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After 33 years writing a gardening column for the Post-Dispatch, Chip Tynan is
retiring from the Missouri Botanical Garden. We are rerunning some favorite
columns for a few weeks, but
over 3 years ago
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After 33 years writing a gardening column for the Post-Dispatch, Chip Tynan is
retiring from the Missouri Botanical Garden. We are rerunning some favorite
columns for a few weeks, but
over 3 years ago
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Q • I have a small redbud tree planted five or so years. It has grown to about 5
feet. This year deer ate and broke off some of lower
over 3 years ago
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Q • I have several peonies that were my grandfather’s. I am considering a move
to North Dakota this coming spring (likely April or May) and would like to take
over 3 years ago
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Q • I have heard that persimmons need a frost to turn them from tart to sweet,
but is this just because the first frost and the normal time for
almost 4 years ago
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Q • We have a forsythia bush that is dying one large branch at a time. Something
similar happened to another bush until the entire plant was dead and had
almost 4 years ago
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Q • It appears that something is reducing the size of my red leaf barberries
from the bottom up. I don’t know if it’s a fungus or what, but all
almost 4 years ago
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Q • Is it OK to trim a boxwood hedge now or should I wait until the spring?
Also, during the year when is it OK to trim the boxwoods?
almost 4 years ago
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Q • I’ve planted a dogwood tree in my front yard three times. They all died. I
have full sun. It’s a small space, about 20 feet. Do you think
about 4 years ago
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Q • What time of the year can I prune (I’m hoping now ) my burning bushes? I
also have a weeping blue atlas cedar that needs cutting back. When
about 4 years ago
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Q • Today I noticed one of our azaleas is not doing well. It’s losing color big
time. Both of these were here when we moved in, in 1998. The
about 4 years ago
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Q • Why do some of my peaches have spots with gummy sap oozing from within?
about 4 years ago
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about 4 years ago
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Q • I recently bought property in the country with many cedar trees. Last year I
planted two apple trees. This year I have an orange, jelly-like fungus all over
over 4 years ago
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Q • My parents live in a St. Louis area retirement community, while I live near
Washington, D.C. Last year my husband and I promised my parents we would
landscape
over 4 years ago
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Q • I received a Norfolk Island pine as a gift. It needs repotting and stands 2-
to 3-feet tall. The problem is that it has two lateral trees on
over 4 years ago
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Cut back ferns in spring or fall — but fall will spare you the cleanup STLtoday.com
over 4 years ago
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Bringing orange trees into heated home stresses them out STLtoday.com
over 4 years ago
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Q • I’m having a difficult time trying to grow rhubarb. Is it just too hot to
grow rhubarb here in St. Louis? My rhubarb started out really good this
over 4 years ago
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Q • We have a large garden area in front of six large pine trees. The pine trees
have finished shedding their needles, and our garden area is covered with
almost 5 years ago
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Q • Our chrysanthemums bloomed gorgeously, and some are still blooming. Do we
cut them back and if so, how short? Do we cover with mulch? These are so lovely
almost 5 years ago
