https://lovelygardenroots.com/cindy-wilson-butterfly-lane-flower-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T22:30:00+00:00Cindy Wilson, 69, Turned Her Retirement Flower Beds on Butterfly Lane Near Flagstaff Into a Free Pick-Your-Own Garden for the Whole Neighborhood https://lovelygardenroots.com/store-gladiolus-corms-cannas-winter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T22:00:00+00:00Gladiolus Corms Need About Three Weeks of Curing Before Storage, While Cannas Keep Best Through Winter at 45 to 50 Degrees https://lovelygardenroots.com/terra-cotta-pots-winter-cracking/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T21:30:00+00:00Unglazed Terra-Cotta Pots Crack When Soaked Clay Freezes, So Country Living Says to Raise Them Off the Ground and Choose Plants Rated Two Zones Colder https://lovelygardenroots.com/store-elephant-ear-tubers-winter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T21:00:00+00:00Elephant Ear Tubers Dug After the First Frost Need 1 to 2 Weeks of Drying, Then a Winter Spot at 70 to 75 Degrees, Iowa State Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/protect-young-trees-from-deer-winter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T20:30:00+00:00Deer Fences 8 Feet Tall Protect Young Trees Best, While Shelters and Wire Mesh Around Single Trees Need to Reach 5 to 6 Feet https://lovelygardenroots.com/bring-citrus-trees-indoors-winter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T20:00:00+00:00Potted Lemon and Other Citrus Trees Should Come Indoors Once Nights Drop Below 45 Degrees, Since 29 Degrees for 30 Minutes Can Damage Them https://lovelygardenroots.com/forcing-hyacinth-bulbs-indoors/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T19:30:00+00:00Hyacinths Need 12 to 15 Weeks of Cold at 40 to 45 Degrees Before They Will Bloom Indoors, and Daffodils Need Up to 17 https://lovelygardenroots.com/disconnect-garden-hose-before-freeze/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T19:00:00+00:00Six Hours Below Freezing Can Turn the Water in a Garden Hose Solid, So Plumbers Say to Disconnect Hoses Before the Forecast Hits 32 Degrees https://lovelygardenroots.com/mulch-strawberries-winter-straw/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T18:30:00+00:00Strawberry Beds Need 3 to 5 Inches of Straw Before Nights Drop Below 20 Degrees, or the Crowns and Next Year’s Flower Buds Can Die, Iowa State Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/overwinter-mandevilla-hibiscus-indoors/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T18:00:00+00:00Mandevilla, Hibiscus and Angel’s Trumpet Struggle Once Nights Dip Into the Low 40s, So a Penn State Master Gardener Cuts Them Back and Brings Them In https://lovelygardenroots.com/overwinter-coleus-cuttings/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T17:30:00+00:00A Six-Inch Coleus Cutting Taken Before Frost Roots in About Three to Four Weeks, Saving the Plant for Next Spring https://lovelygardenroots.com/overwinter-parsnips-in-ground/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T17:00:00+00:00Parsnips Left in the Ground Grow Sweeter as the Soil Turns Cold, and Iowa State Says to Dig the 10- to 12-Inch Roots in Spring Before They Flower https://lovelygardenroots.com/port-arthur-lawn-parking-fines/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T16:30:00+00:00Port Arthur Is Warning Homeowners That Parking on the Lawn Is One of the Code Violations That Can Bring Fines of Up to $2,000 a Day https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-dead-tree-falls-ulster-home/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T16:00:00+00:00Danielle and Walter Conklin Told Their Ulster Neighbor for Years About a Dead Tree, and Now It Has Wrecked the Home They Paid Off, With Rebuilding Put at Over $500,000 https://lovelygardenroots.com/conroe-hoa-beekeeper-appeals-ruling/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T15:30:00+00:00A Texas Appeals Court Sided With a Conroe HOA in Its Fight With Army Veteran Tyra Swanson Over Her Bee Colonies, Leaving a $2,500 Fee Order in Place https://lovelygardenroots.com/brussels-sprouts-frost-20-degrees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T15:00:00+00:00Brussels Sprouts Can Stay in the Garden Until Temperatures Fall to 20 Degrees, and NDSU Extension Says Frost Makes Them Sweeter https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-spigot-lawn-water-florida/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-03T14:30:00+00:00Quesha Foster Caught a Neighbor Watering Her Own Lawn From Foster’s Outdoor Spigot, and Foster Says Police Later Charged the Woman With Criminal Trespassing https://lovelygardenroots.com/cereal-rye-planting-window-ground-cover/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T21:00:00+00:00Cereal Rye Sown After Its Four-Week Window Gave 57% Less Ground Cover in a UVM Study, a Warning for Gardeners Seeding Cover Crops in November https://lovelygardenroots.com/boxwood-winter-burn-burlap-windbreak/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T20:30:00+00:00Boxwoods Turn Brown in Winter Mostly From Drying Out, Not Cold, and Nebraska Extension Puts the Burlap Windbreak Up in November https://lovelygardenroots.com/sharea-harris-pine-hills-backyard-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T20:00:00+00:00Sharea Harris Started With Collard Greens in Her Pine Hills Backyard in 2020, and Now Her 5-Year-Old Daughter Jane Gardens Beside Her https://lovelygardenroots.com/pumpkin-squash-potato-storage-temperatures/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T19:30:00+00:00Pumpkins and Winter Squash Keep Best at 50 to 60 Degrees, While Potatoes Want 32 to 40 Degrees and 95% Humidity https://lovelygardenroots.com/peony-planting-depth-eyes-2-inches/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T19:00:00+00:00Peony Eyes Buried More Than 2 Inches Deep Often Won’t Bloom, Iowa State and UConn Experts Warn Gardeners Planting or Dividing in Fall https://lovelygardenroots.com/shredded-leaves-winter-mulch-garden-beds/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T19:00:00+00:00Fall Leaves Shredded With a Mower and Spread 3 to 4 Inches Deep Make Free Winter Mulch for Garden Beds https://lovelygardenroots.com/dormant-seeding-minnesota-lawn-november/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T18:30:00+00:00Minnesota Lawns Can Be Dormant-Seeded From Early November to Mid-March Once Soil Drops Below 40 Degrees, So Seed Sprouts in Spring https://lovelygardenroots.com/winter-mulch-perennials-after-soil-freezes/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T18:00:00+00:00Perennial Beds Shouldn’t Get Winter Mulch Until the Soil Starts to Freeze, Then Minnesota Extension Recommends 5 to 6 Inches of Leaves or Straw https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-evergreens-water-before-freeze/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T17:30:00+00:00Newly Planted Evergreens Need About 2 Inches of Water a Week Until the Ground Freezes, Twice What Established Ones Get https://lovelygardenroots.com/tree-trunk-wrap-sunscald-november/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T17:00:00+00:00The Southwest Side of a Young Tree Can Run 77 Degrees Warmer Than the North in Winter, Which Is Why Extension Experts Wrap Trunks in November https://lovelygardenroots.com/hydrangea-pruning-by-type/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T17:00:00+00:00Bigleaf and Oakleaf Hydrangeas Bloom on Old Wood, So Illinois Extension Says They Get Pruned Right After Flowering, Not in Fall https://lovelygardenroots.com/christmas-cactus-14-hours-darkness/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T16:30:00+00:00Christmas Cactus Needs 14 Hours of Unbroken Darkness for Six Weeks to Set Buds, and Just 2 Hours of Light Can Stop It https://lovelygardenroots.com/poinsettias-below-50-degrees-wrap/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T16:00:00+00:00Poinsettias Carried Outside Unwrapped Below 50 Degrees Can Be Damaged Between the Store and the Car, Extension Experts Warn https://lovelygardenroots.com/diseased-tomato-plants-trash-not-compost/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T15:30:00+00:00Diseased Tomato Plants Belong in the Trash, Not the Compost, Unless the Pile Reaches Near 150 Degrees, UConn’s Dawn Pettinelli Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/clemson-fall-soil-test-lime/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T15:00:00+00:00A $6 Clemson Soil Test Taken This Fall Gives Lime the Several Months It Needs to Work Before the Spring Vegetable Garden Goes In https://lovelygardenroots.com/east-ridge-chester-perry-weed-rules/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T15:00:00+00:00‘Destroyed a Part of Me’: Chester Perry Told East Ridge’s Council What Losing His Native Garden and Oak Felt Like, and the City Is Now Looking at Its Weed Rules https://lovelygardenroots.com/leave-perennials-standing-winter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T14:54:37+00:00Perennial Stems and Seed Heads Left Standing Until Spring Feed Birds and Insulate Plant Crowns, So Iowa State Says Fall Cutback Isn’t Necessary https://lovelygardenroots.com/rabbit-vole-guards-young-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T14:30:00+00:00Rabbit and Vole Guards Need to Be Around Young Trees by Mid-November, With Hardware Cloth Buried 2 to 3 Inches Down, Iowa State Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/mosenyii-yakhro-nagaland-memorial-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T14:30:00+00:00Mosenyii Yakhro, 90, Planted a Flower Garden Around His Late Wife’s Grave in India’s Nagaland, and Village Children and Tourists Now Come to See It https://lovelygardenroots.com/boca-raton-oak-tree-termites-developer/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T13:00:00+00:00A Boca Raton Developer Told Neighbors the Old Oak Next Door Would Stay, Then Crews Found Something in Its Branches