Hale County contains a wide variety of soil types, providing a challenge to homeowners selecting landscape plants. Soil types in Hale includ...
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Learn about the soils in the Montgomery/Prattville/ Wetumpka metropolitan area. Residents on these soils may nd challenges when selecting la...
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Hydrangeas, with their pink or blue cloud-shaped flowers and large, soft-green leaves, compose images of lazy summers in the shade. ...
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Honey bees and plants have a special relationship. Each benefits the other. Flowering plants provide food for honey bees; in turn, b...
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*This is an excerpt from Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden, ANR-2283.
AKA: Pycnanthemum
This perennial plant grows 3 feet tall and ...
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AKA: Daucus carota
This flower is a biennial herbaceous plant...
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AKA: Solidago sp.
Long, wood-like stems with spiky, tooth-lik...
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AKA: Coreopsis sp.
In this flower the yellow center or disc f...
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AKA: Celosia cristata
This flower is an annual, nonnative, her...
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AKA: Echinacea purpurea
A popular, native perennial with smoo...
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Most beneficial insects need to supplement their diets with pol...
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*This is an excerpt from Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden, ANR-2283.
Aliases: ladybug, ladybird beetle
Wanted For: Gorging on soft-...
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