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Pesticide Alternatives
When used incorrectly, pesticides can pollute water. They also kill beneficial as well as harmful insects. Natural ... |
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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. |
 
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Planting a Shrub
Bob, landscape architect Clara Bachelor, and contractor Bob Marzilli show how to plant a balled and burlapped shrub. |
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Planting Bulbs
A few frequently asked questions anwered. |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Removing Annuals
Annuals bloom better if the old flowers are removed. This prevents seed formation that normally makes annuals start to ... |
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Removing Perennials
Removal of old flowers prolongs the blooming period, reduces self seeding which leads to volunteer plants, and promotes ... |
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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 ... |
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Revisions to the Landscaping Plan
Bob talks with Rick Lamb, landscape architect, about revisions to the landscape plan. Rick discusses the importance of ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Septic vs. Plants
Cleaners and other chemicals entering drain fields can injure plants when they are leached into soil near plants. Leaf scorch ... |
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Sequence of Bloom
Planting for different seasons of bloom and color. |
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Simplify the Garden Outdoors
With a little planning you can simplify your gardens and your life. |
