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Gardening with Perennials: Gardens with Style
Choosing a garden style is a little like getting dressed. |
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Gardening with Perennials: Getting Started
Whether you're a new gardener planning your first perennial bed, or an experienced gardener hoping to improve your existing ... |
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Gardening with Perennials: Ornamental Grasses
Long relegated exclusively to lawns, grasses are now becoming the darlings of the perennial garden. |
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Green Homes Special Series: Part Three: Water-Friendly Landscapes
Our growing water supply challenge is evident with shrinking lakes, expanded drought zones and lower groundwater tables. And ... |
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Growing a Bamboo Garden
Bamboo provides a quick-growing evergreen screen and adds glorious character with delicate leaves and substantial culms or ... |
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Growing Peas
To plant or not to plant...the peas? When is the question. |
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Herb Gardening Basics
Over 15 million households in the United States grow herbs—in vegetable and perennials gardens, in containers, or on windowsills. |
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Houseplant Blights
When houseplants get sick and it's not insects, we may say they have blights. |
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Houseplant Bug Problems
Bugs have few natural indoor predators. It's here that their populations explode and cause real harm to our houseplants. |
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How Gardens Grow
One of the joys of summer is making time to read technical journals and publications that pile up on the floor that have been ... |
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How to Build Window Boxes
Whether you live in an apartment in the city or in a cottage by the beach, a window box makes a lovely planter for flowers. |
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How to Force Buds to Open
Make spring come early by forcing branches on flowering trees. |
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How to Make a Christmas Garland
By using what is in the garden, one can make fine Christmas decorations. |
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How to Make a Christmas Table Centerpiece
If you've always wanted one of those beautiful table centerpieces that look like miniature Christmas trees but didn't want to ... |
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Hydroseeding
After the construction crews have gone and the debris have been cleared from the building site, homeowners have to turn their ... |
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In Pursuit of the Perfect Lawn
A perfect lawn depends on constant care...regular mowing, fertilizer, water, monitoring, maybe chemicals and lots of tough love. |
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Invite Birds to Your Garden
Ideally, bird plantings should be a blend of trees, shrubs, vines and flowers that provide food over a long period. |
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Japanese Beetle Grubs
Lawn insects are a problem, none more so than Japanese Beetles. |
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Landscaping for Energy Efficiency
Are you looking for cost-effective yet eye-pleasing ways to lower your energy bills? Planting trees, shrubs, vines, grasses ... |
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Landscaping for Increased Property Value
Landscaping is much more than pretty plants—a good landscape design can add 20 percent to the value of your property and save ... |
