Member profile for SylviaG

Gardening since 1982
  • Name: Sylvia G
  • Location: Raleigh, NC
  • Gardening experience: I'm a serious hobbyist
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Cat Tales: A Carolina Garden Raleigh, NC

This particular garden was born in 1990 and has been evolving ever since.   I share it with 4 cats, lots of birds, and various frogs and turtles.    It's my blue sky haven!   » more
  • Last updated: August 09, 2011
  • Garden type: back yard

Our Grounds Des Moines, IA

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

Boston Fenway Victory Garden Boston, MA

by Kristen
In the early spring the daffodils and tulips start to poke out of the ground...the 2 lilac bushes begin their blooms soon after. During mid-May, I begin to add veggie, herb, and annual plantings. Also, my parents bring...

Your Entomolo-Garden Oakland, CA

Welcome to the Insect News Network on YourGardenShow! The I.N.N. travels the globe to learn how people think and feel about our 6- and 8-legged friends. The I.N.N. is a non-stop, multi-media interdisciplinary plunge...

Claire's Amsterdam Balcony Netherlands

by Claire
A small balcony in Amsterdam, with morning sun. Click on the photos for more explanation!

jjs Cle Elum, WA

by JJS
simple

The Green Gardener in Herald, California Herald, CA

Greetings from Herald, CA. Located just South East of Sacramento by 20 miles. Millions of grape vines cover the Herald landscape and vegetables grow well here with a good compost pile to nourish our Green Garden....

Steve's Japanese Maples Eugene, OR

Collection of 70 Acer palmatums, mostly all different varieties. Mostly planted from 1 to 5 gallon containers. Most under 7 years old.

Green Kathleen's Chicken Junction Arlington, TX

My garden began with one raised bed.  I grew up in Ohio where you could pretty much stick a plant in the ground and it would grow.   I now live in Texas where the "soil"  is not soil.   Its clay.  I think they...

YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA

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Favorite gardening books: The Southern Living Garden Book, Grow Organic
Favorite vegetable: Heirloom Tomatoes!
Favorite flower: Tall Bearded Iris
Favorite tree / shrub: Lagerstremia/Crepe Myrtle
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Favorite park / arboreteum: Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC

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  • lfin replied 11 months ago
    Hi Sylvia,   I loved your Mom's photos and azalea achievement so much I put it on the Facebook page today.  Others are so inspired, too.  Check it out.
    SylviaG replied 11 months ago
    @lfin:  Thank you from my heart.    My mother will be thrilled when I show it to her.    She's a huge inspiration to me.  
    lfin replied about 1 year ago
    Hi Sylvia,  Great to have you -- and that you found The Greenhouse is awesome on your first day!  I put the note about Clivias that you wrote up on Facebook.  It is a great plant and needs the care you wrote about to get it into the mainstream - where it belongs since it is a brilliant shade flowerer!  Here's what I posted on Facebook today: SylviaG has some good tips about how to make Clivia, the 4-season wonder, a little bit better - with a bloom!  Since each of these plants costs about the same as 2 bags of groceries, why not get the most pleasure and beauty from this marvel ?! http://www.yourgardenshow.com/greenhouse/2122-I-have-had-a-clivia-6-years-which-bloomed-only-when-I-bought-it-Are-there-any-secrets-of-how-to-make-it-bloom-
    SylviaG replied about 1 year ago
    @lfin:  I feel honored that you posted my comment.    I've been looking for advice on getting clivias to bloom for a while now.    My friend absolutely would not let me attempt the overwintering under the house on my beautiful plant and generously offered hers as the guinea pig.    We're lucky to have found out through our experimentation... that treating them like amaryllis does indeed work.   Next winter mine is goiing under the house too!
    Entomolo-garden replied about 1 year ago
    Hi Sylvia - Thanks for following Your Entomolo-Garden.  We will be creating some interesting new content about insects and other little critters.  I welcome you to send me any pics or videos that you have of insects in your neck of the woods.  Many thanks, Emmet
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