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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When to Divide Your Perennial Plants

As much as I look forward to spring, there is some comfort in knowing that all I have to do during the winter is dream and plan. Now I...

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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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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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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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�Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is

�Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.�, originally uploaded by Abby Lanes.

~ Maruice Barning

Happy First Day of Spring! I took my camera and headed down to the beach, where there were lovely blooming wildflowers. Theses lovely yellow flowers are likely in the Asteraceae family. It was rather foggy, but it was perfectly peaceful.

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Designing Herb Gardens

Herbs don�t 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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Growing Caladiums

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



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Garden Photo Gallery

Garden photos submitted by visitors to the Gardening site at About.com.
Gardeners regularly exchange photos of their gardens and landscapes.

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Growing Sweet Potatoes

Can you grow sweet potatoes at home? Except for being a long season crop, sweet potatoes are very easy to grow. Even the sweet potato leaves are edible. If you have a small garden, bush sweet potatoes might be a better choice for you. Here are some tips for growing sweet potatoes in any home garden.

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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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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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Red Mulch for Tomatoes

If you�re a die-hard tomato grower, you�ve 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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Bugleweed - Ajuga

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

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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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Container Gardening - Good Garden Design

The basics of good garden design can be used effectively in container gardens.

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Garden Design Clinic Lauren's Back Corner Border

We got so many wonderful recommendations for the last Garden Re-Design Clinic of the front walkway garden. Lauren Vicker submitted some photos of a garden bed that she created...

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Cutting Back Ornamental Grass

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

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Achillea

Achillea often get taken for granted because they are such a dependable, low maintenance perennial plant. There are many varieties of Yarrow and there is sure to be one or two suited to growing in your garden.

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Featured Plant: Lettuce, a Foliage Plant?

Well when you think about it, what ornamental is more attractive than a head of 'Merlot' lettuce. If we're going to get all excited every time they come out...

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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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Hostas for Sunny Spots

Hostas are called 'shade-tolerant' plants, meaning they will grow in shade or partial shade. But some hostas need a period of full sun to look and perform their best. Although it is not recommended that any hosta be in full sun all the time, many Hostas are more vigorous and display their most vibrant colors if given at least some sun exposure. Here are some tips to help you pick the right hosta for your site.

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Low light, Houseplants, and Health

I’m laid up right now with a hurt back again, not much I can do, sitting hurts, doing anything active hurts, I can lay in bed with my laptop and an icepack. So, figured best to get some blogging done.
One topic that has been on my mind a lot lately is houseplants, I always start [...]

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Fact About Cut Tulips and Daffodils

Using Cut Tulips and Daffodils

In your flower arrangements, avoid mixing cut tulips with daffodils - at least right away - because daffodils produce a chemical "slime" that injures tulip flowers.

If you want to use these two flowers together in an arrangement here is what you do:

1. Put the cut daffodils in another container of water for a day after cutting

2. Then rinse off the stems

3. Then add them to the vase of tulips

You can also add 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of activated charcoal or 6 drops of bleach to each quart of water to avoid this problem.

By following the above facts, it really is the best way to care for cut tulips and daffodils.

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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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A Garden of Bouquets, Year After Year

Free Garden Design - Perennial Cutting Garden

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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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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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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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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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Purple Foliage Plants

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

purple foliage plants, purple plants, plants with purple or red leaves,


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Aerogarden International Basil

I’m still not a big fan of my aerogarden (see my aerogarden review. It would seem to me that mine has a defect as the back right pod, no matter what I plant in it, NEVER performs well. Also, the arm height for the light is woefully too short, I know I can buy an [...]

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Peace and Serenity

How do you meditate? I personally walk, garden, and spend time outside. I found this beautiful rose while walking along a peaceful horse trail.

I wish you a relaxing weekend, and a lucky Friday the 13th!

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Pruning Pecilunas Style

I know I reminded you to prune your apple trees a few weeks back, but I had to share this wonderful video that Paul Pecilunas made while pruning his tree...

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Gardening Question of the Week: You Planted Hardy Mums. Now What?

One of our Forum guests was wondering what they should do about their mums this spring.

"I planted mums early last fall. Can anyone tell me how...

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Low Maintenance Plants

Low maintenance perennial plant. There is such a thing as a low maintenance plant. It may vary from climate to climate and season to season, but there are many wonderful perennial flowers and other plants that can be labeled low maintenance, providing undemanding easy care interest and bloom in the perennial border.

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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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Dividing Bearded Iris

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


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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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Cutting Back Ornamental Grass

This simple technique of bundling ornamental grasses before cutting them back will save you the mess of grass blades all over your garden. Here are 3 easy steps for cutting back ornamental grasses easily.

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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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Over Winter Mums

Mums are everywhere in the fall and they make a tempting impulse buy when in full bloom. Many gardeners do not realize mums are hardy perennials. Maybe you�ve purchased mums labeled �hardy� only to be disappointed the following spring when they didn�t survive. The key to a truly hardy mum is selecting the right variety and giving it time to establish itself in your garden, before winter comes. Here�s a quick tip to helping your garden mums survive the winter.

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Spring Rose Care

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

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Gardening Question of the Week: Should I Be Fertilizing My Spring Blooming Bulbs?

Linda wrote in to ask when she should be feeding the spring blooming bulbs she planted last fall. That seems like a simple enough question, but as with all...

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Easy Care, Low Maintenance Perennials?

I see from our gardening poll that it's about a 50/50 split between those of us who have our gardens all planned out for this year and those of us...

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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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Container Grown Peas

There never seems to be enough space in the vegetable garden. Thankfully breeders have begun to focus on varieties that have a more compact form - without sacrificing yield. In particular, there are a number of so called �patio varieties� being introduced that make it possible to grow things in containers that are not traditionally thought of as container plants. Peas �n-a-Pot, from Burpee�s, stretches the concept of container vegetable gardening.

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#8 -One of the Best Repeat Blooming Spiky Blues

Liatris spicata (Gay Feather, Dense Blazing Star) 'Kobold'

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Early Onions and the Miracle of Microclimates

I’m a little sad. I read these garden blogs of people to the south of me, even one state south like Indiana, and low and behold, they are gardening! They have things blooming, they are planting, and woe is me for I am not.
It isn’t that I’m even in northern Michigan, I could drive south [...]

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My First Bloom

Lo and behold yesterday I posted that I didn’t have anything blooming yet, and then bam, this morning, a crocus! Two actually. My first blooms of 2009, and it happened on garden blogger bloom day.
Last year the crocuses did not start until April, so this year things are faster, but in 2007 it was the [...]

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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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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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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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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 won�t mind the rampant growth or grow it in a confined space.



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Which Came First, the Garden Design or the Plants?

My head knows that I should go into a garden center with at least some idea of what I need for my garden. It might be a specific plant,...

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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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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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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.

Read More...

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Gardening Question of the Week: You Planted Hardy Mums. Now What?

One of our Forum guests was wondering what they should do about their mums this spring.

"I planted mums early last fall. Can anyone tell me how...

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Red Mulch for Tomatoes

If you�re a die-hard tomato grower, you�ve 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.

Read More...

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Growing Caladiums

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



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Container Grown Peas

There never seems to be enough space in the vegetable garden. Thankfully breeders have begun to focus on varieties that have a more compact form - without sacrificing yield. In particular, there are a number of so called �patio varieties� being introduced that make it possible to grow things in containers that are not traditionally thought of as container plants. Peas �n-a-Pot, from Burpee�s, stretches the concept of container vegetable gardening.

Read More...

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Spring Rose Care

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

Read More...

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Over Winter Mums

Mums are everywhere in the fall and they make a tempting impulse buy when in full bloom. Many gardeners do not realize mums are hardy perennials. Maybe you�ve purchased mums labeled �hardy� only to be disappointed the following spring when they didn�t survive. The key to a truly hardy mum is selecting the right variety and giving it time to establish itself in your garden, before winter comes. Here�s a quick tip to helping your garden mums survive the winter.

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Gardening Question of the Week: When Should I Start Fertilizing My Plant Seedlings?

MDLady45 posted the Forum question: "I have several seedling plants (broccoli, spinach, carrots, lettuce) that are about 2 weeks old and have one set of leaves. When is a...

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The Border Early in the Season.

Designing a Front Walkway - Garden Design

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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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Frugal Gardening

Ten tips to save money, time and resources gardening.

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When Do You Prune Clematis? (And Do You Even Have To?)

Pruning can be so confusing. Just when you've figured out when to prune a certain plant, you find out there are exceptions. Clematis are like that. They...

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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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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 Spring Cleaning

Spring is the busiest time of year in the garden. There are so many garden chores to be done before your plants start growing in earnest. When to start spring garden cleaning and which tasks to conquer first depend on when spring comes to your garden. But here is a check list of spring cleaning tasks to plan for in your garden clean-up.

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Xeriscape Gardening

Xeriscaping doesn�t 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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"My colors are blush and bashful!" ~Shelby (Steel Magnolias)

I'm not exactly sure how magnolias got associated with the South, but it probably had something to do with the movie "Steel Magnolias." It seems that magnolias really enjoy the California sunshine, and all over my neighborhood, they're blooming. The flowers are quite delicate and beautiful. The magnolia pictured, goes by two names, known as a "Japanese Magnolia," or a "Saucer Magnolia." It adds so much beauty to a spring landscape, and is a sure favorite with many gardeners adoring flowering trees.






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Into Each Garden, a Little Drought Must FallUnderused Drought Tolerant Perennials

Annoying, but true. Even if you aren't in a drought state of emergency. No matter how much rain gets dumped on your garden in the spring, you can...

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Novel Plant Stakes

Staking tall plants in the garden is a battle of the practical versus the aesthetic. Here's a novel and colorful idea for homemade garden stakes to add some whimsy to your flower or vegetable gardens.

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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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Basic Considerations When Choosing Plants for a Formal Herb Garden

Designing an Herb Garden

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The Money Garden

Starting a home vegetable garden can be a great way to save money. Home grown vegetables cost a fraction of what you would pay in a grocery store. By choosing vegetables that are easy to grow, you�ll have fresh vegetable flavor and save money.

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Featured Plant: Passion Flower (Passiflora)

The first time I saw a passion flower, I remember thinking that it was just too gaudy to fit in a garden setting. Silly me. These are exquisite...

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Tips to Grow More Vegetables

Vegetable gardens are rarely planted all at once. To get the most from the limited space of a home vegetable garden, there are several methods of extending your vegetable harvest throughout the vegetable growing season. Extending the vegetable harvest is easy enough to do, but it takes a little pre-planning as your getting your vegetable garden started.

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What Vegetables to Grow

Everything sounds so tempting, how do you decide what to grow in your vegetable garden? You�re first consideration should always be to plant what you like to eat. Still, you�ll need to compromise because some crops simply won�t grow in all areas. Weigh in the following considerations before making your final list of what vegetables to grow in your vegetable garden.

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Designing a Vegetable Garden

Vegetable gardening is easy, but creating the initial vegetable garden takes some work. Be sure to put some thought into designing your vegetable garden before you start digging.

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Tending the Vegetable Garden

Vegetables don�t really require more care than ornamental plants, but they will be less forgiving of neglect. Our job as gardeners is to make sure the vegetables we grow have the necessary health and vigor to keep on producing. Keeping your vegetable plants healthy and growing at a steady rate is the best insurance for a high yielding and delicious vegetable garden. Here are some tips.


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Passion Flowers

Passion flowers are exotic looking topical plants that can actually be grown in much milder areas. There are many different passion flower plants. Some passion flowers are vines, some produce edible fruits. Here are some tips for growing passion flowers at home.

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Vegetable Seeds or Seedlings?

How do you decide whether to plant your vegetable garden from seed or from transplants? The choice between direct seeding and transplanting seedlings into your vegetable garden comes down to 2 basic questions: Does the vegetable transplant well? And is your growing season long enough for the vegetables to mature when planted from seed? Here are some tips.

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March in the GardenRegional Gardening Tips

Right about now, many of us are wondering if spring will ever come. I can smell the first whiffs of springtime mud and I'm fighting the urge to shovel...

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When to Plant Bulbs

The perfect time to plant spring blooming bulbs depends on where you live and what the weather is like that season. Spring blooming bulbs need several weeks in the ground to get their root systems growing before the ground freezes. But even if you don�t get your spring blooming bulbs in on time, there are a few thing you can do.

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Rustic Precision

Vegetable Garden Styles - How to Design a Vegetable Garden

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Starting a Vegetable Garden

How to Start a Vegetable Garden

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Quick and Functional.

A Simple Vegetable Garden Design

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March Garden Calendar

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





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Drama Queen Plants

Every garden needs a focal point and large, dramatic plants fit the bill nicely. These drama queen plants will take center stage in any garden.

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