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arkansaslivingmagazine.com | George Weigel
How to grow new plants from existing ones Many landscape plants can be reproduced at little to no cost by taking cuttings from the tips of a parent plant and planting them in moist potting mix. The process causes plants to send out roots from the cut ends, resulting in a new “baby” plant that’s an exact copy of the parent. This is one of the main ways that growers produce new plants, and it’s easier than you might think.
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pennlive.com | George Weigel
GardeningPublished: May. 29, 2025, 6:12 a.m.Spring-blooming bulbs that have finished blooming can be dug, divided, and relocated as they had into summer dormancy.George WeigelGardeners quickly learn that it’s possible to expand their flock of perennial flowers by digging and dividing clumps into smaller pieces, giving them free new plants. Not as well known is that the same can be done with most spring-flowering bulbs, such as daffodils, crocuses, and grape hyacinths.
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pennlive.com | George Weigel
The current landscape movement toward native plants and pollinator-aiding has a fair chunk of the gardening public replacing lawn space with seed-planted meadows. But not everyone (or their neighbors), as it turns out, is happy with the resulting, looser look. Some find meadows a bit “weedy” or “wild” and not as consistently colorful as they imagined. Others are OK with the look but not with how “real” weeds can elbow in and sometimes dominate after a few years.
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ncregister.com | George Weigel
COMMENTARY: Catholic institutions of higher learning can lead the reform of college and university life. Psalm 8:5 adorns a building on the campus of Harvard University. (photo: Unsplash) Commentaries May 28, 2025 Why are so many American colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War historian, gave the answer, perhaps unwittingly, at her 2007 inauguration as the 28th president of Harvard University.
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catholicworldreport.com | George Weigel |Carl Olson
A Catholic fix for American higher education? Ideas, as always, have consequences. (Image: Baim Hanif/Unspash.com)Why are so many American colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War historian, gave the answer, perhaps unwittingly, at her 2007 inauguration as the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University.
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eppc.org | Natalie Dodson |Francis X. Maier |Clare Morell |George Weigel
May 27, 2025 (Washington): The Ethics and Public Policy Center applauds the introduction of new legislation championing women’s health. U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), James Lankford (R-OK), U.S. Representatives Diana Harshbarger (TN-01), and Riley Moore (WV-02) introduced the Reproductive Empowerment and Support through Optimal Restoration (RESTORE) Act in their respective chambers.
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pennlive.com | George Weigel
Updated: May. 24, 2025, 6:03 a.m.|Published: May. 24, 2025, 6:03 a.m.Silverbell trees produce hanging bell-shaped white flowers in spring.Meneerke Bloem and JMK/Wikimedia CommonsHere’s PennLive garden writer George Weigel’s Plant Pick of the Week for this week:* Common name: Carolina silverbell * Botanical name: Halesia carolina* What it is: Carolina silverbells are mid-sized flowering trees that are native to the southeastern U.S. They’re usually found growing as under-story trees in nature.
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pennlive.com | George Weigel
May is a month when mulch piles seem to magically appear in driveways all over Pennsylvania suburbia. It’s almost become a rite of spring to get out there and spread a fresh couple of inches of “tanbark” over the foundation beds and around the trees. But is mulching a must-do garden job? And does it have to be done every spring? The answers are no and no.
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us2.campaign-archive.com | Jim Graves |David G. Bonagura |George Weigel |J. Ziegler
By Catholic News Agency on May 18, 2025 09:00 am Pope Leo XIV acknowledged divisions among the faithful with a call for fraternal communion and unity in the homily at his inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square on May 18, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 18, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV delivered this homily at the Mass for the Initiation of the Petrine Ministry in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, May 18, after being elected the 266th successor of St. Peter on May 8.
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pennlive.com | George Weigel
Although they grow reasonably well inside, so-called “houseplants” really aren’t at home in homes. No plant is native to building interiors. Some species just tolerate the low light and dry air of homes better than others. But even those are typically tropicals that are much “happier” in the sun’s spectrum and the more humid outdoor air. That’s why most houseplants appreciate at least a few months outside where they can revel and recuperate in conditions closer to that of their natural homeland.
