A Gardener's Year
Gardening Columns in the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette
Written by Susan Camp
2025 Gardening Columns
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January
1.2.25 Shop for Gardening Tools on Sale
1.9.25 Spread Some Peanut Love!
1.16.25 Animals Need a Warm Place in Winter, Too
1.23.25 Basic Facts about White and Red Oaks
1.30.25 Do Slugs Eat Daffodils?
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March
3.6.25 Use Body Mechanics to Protect Your Back
3.13.25 Camellias Are Blooming
3.20.25 Invasive Vines are Difficult to Control
3.27.25 The Deer-Native Shrub Dilemma
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May
5.1.25 Long-Lasting Summer Perennials
5.15.25 Solving Mysterious Tree Demise
5.22.25 Protect Yourself from Ticks
5.29.25 The Search for a Pink Lady’s Slipper`
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July
7.3.25 Calycanthus ‘Aphrodite,’ Long-Blooming and Deer Resistant, Too
7.17.25 Spotted Lanternfly May Be Getting Closer
7.18.25 Why Didn’t Some of My Flowering Shrubs Bloom?
7.24.25 Hornworm vs. Hickory Horned Devil
7.31.25 Common Tomato Problems
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September
9.4.25 American Elderberry and Pollinator Update
9.18.25 Spiders in the House and Garden
9.25.25 The Trials of Growing Corn
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November
11.6.25 Deer Resistant-Native Plants
11.13.25 Leaf Chemistry: Color Change in the Fall
11.20.25 Gratitude for Nature’s Gifts
11.27.25 Gifts That Will Delight Gardeners
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February
2.6.25 Flowers That Are Here and Gone
2.13.25 Why Bother to Compost?
2.20.25 How to Begin Composting
2.27.25 A New Fungal Disease of Ornamentals
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April
4.3.25 The Hidden Lives of Moles
4.17.25 April Is Pollen Season
4.24.25 Earth Day Review for 2025
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June
6.5.25 Almost Everything about Woodlice
6.12.25 Find Out What Master Gardeners Do
6.26.25 St. John’s Wort, a Sunny Perennial
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August
8.7.25 Where Are the Pollinators This Summer?
8.14.25 Use Best Management Practices to Develop Healthy Soil
8.21.25 Cedar-Apple Rust: A Threat to Trees in the Rose Family
8.28.25 Fall Is a Great Time to Plant
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October
10.2.25 Knock Out® Roses: Beauty and the Beast
10.9.2025 Tulip Poplar Leaves Can’t Take the Heat
10.16.25 Weed Out Unwanted Weeds Now!
10.23.25 Fighting a Losing Battle with Wiregrass
10.30 25 Toxic Plants in the Garden
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December
12.4.25 Outdoor Chores for a Warm Winter Day
12.18.25 Winterberry, Wintergreen, and Wintergreen
12.25.25 Norfolk Island Pine, Holiday Centerpiece
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