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Kula Botanical Garden - A Tropical Paradise

2011-07-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

Kula Botanical Garden - A Tropical Paradise

Established in 1968 by Warren and Helen McCord as a display garden for Warren's landscape architecture business, the garden has evolved into a ...

Linz, Austria Tourism : Linz Tourism: Botanical Garden Succulent Plant Collection

2011-07-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

Linz, Austria Tourism : Linz Tourism: Botanical Garden Succulent Plant Collection

The Botanical Garden in Linz, Austria contains a large and extensive collection of succulent plants from South and North America for tourists to ...

Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis, MO 2

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Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis, MO 2

Largest Japanese Garden in North America pt1 rock garden and koi

Kyoto Botanical Garden(autumn)

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Kyoto Botanical Garden(autumn)

The Kyoto Botanical Garden 2006 autumn.

New Perennial Garden

2011-07-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we planted a new perennial flowerbed at the gardens. The bed is located along the walkway and can be seen by all those that use the trail. We planted about 600 perennials yesterday in 2 1/2 hours.

Thanks to all the wonderful Master Gardeners who came out and helped us planted this massive bed in world record time! We have the best Master Gardeners in the world! Thank you, thank you!

It looks spectacular and will be a great addition to our gardens. A Ogden Botanical Gardens sign will be placed in this bed soon!

Villa Hanbury Ventimiglia Italy Liguria Botanical Garden

2011-07-20T12:13:00.000-07:00

Villa Hanbury Ventimiglia Italy Liguria botanical garden

This video report the magic atmosphere of the dragon's fountain of the botanical garden of Villa Hanbury in Ventimiglia, Liguria, Italy! The ...

Botanical Garden Penang

2011-07-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

Botanical Garden Penang

The above video were shot last week. We went there to test out my new vegan friendly shoe (Merrel Waterpro Current) that I bought a week ago. Very ...

New York Botanical Garden's Spring Flower Show

2011-07-18T08:23:00.000-07:00

New York Botanical Garden's Spring Flower Show

The Bronx in New York has the citys largest botanical garden. And its annual spring show started yesterday. Our New York correspondents were there ...

Where's The Botanical Garden-Cincinnati Zoo

2011-07-17T06:57:00.000-07:00

Where's the Botanical Garden-Cincinnati Zoo

Thane Maynard talks about the Botanical Garden at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens.

North Carolina Botanical Garden

2011-07-16T11:34:00.000-07:00

North Carolina Botanical Garden

The North Carolina Botanical Garden is part of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We further the University's mission of teaching ...

The New York Botanical Garden

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The New York Botanical Garden

A flower show and art exhibition: "The Art of Japanese Chrysantemum" and "Moore in America" The chrysanthemum, known as kiku, is perhaps the most ...

Norfolk Botanical Garden Duck For Dinner.wmv

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Norfolk Botanical Garden duck for dinner.wmv

The female eagle finishes off a duck for dinner. Most of the duck was fed to the eaglets at breakfast. CAUTION: This is a graphic depiction of an ...

Atlanta Botanical Garden Orchid Daze

2011-07-13T03:21:00.000-07:00

Atlanta Botanical Garden Orchid Daze

Pictures from a visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden Orchid Daze Exhibit in February 2008

July Gardening Tips

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Apply nitrogen to potatoes and sweet corn in the garden, as needed.
Harvest vegetables early in the morning or in the cool of the evening.
Plant short-season vegetables such as peas, carrots and radishes (70 days or less) where space is available after harvesting.

Apply a second cover spray in July to control codling moths in apple and pear trees. Check updates at http://utahpests.usu.edu/ipm.
Water turfgrass with 1/1 2 to 2 inches of water per week in July and August. Avoid over-watering to satisfy one or two brown patches.

Measure the amount of water the sprinklers are providing the lawn. *For information on performing a water audit go to: http://extension.usu.edu/htm/horticulture.
Mow turfgrass 2 ½ to 3 inches long to prevent stress and help with weed control.

Watch for grub damage in turfgrass, and apply a curative registered insecticide, if necessary.
Feed roses with an all-purpose fertilizer.

Apply borer control to the lower 1 foot of the base of stone fruit trees (peaches, plums, apricots). Go to http://extension.usu.edu/htm/horticulture for more information about peach borer control.
Pre-register for the Budding Workshop held July 16, 9-10:30 am USUBC Greenhouse by going to http://asapconnect.

Missouri Botanical Garden: Green For 150 Years

2011-07-12T03:39:00.000-07:00

Missouri Botanical Garden: Green for 150 Years

On June 15, 1859, Missouri Botanical Garden founder Henry Shaw opened the Garden to the public, making it the oldest botanical garden in ...

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, Florida

2011-07-11T02:52:00.000-07:00

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, Florida

www.yctv.tv - The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida is a not-for-profit institution fostering understanding and appreciation of ...

[GUIDE] Batman: Arkham Asylum

2011-07-10T03:30:00.000-07:00

[GUIDE] Batman: Arkham Asylum

Botanic Garden Aswan Egypt

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Botanic Garden Aswan Egypt

Botanic Garden Aswan

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden Sikkim India

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Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden Sikkim India

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden is situated at Gangtok in Sikkim and is maintained by the Parks and Gardens unit of the Forest Department of the ...

Dale Chihuly In NYC Botanical Gardens

2011-07-07T13:11:00.000-07:00

Dale Chihuly in NYC Botanical Gardens

Dale Chihuly exhibition at the NY Botanical Gardens. Dale Chihuly www.chihuly.com NY Botanical Gardens www.nybg.org

University Of Leicester Botanical Garden

2011-07-06T10:34:00.000-07:00

University of Leicester Botanical Garden

Views around the picturesque botanical garden including plants and architecture, as well as some amazing sculptures that are placed around the ...

Butterflies Go Free, Montreal Botanical Garden

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Butterflies Go Free, Montreal Botanical Garden

www.tourisme-montreal.org

Kula Botanical Garden - Kula Maui Hawaii

2011-07-02T19:13:00.000-07:00

Kula Botanical Garden - Kula Maui Hawaii

Established in 1968 by Warren and Helen McCord as a display garden for Warren's landscape architecture business, the garden has evolved into a ...

Cleveland Botanical Garden

2011-07-02T02:00:00.000-07:00

Cleveland Botanical Garden

Insider Perks presents a look inside the Cleveland Botanical Garden located on University Circle just minutes from downtown Cleveland, OH. View ...

Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden

2011-06-30T23:53:00.000-07:00

Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden

WEBSITE: catspitproductionsllc.com Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden This is the Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Of course our Botanical Garden is a ...

South Africa 2: Botanical Garden

2011-06-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

South Africa 2: Botanical Garden

My first day in South Africa, went to a botanical garden outside of Johannesburg.

Linz, Austria Tourism : Linz Tourism: Botanical Garden Tropical Collection

2011-06-28T13:43:00.000-07:00

Linz, Austria Tourism : Linz Tourism: Botanical Garden Tropical Collection

The botanical Garden in Linz, Austria has a tropical house that mimics a humid atmosphere for endangered plants to thrive and tourists to check ...

The New York Botanical Garden Presents, The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern

2011-06-27T12:31:00.000-07:00

The New York Botanical Garden Presents, The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern

Escape to a tropical paradise at The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern, featuring beautiful displays of thousands of orchids throughout the Enid A ...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Collecting Seeds

2011-06-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Collecting Seeds

Collecting seeds in the Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden: While most of the botanical community concentrates on tracking threats to ...

English Garden At The Chicago Botanic Garden

2011-06-25T09:49:00.000-07:00

English Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden

With such foggy weather and beautiful surroundings such as these, you might think I'm standing in the middle of England somewhere. But, actually ...

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden

2011-06-24T13:24:00.000-07:00

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden

In 1992, the Thai Government set up the Botanical Garden Organization (BGO) to strengthen botanical research and ex situ conservation of Thailand ...

Cleveland Botanical Garden Virtual Tour

2011-06-23T14:36:00.000-07:00

Cleveland Botanical Garden Virtual Tour

Cleveland Botanical Garden boasts some of the finest formal and informal gardens in the entire Midwest. Weve compiled this short virtual tour to ...

Toronto Botanical Garden

2011-06-22T19:44:00.000-07:00

Toronto Botanical Garden

12 themed gardens, designed to inspire and educate

Art in the Garden Gala: Thursday, June 23rd

2011-06-21T21:08:00.000-07:00

I hope that we get a lot of people out to our Art in the Garden Gala this Thursday. It is going to be such a great free, family event. This is the third year that we have held an open house to celebrate our 17th Anniversary with you. Each year this fun event gets better and better. This year's schedule goes as follows:

3-8pm Art Stroll through the gardens--come check out some beautiful local art and watch the masters paint on site. We have 17 artists participating this year!

3-8pm Garden Tours provided by our wonderful Master Gardeners

5,6,7pm Local Musicians will be performing in our Rose Garden
The three performances are as follows:
5-6pm Harpist, Maren Baumgartner
6-7pm Aspen Strings
7-8pm Acoustic guitar duo

5,6,7pm Kent Teichert, owner of 'For Your Kitchen' will be showing how to prepare the perfect fresh salssa and how to perserve the harvest with a dehydrator.

We will also have Poppin' Johnny's Ice Cream for sale. Trudy is making an Ogden Botanical Garden signature flavor. So come and eat the best ice cream in the world and tell us what you think of our secret flavor!
CB Kettle Corn will also be making their famous kettle corn. The gardens are going to smell heavenly!
We will also have cotton candy for the kids and adults!

Spray Now to Prevent Wormy Apples Later

2011-06-19T20:51:00.000-07:00

Codling moth larvae feeding on a apple.

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30-3:30pm people call in with horticultural questions. The most asked question this time of year is when to start spraying apple and pear trees for the codling moth. The codling moth is the pest that causes wormy apples and pears in the fall. So when do we recommend that you start spraying? The answer is June 18th for Weber County residents. With all the rain we had this weekend you can start your spraying schedule this week June 20-25 and you'll be just fine. To get more information about the codling moth and timings of sprays, please follow this link to the Utah Pests website.

Of Royal Botanic Garden.

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of Royal Botanic Garden.

A Hearty Kitchen Garden Right

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A hearty kitchen garden right

Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

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Botanic gardens, Melbourne

The Royal Botanic Gardens

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The Royal Botanic Gardens

Botanic Garden (RBG),

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Botanic Garden (RBG),

LE BAMBOU. Fabulous Bamboo;

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LE BAMBOU. fabulous bamboo;

The Royal Botanic Gardens

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The Royal Botanic Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens

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The Royal Botanic Gardens

Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

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Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

Melbourne Royal Botanical

2011-06-10T07:48:00.000-07:00

Melbourne Royal Botanical

Melbourne Botanical Garden

2011-06-09T12:32:00.000-07:00

Melbourne Botanical Garden

By At Botanical Garden But

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by at Botanical Garden but

Most Asked Questions of the Week

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www.utahpests.usu.edu

Here are some of the answers to the most asked questions this week.

Thanks to the U tah Pests website for being such a great, reliable source for helping

us diagnose the pest problems that we see on a regular basis. They have wonderful

pictures and up-to-date information for the homeowner.

This past week we have a lot people asking about what is wrong with their peach trees.

They have lost lower limbs of their trees, the leaves came out in the early spring but now

have fallen off, or the leaves are misshapen.

USU Tree Fruit IPM Pest Advisories provide nearly weekly updates on current insect

and disease occurences, biology, and treatment recommendations for Utah. Updates run

from mid-March through September. You can subscribe to their IPM advisory and receive

updates by email.

PEACHES/NECTARINES

Coryneum Blight (Shot hole)

Shot hole lesions are starting to appear on leaves at this time. Shot hole (or
coryneum blight)
overwinters in buds and spreads from there to leaves and later in the season, to
developing fruit.
On the leaves, you will see small round holes that may be purplish or tan in color.
The center of the lesion will sometimes still be attached. Cool, wet weather
contributes to spread.
At the shuck-split stage, you can use Bravo (chlorothalonil, Daconil for residential
use), Abound,
Captan, Ziram, or Pristine.
And keep in mind that the most important treatment is an application of copper at
50% leaf drop in the fall.

Peach Leaf Curl

In the past, we have seen peach leaf curl in Box Elder, Davis, and Weber counties.
Peach leaf curl is a fungal-caused disease that affects peach and nectarine. We may see it
again this year due to the prolonged periods of cool, wet weather we have had this spring.
Damage may not be evident until later in May or early June. Infection occurs just as the leaves
are opening, and causes puckering and distortion of the leaves. The affected area is pink at first,
and then turns green, then brown. Leaves will drop. After the initial infections, new ones only
occur when temperatures are below 79 F.
If you see these infections, note that there are no fungicides that can be applied at this time.
The best treatment is a single application of a fixed copper applied at leaf fall.
For now, maintain tree vigor of infested trees by thinning more fruit than normal, reducing
drought stress with irrigation, and applying extra nitrogen fertilizer.

Baguio Botanical Garden.

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Baguio Botanical Garden.

Baguio Botanical Garden

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Baguio botanical garden

BOTANICAL GARDEN, BAGUIO CITY

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BOTANICAL GARDEN, BAGUIO CITY

Baguio Botanical Garden,

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Baguio Botanical Garden,

Location: Baguio City

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Location: Baguio City

Baguio Botanical Garden

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Baguio Botanical Garden

Baguio City

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Baguio City

Dont' Forget the Flower Sale

2011-06-01T21:23:00.000-07:00

We planted our annual beds today! Yipee! Thanks to the help from our wonderful Master Gardeners we were able to get all the planting done in one day! You guys are awesome!
We have plenty of beautiful and unusual flowers for sale and they are a great price! You won't find better or more affordable plants anywhere!
Most annual flowers are $12/flat or $1.50/4-packs
Lisianthus are $16/flat or $2.50/6-pack (our most asked about flower at the gardens!)
Geraniums $1.50
Cannas $1.50
Sale is on Thursday from 2-6pm. Remember that Friends of the Garden you get an additional 20% off these already low prices. See you tomorrow at the sale!

Botanical Garden(Baguio City)

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Botanical Garden(Baguio City)

Baguio Botanical Garden 2

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Baguio Botanical Garden 2

Blooming Beauties

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Even though the weather has been pretty crappy for us gardeners, there are some plants that aren't complaining. Last week I took some pictures of the happy little guys. There are the crabapples that have been blooming for the last month starting with the variety Spring Snow, Sugar Tyme and finally the Bechtel beauties.

Bechtel Crabapple up close and very personal.

Bechtel Crabapple blooms again. Don't the they look like little rose buds?

The perennials this year are very late. We have one lonely iris blooming in the horseshoe bed. They aren't even ready for Memorial Day. Very strange. The columbine is one of the first to bloom in our gardens and we are excited to see it in all its glory.

The columbine is blooming in the water-wise flower bed. Isn't that a cool color for a spring bloomer?

The Arboretum has some hidden blooming beauties as well. Tucked under a huge clump of cottonwoods I saw the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) sticking out it's cute pink blossoms. With all this cool weather this little tree is lovin' life and putting on quite the show. Jerry said that flowering dogwoods are perfect here in Utah as long as they are given some shade. You should give them a try.

Flowering Dogwood in the Arboretum shaded under a huge cottonwood.

Are these pink flowers the coolest thing you've ever seen?

Oh, yeah!


Sorry, I couldn't get enough of them. I'm lovin' these dogwood beauties!

Aren't these the cutest cones you've ever seen? Couldn't they be considered blooming beauties as well? They are from the European Larch in the Arboretum.

Finally, here is the reason why they call this tree a Lace Bark Elm. Awesome exfoliating bark. Wouldn't you agree?

The Baguio Botanical Garden Is

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The Baguio Botanical Garden is

Inside The Baguio Botanical

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Inside the Baguio Botanical

Jerry Answers Some Tough Spring Questions

2011-05-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

Jerry will answer questions ranging from powdery mildew to how to get the greenest lawns. He also highlights some awesome and unusual annuals. We will have many of them available at our Flower Sale on Thursday, June 2nd 2-6pm. Hope to see you there!

Baguio Botanical Garden Is

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Baguio Botanical Garden is

Putrajaya Botanical Garden:

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Putrajaya Botanical Garden:

Atocha Botanical Garden

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Atocha Botanical Garden

Indoor Botanic Garden.

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indoor botanic garden.

We Need Local Artists and Musicians

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We are looking for local artists to display their work and musicians to play at our Art in the Garden Gala on Thursday, June 23rd from 3-8pm.

This is our third year to offer our Ogden Botanical Gardens “Art in the Gardens” Gala. Community members now look forward to attending each year on our anniversary. In the past, many artists and orchestras have participated at this special celebration.

Having artists in the gardens creates beauty while our guests watch. This has been a popular part of this event. Because we try to make our Gala bigger and better each year, we are asking you to complete an application and submit it in advance.

If you know other artists or musicians you think would like to join us that day, please feel free to forward this post onto them. If you have questions about the application and participating in this community event, please call 801-399-8080 between 12:30 and 3:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Ogden Botanical Gardens or email us here.

The UBC Botanical Garden Is

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The UBC Botanical Garden is

Plant Giveaway Winner

2011-05-24T12:46:00.000-07:00

Prize tickets were given to everyone who purchased plant at our past sales. I am happy to announce the winner of the 2011 Perennial Plant package is...................drum roll please. The lucky winner is Wendy Eaton!

Wendy will receive one plant each of:
Auslese Lady Mantle, Firewitch Cheddar Pink, Arizona Sun Blanket Flower, Lawrence Flatman Cranesbill, Feuersiegel Helen's Flower, Dazzler Rockrose, Border Ballet Torchlily, Little Titch Blue Catmint, Caradonna Blue Sage, and Magnus Coneflower.
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us at our plant sales. We had a great selection of perennials, shrubs, trees, flowers, and heirloom tomatoes and peppers to share. Happy planting and congratulations Wendy Eaton!

China Botanical Garden

2011-05-24T10:47:00.000-07:00

China Botanical Garden

Flower Sale

2011-05-23T20:56:00.000-07:00

You probably know that because of an unusually stormy spring, the annuals were not ready in time for this May sale. That is why we have scheduled an “Annuals” Plant Sale for Thursday, June 2nd from 2-6pm. Remember that Friends of the Garden get an additional 20% off all plants at our sales.

We'll have a Lisianthus 'Echo Champagne' light pink with a peach edge

For the first time we will be selling the most "coveted" and asked about annual flower at the gardens, the Lisianthus. We have been growing and planting it at the gardens for the past 5 years with many rave reviews. This year we decided to plant more than what we needed in the beds, so that we could offer them to you at our plant sale.

Aren't they gorgeous? We'll have Lisianthus 'Echo Blue' too!

We will have a huge selection of other stunning annuals to choose from as well. Here are some of the other noteworthy beauties that you will have to choose from:

Cleome 'Queen's Mix'


Flowering Cabbage and Kale


'Indian Summer' Black-eyed Susans

An Indoor Botanical Garden

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an indoor botanical garden

Indoor Botanical Garden

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indoor botanical Garden

Indoor Botanical Garden

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indoor botanical Garden

An Indoor Botanical Garden

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an indoor botanical garden

Selection Of Indoor Plants

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selection of indoor plants

Contemporary Gardens With

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Contemporary Gardens with

Brooklyn Botanic Garden,

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden,

Don't Forget: Plant Sales

2011-05-17T19:44:00.001-07:00

This is just a reminder of our upcoming plant sales during our Spring Celebration. Now is the perfect time to plant your gardens!

Wednesday, May 18th 6-8pm Friends of the Garden Plant Sale at the Ogden Botanical Gardens
Thursday, May 19th Noon-6pm Spring Celebration Plant Sale at the Ogden Botanical Gardens
Saturday, May 21st 8am-2pm Spring Celebration Sale at the USU Botanical Gardens in Kaysville
Thursday, June 2nd 2-6pm Annual Flower Sale at the Ogden Botanical Gardens

Pick up your favorite heirloom tomato and pepper starts, select new perennials, and choose a new shrub or tree for your landscape. Staff will be on hand to answer questions. Take a sneak peek at our shopper's guide here. Thank you for your support of the gardens.

The Indoor Gardens And

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the indoor gardens and

An Indoor Botanical Garden

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an indoor botanical garden

Change of Dates for Planting & Annual Flower Sale

2011-05-16T09:47:00.000-07:00

Okay, this weather is really dragging us down. Hopefully it will make up its mind--is it going to be hot or cold, rain or shine? Who knows? Well our plants in the greenhouse are still trying to make up their minds too! Some days they are growing and then other days they just like to "veg" and stay very small. Most aren't ready to be planted or sold.

So we've made a decision about planting our annuals this year. We are going to wait and we'll hold off on planting for two more weeks and we'll have the leftovers for sale that same week.
Here is the plan:
Tuesday, May 31st 9am--Meet at the Ogden Botanical Gardens to move all the annuals from the greenhouse to the gardens where they will be prepped for planting the next day.
Wednesday, June 1st 9am--Plant all the annual beds
Thursday, June 2nd 2-6pm--Annual Flower Plant Sale

Call Kathy at (801) 399-8201 or email her to sign up to help us move, prep, or plant the gardens. Thank you!

An Indoor Botanical Garden

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an indoor botanical garden

Ooty Botanical Garden

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Ooty Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden, Ooty

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Botanical Garden, Ooty

Botanical Garden In Ooty

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Botanical Garden in Ooty

Botanical Gardens

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Botanical Gardens

Members Only Sale Information

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U TA H S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y
B O TA N I C A L C E N T E R
A N D
O G D E N B O TA N I C A L G A R D E N S
invites you to an
Echinacea Extravaganza

As a valued Friend of the Garden, we welcome you this year to an
evening at the Ogden Botanical Gardens for socializing, light refreshments,
and garden enjoyment. This is also your exclusive opportunity to use your
membership discount and get nine of the best Echinacea selections on the
market, preview and purchase new perennials before the general public.
As an added thank you for your support of the Gardens during the
past year we will be giving away a free Canna Lily and Draceana to the
first 80 individuals at the door.
Wednesday May 18, 2011
6:00 to 8:00 pm
Ogden Botanical Gardens
1750 Monroe Blvd.
Ogden Utah 84401

Bring your membership card and save 20% on these North American beauties.

To become a "Friend of the Garden" please call Stacie at 801-451-3403 or go to our membership link here.

The Ooty Botanical Garden

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the Ooty botanical garden

Video: How to Plant Carrots

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Learn some tricks on how to plant carrots in the garden from your favorite Horticulturist, Jerry "the movie star" Goodspeed.

Ooty Botanical Garden

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Ooty Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden Of Ooty.

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botanical garden of Ooty.

Video: Planting Tomatoes

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Jerry, the movie star, is back on the big screen--You Tube that is. Check out his newest video on planting tomatoes in the garden. Bet you'll learn something new about the most beloved plant in the vegetable kingdom! I know I do every time I listen to Jerry, the movie star!

Wax World, Ooty

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Wax World, Ooty

Botanical Gardens Established

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Botanical Gardens established

Ooty

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Spring Celebration Shopping Guide

2011-05-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

Check out the Spring Celebration Shopping Guide and see all the plants we will have at our upcoming sales. This Wednesday night (May 18th) is our Members' Only Sale. The public sale is on Thursday, May 19th at the Ogden Botanical Gardens, and again on Saturday, May 21st at the USU Botanical Center. We will have so many awesome and unique plants to choose from at such great prices! Hope to see you there.

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2011-05-05T23:51:00.000-07:00

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Front Page of the Paper: Our Dead Roses & Master Gardeners

2011-05-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

Not coming up roses in many Top of Utah gardens

By Charles F. Trentelman

Standard-Examiner staff

Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:02pm

{If you are interested in donating to our rose garden please call Kathy at (801) 399-8201 or email us here.}

OGDEN -- More than 30 volunteer master gardeners were busily weeding and cultivating the Ogden Botanical Gardens on Tuesday morning, but they ignored the centerpiece of the gardens, its wide-ranging and much-photographed rose beds.
There's nothing to do in the rose beds. All but one of more than 300 rose bushes died this winter. The beds are full of stunted stalks, waiting to be dug out.
This is not normal.
Losing 20 or 30 plants is normal, but many of the dead roses dated back to the gardens' founding 17 years ago. They survived frost, snow, freezing temperatures and blizzards, but last November was unique, said Dorinda Jones, gardens director.
"In November, it was warm, and then the temperatures dropped dramatically," she said, talking about last fall when the temperature went from the mid-60s to below freezing in one day.
"The plants weren't ready for that, so they couldn't go into dormancy and they died."
The mass death of roses has happened all across Top of Utah, she said, although it depends on how protected individual plants were and other local factors.
But all over, Jones said, gardeners who are going out to do the spring pruning are discovering that there's not much to do but dig out the plant and start over.
The Botanical Gardens, at 1750 Monroe Blvd., along the Ogden River Parkway, features 11 acres of vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, waterwise gardens and other growing things laid out in spreading beds and along the parkway.
The gardens are managed by Utah State University Cooperative Extension Service, but volunteers do almost all of the work. Graduates and students of the Master Gardener Program do most of the labor on workdays scheduled for the first Tuesday of every month, Jones said.
Nadine McKay, of Ogden, and Cary Martin, of Kaysville, were digging out minute bits of weed and grass from one bed Tuesday and breaking up clods.
Other workers were bringing in wheelbarrows full of thick, black compost from the city's compost facility.
Jones said they'll eventually plant 76 varieties of annual flowers and more than 200 flats of plants, most of which were started from seed.
The destruction of the roses wasn't discovered until April 5, when the Gardens normally holds a workshop on rose pruning to show gardeners how to do their own, she said.
As workers trimmed back the plants, Jones said, they noticed that most of the stalks were black, the wood dead. No matter how far back they cut, they didn't find green wood.
Only one plant of more than 300 survived. That made the pruning workshop difficult, she said.
"That one plant got pruned about five times," Jones said, because the classes were held hourly all day.
Now that one plant stands naked, spindly but alive, amid a sea of dead ones.
Jones said the loss of the roses will hurt. Although some weddings are already scheduled and other flowers will be in bloom, people will be less likely to hold weddings there because they normally like to take pictures amid the roses.
She said replacing all of the dead roses will cost about $10,000, money the Gardens don't have. Staff members hope to collect cash or donated roses, either new hybrid tea roses or floribunda rose plants. No grafts from home plants can be accepted, however, because of the danger of disease.
To make a donation, contact the gardens at 801-399-8081 or on the Internet at www.extension.usu.edu/weber.

First Diagnostic Clinic of the Year

2011-05-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was our first diagnostic clinic of the year. We start our Plant Diagnostic Clinics every Wednesday from 3-6pm starting in May until the end of September. Bring in samples or digital pictures of your troubled plants and we will help you solve their problems. Here are some examples of plant problems that we saw last year:

Saw Fly on an Austrian Pine

Herbicide Damage on a Maple

Oak Gall on Scrub Oak

Maple Leaf with Anthracnose

We have a great, skilled team of Master Gardeners that will try to solve all your plant mysteries.

Ogden Botanical Garden's Plant Detectives

Please come and see us throughout this growing season and will help you with all your plant problems!