Powdery MildewControlling and Preventing Powdery Mildew on Plants

Summer is heating up and with heat comes humidity. If you think you cant stand high humidity, think of how your plants feel. They cant grab a lemonade...

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An Old Fashioned Favorite, Peonies are Still Stars in the Garden

Who can resist smelling a peony blossom? For all their charms, peonies are remarkably easy to grow. They don't like to be disturbed by division and will keep...

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Gardening Question of the Week: My Tomatoes Look Healthy, They Bloom, Then Nothing. Whats Wrong? Tomato Blossom Drop

Bill posted this question in the About Gardening Forum: "...my sister recently gave me a few tomato plants. The plants she has at her home always seem...

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Growing Basil - The Flavor of Summer

There are some flavors that just scream summer and fresh basil is one of them. But to have fresh basil this summer, you have to plant it now! ...

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Mulching - I Hate It.

Yes, I confess, I hate to mulch. My thought has always been, if you need a lot of mulch, you dont have enough plants. Of course I know...

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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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#6 - Veronica spicata

Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue'

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Leafminer Damage

If your plant leaves look like someone was doodling squiggly lines, you have leaf miners. Leafminers are the larva of various beetles, flies, moths and sawflies. The adult lays their eggs on the leaf and the larva burrow into the leaf and tunnel through it, feeding and leaving a transparent trail of where they've been. Although leafminers don't often kill a plant, they can make it pretty unsightly. Here are some tips for avoiding or stopping leafminer damage.

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Garden Decks - A Room in a View

It's Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer in the U.S., and that means it's time to move outside. A cool drink, a slight breeze and a comfortable place...

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Growing Tomatoes

Despite early worries about tomatoes being poisonous, tomatoes are now one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. Widely adaptable and space efficient, a single tomato plants is able to produce 8 - 10 pounds of fruit. Tomatoes are heat lovers and will continue producing right through to the end of the growing season, if you provide them with these tomato growing basics.

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What is a Perennial Plant

Perennial gardening is very popular because growing plants that live more than one garden season lets your garden design evolve. But perennials don't live forever and not every perennial flower will survive your winter.

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Garden Design Resolutions

No garden design is ever finished. Plants thrive or fail, tastes change and weather is unpredictable. The best garden designs are the result of some type of planning. Your garden may not be designed on paper, but the more thought you put into what you want from your garden and what you like or dislike about the garden you have, the better your garden will be next year. Here are 10 things to consider when designing or redesigning your garden.

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Companion Planting

Herbs work especially well as companion plants. They multitask by attracting beneficial insects and repelling pest insects and their fragrance and foliage make them good companions in both the vegetable garden and the ornamental border. The following list offers some suggestions for using herb plants to repel specific garden pests.

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Peonies

Peonies are prennial stars of the spring garden. Grown in a mass planting, they can be a garden anchor. Peonies are beautiful, often fragrant, clump forming perennials with large cupped or ruffled showy flowers.

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Mirabilis (Four O'Clock's)

Mirabilis jalapa (Four O'Clocks)

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Busy Bee

Busy Bee in Yellow Rose

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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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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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Mint

Plants in the mint family are very hardy perennials with vigorous growth habits. Mint, left to its own devices, will spread quickly and become a nuisance. However, it is very popular as a flavorful herb and the plants can be grown easily. Just try to chose a spot where you wont mind the rampant growth or grow it in a confined space.

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Garden Blog CarnivalBreaking Out of the Box - Container Gardening

I've gone a bit overboard this year with my containers, but nothing like Elke did. She and her husband took an old junkyard boat and first made it a...

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Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew is one of the most common and easily recognized plant diseases. Almost no type of plant is immune. As the name implies, powdery mildew looks like powdery splotches of white or gray, on the leaves and stems of plants. Although powdery mildew is unattractive, it is rarely fatal. However severe or repetitive infections will weaken the plant. There are several steps a gardener can take to prevent and control powdery mildew in the garden.

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Gardening Quick Tips

Great gardeners seem to know all the little secrets for making plants happy. Luckily, gardeners love to share almost as much as they love to talk about their gardens. Here's a collection of quick gardening tips and ideas to make your garden better. Feel free to share your gardening quick tips too.

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Scabiosa (Pincushion Fower)

Scabiosa 'Blue Butterfly'

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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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Five Poisonous Plants

There are many plants we've all been warned to avoid, like caster bean, foxgloves and Datura. But there are many common garden and house plants that can cause poisoning problems, from contact dermatitis to death. Use extreme caution when gardening around small children and pets. There are many excellent web sources you can turn to, listing which plants are poisonous and what problems they cause. Here are 5 common plants you may never have considered as poisonous and dangerous.

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Planting a Strawberry Pot

How to Plant a Strawberry Pot

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Start Filling the Pot

Inserting the Watering Pipe into the Strawberry Pot

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Watering Your Planted Pot

Watering Your Planted Strawberry Pot

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Make Sure You Feed the Plants

Adding Timed Release Fertilizer

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Dampen the Potting Soil

Mix the Fertilizer and Water into the Potting Mix

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Drilling Watering Holes

Drilling Holes into the Watering Pipe

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Featured Plant: Tomatoes Growing the Best Tomatoes

Most of our vegetables gardens have started producing at least some early crops, but many of us are still awaiting that vegetable gardening prize - the first ripe tomato. ...

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Mold the Root Ball to Fit

Mold the Root Ball to Fit in the Planting Holes

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Keep Planting Upward

Planting a Strawberry Pot

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#9 - Yarrow 'Cerise Queen'

Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) 'Cerise Queen'

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Gardening Question of the Week: What's Leaving Tan, Wiggly Paths on My Leaves

Leslie emailed me: Something is leaving tan, wiggly paths on tomato & bell pepper leaves. Any ideas?If your plant leaves look like someone was doodling squiggly lines, you have leaf...

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Grow your own food to save money

Food prices are growing like pole beans, and many people are planting more edibles in their garden, or taking up gardening for the first time, in an effort to save money. So, I thought a blog post on the subject would be both timely and useful.Oil & EthanolFirst, why are food prices going up? Two [...]

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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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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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Five Common Plants You Might Not Realize are Poisonous

Your plants may look good enough to eat, but choose your snacks with caution. Some plants, like poison ivy and poison hemlock, come with warnings. These 5 plants...

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Storing Tender Bulbs

While gardeners in zones 8 and above can grow tender bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers year round, northern gardeners will need to dig and store these plants to overwinter them. The following guidelines will help you to successfully store cannas, caladiums, dahlias, galdiolas and more.

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Growing Primroses

Primroses are unusually vivid spring blooming perennial flowers. Unlike the subtle pastels associated with spring, primroses shout out in bold yellows, reds, pinks and blues, making them ideal for brightening the spring garden. Primroses look their best in mass. These easy care perennials are profiled 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 bouquets 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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Growing Alliums

Allium bulbs may resemple onions, but it's the flowers you are after with these ornamental varieties. Alliums are easy to grow and undemanding as this profile shows.

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What is Horticultural Oil?

Horticultural oil is an effective and ecologically friendly way to handle many garden insect pests and even some diseases. Most hort oils are some type of mineral oil, a refined petroleum product. The oil is usually combined with some type of emulsifying agent so that it can be mixed with water and used as a spray. You may see it listed as dormant, summer, all-season or even superior oil. Heres what the difference is.

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Container Gardening - Hypertoufa

Sometimes a great container is enough to make a great container garden.

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Egyptian Walking Onion

Egyptian Walking Onion

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Fall Bloomers

Perennial gardens change with the seasons and the fall garden is one of the most colorful seasons in the garden. Many fall blooming perennial flowers display jewel tone blossoms that complement the fall foliage display of trees and shrubs. The choice of fall blooming perennial plants keeps growing.

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Garden in a Bucket

To make gardening fun and accessible to kids, you need to make it personal. This is a gardening project from my local 4H organization that you can easily do with your own little clover buds. Garden in a Bucket lets kids create a personal, private garden that they can take with them, take care of, show off and enjoy. It takes only a few minutes of effort, but the junior gardener can enjoy his or her garden all summer.

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Container Gardening - Simple Hypertoufa

In container gardening, when the container is great, plants can be kept simple.

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#9 - Hummingbird Mint

Agastache (Hummingbird Mint)

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How to Plant a Strawberry Pot (Strawberries Optional)

I posted this strawberry pot step-by-step last July and received a lot of nice letters, so Im hoping Ill be seeing strawberry pots in many of the gardens I visit...

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Container Gardening - Untraditional Containers

Using untraditional containers makes your garden personal.

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White Garden Design Plan

White flowers seem to glow in shady spots. Add some textured foliage and a shimmer of silver and your shady garden is illuminated. Here's a free garden design plan for choosing flowers and designing a white and silver garden to light up partial shade.

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Ornamental Grasses in Shade

Choosing variegated oranmental grasses and sedges for the shade garden design.

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Garden pests and Problems - Aphids

Aphids, shown here on the perennial garden plant Scabiosa, are a common garden pest.

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Artemsia 'Powis Castle'

Choosing plants for a shade garden design, including foliage plants like silvery artemisia.

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Garden Design with Hosta

Hostas offer the best of all choices in garden design. They have deep, rich shades of blue and green and bright, glowing whites and golds. There are thick, puckered textures and airy, translucent leaves. If the animals will leave them alone, hostas are indispensable in shade garden design.

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Plant Containers and Pots

With so many plant containers and pots to choose from, it's hard not to buy them all. Container gardening lets you experiment with different styles and gardening techniques. Here are some unusual plant containers and pots to help you design your container gardens.

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Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds

It's always a treat to see a hummingbird make its way through your garden. You can't help but stop what you're doing to watch their constant darting motion. ...

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Controlling Japanese Beetles

p]Japanese beetles can create havoc in a garden by feeding on the leaves of a number of different plants, skeletonizing the leaves and eventually defoliating the plants. An individual Japanese beetle doesnt do that much damage while feeding on a plant, but they tend to congregate in large numbers and can easily defoliate shrubs and trees. If the problem beomes severe, try one of these control suggestions.

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Growing and Caring for Fresh Cut Flowers

Hopefully your garden is beginning to reward you with enough beautiful blooms to cut a few and bring them indoors. About.com's Anne-Marie Barton has an excellent short video demonstrating...

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Perennial Geraniums

White flowers bring light to a shade garden. White perennial geraniums add both a white shimmer and a shoft texture to the free garden design offered here.

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Aruncus dioicus (Goat's Beard)

How to design a garden that will brighten a shade spot, using white and silver flowers and foliage.

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What is a Perennial Plant

Perennial gardening is very popular because growing plants that live more than one garden season lets your garden design evolve. But perennials don't live forever and not every perennial flower will survive your winter.

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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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Featured Plant: Canna

Usually I find tropical plants a bit out of place in anything less than a Zone 9 garden, but cannas seem to blend in better than most of the drama...

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Photo of Passion Flower Plant

Photographs taken by About Gardening readers from around the country, of their own gardens in winter.

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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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Gardening Question of the Week: Summer Oil, Dormant Oil, Horticultural Oil.. Does it Matter?

I got this question while I was shopping for fertilizer the other day. Someone had read that she needed dormant oil for her apple tree and she wanted to...

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Roses from Cuttings

Ever wonder if you could root and grow branches from your favorite rose bush? With a little care, roses root very easily. You won't always get exactly what you started with, but it's fun trying. And here's how.

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Blossom End Rot

Ripening tomatoes that turn black and soft on their side not attached to the stem are affected with blossom end rot. As with so many tomato problems, water is a key factor here. Is there any saving the rotting tomatoes?

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Helleborus (Hellebores)

How to Grow Hellebores

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Garden Design Featuring White Flower and Foliage

White is actually a pretty tricky color to design with, in the garden. White washes out in bright sun, but positively glows in partial shade. The garden...

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#11 - Balloon Flower

Platycodon grandiflorus - Balloon Flower

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Garden Maintenance

Flower gardens require constant maintenance to look their best. Common garden chores like pruning, pinching and deadheading are easy to master, as show here in this step-by-step photo tutorial.

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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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Sambucus Black Lace

Phot of Sambucus Black Lace.

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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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Mirabilis (Four O'Clock's)

Mirabilis jalapa (Four O'Clocks)

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Edible Flowers

Edible flowers aren't a new phenomonon, but garnishes of fresh flowers tend to intimidate diners. No one is really sure if the flowers are there for decoration or to be eaten. It's hard to find edible flowers to purchase, but quite easy to grow most of them in your garden. Since flowers are best when eaten soon after harvest, growing your own edible flowers makes even more sense. Here are some tips.

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#8 - Asiatic Lily

Growing Lilies (Asiatic Lily)

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(Compost) Tea in the Garden.

Darlene Fry sent in this very appropriate photo, in response to my asking what items you recycle in your garden. I dont think Darlene had compost tea in mind,...

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Use Black Mulch to Brighten Up Shady Areas

Mulch comes in many colors, people have long been using the ever present red mulch, and in fact I would venture it probably rivals plain mulch in volume. There are also golden mulches, that look like very fresh wood. Then there are more subdued brown mulches that look like slightly older wood.The main advertised benefit [...]

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Papaver nudicaule (Poppies)

Iceland Poppies

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Choosing Colors for Your Landscape

I always wish I had a brick or gray house whenever I start to pick out plants for my front yard. Landscaping plants should enhance the house and my...

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Powdery Mildew

Powdery Mildew

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Tomato Leaf Spot

Tomato Leaf Spot

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Squash Bugs and Eggs

Squash Bugs and Eggs

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Leucanthemum Shasta Daisy

Shasta Daisy Photo

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Cucumber Beetle Eggs

Cucumber Beetle Eggs

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Container Gardens - Uncontained Gardening Enthusiasm

Container gardening offers limitless possibilities and several advantages over conventional gardening. In container gardens you can control the soil quality, follow the sun, raise your garden to a good...

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Aphids

Aphids

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Cabbage Worm Damage

Cabbage Worm Damage

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Spider Mite Damage

Spider Mite Damage

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Gardening Gifts

Shopping for gifts for gardeners is easy. Garden tools alone could keep you in gift ideas for years. Then there's garden totes, gardening boots, garden books...

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Growing Hostas in Full Sun?

Hostas are shade plants, right? Well, yes and no. We think of hostas as shade perennials, but there are some hostas that need a dose of sunshine to...

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Bottlebrush

Bottlebrush - Fothergilla major

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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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Rose Bud Unfurling

Rose Bud Unfurling

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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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Vinegar as a Herbicide

Household vinegar and other concentrations of acetic acid are effective weed killers. Using vinegar as a weed control is both cost effective and an organic, environmentally safe way to mange unwanted weeds in your yard and garden. Here are some tips for getting the best control when using vinegar or acetic acid as an herbicide.

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Fusion Impatiens Series

Impatiens are the most reliable flowers for shady areas of the garden. Now there are more choices than ever in varieties of Impatiens. Simply Beautiful flowers has come out with the tropical looking Fusion Impatiens series, including a yellow Impatiens, as well as the trailing and cascading Fanfare Impatiens series.

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Plant of the Week: Phormium (New Zealand Flax)

Phormium is a spiky, spectacular, sword-leafed evergreen perennial that makes a striking garden focal point or specimen plant. Some are small enough to use in containers, others can reach...

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Photo of 'Chicago Peace' Rose

Photo of 'Chicago Peace' Rose

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#12 - Oriental Lily 'Maywood'

Pink Oriental Lily 'Maywood'

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Gardening Question of the Week: Is Vinegar Good for Killing Weeds?

Heres another question Ive gotten from more than one reader: can you use vinegar as a herbicide? The short answer is - yes. There are some ifs, ands...

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Busy Bee

Busy Bee in Yellow Rose

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Narcissis (Daffodils)

Narcissis (Daffodils)

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Lamium (Deadnettle)

Lamium (Deadnettle)

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Sharpening Hand Pruners

Sharpening Hand Pruners - How to Sharpen Garden Pruners

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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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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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Gaura, Wand Flower

Gaura, Wand Flower Photo

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Kitchen Herb Gardening

Probably the most popular herbs to grow and use are the culinary herbs. Growing culinary herbs is very similar to growing vegetables. The two most important considerations are to harvest at full flavor and to never use any fertilizer or pesticide on them that isnt labeled for use on edible plants. Here are some more tips for growing flavorful culinary herbs.

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#1 - Peony 'Alma Hansen'

Peony 'Alma Hansen'

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My Monet Weigela

My Monet Weigela (Weigela florida 'Verweig')

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What You'll Need

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

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My New Water Feature

The largest garden bed on my property, my back side garden, has long be devoid of a focal point. When I was doing most of these gardens in the fall of 2004 I needed (wanted?) to create a very large bed to balance out the rest of the yard, but whereas I had plants and [...]

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Controlling Beetles

Diseased trees are real heart breakers. By the time you notice symptoms, its probably too late to treat the tree. Insects infesting trees are a little easier to...

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Garden Designing Photo Gallery - Terraced Garden

Color is a key element in establishing a focal point in a garden.

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Growing Spinach

Leafy vegetables always taste better fresh from the garden. Spinach, like lettuce, grows best in the cool weather of spring and fall. Spinach also grows extremely quickly, which means you dont have to wait long to enjoy it, but youll also have to keep planting new spinach to extend the harvest. Getting spinach to grow is easy. Keeping your spinach growing takes some finesse. Tips for growing spinach in the home garden.

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How to Re-Pot a PlantYes, It Has to Be Done

Repotting plants is not hard to do, but it can be a little scary to uproot and move a plant that seems fine where it is. Still, every plant...

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Garden Design FAQ

Gardening is often called the only living art form. Like any form of art, designing a garden is subjective. Although gardening successfully requires learning certain skills, in the end, a gardens beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There are no fixed rules to garden design. But there are a few elements of composition that will serve the garden designer well, when combining plants. And the only way to get good at garden design is to do it.

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Backyard Frog Pond

Backyard Frog Pond

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Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

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Growing Onions

Growing onions takes patience, since all the action takes place under ground. If you can provide a rich soil and a full day of sun, you can grow a good sized harvest of onions for eating fresh and storing for later. And as with most fresh vegetables, onions from the garden will have far more flavor than onions from the produce aisle. Home grown onions can be more pungent too. Here are some tips for choosing and growing the right onions for your home garden.

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Planting a Hedge

While we have our pruners out this spring, it's a good time to take a look at those shrubs we planted to give ourselves some privacy. Personally, I like...

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Calling All Photos! - Whats Being Recycled in Your Garden?

We havent posted any readers photos recently and I think its about time we started bragging again, dont you? How about sending in photos of some of the...

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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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Photo of Passion Flower Plant

Photographs taken by About Gardening readers from around the country, of their own gardens in winter.

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Time to Clean and Sharpen Your Hand Pruners

There are few tools we rely on more than our hand pruners, but most of us don't really take very good care of them. Keeping your hand pruners clean...

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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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Organic Rose Gardening

Can roses be grown organically. Of couse. Growing roses organically is really no different than growing any type of plant with organic techniques. Organic rose gardening means more than just not using chemicals. It means giving the plant what it wants and needs to grow well. Do that and youll have a healthy plant, better able to withstand pest attacks. Here are some tips.

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May in the Garden

It seems everything needs to be done in the garden once May comes around. May is that tricky transition from cool season to the heat of summer. When you plant what depends as much on chance as what zone you are in. Here are some timely tips for regional gardening in May.

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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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Designing Herb Gardens

Herbs dont need to be grown in a garden of their own, but a designated herb garden is a luxury for all the senses and working in an herb garden is as much pleasure as it is toil. Whether you want an iconic four-square herb garden, a scented herb border or a few kitchen herbs on the windowsill, here are some tips for creating an herb garden to enjoy.

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Deadheading Garden Flowers

Deadheading flowers is a garden maintenance task that must be done if you want to have flowers throughout the garden season. The more you deadhead your flowers, the more new flower buds will be set. Deadheading all makes your whole garden look better.

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Garden Bones in Garden Design

In garden design, the term 'garden bones' refers to something architectural the defines the structure of a garden. It's not as hard as you think to create bones in a garden. Here are some ideas to get you started.

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Plant of the Week: Onions!

Yes, onions. Where would we be without onions to cook with? Theres no substitution. And still onions get very little respect. Probably because they go about...

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Choosing a Greenhouse

Its so tempting. The idea of building a greenhouse means gardening year round. Greenhouses are the ultimate fantasy for gardeners, but theyre also a big responsibility. One night without heat and all of your plants and seedlings could be goners. Your greenhouse will need heat, water, benches, venting, electricity. And thats just for starters. Here are some key points to ponder before you buy a greenhouse.

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Garden Maintenance

Flower gardens require constant maintenance to look their best. Common garden chores like pruning, pinching and deadheading are easy to master, as show here in this step-by-step photo tutorial.

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What to Do in the Garden in May - A Regional Gardening Almanac

May is probably the most hectic month in the garden. Despite all the good intentions, there are now gardening tasks demanding to be done. And if April showers...

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Dealing with Rose Diseases

Despite a gardeners best efforts, roses can often become infected with fungus diseases. Luckily, few fungus problems will kill your rose bush and most can be handled with low toxicity and minimal effort. Here are the top four rose diseases and how to handle them.

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