Spinach F1 'SPD415'

Spinach F1 'SPD415'

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Growing Spinach

Did you know that if you had planted spinach in your vegetable garden last fall and mulched it over winter, it would start growing again when the temperature warms up...

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Annual Garden Plants

Annual flowers and plants only live for one growing season. But not all plants that are killed by frost at the end of the season are annuals. An annual plant must complete its life cycle in one growing season.

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Phenology

How do you know when to plant? Well, there are no guarantees, but if you let nature tell you when its safe to plant seeds or put your plants out, youre probably on the right track. Nature sends certain signals that will let gardeners know how the weather and climate are progressing. Theres a science devoted to this, called phenology. It is useful to gardeners, as a guide for when to plant. For instance, plant your peas when the forsythia blooms. Here are a few more phenology tips.

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Pumonaria

Pulmonaria, or Lungwort, is far more charming than its name would imply. Blooming when few other perennials have even emerged after winter, Pulmoniaria offers distintive speckled and splashed foliage and small, but profuse and vivid flowers in blues, pinks, corals and whites. There is a Pulmonaria for almost any garden and they are profiled here.

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Long Producing VeggieGarden

You can have a long producing vegetable garden with minimal effort. Keep harvesting in your vegetable garden into the fall and maybe even winter months. A long producing vegetable garden is possible, if you heed some simple, but key gardening rules.

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Lilium orientalis - Lily

Lily 'Casa Blanca'

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Wine & Roses Weigela

Wine & Roses Weigela (Weigela florida 'Alexandra')

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Growing Thyme

Thyme is an extremely easy growing Mediterranean herb that prefers dry, lean growing conditions. In fact, thyme almost grows itself. You can grow thyme in herb gardens, on rock walls, between pavers or even indoors. Here are some tips on growing and using great thyme.

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Bypass Pruners

Bypass garden pruners make an easy, clean cut. A professional quality pruner will make pruning easier and cuts cleaner.

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Plants for Bees

Every garden needs pollinators and bees are among the best. Without them there would be limited flowers and even fewer fruits and vegetables. To attract bees and other pollinators to your gardens you need to select flowers and plants that are high in nectar and pollen and plant so that they are obvious and available to the insects. Here are some tips for luring bees to your garden and lists of good plant choices for bees.

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Zinnias

Zinnias are a gift from Mexico. Their bold, hot-palette colors accent the flower garden, as soon as the temperature warms up. Zinnia flowers are usually deep, brilliant hues that work equally well in flower borders and flower pots.

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Coreopsis, Tickseed

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Gardening Question of the Week Whats a Good Vine for Screening?

Alfred wrote: We live on the seventh floor of our retirement home with a deck that has a south exposure to full sun during the afternoon. We're looking...

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Harvesting Vegetables

There are no precise guidelines as to when to harvest your vegetables, but there are some rules of thumb to guide you. Most vegetables are harvested just before full maturity, for maximum flavor and the most pleasant texture. The following are vegetable harvesting criteria for judging whether your vegetables are ready for picking.

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Dicentra, Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis

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Consider A Cutting Garden

Cutting gardens or cut flower gardens are a great way to bring your garden indoors. Well planned cutting gardens can grow enough flowers to create bouqets for the entire growing season. Cutting gardens can include long flowering annuals, seasonal perennials and colorful foliage. Here are some plant ideas for your cutting garden.

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March Garden Calendar

A regional gardening calender for the month of March can give you general tips on what to plant and what to wait for, but spring in the garden is unpredictable and gardeners will have to use some common sense. Here are some reminders of what you can be doing in the garden, now that winter is on its last legs.

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Top Cut Flowers

Repeat blooming annuals are favored for cutting gardens, but many perennial flowers do wonderfully well as cut flowers. What makes for a good cut flower is a stem that is long enough and sturdy enough to hold the flower in an arrangement and a flower that lasts and looks good for several days. That gives the gardener a wide choice for choosing flowers to grow in a cutting garden. The following lists offer suggestions for great cut flowers.

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Narcissis (Daffodils)

Narcissis (Daffodils)

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Hemerocallis (Day Lily)

Hemerocallis (Day Lily)

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Hosta (Plantain Lily)

Hosta

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Pest ID Web Sites

When insect pests attack your garden plants, the first line of defense is to identify the insect. To control insects in your garden, you need to know what kind of insect you are dealing with, what plants it favors and what time of year to expect it. These web sites provide photos for identifying pests and most also give info on controlling the garden pests.

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Growing Hot Peppers

Chili peppers have the distinction of being welcome I both vegetable gardens and flower borders. While hot peppers may seem exotic, they are very easy to grow almost anywhere, even indoors. The assortment of hot peppers, whether Jalapeno, Serrano, Cayenne, Habanero or Thai, offers something for every garden and every pallette.

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Growing Phormium

Phormium is a spiky, sword-leafed evergreen perennial that is used as a garden focal point or specimen plant. Some are small enough to use in containers, others can reach several feet in diameter and 7+ feet tall. Phormium arent hardy in many areas, but can be brought indoors for the winter. Growing Phormium is easy, if you give the plants what they want.

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New Wayside Gardens Coupon Bonus Code

This one is pretty good. $15 off $75. IF you spent $75 on the dot that makes it 20% off. I buy a lot of stuff from Wayside, they tend to provide good plants of good size, nice selection too. They’ve also made good for me repeatedly when a plant came dead or died shortly [...]

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Plant Pruning FAQ

Most plants benefit from some sort of regular pruning and maintenance. The trick is in know when to prune what. Its confusing, but rarely fatal. Pruning at the wrong time of year may result in less flowers and fruits, but it usually wont harm the plant in the long run To help you take the guess work out of pruning, here is a series of articles to help you learn when to prune the plants in your garden.

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Marking the Change of Seasons with Project BudBurst!

Phenology is the study of the appearance and timing of recurring biological phenomena. Thats a lot of words, but it means keeping track of when flowers bloom, birds migrate...

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Golden Yellow Ground Cover for Shade

I have a beautiful laceleaf japanese maple with crimson foliage in a shady corner of my yard, and by shady I mean, really shady. It is in a corner between my shed and a large spruce, so that it literally gets 0 sun, except maybe around the Summer Equinox it might get a little. Anyways, [...]

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Butterfly Gardening

A true butterfly garden is not just designed to attract adult butterflies, but also to afford a place for them to hibernate and lay eggs and for the larva, or caterpillars, to feed. Different species of butterflies have different preferences in plants.

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Small Garden Containers

Gardening in containers offers unlimited opportunites to experiment. Container gardens are a perfect match for small space gardenings. You can use the container gardens as the entire garden or make clever focal points. Gardening in containers allows you to control the growing conditions and experiment with different plants at the same time.

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Buddleia, Butterfly Bush

Growing and caring for butterfly bush (Buddleia), a sub-shrub that quickly shoots up 5-6 feet early in the season and then blooms and attracts butterflies to your garden all summer.

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Winter Rose Care

All rose plants need some attention going into winter. Winter weather can really challenge rose bushes, particularly the hybrid teas. You will need to discourage new growth and make sure the rose plants in your garden are well water and well mulched. Look out for overwintering garden pests and diseases too.

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Perennial Cutting Garden

Free Garden Design - Perennial Cutting Garden

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Gardening Quiz: Latin Plant Names are Greek to Me.

Gardening quiz. Have some fun understanding the meaning of Latin plant names.

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Xeriscape Gardening

Xeriscaping doesnt mean deserts and cactus or even a drought plagued, barren landscape. Xeriscaping is a method of gardening that involves choosing plants that are appropriate to their site and creating a landscape that can be maintained with little supplemental watering. Here are the seven steps of xeriscaping, common sense guides to gardening in harmony with your site that can be applied to any type of garden design.

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No Fruit on Your Fruit Tree?

There are many reasons fruit trees can take years to begin bearing fruit. Home fruit growers need to make sure their fruit trees are given the right care and growing conditions.gardening fruit apple trees home backyard orchard not setting fruiting gardens

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10 Ways to Bring Nature Into Your Urban Home

Jennifer Lai, About.coms Guide to Apartment Living, enjoys city living and the unique pleasures it brings. But she knows we all need a dose of Mother Nature every now...

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Messenger for Plants

The plant health activator, Messenger, is neither a pesticide nor a fertilizer, although it has many advantages of both. Messenger fools a plant into thinking it is being attacked by a fungus, triggering the plant's defense mechanisms. It is environmentally friendly and non-toxic. Messenger shows great promise in helping gardeners to grow better plants and in cutting down on the need for fertilizers and pesticides.

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Geranium sanguineum

Geranium sanguineum Photo

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Gaillardia, Blanket Flower

Gaillardia, Blanket Flower Photo

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Growing Winter Squash - Winter Squash is More Than Pumpkins

Many winter squash varieties are good choices for the home vegetable garden.

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Garden Structure in B & W

A great way to see the bones and structure of your garden is to view it in black & white, without the distraction of colorful flowers and foliage.

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Growing Caladiums

Caladiums are tropical perennials grown for their spectacularly colorful foliage. Who needs flowers when the leaves are splotched and speckled with rose, cream, burgundy and flame red? Caladiums are heat lovers, but they can easily grow in cooler climates in summer and even make great houseplants. Learn the in and outs for caring for your colorful Caladiums.

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How Do You Drain Water Off Lawns?

Two years ago, I had the brilliant idea to relocate my vegetable garden right behind my house. How convenient. We lifted all the sod and worked in plenty...

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Asparagus Feature

Asparagus is a sure sign that spring is here and the gardening season has begun. Asparagus,one of the few perennial vegetable crops, is a favorite garden vegetable around the world, in shades of green, white and purple. Here are some things to know for growing great asparagus in your backyard vegetable garden.

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Pole Tree Pruners

Sometimes there's a damaged branch, just out of reach. Or maybe you need to open the canopy or snip off crossing branches. It's frustrating when there's a branch you can't get to it. Ladders are fine, but pruning requires stability and balance. Some clever person came up with pole pruners. How brilliant to attach a long handle to a saw blade. Here's some advice and suggestions on what to look for in pole tree pruners.

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Soil pH

Gardeners are often told that a key to growing great plants is to check the soil's pH. What is meant by soil pH and why should it matter so much in the garden? Here's why...

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Carrot F1 'Rainbow'

Carrot F1 'Rainbow'

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Gazing Globe Soap Bubbles

Garden Decorations - Gazing Globe Soap Bubbles

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Which Perennial Flowers to Cut Back This Spring

Spring is slowly creeping in and we're getting tempted to start cleaning up the garden. Just as a reminder, here's a (rather long) list of perennial plants that prefer...

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Top Plant Varieties

Need a clay buster? A rose for shade? What to try growing some of those heirloom vegetables you've heard about? Wish your annuals would self-seed? These lists will give you some top plant varieties, whatever your garden needs.

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Melon F1 'Summer Dream'

Melon F1 'Summer Dream'

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Ornamental Grasses for Winter

Ornamental grasses accent a garden any time of year, but they might just be at their most imposing in the doldrums of winter. Ornamental grasses provide structure, texture and drama to the gardenscape. Here are 10 of the best ornamental grass and grass-like plants for winter interest. Several are North American natives and all of them are very easy to grow. Many even do double duty by attracting birds to your winter garden, by providing shelter and food.

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Eggplant

Eggplants are sun and heat loving vegetables, in the same family as tomatoes, peppers and potatoes. Eggplant actually does come in a small, white egg-shaped variety. Most Americans have never seen one, so the name seems inappropriate. There is actually a great variety of eggplants, many much easier to grow in the home vegetable garden than the large, oblong, purple varieties we are used to.

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Clematis

How to Grow and Prune Clematis

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Sweet Corn F1 'Honey Treat'

Sweet Corn F1 'Honey Treat'

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Choosing Garden Ornaments

What makes a garden statue look like it belongs there and another look completely out of place? Most of us tend to purchase garden art that is just too small and so then we buy a lot of it. Of course, like all art, personal preferences should always be considered. But there are some simple guidelines for choosing garden ornaments that complement your garden and that you won't have to keep explaining over and over to your friends.

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Ways to Make Gardening Easier

Gardening easier means you can garden more. Use these smart gardening tips to make your gardening chores and maintenance less time and labor consuming and make your time in the garden more enjoyable.

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Summersweet-Clethra alnifolia

Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia)

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Bedding Plant Award Winner: Salvia farinacea 'Evolution'

The best bedding plants offer great color for long periods in the garden and help extend the garden season.

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Fall Perennial Pruning

It can be nice to leave some perennials standing for winter interest. But many perennial plants dont survive rough weather well. Many plants have recurrent problems with pests and diseases, which will over winter in their fallen foliage and surface in the spring. The following list of perennial flowers survive and thrive better if pruned or cut down in the fall.

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Easter Lilies

Easter Lilies are a beautiful, fragrant symbol of the Easter season. A few simple tips will keep your lily plant blooming through the season and maybe even keep it going a few season longer. It is possible to plant your Easter Lily outdoors in the garden and have it rebloom. Success isnt guaranteed, but what do you have to loose by trying. Here are some Easter Lily tips for caring for your lily plant and keeping it going.

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Spring Vegetable Gardening

Spring Vegetable Gardening - Vegetables that Enjoy the Cool, Early Weather of Spring

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Drying Gourds

Ornamental gourds grow as easily as zucchini. But unlike zucchini, there is no limit to what you can do with gourds. By drying ornamental gourds, you can keep them intact indefinitely. Drying gourds is an easy process, but it takes time. Heres all you need to know about how to dry gourds.

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Wheelbarrows and Garden Carts

Wheelbarrows and garden carts are absolutely indispensable garden tools. Without a wheelbarrow or garden cart many gardening chores would not be possible. While wheelbarrows and garden carts perform basically the same functions, they each have their pros and cons. Look through the following considerations, check off the features that appeal to you and make a decision of what would work best for you, in your garden.

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Self-Seeding Annual Flowers

Many annual flowers offer the bonus of being self-seeders. Self-sowing annuals will weave their way though your garden, year after year, giving it a natural, cottage garden feel. There's a wide choice of annual flowers that will self-seed and it takes very little effort to get them going.

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Using Wood Ash in the Garden

Is wood ash good for garden soil? Will it do more harm than good? That depends on your soil and, of course, on the wood that was burned. Here are some thoughts to consider before you put wood ash on your garden plants.

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Container Ornamental Grasses

Growing ornamental grasses in containers is a great way to feature grasses without the worry of them spreading or taking over the garden. The downside is that when growing grasses in containers, their hardiness is raised by about 2 zones. An ornamental grass hardy to Zone 5, when planted in the ground, will only survive to Zone 7 in a pot. However, you can always grow container grasses as annuals. Here are my top ten picks for ornamental grasses grown in containers.

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Cutting Back Ornamental Grass

If you don't cut back your ornamental grasses in the fall, they can provide winter interest well into the spring. But eventually you will have to cut back those ornamental grasses and it can be a messy proposition. Here's a quick and easy way to cut back your ornamental grasses without having them spill all over the garden.

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Garden Design - Color

Color is arguably the most prominent factor in a garden design and often the first one considered. Good garden design involves knowing how to combine colors so that the final product has a cohesive and pleasing effect. Here are some tips to train your eye to see color and for combining color in the garden.

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Growing Petunias

Petunias are one of the most popular bedding flowers and new types of petunias are constantly being introduced. Here are some petunia basics to guide you through grandifloras, waves, supertunias and more, as well as how to grow and care for your petunias and keep them blooming all summer.

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Flower and Garden Shows

Just when we need it most, horticultural societies across the country provide us with a breath of spring in the form of flower and garden shows. Whichever you attend, you can expect garden landscape displays, competitions, a vendor area, seminars by garden experts and floral displays. Here is a listing of some of the most popular spring flower and garden shows.

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Black Foliage Shrubs

Shrubs add four season stucture to a garden. They are considered the bones of a garden's design. Elderberries (Sambucus) have long been garden favorites because so many shrubs in the species Sambucus offer great foliage, fall color and wonderful berries. Sambucus Black Beauty (Sambucus nigra Gerda PP12305, Canadian BRAF) and Sambucus Black Lace (Sambucus nigra Eva ppaf) are two recent introductions that add depth and interest to any garden with their deep purple, almost black foliage.

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Houseplant Insect Problems

Indoor pests multiply quickly. There are no natural predators to keep them in check, so you have to be very diligent about checking for symptoms. Spider mites, aphids, mealy bugs and scale can cover a plant in days. If severe enough, the plant may never recover.

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Spring Rose Care

A bit of spring rose care will mean healthier roses throughout the growing season. Although roses may bloom even if gardeners neglect them entirely, they will have fewer problems and more blooms if you do some spring rose pruning and feeding, as outlined below. The efforts you make in caring for your roses in the early spring will mean that many fewer problems to tend to during the growing season.

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Dividing Bearded Iris

Bearded Iris are tall, elegant additions to the flower border, but they are also relatively high maintenance. You can help cut down on the incidence of soft rot and borer damage through regular division of the iris rhizomes, every 2-3 years. This will also keep bearded iris performing and blooming at its best. Dividing iris isn't hard. Start by carefully digging and lifting the rhizomes, as shown here.

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Consider A Cutting Garden

Cutting gardens or cut flower gardens are a great way to bring your garden indoors. Well planned cutting gardens can grow enough flowers to create bouqets for the entire growing season. Keeping the cutting garden in bloom takes a bit of care. Here are some tips.

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Making Hypertufa

Hypertufa planters are a wonderful way to bring the look of stone into your garden, without the weight. Hypertufa is easy to make yourself at home. Although it can be messy, its also a lot of fun. Here are some basic recipes and some creative suggestions for hypertufa toughs and garden decorations.

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How Much Mulch?

Knowing how much mulch or amendment to purchase for your garden is always a bit of a guess, but you can make it an educated one by using a couple of easy measurements and calculations. Here's how to know how many bags, pounds or cubic yards of mulch will actually give you 3inches of coverage.

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Cineraria 'Stellata'

Cineraria 'Stellata'

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Black Lace Elderberry

Black Lace Elderberry (Sambucus nigra 'Eva')

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Growing Sedum

Border Sedum or Showy Stonecrop is a must for every perennial garden. The sturdy stems, succulent leaves and clusters of flower buds are attractive all season and light up a fall garden. Growing Sedum is easy; almost mistake proof. There are Sedum varieties to blend with every color scheme and trailing Sedum to fill container gardens. Here are some tips for growing great Sedum.

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Planning a Small Garden

A good site assessment is vital to any garden design. When creating a small garden, every space is important. Where to put the garden, how large to make it and the choice of plants all must be edited, unlike with a small garden. Heres how to take an honest look at your garden site and what you can hope to plant there.

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Lettuce

Lettuce is one of the few vegetables we eat fresh and uncooked. Shouldn't it be as fresh as can be. Salad greens are easy to grow and there are literally hundreds of varieties. That pale green head you see at the grocery store is just the tip of the iceberg. Here's a look at growing and choosing the best lettuce.

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Growing Plants from Seed

Starting plants from seed isn't rocket science, but there are several seed starting tips that will help your success rate with seed germination and give your seedlings a healthy start. Here's how to start seeds indoors and the seed starting supplies you'll need to grow plants from seed.

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Perennial Spring Pruning

Four season interest in the garden is nice. Dried flowers hold onto snow like frosting. Seed heads feed the birds. But some perennials dont handle cold weather well. Plants like Butterfly Weed, Chrysanthemums and Coral Bells benefit from the protection their foliage provides for their crowns and survive best if cleaned up in the spring. The following list is a recommendation of plants that are best pruned in the spring.

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Growing Lamb's Ears

Lamb's Ears are popular in gardens because of their soft, inviting texture. They are very easy to grow almost anywhere. This profile of Lamb's Ears, Stachys byzantina, gives you their preferences and recommends varieties for your garden.

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Gardening Question of the Week Would Sunken Garden Beds Be an Advantage in Dry Climates?

Last week I wrote about raised bed gardening and I got an interesting response from Sara.: Your recent article about raised beds, called to mind a question I've been pondering....

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Magnolias - Spring Flowering Charmers

Magnolia trees are associated with the Old South and gentler lifestyle. But there are plenty of magnolia trees for cooler climates and less hospitably locations. David Beaulieu has...

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AeroGarden Review

My wife got me an AeroGarden for Christmas. I had seen these before, and even was offered a gig consulting for the company with their Internet marketing, but overall held off because of our cats, and their penchant for eating anything I try to grow indoors.My wife though was, apparently, willing to sacrifice for me [...]

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Growing Better TomatoesDoes Red Mulch Really Make a Difference?

Red plastic mulch has gotten a lot of good press lately, for growing better tomatoes. Supposedly it will help them set more tomatoes and ripen earlier. That does...

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Waking Up Your Roses

Good news! Your roses made it through the winter. Before you sit back and prepare to smell the roses, give them a little springtime TLC. ...

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Isotoma 'Blue Star Creeper'

Isotoma fluviatilis 'Blue Star Creeper' (Laurentia)

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Red Mulch for Tomatoes

If youre a die-hard tomato grower, youve probably heard about using red plastic mulch to improve your tomato yield and get your tomatoes to ripen earlier. Some early testing did show a considerable benefit from mulching tomato plants with a specific shade of red plastic. But like all things scientific in the garden, there are still a lot of variables that prevent the results from being conclusive.

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Pruners are Basically Similar

Garden Hand Pruners - How to Clean and Sharpen Hand Pruners

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Do You Compost Your Coffee Grounds?

As a coffee lover, I was delighted when I first learned coffee grounds could be used in the garden. There was a while there when "they" were saying that...

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Scotch Moss

Sagina subulata Aurea (Scotch Moss)

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Potted Tulips in Doorway

Potted Tulips in Doorway

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Cut Flower Care

Keeping cut flowers blooming and looking fresh starts by choosing healthy flowers and then handling them well. The cut flower care tips outlined here can help keep your bouquets beautiful for weeks.

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Baskets of Tulips

Baskets of Tulips

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Iris

Iris (Bearded Iris)

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What You'll Need

Cleaning & Sharpening Hand Pruners - Here's What You'll Need

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Welcoming Doorway Daffodils

Welcoming Doorway Daffodils

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Potted Daffodils in Doorway

Potted Daffodils in Doorway

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Displaying Potted Flower Bulbs

Displaying Potted Flower Bulbs

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Don't Be Intimidated

Cleaning Garden Pruners

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Daffodils with Your Coffee

Potted Daffodils in Coffee Cups

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Gardening Question of the Week I Never Planted My Bulbs Last Fall. Now What?

autumnwyndsong posted a question many of us have had to deal with: "Back in Sept when fall bulbs started arriving in stores here in Southeastern PA, I went...

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Container Grown Spring Bulbs

Container Grown Spring Flowering Bulbs

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Lighting for Houseplants

Determining how much light an indoor plant needs is about as vague as determining how much water it needs. However, most houseplants dont like to be placed in the direct sun of a windowsill. Strong sunlight may actually burn their leaves.

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Beet F1 'Merlin'

Beet F1 'Merlin'

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Entryway Pots of Spring Bulbs

Make an Entryway with Potted Spring Flowering Bulbs

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Interplanting Veggies & Flower

There is no rule that says vegetables and flowers cant mix. In fact, the vegetable garden will benefit greatly from the addition of some flowers and herbs. Its not just aesthetics that make flowers and herbs welcome in the vegetable garden. Interplanting flowers and herbs offers several beneficial features that can protect your vegetables from insect pests and even make them more productive.

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Give Them a Good Washing

Washing and Cleaning Garden Pruners

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Summer Flowering Bulbs

Bulbs are not just for spring flowers. There are many summer flowering bulbs, corms and tubers that add color and a touch of the tropics to the peak season garden. In warmer climates, many of these summer flowering bulbs can be left in the ground all year and some will even naturalize.

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Don't Forget Fragrance

Potted Hyacinth Line the Entryway

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Setting a Tone

Displaying Formal Hyacinth Flowers

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Top Cut Flowers

Repeat blooming annuals are favored for cutting gardens, but many perennial flowers do wonderfully well as cut flowers. What makes for a good cut flower is a stem that is long enough and sturdy enough to hold the flower in an arrangement and a flower that lasts and looks good for several days. That gives the gardener a wide choice for choosing flowers to grow in a cutting garden. The following lists offer suggestions for great cut flowers.

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Sharpening Hand Pruners

Sharpening Hand Pruners - How to Sharpen Garden Pruners

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Disassemble Pruners

Disassemble Pruners - How to Sharpen Hand Pruners

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The No Mess Way to Cut Back Ornamental Grasses

Way back when I asked you all if there was such a thing as winter interest in the garden, the overwhelming majority of you said you like to keep your...

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Basket of Tulips & Daffodils

Indoor Basket of Tulips & Daffodils

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Potted Hyacinth Scent the Room

Potted Hyacinth Scenting the House

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Narcissis (Daffodils)

Narcissis (Daffodils)

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Flower and Garden Shows

The choice of spring flower and garden shows continues. Whichever you attend, you can expect garden landscape displays, competitions, a vendor area, seminars by garden experts and floral displays.

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Caring For Your Valentine's Day Flowers

Cut flowers look so beautiful in their wrapping that they can be intimidating. I'm sure we've all had rose buds that drooped the day after we put them into...

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Sagina subulata (Irish Moss)

Sagina subulata (Irish Moss)

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10 Tips for Cutting Roses

Roses make exceptional cut flowers. Selecting rose buds at the right stage and conditioning the roses once cut will extend their vase life and your pleasure. Whatever your rose preference, enjoy your blooms even longer with these tips for cutting roses.

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Using Cornmeal as a Fungicide

Researchers at Texs A&M have discovered that cornmeal has powerful fungicidal properties and is effective on all kinds of landscape fungus problems, from turf grass to black spot on roses. Heres how to apply cornmeal to treat fungus problems in your garden.

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Flower Gifts for Gardeners

Choosing flowers for someone who gardens can be as intimidating as cooking for a gourmet. Don’t think that because they grow flowers, they don't like receiving them as a gift. Many gardeners hate to cut flowers from their own gardens to bring indoors; they like to see their garden full of splendor. So a gift of cut flowers or a flowering plant is a guilt free pleasure that might just inspire them to garden some more.

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Tulipa (Tulip)

Growing Tulips

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What to Grow Where?

Thats a topic I would bet everyone of you has been mulling about recently. Another good bet is that youve ordered more plant seeds than you have garden space for....

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Gaillardia, Blanket Flower

Gaillardia, Blanket Flower Photo

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Think Spring - Create a Welcome Home with Potted Spring Blooming Bulbs.

I wonder if the Dutch ever get sick of tulips, the way we tire of black-eyed Susans and Hosta? It seems hard to believe, since tulips are such...

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Tomato Blossom Drop

Blossom drop is a common tomato growing problem that can be extremely frustrating to the home gardener. Otherwise healthy looking tomato plants set flower blossoms, only to have them dry up and fall off the plant before a fruit is formed. Blossom drop can be attributed to several causes, most often related to either temperature and / or stress.

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Perennial Cutting Garden

Free Garden Design - Perennial Cutting Garden

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Lettuce

Lettuce is one of the few vegetables we eat fresh and uncooked. Shouldn't it be as fresh as can be. Salad greens are easy to grow and there are literally hundreds of varieties. That pale green head you see at the grocery store is just the tip of the iceberg. Here's a look at growing and choosing the best lettuce.

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Lilium orientalis - Lily

Lily 'Casa Blanca'

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Plant Pruning FAQ

Most plants benefit from some sort of regular pruning and maintenance. The trick is in know when to prune what. Its confusing, but rarely fatal. Pruning at the wrong time of year may result in less flowers and fruits, but it usually wont harm the plant in the long run To help you take the guess work out of pruning, here is a series of articles to help you learn when to prune the plants in your garden.

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Gardening in a Raised Bed

One thing gardeners share in common, no matter what their climate, is the desire to squeeze more into whatever space they have and to have it grow for the longest...

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The Meaning of FlowersBe Careful What You Say

Has Valentine's Day panic set in? Before you rush out to order the typical dozen roses, give some thought to expressing yourself more creatively with flowers. What...

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Cactus & Euphorbia

Euphorbia plants are good choices for dry areas. Their foliage looks good all season and the flowers are as succulent as the leaves.

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Park Seed 10% Off Coupon

This is a really good coupon, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them offer such a nice coupon before. Especially if you’re like me with the potential for placing a really big order. Normally their coupons are like just $5 off, or a free plant (that I’m sure they’re way overstocked in) this though, 10% [...]

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Clematis

How to Grow and Prune Clematis

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Fungus Gnats

Fungus gnats are more than annoying pests flying around your new plant seedlings and cuttings. Fungus gnats can do serious damage to young plants and should be controlled before their population becomes too large. There are effective biological control measures you can take to detect, deter and control fungus gnats around your growing plants.

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Open Days

The best gardens in your area are open to you through the Garden Conservancy's Open Days. Take advantage of the design inspiration and a day spent enjoying someone else's garden by visiting the private gardens listed in the Open Days directories.

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Dicentra, Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis

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Ajuga (Bugleweed)

Ajuga is a fast growing groundcover that can take over, if you're not careful. However, when it is in bloom in the spring, there's nothing to top it. If you have the space to let it roam, it's well worth growing.

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Winter Mulching

In areas that experience freezing temperatures, winter mulching of the garden differs from mulching during the growing season. We mulch our gardens in the spring to suppress weeds, retain moisture and feed and warm the soil. While we may spread a layer of soil conditioning compost or manure in the fall, the primary reason for winter mulching is to protect our plants from the harsh conditions of winter freezes, thaws and winds. There are several ways to do this.

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Phenology

How do you know when to plant? Well, there are no guarantees, but if you let nature tell you when its safe to plant seeds or put your plants out, youre probably on the right track. Nature sends certain signals that will let gardeners know how the weather and climate are progressing. Theres a science devoted to this, called phenology. It is useful to gardeners, as a guide for when to plant. For instance, plant your peas when the forsythia blooms. Here are a few more phenology tips.

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#12 - Oriental Lily 'Maywood'

Pink Oriental Lily 'Maywood'

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New Plants for 2008.

The plants showcased here are some of the new introductions for 2008 - flowers, vegeatbles, roses and shrubs. Every gardener has favorite plants they rely on and grow every year, but we all like to try something new once in awhile. Hundreds, if not thousands of new plant varieties are developed and each year. Some of them won’t stand the test of time, but many are too tempting to pass up. Take a look to see if any might look good in your garden.

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Cineraria 'Stellata'

Cineraria 'Stellata'

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Dividing Perennial Plants

The idea of dividing perennials can scare new gardeners. Division of perennials is an easily mastered gardening technique that is good for the plants and your garden. Most perennial flowers will need to be divided to remain vigorous and continue blooming season after season.

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Coreopsis, Tickseed

Coreopsis Grandiflora Photo

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Buddleia, Butterfly Bush

Growing and caring for butterfly bush (Buddleia), a sub-shrub that quickly shoots up 5-6 feet early in the season and then blooms and attracts butterflies to your garden all summer.

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Tulips as Cut Flowers

Tulips just don't seem to behave as cut flowers. They bend and bow and contort. How do you deal with tulips in a vase?

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Aquilegia (Columbine)

How to grow and care for Columbine (Aquilegia) in your garden.

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Acidic Soil

You've had your garden soil tested and you've been told it's acidic. Now what?

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Time to Prune the Apple Trees

Most fruit trees should be pruned while they are dormant. Unfortunately that's also the time most gardeners would prefer to be hibernating indoors; which would explain why there are...

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Growing Caladiums

Caladiums are tropical perennials grown for their spectacularly colorful foliage. Who needs flowers when the leaves are splotched and speckled with rose, cream, burgundy and flame red? Caladiums are heat lovers, but they can easily grow in cooler climates in summer and even make great houseplants. Learn the in and outs for caring for your colorful Caladiums.

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Garden Focal Points

The purpose of a garden focal point is to bring the garden into focus. What may start out as just a grouping of plants is given definition by a focal point. Viewers instantly know where to bring their attention. We'll demonstrate some techniques in the following photos, but placing a focal point, like garden design in general, is largely a matter of trial and error. The more you do it, the better trained your eye will become.

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Choosing Valentine's Day Flowers for a Gardener

Im probably preaching to the choir here, but keep in mind that your Valentine may find choosing flowers for a gardener as intimidating as cooking for a gourmet? ...

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What are Rose Hips?

Rose hips are the seed pods of roses. We dont often see them anymore, because we tend to prune the faded rose blossoms to encourage more flowers. However if you leave the spent flowers on the rose bush at the end of the season, you should see these small, berry-sized, reddish seed balls, left on tips of the stems. Rose hips are actually very ornamental and birds enjoy them too. They are also edible and a good source of vitamin C. Heres how to harvest and use your rose hips.

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Pest ID Web Sites

When insect pests attack your garden plants, the first line of defense is to identify the insect. To control insects in your garden, you need to know what kind of insect you are dealing with, what plants it favors and what time of year to expect it. These web sites provide photos for identifying pests and most also give info on controlling the garden pests.

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No Fruit on Your Fruit Tree?

There are many reasons fruit trees can take years to begin bearing fruit. Home fruit growers need to make sure their fruit trees are given the right care and growing conditions.gardening fruit apple trees home backyard orchard not setting fruiting gardens

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Growing Catmint (Nepeta)

Catmint (Nepeta) is extremely hardy, drought tolerant and virtually maintenance free. All this and nepeta repeat blooms sporadically throughout the summer. Such a wonderful garden plant should be more widely appreciated and used by gardeners. Take another look here, at the pleasure of growing nepeta and its usefulness in any garden design.

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Small Garden Focal Points

Focal points are used in garden design to draw and direct the eye. This can be difficult to accomplish in a small garden when every space is immediately visible and no space can be sacrificed. But its not impossible and creating a focal point (or 2) in a small space garden can actually make it appear larger.

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When Do You Start Your Seeds?

Starting plants from seed is one of the most rewarding gardening practices - if only for the chance to get your hands in the soil in the dead of winter....

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Growing Kale

Growing kale is an easy and very rewarding crop for the home gardener. This cooking green is as beautiful to look at as it is tasty to eat and it attracts very few pests or problems. The secret to growing great kale is cool temperatures and plenty of water. Heres how to have your best crop ever.

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Are Dried Flowers Bad Feng Shui?

Thats what Ive always heard. Of course, since dried flowers eventually need to be dusted and I can think of no more objectionable chore than dusting, I look for...

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Next Year's Garden

Garden design starts with thinking about how and who will use your garden and what constraints time, money and nature put on you. Thats the basis of good site analysis. Then you can start to consider the garden design elements of color, texture and form. The fun of garden design doesnt really begin until you know what you are working with and can start choosing plants, flowers, trees and shrubs to fill in the picture.

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Purple Foliage Plants

Foliage has taken center stage in the garden. Purple foliage not only provides color all season, it blends well and highlights other colors in the garden. There seems to be a never ending stream of new purple plants for sale. Here are the top choices of plantsman Tim Wood, resident horticulturist for Spring Meadow Nursery.purple foliage plants, purple plants, plants with purple or red leaves,

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Turning Your Driveway into a Garden Path

Most gardeners cant resist the idea of a colorful or fragrant garden right near their entryway. So it seems odd that so many of us completely overlook the span...

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Rose Gardening 101

Rose gardening basics are all you need to get started as a rose gardener. Growing roses doesnt have to be a challenge. You can grow a prize winning hybrid tea rose, old fashioned cabbage roses, sprawling ramblers and climbers or the perfect fragrant rose if you know how to care for roses simply. Here are easy to follow planting, pruning and enjoying rose gardening tips.

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Gardening Question of the Week How Can I Save My Rosemary Plant?

"carwena" wrote into the About Gardening Forum saying Recently we purchased a rosemary plant at the grocery store. Through our unfortunate inattention it has dried up and...

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Growing Phormium

Phormium is a spiky, sword-leafed evergreen perennial that is used as a garden focal point or specimen plant. Some are small enough to use in containers, others can reach several feet in diameter and 7+ feet tall. Phormium arent hardy in many areas, but can be brought indoors for the winter. Growing Phormium is easy, if you give the plants what they want.

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Organic Gardening Essentials

p]The key to organic gardening is keeping a healthy balance in your garden. Prevent problems, rather than treating for them after the fact. Healthy plants are better able to withstand pests than stressed plants. And your plants will be healthy if they are given what they need to grow well and if you are growing a diversity of plants. Here are some more tips to help you garden organically:

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Lavender

You can be successful growing lavender if you choose the right variety, even if you don't live in the Mediterranean region. Lavender plants, with their fragrant flowers, can be used to make lavender soaps and lotions. Or maybe you'd like to cook with lavender. Even gardeners who need deer resistant plants can grow lavender.

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Growing Plants from Seed

Starting plants from seed isn't rocket science, but there are several seed starting tips that will help your success rate with seed germination and give your seedlings a healthy start. Here's how to start seeds indoors and the supplies you'll need to grow plants from seed.

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How to Harden Off Plants

Young, pampered seedlings will need a period to adjust and acclimate to outdoor conditions, prior to planting in the garden. This transition period is called "hardening off". Hardening off plants gradually exposes the tender plants to wind, sun and rain and toughens them up. There are 3 approaches to hardening off plants.

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Soil pH

Gardeners are often told that a key to growing great plants is to check the soil's pH. What is meant by soil pH and why should it matter so much in the garden? Here's why...

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Hybrids Vs. Heirloom Vegetable

Vegetable seeds are labeled either hybrid, open pollinated or heirloom. Is there a difference and is one type of vegetable seed better for you than another. Here's a breakdown of what it means when a vegetable is defined as hybrid, open pollinated, heirloom or even genetically modified (GMO).

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Oh No! Six More Weeks Before Gardening Season Begins!

Punxsutawney Phil somehow saw his shadow, despite the clouds, so well have to be patient and wait another 6 weeks for spring. Gardeners know groundhogs cant be trusted, so...

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Top Heirloom Vegetables

There's only one reason needed to try growing heirloom vegetables - Taste. There are thousands of heirloom vegetable varieties available for the home vegetable garden. Heirlooms vegetables became heirlooms because people prized them enough to save seeds. Here's a top pick list of heirloom vegetable varieties to try in your vegetable garden.

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Garden Catalogs

Gardening catalogs are a great way to learn about new plants, tools and supplies. Many garden catalogs are so full of information, reading them is like reading a book. Garden catalog shopping isn't quite as much fun as gardening, but it's very close. Here is a list of gardening favorites and what they have to offer the gardener.

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Planning a Small Garden

A good site assessment is vital to any garden design. When creating a small garden, every space is important. Where to put the garden, how large to make it and the choice of plants all must be edited, unlike with a small garden. Heres how to take an honest look at your garden site and what you can hope to plant there.

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Preventing Weeds

A better idea than pulling weeds is to keep them out of your garden in the first place. You can't stop every bird from dropping a weed seed here and there, but there are several things you can do to limit the amount of weeds brought into your garden and prevent weeds from getting out of control.

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Forcing Flowering Shrubs

Forcing spring bloomers is an easy task. The hardest part is probably getting yourself outside in the cold, snowy weather. Some traditional trees and shrubs to try include: crab apple, flowering quince, forsythia, magnolia, pussy willow, witch hazel, and fruit trees such as cherries, pears and apples. Here are some simple steps to success in forcing spring flowering trees & shrubs.

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Palmate Leaves

Leaves that are distinctly lobed, like a maple leaf, are called palmate. Their shape is evocative of an open palm with the fingers outstretched.

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Spinach F1 'SPD415'

Spinach F1 'SPD415'

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Growing Winter Squash - Winter Squash is More Than Pumpkins

Many winter squash varieties are good choices for the home vegetable garden.

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February in the Garden Regional Gardening Tips

February is the toughest month in the garden. Gardeners in warm climates don't know what to expect from the weather. Those in cold climates would give anything to...

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