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But it's rated for my zone. . . .
Cold hardiness isn't everything. What a climate zone rating can and can't tell you.

Arid Zones in The Garden
The third zone in a desert garden is the "arid" zone, one that requires little or no supplemental water after they are established. Read about the "arid" zone, and the pl
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Northern Spring Perennials
These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.
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Challenge Your Mind and Body
Three ways to break out of your comfort zone, feel better about yourself and lose weight. Challenge yourself physically, mentally and emotionally.
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Designing Desert Gardens
Design and planning is essential in order to have a beautiful and bountiful desert garden. Read about principles of design and maintenance of your desert garden.
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Transition Desert Garden
The "transition" zone portion of your desert garden will require less water and less maintenance after establishment. Here are some suggested plants, as well as watering
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Ajuga and other Groundcovers
Perennial groundvers can be attractive and useful and you don't have to restrict your choice to just Ivy or Vinca.
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Desert Garden Irrigation
Efficient irrigation systems apply water where it is needed, not where it will be wasted.
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Fall is Coming!
Fall perennials, pleasures and chores as the garden looks forward to frost.
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Frosty Morn Sedum
Frosty Morn Sedum is a problem solving perennial in my garden. It has earned a place in the garden by being a low maintenace plant that looks great without flowers.
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Identity Theft
Despite my being careful about what personal information I share, I have become the victim of identity theft.
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Mosquito Plant: Agastache Cana Attracts Butterflies and Hummingbirds to the Garden
This aromatic perennial has several common pseudonyms including mosquito plant, Texas hummingbird mint, bubblegum mint, and giant hyssop. It is native to certain areas of Texas and New Mexico, and is especially noted for attracting rufous and broad-tailed hummingbirds. Also attracted to its fragrant tubular blossoms are butterflies, bees, some sphinx moths, and even goldfinches. It has also been touted for effectively repelling mosquitoes!
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Sky Pencil Holly
Does your garden design make you hum? Or, do you look at the layers of plantings and hear a symphony? If you want a symphony, include Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil Holly'.
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Spring Blooming Deciduous Shrubs
Deciduous shrubs are great additions to the garden and these spring blooming shrubs are some of the most pleasant and familiar of the spring-flowering plants.
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Environmental Factors: 1
Recognizing and working with environmental factors helps to avoid expensive and distressing landscape design mistakes. Environmental factors interact with each other to make every site unique. Paying attention to these factors is also essential for a yard or garden plan to be successful over time.
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starting seeds
A guide to when to start sowing seed indoors. How to decide when to start seeds according to your growing zone.
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Transportation and Time
How we measure time became more and more important as transportation technology became faster and more sophisticated.
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Foot Reflexology Basics
A brief introduction to the natural therapy of foot reflexology.
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Organizing Your Kitchen
Here are 5 easy ways to streamline your kitchen so you get more done in less time.
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Soil in A Desert Garden
Preparing soil in a desert garden is an important part of the process. There are some definite do's and don'ts in this part of your garden planning.
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Living Walls - Borders & Hedges: Yews and Hemlocks
I guess you could call any dense planting a ‘living wall’, but I’m thinking more in terms of plantings made to enclose a space with a purpose in mind. This could be a border or hedge of evergreens or one of mixed evergreens and deciduous plants.
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Pieris
One of my favorite broad-leafed evergreens, Pieris or often mistakenly called Andromeda, is perfect for the shady garden. A member of the Ericaceae and closely related to Rhododendrons, it thrives in the same kind of moist, organic, acid soil.

Galloping Ground Covers
Ajuga and Vinca cover ground at a gallop.
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I resolve. . .: Painless Ordering for Perfect Potential Gardens
New years Resolutions and those tempting catalogs


Growing Vegetables Part I
Part I of a 3-part series on growing vegetables in spring: Vegetable plant list; gardening tips; planting asparagus and beans; best gardening tool to stake beans...
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Vines in Trees
Some vines in trees work well with the tree, but some invade the tree's canopy and eventually kill the tree.
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Groundcovers for The New Woodland Garden
So many lovely perennials, biennials, bulbs and corms either tolerate or demand shade that I had no problem coming up with a list of more than 40 that would be suitable for this new garden.
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Aucuba
If you need an evergreen shrub for that really dark shady spot, then Aucuba is the one for you. Belonging to the same family as Dogwoods (Cornus), Cornaceae, but not resembling them in the least, are a small group of 3 to 7 species of evergreen shrubs native mostly to Japan.
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How Hunger Works
Losing weight isn't easy for biological (not motivational) reasons. Diets fail because low-calorie food, hunger pangs, set point, & body chemistry can inhibit weight loss
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A Guide to Salon Services
Salon services are great ways to enjoy regular facials, pedicures and waxing without having to do it yourself. Learn which beauty treatments are worth the pain.
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Blocking the Gap : What To Do When The Woods Disappear
I’m facing a long term project in the garden, namely blocking the view of a tennis court that replaced the woods next door. I need something evergreen that grows fairly rapidly to at least 20 ‘ tall while remaining fairly narrow in diameter. Here's what I've found.
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Eastern Europe Top Tips
Poll results are in, and the majority of you are up for a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Hanging out in St Pete’s or cruising the Croatian coast scored highly too
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Review: Alphabetica
Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists by Lynne Perrella is eye candy for every art lover, art creater and art enthusiast.
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Trans-Siberian Directions
To ride the Trans-Siberian across Russia is a travel dream. If it becomes a reality, exciting decisions must be made about direction and stopovers.
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Wooden Container Garden Windowbox
Are you itching to get your hands in the garden but live in the northern zones? Here is a craft project that will let you get a jump on the garden.
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Lights, Camera, Food!
On Oscar night, you don't want to spend the evening in the kitchen. Wraps can help!
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Murmur project's cell phone art.
City stories via cell phone in Toronto.
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Suite 16 Rankings- Phoenix
Each week Suite 101 ranks the top 16 drivers based on their results and performance.
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