Featured Plant of the Week: Garlic

There aren't many vegetables that need to be planted in the fall, but garlic is far from usual to begin with. Being a bulb, garlic likes a chilling period...

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Fall Wreath Making

Although September signals the approach of the end of gardening season for many gardeners, we can take some consolation in the beauty fall provides. You can literally walk...

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Garden Makeovers

Making over a garden can become necessary when the garden becomes overgrown or when site conditions, like lighting, change. Sometimes gardeners simply want to try creating a new garden. Here is some advice for taking a look at where you are with your garden plans and reassessing what you can do to capitalize on what you have.

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Choosing Planters & Containers

With so many plant containers and pots available for use in gardens, on decks and porches and indoors, how do you choose the best one? Too often we are guided by our taste alone. However to keep your container gardens growing happy and healthy you should give some consideration to the plant's needs when choosing a planter. Here are some things to think about.

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Mole Patrol How to Stop Moles from Making Your Yard a Mine Field.

Even people who forgive Bambi and Thumper for eating their plants have no tolerance for Mr. Mole. Moles make a mess of your garden and yard by tunneling in...

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Making Garden Candles

Candles make any day a special occasion. Candle making is a messy, time-consuming endeavor and theres no limit of candles readily available everywhere. But you can take a store bought candle and add a personal touch from your garden. Heres how to imprint your candles with pressed flowers and leaves preserved from garden treasures. They make great gifts too.

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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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Herbal Sugars

Herbal sugars can be made easily and used to flavor things like baked goods and drinks. Just as herbal butters, oils and vinegars infuse your cooking with flavors from the herb garden, herb infused sugars will make your fresh herbs go even farther.

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Abutilon (Flowering Maples)

Abutilon has the unfortunate common name of the Parlor Maple, making it seem like a stuffy, Victorian conservatory plant. But much like the coleus, Abutilon just needs to be allowed to shine as an unfussy garden plant. Abutilon is happy to flower almost continually and can be trained into standards and shapes or allowed to arch and shade an entryway. Theyre so easy to grow and so willing to bloom, everyone should grow Abutilon.

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Sagina subulata (Irish Moss)

Sagina subulata (Irish Moss)

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Ornamental Pepper 'Black Pearl'

Photo of 2006 AAS Winner, Ornamental Pepper 'Black Pearl'

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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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Garden Insect Pests

Plants need insects for pollination, so no garden should be insect free, but there's no denying some insects are garden pests. Learning to identify which insects to worry about and which to welcome is part of the learning process of gardening. Here are a handful of common garden insects. Some are garden pests, some are beneficial and some are just passing through. Always assess the situation before spraying. But when you must treat the problem, the info offered here will be helpful.

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New Blue Saliva - Salvia farinacea 'Evolution'

Photo of Salvia farinacea 'Evolution', a new blue salvia introduction that is actually purple.

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Gardening Question of the Week: How Do You Store Your Tender Bulbs for the Winter?

While gardeners in zones 8 and above can grow dahlias, cannas, caladiums and their tender cousins year round, northern gardeners will need to dig and store these plants to overwinter...

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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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Growing Rhubarb

Is rhubarb a vegetable? A fruit? An ornamental plant? Its a very ornamental vegetable that is usually prepared and eaten much like a fruit. All that and its perennial in many areas. Rhubarb is a cool season crop that is grown for its fibrous leaf stalks, which are a wonderful sweet-tart treat. These tips should help you get your rhubarb started right and growing well.

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Over Winter Plants in Pots

If you still have plants sitting around in their pots or divisions you haven't found the perfect spot for and the season is getting late, you can still over winter them safely.

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Garden Design Principles

Garden design is often broken down into design principles: Order/Balance/Proportion, Harmony or Unity and Flow, Transition or Rhythm. These categories contain the basic elements that, when combined together, constitute the generally accepted version of good garden design.

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Pruning Evergreens

Evergreens such as fir, pine and spruce trees require little pruning, except to control their size or improve their fullness. Evergreen pruning should be done at the right time, while the tree has candles or new growth or the tree could end up misshapen.

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Fall is for planting.. Fruit

Fall is for planting they say, you’ll see it all over when you go to the nursery or look at mail order catalogs, and why? Well, despite anecdotes about Spring showers, Fall actually has more rainfall AND the ground is also warm. Which all told makes it a good time to plant something, especially trees [...]

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Fall Garden Clean-Up

I know a lot of people pack their gardening gloves away at the end of summer. Our attention turns toward the holiday season and then the long haul of...

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Scale Insects

Scale are tiny parasitic insects that adhere to plants and live off the plants sap. They look like bumps on the plants stem and are often mistaken for a disease. There are some 7,000 species of scale insect, varying in color and size.

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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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A Colorful Garden All Season

There are several ways to keep you flower gardening in colorful bloom all season long. Knowing how to prune, what to feed and a couple of ways to fool the eye will give you a garden of abundant flowers throughout the summer. Here are some tips to keep your garden in color all season.

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Small Space Garden Design

Gardening in a small space.

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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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Small Space Gardening - Espalied Fruit Trees

Small Space Gardening - Espalied Fruit Trees

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Echinacea

Echinacea profile. Echinacea or coneflower is an old fashioned prairie plant. Echinacea are hardy, adaptable and reliable repeat bloomers and are expecially popular with gardeners for good reason.

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True Geraniums

The term geranium is confusing. The first geranium most gardeners encounter is not a geranium at all, but Pelargonium, a relative of the perennial geranium. True or hardy or perennial geraniums belong to the genus Geranium. You will sometimes see them referred to as cranesbill geraniums, because their seed pods do somewhat resemble a cranes bill. The flowers, in shades of white, pink, magenta, purples and blues, are long blooming. As you see here, geraniums are easy care.

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Companion Planting

Companion planting is an age old gardening technique of pairing two or more plants to gain some type of benefit,: vigorous growth, higher yield, repelling pests or attracting predators of common pests. Some companion plantings work, others disappoint. But the idea of strength in diversity is never truer than in the garden and thats what companion planting provides. Here are some tips for attracting beneficial insects and for companion planting with herbs to repel insect pests.

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Small Space Gardening - Framing a Window

Small Space Gardening - Framing a Window

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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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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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Pruning Lilacs

If lilacs are left to grow and spread on their own, without maintenance pruning, you will get shrubs reaching 15 - 20' in height and all the blooms will be way above your head. Lilac plants that have a balance of new shoots and older stems, will bloom best. Older lilacs can have stems as thick as small trees and will flower only on the top most branches. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to rejuvenate an old lilac, in about 3 years time. How to Prune Lilacs...

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Planting Trees for Fall Foliage

Fall is a visually stunning season and considering the bleakness of winter that follows, there's every reason to make the most of fall color. About's Landscaping Guide, David Beaulieu,...

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Shade Gardening

Shade gardening offers the opportunity to work with a diverse variety of plants and to garden in a cool spot both the gardener and the plants will appreciate. There are shade plants suitable to the different degrees of shade. It is possible to create a shade garden with color and interest, if you choose appropriate shade garden plants. Here are some tips and suggestions for making the most of your shade garden.

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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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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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Weed ID Quiz

Know what weeds are in your garden can help you keep weeds out of your garden. This weed id quiz will help you learn to identify weeds and pinpoint how to deal with them.

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It's Leef Peeping SeasonA Guide to the Best Fall Foligage and Where to Find It.

You may be content to watch the seasons change in your own backyard, but if your yard isn't putting on quite the show, Steve Nix, About's Guide to Forestry, gives...

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Growing Hibiscus acetosella

Hibiscus acetosella isnt like most of the tropical flowered hibiscus youre used to seeing in gardens. Hibiscus acetosella is grown mainly for its stunning foliage, which can be so finely cut and deeply red colored youll think its a Japanese maple. Hibiscus acetosella makes an excellent focal point in the garden or in a container planting.

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Capture Fall Colors in Photos

Most of us are too busy working in our gardens during the summer to think about taking many pictures. It has to be a special surprise for us to...

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Pear Tree Down

So, a couple weeks ago (I’ve been so busy it has taken me this long to blog about it) I woke up to a sight… my pear tree was missing it’s trunk.Planted in 2003 this tree was getting fairly large, and bore a good deal of fruit this year. It was around 7 feet when [...]

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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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Gardening Question of the Week: How Do I Protect My Roses for Winter?

Whether you live in a frosty zone where roses need a layer of winter protection or in an area where roses are gearing up to start blooming again, your roses...

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#4 - Paeonia 'Longfellow'

Growing Peonies

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#1 - Peony 'Alma Hansen'

Peony 'Alma Hansen'

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What are Plant Tubers?

What do they mean by plant tubers? Are these like flowering bulbs?

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Russian Sage 'Taiga' (Perovskia atriplicifolia)

Russian Sage 'Taiga' (Perovskia atriplicifolia)

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Plant Lights

Starting seeds indoors usually requires some type of supplemental plant lighting. Your choice of plant lights depends on how many seedlings you are starting. Choices range from single lamp bulbs on up to 1000 watt high intensity lights. Follow these guidelines to choose which plant light system is right for you.

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Getting Your Amaryllis Ready to Flower

Theres nothing quite like an amaryllis; odd looking, yet appealing. Amaryllis are gorgeous for a welcome span in the winter and then pretty dull for the rest of the...

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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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Compost

What is compost and why is adding organic matter important to the soil in my garden?

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Fall Garden Tasks

Taking some extra time in the fall to prepare your garden for winter will make spring garden clean-up a snap. Removing diseased foliage and amending the soil will also make for a better growing garden next season. Its not too late to pamper your garden with some easy fall garden tasks.

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#13 - Achillea (Yarrow) 'Moonshine'

Achillea (Yarrow) 'Moonshine'

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Bottlebrush - Fothergilla major

Bottlebrush - Fothergilla major

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#2 - Lilium 'Star Gazer' (Oriental Lily)

Lilium 'Star Gazer' (Oriental Lily)

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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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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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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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Lettuce

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. From curly to oak leafed, here's a look at growing and choosing the best lettuce.

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Dwarf EvergreensStructure and Truly Four Seasons of Interest in the Garden

As gardens start to fade in the fall, you become all the more aware of the importance of having structure in the garden. The term Garden Bones can be...

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Deer Resistant Bulbs

Deer resistant, spring blooming bulbs are welcome in any garden. It is possible to find spring blooming bulbs, other than daffodils, to plant in your garden that will survive the deer and even rodents.

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Featured Plant of the Week: Rosemary

Not many Mediterranean herbs enjoy the crispness of fall, but rosemary comes back to life as the temperature drops. Rosemary is as beautiful to look at as it is...

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Dye Herbs

Because herb plants are natural dyes, the colors will be more variable than dyes produced from a chemical formula. But the richness and depth of color is unmatched and the surprise results are often part of the pleasure of using natural dyes. Many common dye herbs can be grown easily in the garden; plants like broom, dandelion, fennel, goldenrod,, hops and marigolds. Experiment with these tips here and see what works for you.

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Free Garden Design - Perennial Cutting Garden

Free Garden Design - Perennial Cutting Garden

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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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Small Space Gardens - Flower Island on a Hill

Small Space Gardens - Flower Island on a Hill

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New Wayside Gardens Coupon

New coupon for Wayside Gardens I got in my email. I get a lot of plants from them, they’re good people.

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When to Start Seed

Growing plants from seed is an easy, inexpensive way to get more plants. The hard part is often knowing when to start the seeds. Here are a few easy tips to get you on the right track for seed starting.

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Small Space Gardening - Front Yard Gardens

Small Space Gardening - Front Yard Gardens

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#3 - Garden Phlox 'David'

Phlox 'David'

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#5 - Eryngium planum - Sea Holly

Eryngium planum - Sea Holly

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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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Back Pain - Is it the Price You Pay for a Great Garden?

A change of seasons always puts us in the cleaning and organizing mode. Leaves need raking, mowers need cleaning, pots need to be emptied and put away, bags of...

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Pruning Apple Trees - Removing Low Branches

Pruning Apple Trees - Removing Low Branches

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How to Grow Gourds

Growing gourds is easy and extremely rewarding. By drying ornamental gourds, you can keep them intact indefinitely and use them to make bird houses, containers, pots and silly, whimsical decorations. However gourds will require a good amount of space to run and they will probably take the entire growing season to mature. But growing gourds is something that the entire family can take part in and enjoy. Heres how easy it is.

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How to Prune Apple Trees - Thinning Cuts

How to Prune Apple Trees - Thinning Inside Branches

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Apple Tree Pruning - Competing Leaders

Apple Tree Pruning - Competing Leaders

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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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Drying Flowers

Save your garden's beauty by drying and preserving your flowers. Methods include air drying, speeding the drying process with silica gel and even easier, microwaving flower buds. Drying flowers is an easy way to extend your garden season.

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Sunflowers

Sunflowers make any day feel like a summer's day. They make look exotic, but sunflowers are extremely easy to grow. You can choose traditional yellow sunflowers or maybe try growing sunflowers in rich rusts and burgundies. Here are some tips for growing your own sunflowers.

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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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Two-Tone Rose

Two-Tone Rose

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Poinsettias

Poinsettias are popular holiday decorations and gifts. Knowing how to keep Christmas poinsettia plants in bloom longer and how to force them to rebloom next Christmas, requires some special care.

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#9 - Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) 'Cerise Queen'

Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) 'Cerise Queen'

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Overwintering Tender Plants

Outdoor plants can be brought indoors as houseplants for the winter, if you use some care in selecting the plants. Successfully overwintering plants indoors starts with the choice of plants and is dependent on the care and climate you can give the plants indoors. Here are some tips to make your favorite outdoor plants into houseplants.

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September in the Garden

September gardening can mean cool, crisp nights or hot, hazy, Indian summer days. Either way, theres no time to rest. Short season gardens need to be put to bed. Warmer zones are starting a whole new growing season. Even the southern hemisphere is back in the gardening groove. So here are some monthly gardening tips to get you bak out in the garden this September.

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15% off at Park Seed

So a week ago Wayside Gardens announced a 15% off sale, this week it’s their sister company Park Seed.Lasts the whole month of August apparently.

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Late Blooming Flowers for Fall

There's no reason your flower garden can't look as spectacular in the fall as it did at the peak of summer. Fall bloomers are often the most spectacular, having...

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Ornamental Grasses for Fall Co

Ornamental grasses add interest and texture to a garden at any time of year. Fall foliage and colorful plumes make ornamental grasses standouts in a fall garden. The following list of ornamental grasses will add bold accents to your fall garden.

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The Year of the Chile Pepper

Are all chile peppers created equal? The National Garden Bureau sorts of the variety of hot peppers available by grouping them by their heat and shape, as listed here.

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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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Preserving Leaves

Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps if you dry or preserve the leaves first. Luckily this is easy to do and there are 4 basic methods for pressing and preserving colorful fall leaves below.

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Zucchini Plants Dying from Squash Vine Borer

So, I tossed two of my zucchini plants in my compost tumbler yesterday, when pulling them up I didn’t need to uproot them, the squash borers had basically destroyed the main stem to the point that the top of the plant was hardly connected to the roots at all. I knew it was squash borer [...]

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How to Prune Apple Trees - Fruiting Spurs

How to Prune Apple Trees - Fruiting Spurs

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#6 - Helenium autumnale 'Moerheim Beauty'

Helenium autumnale 'Moerheim Beauty'

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New Blue Saliva - Salvia farinacea 'Evolution'

Photo of Salvia farinacea 'Evolution', a new blue salvia introduction that is actually purple.

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Lunaria Annua Money Plant

I got this plant courtesy of my grandfather, it is one of his favorites and always grew at his house in a large mass planting. This is one interesting plant with many phases for you to enjoy.It is a biennial, which means it lives for two years and then dies. The first year it grows [...]

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Pruning Apple Trees - Outward Facing Bud

Pruning Apple Trees - Outward Facing Bud

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How to Prune Apple Trees

How to Prune Apple Trees

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Scale Insects

Scale are tiny parasitic insects that adhere to plants and live off the plants sap. They look like bumps on the plants stem and are often mistaken for a disease. There are some 7,000 species of scale insect, varying in color and size.

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The Care & Feeding of Bonsai

When I was about 10, I ordered 3 bonsai trees through the mail. I got 3 bare root evergreen seedlings that may very well have been dead before I...

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15% off all orders at Wayside Gardens

Got this coupon in the mail, for 15% off all orders. Code is AUG15, gotta click the link I think, and expires August 15.Maybe order one of Waysides Sumbucus Nigra “Black Lace” which I’ve blogged about a few times. Really, a nice plant.Also, $50 off $199, 50FALL08, expires 7/25

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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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Are Foundation Plantings Necessary?

Foundation plantings have been getting a lot of negative publicity lately. Critics say that the cookie cutter appearance of yews clipped into neat little meatballs and boxes is uninspired...

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Getting Rid of Bagworms

If you have bagworms in your landscape, youve probably been told theres not much you can do but cut them out of the tree and destroy them. New studies show promise that planting members of the Aster family, like daisies and gazania, near and/or around the susceptible tree will attract a natural predator of bagworm.

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Flowering Houseplants

Many people shy away from houseplants because even the most hardy houseplant will eventually require some care. But you would be surprised at how a handful of plants can survive on the most minimal attention. If you’d like to try your hand at growing a flowering houseplant or you’re looking to brighten someone else’s abode, here are 8 flowering houseplants that will thrive with minimal care and in varying degrees of sunshine.

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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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Marigolds

Marigolds are a popular,easy to grow bedding plant. Marigolds are cheerful, compact yellow, orange and burgundy annual flowers with flower shapes that can resemble daisies, coreopsis and carnations.

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Cool Season Annuals

Cool weather can be hard to garden in, because you never know how long it will last. But there are many annual flowers that prefer the cool days of spring and fall. Many cool season annuals look wonderful in containers and growing these flowers will make your gardening season seem that much longer. If you live in a warm climate, some of these flowers will bloom from fall through spring.

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Fall and Winter Greens

Cool weather vegetable gardening offers many advantages, not the least of which is the colorful choice of crops that can be grown, like 'Bright Lights' chard, Red Russian Brussels sprouts, Osaka Purple mustard greens or any of the many other suggestions offered here by Cathy Wilkinson Barash for the National Garden Bureau. Extend your vegetable gardening season and try something new. Here are some growing tips and variety selections.

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One Massive Sunflower

On a whim I saw this packet of seeds at the store for “Massive” sunflowers and bought them. I put them in various spots in my landscape, here and there, and boy, are they massive.The leaves are absolutely huge, the stalk is atleast 3 inches in diameter, and the flowers are massive as well. The [...]

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Featured Plant of the Week: Helenium

Did you ever notice how some of the prettiest flowers have some of the most put-offish common names? Like lungwort and bugsbane, Helenium looks like a daisy...

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Bean Leef Beetle Damage

I can’t catch a break with my bean plants. Earlier in the year it was slugs, which I handily dispatched with a cold beer. This time however, I have bean leaf beetles, and the solution is not so simple.I know I have bean leaf beetles because instead of having large holes, I have many many [...]

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Plants for Fall Containers

Create stunning fall containers with unusual foliage and flowers in the shades of autumn. Many fall blooming garden plants make wonderful container plants. Move them from your overgrown garden or shop for something new. You can create wonderful unique fall container gardens using foliage and flowering plants in the colors of autumn, if you just look around and notice what catches your eye in the landscape. Here are some favorites.

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Growing Violas

Violas and pansies are such stalwarts that gardeners take them for granted . These cool season bloomers are great for spring and fall gardens and for bridging the seasons in warmer areas, where theyll bloom right through the winter. Newer violas have bolder colors and larger flowers that bloom longer. Even better, the new violas and pansies exhibit better heat and cold tolerance than the remarkably hardy varieties where familiar with. Read how to grow the best violas for your garden.

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How to Grow Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia are easy to establish, naturalize well and require little maintenance other than deadheading. Black-eyed Susan's come in a rich array of yellows, golds, oranges and russets. For a dependable, long season bloomer that brings a smile to faces, you cant go wrong with Rudbeckia. Here are some tips for choosing and growing Black-eyed Susans, Brown-eyed Susans and all the Gloriosa Daisies in between.

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Gardening Question of the Week: Should I Do Something to My Soil Now?

If nothing else, throw some compost on your soil this fall and let winter do the work of mixing it in for you. But fall is a great time...

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Growing Winter Squash

Growing Winter squash can intimidate home gardeners. The vines can take over your garden and the fruits take all season to mature. Luckily there are new varieties on the market that are easier to grow and take up less space. Acorn squash, Hubbards, spaghetti? What is a winter squash ad how do you grow them?

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A - Z Guide to Plant Information

An alphbetized listing of plants with info on selecting, growing and using plants in garden design. Includes: flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs and more

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Outdoor Houseplants

It is possible to pot up some of your favorite garden plants and bring them indoors as houseplants. Many tropical and tender perennials are capable of growing well in the house, if given the right growing conditions. Growing these plants as houseplants requires good light and humidity. If you’re home has what it takes, here’s a list of potential houseplants that may be growing in your garden.

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Escaped Asparagus

I thought this was internesting. So we have this wetland preserve thing behind our house, it is encased on 4 sides by suburban sprawl, including major 4 or 5 lane streets, it is probably around 1 square mile altogether, with a walking path running through it. There is a lot of wildlife that call it [...]

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Gardening Question of the Week: "Snowball Bush Wont Bloom "

Some questions dont need a lot of explanation. I know snowball bush is a popular name for mophead hydrangeas. And even if I didnt, the one plant that...

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