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If you have ever wondered how to get some of the same great flavors you find in top restaurants, consider planting the secret weapon that top cooks employ--a chef's garden. Get the most out of your garden by adding not only beauty but an endless bounty of flavor as well!

A good chef's garden incorporates the attributes of every location in the garden to produce a variety of flavorful food. Start with a boring fence line. Instead of flowering vines, consider attaching a few trellises and planting some cold-hardy grapes. To block out the neighbor's windows and create privacy, plant fruit trees.

Semi-shaded areas are a great place to plant berries. If you have the room to allow them to roam, consider planting blackberries, boysenberries, and raspberries. Are you looking for something a little more formal? Consider blueberries.

Save the sunniest location for your vegetable garden. Remember to plant "fruit" and "root" vegetables for summer. Plant "leaf" and "flower" vegetables in winter--and save some space for a crop of strawberries. Are you short on space? No problem. Herbs do wonderfully in containers--and no chef should be without them. Many herbs can be grown indoors, too--so you can have fresh herbs year-round. You'd perhaps be surprised how many vegetables can also be grown in containers. And don't forget dwarf fruit trees!

The key to creating a great chef's garden is to look at every available location in your garden (or house) with the eyes of a chef. The possibilities are endless and the rewards are delicious. Are you getting hungry, now? Then don't delay, start planning your chef's garden today.

Do you like having bushels of flowers decorating your home? If you enjoy filling vases with colorful combinations of blooms, you can do so almost year-round by planting annuals that lend themselves well to cutting. The great thing about annuals is that they keep producing more flowers after each pruning.

For big, bold, rounded blooms from spring through fall, consider annual carnations, marigold, and zinnia. For longer plumes, use celosia or snapdragon. To add texture to your vases, use cosmos or statice. Last, make sure to grow some sweet peas. They make great filler and smell wonderful, too.

Most annuals will last 3-5 days in a vase if properly handled. The key is to have your vase ready and filled with water. Bring your flowers in immediately after cutting and re-cut under cold running water. Adding a teaspoon of sugar or a few tablespoons of sprite or 7-up to the water will also help the flowers to last longer.

An annuals cutting garden allows you to enjoy beautiful blooms indoors and outdoors--all season long.

Azaleas are easy to love. Their amazing flowers put on an incredible display of color every spring like clockwork, helping to herald in the coming growing season. Whether in a formal or woodland garden setting, azaleas make a great addition to any garden. When these plants are in full bloom, it's almost impossible to see the foliage underneath.

For centuries, azaleas were only grown in Japanese gardens. But then native species were discovered in North America and eventually types from both countries found their way to Europe. In colder climates, the deciduous species (Exbury Hybrids) which are primarily from North America, perform the best.

Azaleas are versatile and can be used in almost any spot in the garden provided they have good drainage. Exbury Hybrid Azaleas can be grown in full sun in all but the hottest inland areas. Their flowers come in almost every color shade imaginable and the bushes range from 3 to 8 feet high and wide. They also reward gardeners with good fall colors in shades of orange and red. Many also have sweetly scented blooms. If you are short on space in your landscape, consider planting azaleas in containers to add another dimension to your garden.

Azaleas grow well in evenly moist and slightly acidic soil. They perform best when the soil is amended with peat moss before planting. They also like to be fed every few months with cottonseed meal or an acid plant food, along with some Bonide Soil Acidifier in spring and fall. We recommend feeding from the end of the blooming season through early fall.

Azaleas don't require much pruning if the proper varieties are selected for the desired mature size. If occasional pruning is needed to control size or wayward branches, prune from one month after the blooming season has ended thru August. Pruning any later can remove the new blooms that are starting to set for the following spring which can start as early as September.

Whether pruned formally into shapes or left natural to blend in with the local surroundings, azaleas make a wonderful addition to any garden with their extraordinary offering of beautiful spring flowers.

One of the plants that we always look forward to after a long winter is the forsythia. This early blooming plant is a focal point of early spring, heralding the warming months with a brilliant display of golden yellow blooms. Forsythias bloom before they leaf out, and during full bloom the bare stems are completely covered from base to tips. In early spring, they become the focal point of the landscape, then blend in well with other plants when the rich green foliage emerges after blooming.

Forsythias are deciduous shrubs native to eastern Asia, where they have been used in Chinese medicine for their antiseptic effect in treating wounds. They are fast growing with dwarf varieties reaching 4-5 ft high and almost as wide, while taller growing varieties can reach 8-10 ft high and half as wide. The plants have great structure with an upright arching growth habit that has a somewhat fountainlike effect.

Forsythias not only look great in the landscape, but their branches also are perfect for flower arrangements, thanks to the uniformity of blooms on the branches. They are frost-hardy and easy to grow in well-drained fertile soil. They grow best in a full sun location, so are often used as a living privacy fence after they have fully leafed out. The taller varieties make great individual specimens in the landscape, and can also be used for erosion control on slopes.

Most people prefer the somewhat wild natural look of forsythias, but they can be shaped with regular pruning. This is best done after they have finished blooming, because they flower on the prior year's growth (pruning either too late or too early interrupts the growth/blooming cycle). But no matter how you shape this hardy plant, it will reward you with years and years of spectacular color every spring!

Hunks of spit? Soapy foam? Not exactly. It’s sudsy foam from the spittlebug. These little guys are the immobile nymphs of the spittlebug, and they are buried in their own foam. The adult is a brown oval insect that hops and flies from plant to plant and does not produce the foam that the nymph makes.

Yes, the nymphs are sucking at your plant, but the damage on most plants is minimal, so don't panic. Often you can just hose them off. If you see them in your grass (which they can severely damage if you have an infestation), or simply prefer to terminate with extreme prejudice, we carry a number of effective controls for them.