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Your Garden: Flowers keep on blooming

Dear Roger: What is your best advice on what to do about winter weeds in my centipede? - Hoyt Maxwell, Fayetteville Dear Hoyt: My best advice is to enjoy the weeds. Winter weeds will bring you flowers from now through early spring. First, you'll see small white flowers. Then will come small yellow flowers. Before long, wild onions will send up big heads of blooms. They smell delightful when mowed, but not on anyone's breath when they are nibbled. In early spring you will see tiny red-purple flowers and big yellow flowers with many petals. Also, many light purple flowers will appear. Some will be annual violas, and some will be short-lived annual lobelias. Then you'll see rust-red seed heads on wild rumex that's good in salads. Mowing repeatedly can keep some of the plants from blooming and producing seed. That will limit their populations somewhat. But the dandelions and onions are perennial. They can return every year and multiply vegetatively. I consider the green spots in the winter lawn to be creatively decorative. I especially like dandelions and wouldn't think of mowing them before they create their beautiful seed heads. The seeds go airborne with every breeze or puff from the cheeks of children of all ages. Still, many people do not like winter weeds in their centipede. If you must kill winter weeds, there is a way. Active growth is their weakness. You can spray them will glyphosate. The glyphosate will not kill dormant centipede as long as their is no runoff. Mist the leaves of the weeds with a strong concentration of glyphosate, also called Round-Up. Do not allow runoff or drift. Spray drift can damage nearby plants. You must do this after the centipede is completely dormant and during a warm spell of several days above 60. Try to spray on the warmest day possible after several warm days. A day above 70 is ideal, but you may have to settle for 65 in January or February. Spraying now would be too early. Wait until a week or two after... http://www.fayobserver.com/living/home_garden/your-garden-flowers-keep-on-blooming/article_37838200-dec7-588f-a48c-8e9f4279638b.html

Texas mascot gets flowers on behalf of Arkansas' hog

SWC disbanded. The Razorbacks won the most recent game 31-7 at the Texas Bowl last December. The teams are scheduled to play again in Fayetteville in 2021. http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/oct/15/tusk-sends-bevo-flowers/

Business Spotlight: Dale's Florist is more than hearts and flowers

Nellie Lucas, operated a shop behind her home over on Woodrow Street in the early 1960s," Lasater said. "There weren't a lot of florists in Fayetteville at the time. After I graduated, I worked for a while at Seventy-First Elementary School. And then, I went to work with Rachel Faircloth, who was an icon in the florist business. Her shop was across from the bus station, the Fayetteville Floral Company. Mr. Carter and I were friends, and we got to talking and we decided to go into this business in 1989." Has the business been good for you? "We feel like we are supposed to be here. You touch people's lives at all times - births, deaths, graduations. We cry with people. We have customers that go back to my grandmother's days, their children and grandchildren." Is there a tougher part of the business? "We like holidays, but they're busy. People at Valentine's are nuts. You deal with all kinds of people, people you don't know, and you might not ever see again, but we're happy to have them. Death is tough, always tough. We've known a lot of people, and even if we don't know them, I do feel we try to be comforting. Walking in and seeing something pretty helps." Sounds like you have rewarding moments. "We get calls all the time from overseas. We have a fel... http://www.fayobserver.com/news/business/business-spotlight-dale-s-florist-is-more-than-hearts-and/article_829c1ffa-6c05-5574-b32b-a85492ade845.html