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Pesticide Alternatives
Pesticide Alternatives
When used incorrectly, pesticides can pollute water. They also kill beneficial as well as harmful insects. Natural ...
Plant Flower Bulbs in Fall for Spring Blooms
Plant Flower Bulbs in Fall for Spring Blooms
Follow these tips to give flower bulbs a healthy start, and you will enjoy colorful clusters of blooms in the spring.
Plant Shopping with Martha Stewart
Plant Shopping with Martha Stewart
The homeowner gets some professional help shopping for plants at Haskell's Nursery from Martha Stewart, who comes back to the ...
Planting a Bare-Root Rose
Planting a Bare-Root Rose
Get your roses off to the best possible start by choosing their growing site carefully and then planting them using the ...
Planting a Perennial Flower Garden
Planting a Perennial Flower Garden
Ruth Foster, a landscape consultant, oversees the planting of the perennial flower border in the yard. Smaller plants fill in ...
Planting a Shrub
Planting a Shrub
Bob, landscape architect Clara Bachelor, and contractor Bob Marzilli show how to plant a balled and burlapped shrub.
Planting Bulbs
Planting Bulbs
A few frequently asked questions anwered.
Planting Bulbs and Overseeding the Lawn
Planting Bulbs and Overseeding the Lawn
Bob watches as Kelly Brothers plants bulbs while Ruth Foster explains how to do it well. The small, blue scylla are planted in ...
Planting in Numbers
Planting in Numbers
Making separate holes is time-consuming, so an easy way to plant a large area is to remove the top layer of soil to the ...
Preventing Rose Diseases
Preventing Rose Diseases
It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow ...
Recreating a Colonial Garden
Recreating a Colonial Garden
Bob and landscape designer Ruth Foster tour Mahoney's Garden Center, a local nursery, to discuss the elements of the project ...
Removing Annuals
Removing Annuals
Annuals bloom better if the old flowers are removed. This prevents seed formation that normally makes annuals start to ...
Removing Perennials
Removing Perennials
Removal of old flowers prolongs the blooming period, reduces self seeding which leads to volunteer plants, and promotes ...
Review of the Landscaping Design
Review of the Landscaping Design
Bob takes a tour of the completed landscaping in this episode. Landscape designer Ruth Foster has created a Colonial-themed ...
Revisions to the Landscaping Plan
Revisions to the Landscaping Plan
Bob talks with Rick Lamb, landscape architect, about revisions to the landscape plan. Rick discusses the importance of ...
Selecting Flowering Plants for the Backyard
Selecting Flowering Plants for the Backyard
All the plants in the backyard were from Monrovia, one of the largest plant suppliers to local nursuries in the country, and ...
Selecting Flowers for the Garden
Selecting Flowers for the Garden
Bob continues his tour of the exterior with landscape designer Ruth Foster. In the Elizabethan-inspired garden in the front of ...
Septic vs. Plants
Septic vs. Plants
Cleaners and other chemicals entering drain fields can injure plants when they are leached into soil near plants. Leaf scorch ...
Sequence of Bloom
Sequence of Bloom
Planting for different seasons of bloom and color.
Simplify the Garden Outdoors
Simplify the Garden Outdoors
With a little planning you can simplify your gardens and your life.
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