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All About Black Gold® All Purpose with Controlled Release Fertilizer
With the advent of Black Gold® All Purpose with controlled release fertilizer, you are now able to enjoy the benefits of a premium-quality potting soil with a fertilizer that will feed your plants for...
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Black Gold® Customer Survey
An exciting tool is being added to BlackGold.bz to improve our communications with our customers, both retailers and consumers. This website addition is being done in an effort to keep our product...
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Sticks On Fire
Even though it is not winter hardy in most of our Pacific NW climate, for a novelty container plant, it is hard to top the color of Euphorbia tirucalli. This often goes by the common name of Red...
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Molly the Witch
Peonies are a favorite spring flower and I have many in my garden. I have had quite a few people tell me they are a memory flower and reminds them of a parent or grandparent’s garden. For me they...
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Late Summer Foliage Color
Here it is, mid-September and in the Pacific Northwest, and the weather has been warm with little or no rain. This is the time to visit gardens and observe what is performing well at this time of...
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Western Wildflowers are Different
Are you a failed wildflower grower? Growing California poppies (Eschscholzia californica), lupines, Coreopsis and five spot (Nemophila maculata) in the arid West is downright tricky. We sow them, and...
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A Guide to Herbal Edible Flowers
A bumblebee pollinates the edible flowers of borage. Well-placed culinary blooms are surprisingly delicious and bring unique and elegant beauty to the table. Many edible flowers are common garden...
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Pacific Northwest Spring Garden Picks
Rhododendron ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ is a striking spring beauty with trusses of white flowers decorated with dark anthers. Here in the Pacific Northwest our spring season has been phenomenal. Of course...
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Mexican Truffles
Fresh huitlacoche on display at summer market. These ears sell 50 times more than standard ears. In polite company it’s called the Mexican truffle, but in the American corn belt it’s nothing but common...
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Peonies & Iris, Oh My!
The lactiflora peony ‘Madame de Verneville’ is a fine old French cultivar. (image by Carol Adelman) As I mentioned in my April article, the spring season in the Pacific Northwest has been phenomenal...
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Maintaining the ‘Statice’ Quo
This perennial statice, Limonium perezii is frost tender but tough as nails in salt air and coastal conditions. “Where did you get those flowers?” my mother asked suspiciously when I presented her with...
View ArticleBlack Gold at BWI Expo 2014
Come meet us at BWI Expo 2014! Held Monday, September 15, 2014 through Wednesday, September 17, 2014, in Nashville, TN. Sun Gro Horticulture and Black Gold will have four booth locations!
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The Green Industry Show & Conference, Canada
Black Gold and Sun Gro Horticulture will be at The Green Industry Show & Conference, Canada held at the Edmonton EXPO Centre at Northlands 116 Avenue & Wayne Gretzky Dr., Edmonton, Alberta,...
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Trick or Treat Gardening
“Oh, noooo!” Plants are a great way to add to the Halloween fun! The gardening season we experienced this past summer and early fall has been one of the best that I can remember. Vegetable gardens...
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Traditional Fall Harvest Pies with a Twist
Savory tomato pie is a perfect side for dinner or addition to a holiday breakfast. Unlike the cool berry and citrus pies of summertime, pies made with fall fruits and veggies are warmer, spicier, and...
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Holistic, Healing Gardening
Anna’s hummingbird feeding on Salvia ‘Amistad’. (Photo by Doug Barragar) For those of you that have read some of my previous Black Gold articles, you will know that one of my recurring themes is to...
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Bold New Poinsettias for the Holidays
The ivory and ruby-rose flowers of the Ruby Frost poinsettia are elegant and unique. Today’s poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) break the mold of the simple red or ivory potted holiday plant....
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Give your Garden the Edge with Resilience™ Enhanced Mixes!
Sun Gro Horticulture® is proud to introduce Black Gold® Resilience™ mixes enhanced with silicon. Available in Black Gold All Purpose Potting Soil, Black Gold Moisture Supreme Container Mix, Black...
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Winter Indoor Gardening with Mike Darcy
We have a lot of orchids in our home that bloom throughout the year. While house plants are not generally something that we have many of in our house, we do have several, one of which is a very tough...
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Designing Small Garden Spaces
Uniformly colored patio furniture that echos a garden’s color theme is perfect for a small garden. The good news is that your landscape is small. Less outdoor area to maintain means more free time for...
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