home sectionhome section"Chomley Farran" dianthus (Dianthus caryophyllus "Chomley Farran") is a fantastically showy perennial carnation cultivar that boasts purple, 2 1/2-inch flowers that are striped with hot pink and framed by bluish-green leaves. The plant grows to a diminutive height of about 1 foot. "Chomley Farran" is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant hardiness zones 6 to 10.
Blackberry plants (Rubus spp.) provide gardeners several choices for growing small fruit for home use. Yielding 6 to 7 pounds per hill under optimal conditions, blackberry varieties are classified according to growth habit, erect or trailing, and plant characteristics, thorny or thornless. As a home grower, one of your main considerations when selecting a cultivar of this herbaceous biennial is the plant's cold tolerance. Among the many blackberry varieties, cultivars are available for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant hardiness zones 5 through 9.
After a long winter, the sight of seedlings growing indoors does a gardener's heart good. You can buy seedlings from your local nursery for all the major garden plants. Starting plants from seed, however, saves you money and increases the number of varieties from which you can choose. It also gives you the pleasure of watching the first tiny sprouts of the year break the surface of the soil.
Mushrooms are the fruiting body of fungi, and they contain spores with which the fungi propagate. Mushrooms appear throughout the year, depending on the species, weather conditions and region of the country. Since fungi are not plants, they have neither chlorophyll nor stems or leaves, so they do not produce their own food. Instead, mushroom fungi often feed on dead or decaying organic matter, such as leaves or trees.
If you live in the southern portion of the United States Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zone 8 and are thinking of giving vegetable gardening a try, you are in luck. Many easy-to-grow vegetables thrive in this mild climate where the last frost of spring can be expected in early April and the first in early November. The easiest way to decide what to plant is to grow what you like to eat. Fill your vegetable garden with these easy-to-grow favorites.
You covet apricots (Prunus armeniaca) for their visual appeal – orange-red, velvety – as well as for their musky, faintly tart taste. It would be fun and convenient to stroll into the garden to pluck a few of the tasty fruits to top a bowl of vanilla ice cream or make a quick pie. But you may wonder if you live in a U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zone that's suitable for growing the beta-carotene-laden fruits.
Just because you want to dress as hot as possible doesn't mean that your color palette has to become needlessly complicated. Learn about hot but simple ways to dress with help from a fashion and style expert in this free video clip.
The origins of bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia, also known as Citrus aurantium subspecies bergamia) are shrouded in mystery. This small orange tree grows almost exclusively in Calabria, Italy, where it was introduced in the 1700s. Like sour orange (Citrus aurantium), bergamot orange can grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11, but it is sensitive to adverse growing conditions. Its rind yields bergamot essential oil.
When Asian tiger lilies (Lilium lancifolium) go dormant in winter, they survive in temperatures well below freezing. When actively growing, however, the plants are frost-tender. Asian tiger lilies are a species of lily native to China, Japan and Korea that are commonly called tiger lilies. They grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 9.
Also known as yellow trumpet, yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava) is a colorful carnivorous plant characterized by modified leaves, known as pitchers, that lure and trap insect prey. Yellow pitcher plant generally produces pitchers that are bright lime green when young and yellow with a red blotch when mature. Where hardy, yellow pitcher may be grown outdoors in boggy conditions as an unusual garden ornamental.
Considered a cool-season grass, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) prefers U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 8. If ideal conditions abound, this turf species easily grows to a 24-inch height during the growing season if you do not mow it. However, perennial ryegrass is typically dormant during the winter, with no significant growth to be seen.
The vegetables from your first garden have all been harvested -- summer’s bounty finally spent -- and now it's time to put your garden to bed for the winter. With some basic cleanup and soil care, your garden will be better prepared for next spring’s planting. A perfect activity for fall’s cooler days, tucking your garden in for winter completes the growing season.
When you're trapped indoors with a cooped-up teenager, a single day can feel like an eternity. But don’t let the gloomy weather get the best of you just yet. With a little creativity and planning, you can easily turn the day into one of the most memorable your teen has had in a while.
There are four families of ferns having representative species that grow well in the Northeast. An additional family includes a fern that certainly grows in the Northeast, although perhaps not so well. The climbing fern (Lygodium palmatum) is an unusual vine-like fern that is found in several northeastern states, but it is variously listed as endangered, threatened or of special concern. It is included in the family Schizaeaceae and is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5b through 9a.
Red pandas live in temperate forests in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal. They’re better adapted to cold than to heat, and they spend winters as well as summers in their home territories. They don’t hibernate, but they do rely on their heavy fur and bushy tails to keep them warm during cold spells.
Due to their coinciding soil requirements, bloom time and size, pentas (Pentas spp.) and lantanas (Lantana spp.) work well when planted as companions in the garden. Pentas grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 through 11, and lantanas grow in USDA zones 8b through 11. Both of these flowering plants grow well in any soil type as long as it is fast draining and acidic. Lantanas require full sunlight to produce the best blooms, while pentas prefer partial shade. Choose a single planting site that contains both lighting conditions side by side and position the lantanas on…
You can wear a number of different things over a business suit during cold weather depending on your preferences. Find out what can be worn over a business suit during cold weather with help from an experienced fashion professional in this free video clip.
When planning for a cold weather camping or hiking trip, you always need to make sure that you make a gear checklist so that nothing gets left behind. Make a cold weather gear checklist with help from a marketing coordinator with Backwoods and Backwoods Adventures in this free video clip.
There is a specific science to how the brakes on your vehicle work and how different factors can affect braking performance. When you apply the brakes hydraulic pressure squeezes the brake pads against the rotor, slowing the vehicle. As simple as that seems, there is a lot more to what is actually occurring because energy isn’t dissipated, its transferred to another medium. Your vehicle slows down because the energy from your vehicles momentum is converted to heat when the brakes are applied, which is then dissipated through the vents in the middle of the rotor. With this in mind, you…
Model year 1996 was an important one, not just for the Ram, but for every other vehicle in America. This was the year that the Federal government mandated the adoption of Onboard Diagnostics, Series II protocol. Among other things, one of OBD-II's primary virtues is its ability to adapt to any environment while maintaining the appropriate timing and air/fuel ratio. But sensors do fail over time, causing computers like the one in the Ram to make mistakes and fail to adjust for changes in air temperature and density.
If you do not have a garden or want to grow fruit and vegetables out of season, you can grow plants like brambles in containers in your home. Brambles are prickly plants that are part of the rose family. Types of brambles include blackberries and rapsberries. Brambles are easier to grow in containers than other fruits because they grow as long, upright canes, with the fruit dangling off of them.
Vehicles, as a whole, are hot-blooded beasts; they're generally designed more to tolerate extremes in upper temperatures than those in lower ranges. The differentials and gearboxes used in pickup trucks and cars are no exception, and may suffer when subjected to extremely low temperatures like those often encountered during the winter season.
Getting seats next to each other on a plane is unfortunately sometimes easier said than done. Get seats next to each other on an airplane with help from a travel expert in this free video clip.
Phalaepnopsis orchids are one of the most common orchids and are luckily also the easiest to care for. Get Phalaenopsis Taisuco orchid growing tips with help from a botanical stylist in this free video clip.
If your kitchen and dining room happen to be next to each other, you're going to want to keep a few important things in mind when choosing paint. Paint a kitchen and dining room that are next to each other with help from a registered interior designer in this free video clip.
Downloading and installing management information base files into CiscoWorks allows you to extend the capabilities of the program. MIB files can, for example, add support for additional networking hardware or software to CiscoWorks. You can download and install MIB files into CiscoWorks by visiting a specific webpage, downloading the required MIB's and compiling them.
Website owners can create an entire online store with the Magento e-commerce system. Internet shoppers typically want to see images of a product before buying something online, and Magento lets you add up to five images for every product in your store. Learn how Magento deals with all these product images so that you can maximize the visual appeal of your Web-based store.
Trenching -- a form of excavation -- is one of the most hazardous forms of construction, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. As such, OSHA designs safety regulations for workers who dig trenches to follow in order to avoid hazards. Weather plays an integral role in the safety of trenchers, too. Digging a trench in cold weather requires workers to pay close attention to the environment and condition of the earth.
The fuel economy of your vehicle is determined by many factors, from the mechanical properties of the engine to atmospheric conditions. This is especially evident in the winter, where you are likely to experience a notable decrease in gas mileage. Not only does cold weather affect the operation of the engine, it also increases aerodynamic drag, both of which lead to fewer miles per gallon.
Native people and others in dry areas use sunken basins to maximize the small amount of natural rainfall or other water source. Use of sunken basins is especially common in the American Southwest, where the climate is hot and dry, and water is at a premium. Moisture in a sunken basin evaporates more slowly, and plants are safer from high winds than in regular garden beds.
While all vegetables grow from the ground up, some like to climb higher than the rest. For these vegetables, vertical gardening offers an attractive alternative to vines running along the soil line. The concept of vertical gardening is ideal for anyone who lives in a tight space or simply wants to camouflage a tired, old structure. If you have a lattice fence, put it to good use as a trellis for your favorite vegetable climbers.
Japanese wisteria (Wisteria floribunda) and Chinese wisteria (W. sinesis) are dramatic deciduous vines with dense, hanging clusters of lightly fragrant blooms that appear from late spring until midsummer. The sturdy vines reach lengths of up to 50 feet. American wisteria (W. frutescens) is a less common, slightly smaller type of wisteria with a mature length of up to 30 feet. Depending on the variety, wisteria is available in both double and single forms, and in shades of purple, violet, bluish-violet, white and pink.
A perpetuity is a fundamental concept in financial theory. Perpetuities represent annuities with cash flow that could be constant or growing. Three factors influence their valuation: the amount of the cash flow, the discount rate and the growth rate, if applicable.
While growing small vegetables and herbs indoors in pots is nothing new, growing a vegetable garden vertically up a wall in your home is a more-modern concept gaining popularity among space-deprived green thumbs. Instead of taking up a lot of counter space, a wall vegetable garden utilizes the wall space in your home. Not only are you saving money by growing your own food, a vertical wall garden also creates an intriguing visual enhancement to your home.
Electrical blips may cause your power to flicker or go off completely during cold weather or other factors. A blip is also known as a voltage fluctuation or momentary interruption of power. Extreme cold temperatures often cause downed power lines for several hours or even days, as snow or ice-laden tree branches break off. Such temperatures, however, are generally not the cause of temporary blips.
Home maintenance problems vary by the season. A typical winter problem occurs when the door locks begin to turn sluggardly in cold weather. This may be caused by moisture inside the lock that freezes or by an accumulation of dirt and oil over an extended period of time.
Concrete projects undertaken when temperatures fall below 50 degrees require special considerations to ensure the concrete is able to cure properly, with maximum strength. Installing the concrete footings in cold weather is only one task that must be performed to complete the overall project.
You'll want to keep a few specific things in mind when dressing for cold weather outings. Learn how to dress for cold weather outings with help from an experienced fashion professional in this free video clip.
A grow box enclosure creates a micro-environment for plants to grow in, where variables such as temperature and humidity can be more easily controlled. Building a negative-pressure grow box helps your growing environment take in fresh CO2-rich air for plants to use, then quickly exhausts the oxygen-rich air that plants expel. The quick exchange of air in a negative-pressure grow box also helps to control excess heat and humidity.
The BlueSocket outdoor access point system is a secure wireless system designed for business security. It reassigns the packet control protocols from the computer server to the individual access points to alleviate the load on the server. This results in the server being able to handle exponentially more clients than systems that require all requests to be routed through the server. There is no loss of security because the access points have built-in security software that identifies and quarantines unauthorized and rogue IP addresses.
A broiling pan is a special cooking pan that has a holey, flat surface inside it. The holes in the pan allow fat and grease to drop below the food, where it is caught in the outer pan. Broiling pans are placed in a broiler or the lowest rack in an oven turned to the broil setting. If you are left without a broiling pan, there are a few alternatives you can use in a pinch.
Repairing brick stairs generally involves either the replacement of cracked or broken bricks, or the replacement of cracked or missing mortar between bricks. In normal weather conditions, the damaged mortar or brick is removed and new material is set into its place and allowed to cure for a few weeks. Cold weather slows the curing process though, causing the mortar to set without attaining maximum hardness, resulting in weak repairs. This can be offset by proper mortar preparation, however. With a combination of process changes and admixtures to the mortar, you can fight the effects of the cold somewhat, allowing…
Ponderosa pine grows naturally throughout the western United States and some parts of Mexico and Canada. While these pines have commercial value as timber-producing trees, they are also cultivated as ornamentals in lawns and landscapes. Planting ponderosa in the proper environment and providing regular care are vital to growing healthy trees. Detrimental environmental pressures, like exposure to unfavorable temperatures and pathogens, can easily damage plants that are not properly planted and maintained.
The Android user permissions are similar to those used in Linux. A regular user doesn't have access to many system level commands and folders. You must change the user level from the regular user to a root user. The rooting process changes the access level so you can change multiple facets of the operating system. The HTC Evo has several simple ways that you can change your user-level access.
Your upper wall trim provides a visual transition between the wall and the ceiling. Over time, however, you may notice that there is a gap between the trim and the ceiling during the cold weather that is not necessarily there when it gets warmer. This is a cosmetic issue rather than a structural one. Once you have noticed the issue, you can fix it easily using materials available at local home improvement store.
Frozen septic systems, frozen drain pipes and blocked vents can all cause cold-weather drainage problems. However, if the problem only occurs at one sink, your septic system probably isn’t the culprit. In order to determine whether you have a frozen pipe or a blocked vent, you need to do some additional troubleshooting.
Hard-core grill lovers often don't want to put away the grill and tools when the summer ends. Cold weather does affect the way a grill performs, and this creates some challenges. However, by adjusting your grilling habits, you can grill in the fall or even the winter, when the temperatures have dropped and snow covers the ground.
There's no mistaking a crayfish. With beady eyes, strong claws, 10 feet and a tail that people the world over love to eat, the crayfish -- called a crawdad, mud bug or crawfish in the South -- proves the most popular crustacean to raise in the United States. While Louisiana hosts about half of the approximately 250,000 acres of crayfish aquaculture farming, California has its share of crayfish farms, especially in the Delta region around the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, where crayfish sometimes reach over 8 inches in length.
You can grow tomatoes side by side with other things in a vegetable garden in your backyard. Learn how to grow tomatoes and a vegetable garden with help from a social entrepreneur in this free video clip.
Vertical fence-climbing gardens provide many benefits including easier harvesting, better use of space and faster growth due to optimized sun exposure. Plants grown up from the ground also have less contact with soil-bound pests such as bugs, snails and slugs. Hide an unsightly fence or unpleasant view with an upright crop. Beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and squash -- with some supports -- are all good plant choices.
