Container Gardening
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Seedheads in the Winter Garden
Don't be so diligent about your autumn garden clean-up and you'll have a more interesting winter garden.
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Passionate About Passifloras
Passion flowers are one of nature's most beautiful creations. Contrary to their intricate, delicate appearance, they are easy and undemanding to grow.
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A Geranium That's Not Really A Geranium
Scented geraniums offer alluring fragrance, interesting foliage and texture, easy cultivation and are excellent container plants.
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Companion Plants
Companion plants are ones that can benefit others when planted in close proximity. This symbiotic relationship can produce a healthier, more pest-free, more diverse garden.
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Citrus Delight
Think you can only grow citrus if you live in the tropics? Many areas with warm to hot summers are suitable for citrus, as long as you protect them from freezing temperatures.
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Fertilizer Savvy
Overwhelmed by all the different types of fertilizers promising the cures to all your horticultural woes? Learn how fertilizer works and how to read a fertilizer label so you can shop with confidence.
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Made in the Shade
If your patio or deck is sheltered and shady, there are a surprising number of plants with colorful flowers and foliage that thrive in shade.
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Potted Trees: Deciduous and Evergreen Varieties and Tips for the Container Garden
For shade, privacy and a dramatic focal point in your container garden, choose a tree.
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Too Many Gardens....Too Little Time
Spring is approaching and with it, an abundance of public gardens are ready to greet you with open blooms.
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The Harmony That Is Your Garden
Understanding Nature's brilliant system of relationships and interdependencies in your garden can make your job easier.
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Camellias - The Perfect Winter Garden Flowers
Looking for the perfect winter garden plant that can grow in the shade, is great in containers and provides color from October through spring? Run, don't walk, to your garden center to get camellias in many shades of white, pink and red.
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Edible Roses
The fruit of the rose offers both nutritional and medicinal value, while adding a colorful point of interest to the winter garden.
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
To have a breathtaking display of cheerful, colorful tulips next spring, pick the largest, fattest bulbs and plant now.
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Mum's The Word
Mums are the perfect fall flower, lasting happily until frost and offering a wide choice of colors from vibrant crimson to understated lavender.
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Lovin' Lavender
Lavender, with its fragrant purple flowers and grey-green foliage, is a perfect container plant for your patio or balcony garden.
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Mulch Magic
Summer watering can be challenging for even the most dedicated gardener. Employ a little mulch magic and make your job easier while also conserving a precious natural resource.
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Peas on the Patio, Beans on the Balcony
No matter how small a gardening space you have, you still have enough room to grow mouth-watering veggies in your container garden.
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The Cinderellas of the Garden
Skipping and dancing their way around your garden, butterflies are magical creatures. With very little effort, you can create an inviting haven for them among your flowers.
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In Search of Purple
In all its shades and hues, purple is a versatile and striking color in the garden. It can stand alone as a dramatic statement or be combined with a variety of other colors.
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Perfume in the Garden
Any garden can be the setting for a fiesta of scents, ranging from light and subtle to deep, musky and complex.
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Seeing Red
Red, one of the most powerful colors in the spectrum, can add a warm look to your garden. There are many combinations of red flowers which will create striking displays.
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Easy Gardening
Learn how to continue reaping the joys of gardening even if you have arthritis or other limited mobility conditions.
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Tea in the Garden
Create your own tea garden with the many easy-to-grow herbs perfect for containers.
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A Winter Garden
There are many choices available to provide color, texture, form and berries for your winter container garden.
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Lessons From A Transplanted Gardener
There are new lessons to learn and old ones to re-learn when moving from one gardening region to another.
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Colorful Containers for Fall
Try these colorful fall container combinations to extend the beauty of your garden up to, and possibly through, the winter months.
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Topiary as Living Sculpture - Part II
Learn more about what plants are best suited for topiary and virtually visit some amazing gardens.
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Topiary as Living Sculpture - Part I
An ancient horticultural art that has ebbed and flowed in popularity, topiary shapes in the garden are back in vogue.
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Heightened Beauty: Hanging Baskets for Summer
If you've run out of room for all the plants you want, think hanging baskets. These lofty containers are easy to grow and provide eye-level appeal.
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Perennials for Potpourri
Potpourri is an ancient craft that uses dried flowers and plant materials to create lovely scented mixtures. Why not extend and preserve your garden's beauty and fragrance through potpourri?
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Herbs For Your Container Garden
Herbs come in a variety of shapes, sizes and scents and most are perfectly suited to growing in a container.
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Roses the Organic Way
Roses may not seem like the ideal candidate for organic gardening...but there are numerous effective non-toxic methods of controlling rose pests and diseases.
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Designing Container Gardens - Part III
There are many striking plant combinations you can put in containers to enhance your garden, patio or balcony.
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Designing Container Gardens - Part II
In "composing" your garden, learn how to incorporate these key principles: unity, focal point, color, shape and texture.
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Designing Container Gardens - Part I
This is the first in a three-part series on how to design with containers. In this article, learn a bit about various design styles and how to start defining what style is you.
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Berries for the Birds
Shrubs that have bright winter berries provide food for the birds, plus they provide color and interest in your winter garden.
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Climbing Up To The Heavens
Vines produce a quick, lush "vertical" garden. Especially where space is limited, vines offer a wide variety of container landscaping choices.
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Versatile, Flexible Ferns
Ferns provide a versatile array of textures in your garden and thrive in containers.
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Heavenly Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are easy-to-grow container plants that can add lush growth to your garden.
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Swaying In The Breeze
Ornamental grasses can provide variety and texture in any garden and their easy maintenance makes them a perfect choice for the busy gardener.
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Environmental Causes of Yellow Leaves on Plants: Under or Over Watering, Lack of Iron or Nitrogen, and Sunburn
Do yellow leaves on your plants have you running for the spray guns, certain than your garden has been invaded? There may be another answer.
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Spring Cleaning
Tips and tasks to get your container garden ready for the spring growing season.
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Dress Up Your Garden
Adding decorative ornaments to your garden --- anything from statues to fountains to gates --- will enhance its beauty and give you a distinctly unique garden space.
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The Allure of Orchids
What makes orchids so alluring, seductive, addictive? Thanks to the wide selection and availability of orchids today, we can all catch 'orchid fever'.
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Tiny, Perfect Roses
Miniature roses offer all the beauty and elegance of their bigger sisters at a fraction the size. Perfect for containers, raised beds and small spaces.
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My New Year's Gardening Resolutions
It's that time of year again when we promise ourselves to do things better or differently. Check out my 2002 gardening resolutions and share some of your own.
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Gifts for the Gardener
Stymied about what to get the garden lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are some suggestions for all the different gardeners in your life.
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Oriental Beauties
Enhance your container garden with a graceful Japanese maple, which will offer you beauty and interest in every season.
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Contained Bulbs
Every garden is enhanced by adding pots of easy-to-grow bulbs and this is the time to plant them.
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When Reality Bites, Humanity Must Rule
Commentary on the tragedy of September 11
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Ever Green .... Color for Fall and Winter
Don't put your garden trowel away just yet! There is a surprising variety of plants that will add wonderful color and texture to your fall and winter garden.
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Lessons from the Garden
The garden of my youth contained nothing but chores .... or did I miss something? Much later in life I discovered that indeed I did.
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Picking the Perfect Pot
With the limitless array of container choices, how do you pick the one that's just right for your plant? Understanding the features of the various types of pots will help you make the right decision.
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Clematis for Containers
Clematis, those spectacular, elegant beauties, can grow very happily in containers as long as you follow a few simple guidelines.
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Bad Bugs? Good Plants!
Insectary plants will attract beneficial insects and help you control unwanted garden pests.
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