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 ideas.

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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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Hydrangea Types

There are many new hydrangeas on the market that take the guess work out of when or if you need to prune your hydrangea. However many of us have old hydrangea shrubs in our yards that can cause a lot of frustration when they don't bloom. Bloom on an older hydrangea usually depends on when it was pruned. To know when to prune your old fashioned hydrangea, you'll need to know what type of hydrangea it is. Here's some help in identifying your hydrangea.

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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 Rhubarb

Is rhubarb a vegetable? A fruit? An ornamental plant? It�s a very ornamental vegetable that is usually prepared and eaten much like a fruit. All that and it�s 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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What is Mulch

Mulch is any type of material that is spread or laid over the surface of the soil as a covering. It is used to retain moisture in the soil, suppress weeds, keep the soil cool and make the garden bed look more attractive. Organic mulches also help improve the soil�s fertility, as they decompose. Here are the pros and cons of various mulch materials.


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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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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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Xeriscape Gardening

A major principle of xeriscape gardening is choosing appropriate plants for your site, especially dry sites. You'd be surprised how many plants can tolerate dry garden conditions, once they are happily established. Here's a partial list of drought tolerant plants to get your garden started.

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No Fruit on Your Fruit Tree?

Few gardening disappointments are as great as not getting any fruit on your fruit trees. I wish there was one easy solution, but there are several factors that can...

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Native Plants

Why grow native plants? Because native plants take less work and resources, the birds and butterflies love plant natives and native plants are beautiful? OK, just what is a native plant?

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Consider a Cutting Garden

Some gardeners delight in cutting and creating bouquets. For others it is pure anguish to loose the color and glory in the garden. A lot can depend on...

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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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Saving Tomato Seeds

Seed saving is the only way to make sure you have seeds of your favorite plants to grow each year. Tomato seeds need special handling to ensure good germination. Here's how to begin saving tomato seeds.


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Shasta Daisy - Leucanthemum x superbum

Shasta Daisy Photo

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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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Humidity for Indoor Plants

Lack of humidity is a culprit in may indoor plant deaths, especially during the winter. You may first notice a low humidity problem as browning leaf tips on your houseplants. As a plant dehydrates, it can start to look withered, puckered or simply drop its leaves.


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Featured Plant: Rhubarb

Is it a vegetable? A fruit? An ornamental plant? However you define it, rhubarb is coming into season and it's delicious.

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Companion Planting Vegetables

Companion Planing in the Vegetable Garden

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Decorating the Garden Path

Decorating the Garden Path

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Basic Considerations When Choosing Plants for a Formal Herb Garden

Designing an Herb Garden

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Pressing Flowers

Pressing flowers and foliage from your garden is a wonderful way to preserve its beauty. You don't need a lot of expensive tools to get started with pressed flowers. You might also be surprised at the variety of flowers, leaves and even weeds, that press well. Here are some tips from an expert at pressing flowers, to press your own flowers and use the pressed flowers to their best advantage.

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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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Pink Promise 2009 AARS Hybrid Tea Rose

2009 AARS Winner 'Pink Promise' Rose

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Starting a Vegetable Garden

Growing vegetables is a unique form of gardening. Most vegetables are annuals, so you�ll be starting from scratch every year. You�ll probably be re-planting throughout the season, too. Designing a vegetable garden is more about which vegetables grow well near each other, than about how things look. The good news is that most vegetables have similar growing requirements, so when you are deciding where to put your vegetable garden, you can follow these guidelines:


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Shade Gardening

Gardening in the shade introduces the gardener to a whole new group of plants and design ideas. Shade plants lend themselves to texture to form. A shade garden can lighten up with a burst of white variegated leaves or the play of shadows from a finely cut maple. Choosing and combining shade garden plants can be as enjoyable as the coolness of a shade garden.

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Gardening Question of the Week: Why are the Tips of My Houseplants Turning Brown?

One of the most common questions this time of year is "Why are the tips of my houseplants turning brown?". Indoor plants hate change, which is why they seem...

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Growing Vegetables A-Z

Growing tips and recommendations for growing the most popular vegetables in a home vegetable garden.

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Weed Control Without Chemicals

The snow is melting in the hedge border around my house and the first thing that seems to be greening up is the creeping ivy. Or maybe it's the...

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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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Sedum spurium 'John Creech'

Sedum spurium 'John Creech'

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Sedum pachyclados 'White Diamond'

Sedum pachyclados 'White Diamond'

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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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Hypertoufa Gives Age and Weight to a Garden

I received a collection of tiny, dwarf evergreens from the amazing Iseli nursery last fall and I want to make a hypertoufa container for them this spring, if they make...

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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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Compost

Compost is often called black gold because of its value in improving garden soil. Compost, when used as a soil amendment, can transform almost any type of soil into good garden soil. Compost is inexpensive and easy to use too.

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Seeds of Change

Most of the women in my garden club lived through the Great Depression. They seem to have such a better handle on saving things, being conservative with their money, and recycling goods. I also noticed they share plants from their gardens with each other, and they start many of their prettiest plants from seeds.

This year, thanks to our own roller coaster economy, I decided to try an experiment. I planted a seed garden. As these flowers bloom and grow, I'll share the excitement with you. I planted a patch next to my driveway, and a border around my roses. Then I covered them with fresh potting soil. This is photo number one, in a hopefully successful series known as "Seeds of Change." Wildflowers for a wildflower child.



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Dry Shade Annuals

Annual plants that will grow and flower in dry shade.

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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. That�s 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 doesn�t 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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Pothos

Pothos is arguably the easiest houseplant to grow. Pothos is tolerant of low light conditions and erratic watering. Pothos are also high on the list of plants that can help purify indoor air. Here's how to keep your pothos growing.

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Featured Plant: Sedum

The huge piles of snow in my yard, that looked like they were going to be permanent, have actually started to slink away in this mid-winter heat wave. The...

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Giant Vegetables

Many gardeners enjoy the competition of growing giant vegetables and flowers, like 100 pound cabbages and pumpkins that gain 25 pounds in a day. Growing giant vegetables take planning and care. Here are 5 easy steps toward success in growing giant vegetables and flowers.

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Descanso Gardens Gift Shop

I recently visited Descanso Gardens. It's a real pleasure to look around their gift shop. I found these lovely roses, made from shaved wood. If you click the title above, it will take you directly to the Gift Shop. Have fun.



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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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Petunia Varieties

Petunias have done a 180 in recent years. They are much more tolerant of rain and many don't need any deadheading at all. They mound, they trail and they bloom their hearts out. How do you know what type of petunia to buy? Here's a petunia 101 on which types of petunias are best for your garden, hanging baskets and groundcovers.

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Can You Root Your Valentine's Day Roses?

Here's a question from the About Gardening Forum that has probably crossed your mind once or twice, when you received a particularly nice cut rose. Can store-bought roses be...

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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, it�s also a lot of fun. Here are some basic recipes and some creative suggestions for hypertufa toughs and garden decorations.

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Stop and Smell the Roses

I hope you all got roses for Valentine's Day, today. Better still, a rose bush. We all know that roses aren't a holiday treat for gardeners. Every garden...

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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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Viburnums

Many popular garden and landscape Viburnums come from Asia. These include several of the most fragrant flowering varieties. There are also varieties that are evergreen. Bloom times span early spring through June and are followed by attractive fruit and outstanding fall foliage.

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Herb Gardening

Herbs are some of the easiest plants to grow and they grow effusively. Most require little maintenance, unless you have the notion of planting a tidy 4-square decorative herb garden. Most herbs are not tidy and the plants are meant for use, not decoration. Herb gardening comes down to what you want to do with the plants you grow - kitchen herbs, herbs for potpourri or dying, even medicinal herbs. Having a designated herb garden makes their care and harvesting more convenient.

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A Garden of Bouquets, Year After Year

Free Garden Design - Perennial Cutting Garden

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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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Deer Resistant Perennials

There are no deer proof plants, only plants that deer don't prefer. Even that varies from garden to garden. When deer are hungry, they will eat your plants. The only real deer deterrent is a fence. However, here are some perennial plants that are rarely eaten by deer, giving them the reputation of being deer resistant.

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The Language of Flowers

Flowers have held meaning for centuries. You know a rose says love, but how about expressing yourself with violets for modesty, peonies for shame or daisies for innocence? The language and meaning of the flowers in you garden or bouquet can be as involved or as fun as you choose to make it.




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The Year of the Chile Pepper

Growing hot chili peppers is easy and possible almost anywhere. But the real enjoyment of growing your own hot peppers is harvesting them and using them. Here are some tips.

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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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How to Garden Greener

Green gardening is a confusing term. Gardeners talk about their love of nature, but in reality what we�re doing is manipulating nature and short of growing a field of weeds, it will remain so. So the easiest way to garden greener is to work more cooperatively with nature. Here are 5 easy steps to make your garden greener.

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Saving Tomato Seeds

Many plant seeds can be saved simply by collecting them as they dry. Tomatoes take a bit more work. The tomato seeds are enclosed in a gel like sack that contains growth inhibitors, preventing the seeds from sprouting inside the tomato. The best way to remove this gel covering is to allow the fruits to rot and ferment. In nature this happens when the fruit falls off the plant. For seed savers, we're going to speed up the process.

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Herb Gardening Essentials

An overview of growing and using herbs.

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In memory of Florence...

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
~ Florynce Kennedy


I was informed today that my lovely gardening teacher and neighbor "Florence" (not the author above) died peacefully in her sleep yesterday. She was 95 and a half. She lived a life filled with incredible beauty. An avid gardener, and photographer, she was a lovely friend and mentor. I will miss her, but I celebrate her wonderful life and peaceful passing. May we all live and die so gracefully.
RIP Florence - September 1, 1913 to February 9, 2009

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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. ~ Stuart's Law of Retroaction

While practicing macro flower shots, I photographed a small orange flower, on a shrub. This flower is actually quite insignificant to the larger plant. I was amazed at the ability to enlarge such a small flower.


This is the same flower edited using layers and changing the colors.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission., originally uploaded by Abby Lanes.

I decided to create some "Warhol-ish" images, with this flower. Here are two of them.





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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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Warm Climate Bulbs

Although many spring bulbs need cold weather to bloom, gardeners in warm climates can still plant spring flowering bulbs like tulips and daffodils and even some more exotic bulbs that northern gardeners can't grow. Some traditional spring blooming bulbs may take the extra effort of pre-chilling before they will bloom in warm climates, but even that is relatively easy to accomplish.

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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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Pepper F1 'Carmen'

Pepper F1 'Carmen'

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Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Iris

Iris (Bearded Iris)

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FeaturedHydrangeas

Hydrangeas are experiencing a resurgence of interest by both gardeners and breeders. Here are two recent introductions generating a good deal of interest are Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' and H. macrophylla �Lady in Red�.


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Take the Name Literally

Egyptian Walking Onion

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If You Plant It, They Will Come.

Where on earth do all those aphids come from? Seriously, how do they find their way into our homes in the dead of winter? What were they...

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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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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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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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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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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 crane�s 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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How Much to Plant

It's time to plan the vegetable garden, but how much should you plant per person? Here are some guidelines for how much to plant, but remember that they're just guidelines. How much to plant depends on a number of factors.

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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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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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Growing Bromeliads at Home

Have you tried growing Bromeliads? Bromeliads are one of the best tropical plants to grow in your home. Bromeliads are extremely adaptable, tolerating a variety of home environments. By following a few basic techniques, you can watch these beautiful and brightly colored plants thrive and flower for years to come.

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Vegetable Gardening Growing Guides

Growing Vegetables, How to Grow Vegetables

Have you ever wanted good, complete, in-depth growing guides on how to grow vegetables?

Well, you're in luck, because we have been working very hard on producing just that. Easy-to-use information so you can grow all your favorite cool season and warm season vegetables no matter if you're a first time gardener, or have been growing your own vegetables for years.

Each guide goes over proper climate, soil conditions, harvesting tips, storage tips, and more, and the best thing is they are all free! So take a look, and if you have friends who love to garden, let them know about our site!

These are just the beginning, we will be adding more over the next couple of months.

Warm Season Vegetables Growing Guides:

Growing Asparagus

Growing Dried Beans

Growing Fresh Beans

Growing Beets

Growing Cucumbers

Growing Pumpkins

Growing Sweet Corn

Growing Summer Squash

Growing Winter Squash

Growing Tomatoes

Cool Season Vegetables Growing Guides:

Growing Broccoli

Growing Brussels Sprouts

Growing Cabbage

Growing Carrots

Growing Cauliflower

Growing Celery

Growing Lettuce

Growing Peas

For more Gardening Tips and Gardening Advice visit our main gardening website at Weekend Gardener Monthly Web Magazine - www.weekendgardener.net

Have great week!

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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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Russian Sage 'Taiga' (Perovskia atriplicifolia)

Russian Sage 'Taiga' (Perovskia atriplicifolia)

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Gardening Question of the Week Does Companion Planting Work?

Our Gardening Forum moderator, scottyblue, started a thread about companion planting, planting two or more plants near each other to derive some type of benefit like more vigorous growth, higher...

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What are Plant Tubers?

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

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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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Fall Perennial Pruning

It can be nice to leave some perennials standing for winter interest. But many perennial plants don�t 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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Raised Garden Beds

Raised beds are a good gardening technique for areas that have soil problems like poor drainage, too many rocks or plain old poor soil. Gardening in a raised bed allows you to bring in the best gardening soil. You can create raised beds simply by piling soil. However if you want something more permanent and sturdy, you’ll want to frame your raised beds. Here are several options for creating raised beds, from building it yourself to having it delivered to your yard.


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Oh, no! Six More Weeks of Winter

Once again, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and predicted 6 more weeks of winter. At least this time there was some sun out. How he sees his shadow...

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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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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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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. Here�s what the difference is.

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Faded Hydrangeas

Thank you Amanda!, originally uploaded by Abby Lanes.

Quote for the day:
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

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Bring Spring Indoors

Displaying Potted Flower Bulbs

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Growing Blueberries

Blueberry Growing Tips: Blueberries are popular to grow in home gardens because they can grow in a small space, even in containers, and have very few problems. There are three main types of blueberries: highbush, rabbiteye, and southern highbush, with different varieties doing better or worse in various areas. Here are some tips for growing your own blueberries.



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Basic Considerations When Choosing Plants for a Formal Herb Garden

Designing an Herb Garden

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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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Tulips - Tulipa

Growing Tulips

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February in the Garden

February may well be the toughest gardening month. Gardeners in warm climates don't know what kind of weather to expect from day to day or from day to night. Gardeners in cold climates just want to see the sun again. February in the garden is for planning and pruning and for seeing the first signs that spring is around the corner. Here are some regional tips for gardening in February.

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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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Faded Hydrangeas

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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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Cabbages

Cabbage can be grown easily in the home vegetable garden. In fact, two crops a year of cabbage are possible. There are hundreds of varieties to choose from. Cabbages are classified by head shape, round and flat-head being the most commonly seen, and come in white, green and purple.

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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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Making Your Potted Bulbs at Home

Baskets of Tulips

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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 isn�t 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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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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Edible Flowers

Edible flowers aren't a new phenomenon, 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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Any Container.

Container Grown Spring Flowering Bulbs

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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. Here�s how to apply cornmeal to treat fungus problems in your garden.


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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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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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Deer Resistant Perennials

There are no deer proof plants, only plants that deer don't prefer. Even that varies from garden to garden. When deer are hungry, they will eat your plants. The only real deer deterrent is a fence. However, here are some perennial plants that are rarely eaten by deer, giving them the reputation of being deer resistant.

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Rose Bud Unfurling

Rose Bud Unfurling

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