the full article) (5 comments)

By Xeramtheum May 1, 2014 Easy Way To Store Plastic Pots I have tons and tons of plastic pots of all sizes and was running out of room on shelves to store them. I hit on the idea of using rebar and it works perfectly. (14 comments)

By Seedfork April 30, 2014 Using PVC Pipe for Plant Holders PVC pipe can be used to hold hanging baskets when you have no hangers for the pots. (128 words - Read the full article) (15 comments)

By dave April 29, 2014 ATP Podcast #54: Weeds? Weeds! In today's podcast we talk about weeds. What to do about weeds? Is there such a thing as a good weed? What weeds can be tolerated, and even used to your benefit? And for the rest, how do you get rid of them? We cover all that, plus the usual segments, along with a bonus pinboard of bad ideas, in today's episode! (22 comments)

By flaflwrgrl April 28, 2014 Keep Your Hands Clean When Spraying Wasp Nests When you are spraying those pesky wasp nests that are up under the eaves or on the ceilings of your porches, some of the spray invariably ends up running down the can and onto your hand. I use the disposable nitrile gloves doctors and dentists use, and I only need to use one on the hand that's spraying. When you're finished, just peel it off so that the poison is on the inside of the glove. Then simply throw the glove away. (11 comments)

By Anderwood April 27, 2014 How Hot Is This Jalapeno? Sometimes we pick a jalapeno that is so mild it might as well be a green Bell Pepper, and other times it is almost closer to a Serrano! (87 words - Read the full article) (8 comments)

The most popular images last week from our plant database: Photo of Lady's Eardrops (Fuchsia 'Ellie's Charm') by midnight21: Photo of Rose (Rosa 'Sharifa Asma') by dave: Photo of Rose (Rosa 'Easy Does It') by dave: Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Dreamy Drawing') by tink3472: Photo of Clematis (Clematis florida 'Sieboldii') by lovemyhouse: Photo of Hybrid Epiphyllum (Epiphyllum 'Chuck N Jerry') by rocklady:

The most popular Multi-Plant Photos from last week: Multi-plant photo by Katie: Multi-plant photo by pirl: Multi-plant photo by 4susiesjoy: Multi-plant photo by kosk0025: Multi-plant photo by poisondartfrog: Multi-plant photo by ge1836:

Noteworthy acorn tips given this week:

8 people gave for the idea "Incorporating Native Plants into Your Landscaping" by Bonehead 8 people gave for post #602956 in "Banner for May 1, 2014 by dirtdorphins" by dirtdorphins 7 people gave for the idea "Easy Way To Store Plastic Pots" by Xeramtheum 4 people gave for post #600432 in "Banner for April 28, 2014 by SongofJoy" by SongofJoy 4 people gave for post #599556 in "Banner for April 27, 2014 by Calif_Sue" by Calif_Sue 4 people gave for the idea "Using PVC Pipe for Plant Holders" by Seedfork 3 people gave for post #603651 in "Easy Way To Protect Seedlings From Squirrels etc." by Xeramtheum 3 people gave for the idea "Keep Your Hands Clean When Spraying Wasp Nests" by flaflwrgrl 3 people gave for post #601809 in "Spring Gardens.........Tulips, Daffodils, Pansies, Etc......" by Paul2032 3 people gave for the idea "ATP Podcast #54: Weeds? Weeds!" by dave

The most active threads this week:

Subject	OP	Area	Replies
Roundup ready Alfalfa??	virginiarose	Daylilies forum	68
Hanover Bloom 2014 - Better late than never!	Misawa77	Irises forum	48
unknown shade perennial	crittergarden	Plant ID forum	38
Junk Male/Mail	gg5	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	34
What Goes Where?	Cat	Daylilies forum	31
Can someone ID this peony?	wildflowers	Peonies forum	29
Times instead of dates	gingin	Site Talk forum	29
genus Salvi does not exist	Lavanda	Sandbox forum	29
Please help identify these irises	Cem9165	Irises forum	28

Some new recommendations from our members:

virginiarose recommended Great Garden Plants and wrote: Wow, this company has made an amazing turnaround! Great new packing method. Everything is very secure and no dirt missing. Plants were mainly dry, which is good (no root rot). I love my Shasta Daisies. These are nice plants that are a good size and I love my bonus plant. Secure website, user friendly, and they take Paypal. I really do think I will be ordering again!

virginiarose recommended Wynn's Daylily Garden (Sonjamae on the LA) and wrote: I have enjoyed this company! I started off on the LA and won one daylily and lost a few. Then I went to their website, and it was a very nice website full of beautiful pictures and reasonable prices, so I did pick out a few more. Today I got my order and everything was very healthy. The daylilies are big double fans with big roots. I love the two bonus plants also. Thank you! I do recommend this company and will definitely order from them again.

Some numbers from last week:

• 342 new members.
• 224 new threads.
• 5,574 new posts.
• 1,697 new images to the plant database.
• 42 new comments in the plant database.
• 16 new Multi-Plant photos.