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Online Nurseries 2000 - Foliage Gardens
It's that time of year again! Time to tell you about more mailorder nurseries who are online with marvelous plants to feed our gardener's lust. Foliage Gardens is a nursery that all shade gardeners should know about. There are lots of lovely images, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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Late Color - Part 2
Last week, I shared some late color from my USDA zone 7 garden in the green and yellow range; this week, we'll blaze out! Get out your sunglasses and enjoy the color. <b>Warning! Lots of images - may load slowly for you.</b>
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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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Japanese Maples: Luxury Lace
Japanese maples are not just gorgeous - they come in so many shapes, sizes and colors that you can fit them into almost any garden scheme.
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Japanese Zen Garden Plants
These plants are authentic choices for a Japanese garden and provide color, contrast of form and a meditative beauty to a reflection garden area.
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Halloween Themed Garden Plants
Spooks, magic, ghouls, and black cats. October's All Hallow's Eve can be fun to celebrate in the garden with these Halloween named plants.
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Off-Season Dreaming, or, To Cuddle With Catalogs - Part II
Descriptions of the first part of a baker's dozen of the author's favorite catalogs and corresponding web sites.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 10
Some plants who are happy and some who are not, growing under an oak (Quercus>) and four dogwoods (Cornus florida) in my USDA zone 7 garden.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 11
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 11 - The West Border
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Planting Under Trees - Part 13
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 13 - Plants Under The Dogwood
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Using Bark to Add Winter Beauty
Learn how to use the beauty of bark in your garden to add subtle, or not so subtle, interest to the winter landscape.
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Online Nurseries 2002 - WorldPlants.com
World Plants.com is aptly named. Their plant list includes unusual plants from around the world. As if that weren't enough, their site offers much more than a marvelous list of plants.
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Japanese Garden Trees - the Maple
Landscape architecture and garden design would not be the same without Acer palmatum - the favorite tree of many serious plant collectors.
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Spring Themed Garden Plants
In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.
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Designing a Japanese Zen Garden
A relaxing garden atmosphere for reflection and meditation is easy to create using some of these ancient Japanese principles in your garden landscape design.
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Autumn Trees in the Garden
Here are some of the lovely Autumn trees you have available to plant in your garden.
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Battling Bambi
It's difficult for the gardener to appreciate the finer qualities of Bambi while watching one knee-deep in a flower bed, munching away on precious plants. Success and failure in the battle with Bambi, including plants that my herd has not eaten.
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Brookside Gardens
A short visit to the Conservatory
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Planting a Shade Tree and Memories
Trees affect our lives and deserve recognition and planting in gardens and parks.
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Shrubs for the White Garden
Every white garden or moon garden needs white flowered shrubs, either as a surrounding hedge or within the garden itself as an accent. Consider some of these!
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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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Beacon Hill Public Garden Spaces
Residents of Beacon Hill's North Slope (Boston, MA) and civic and government groups work to transform derelict spaces and passageways into neighborhood garden spaces.
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Choosing Trees for a Small Garden
Selecting trees that will fit into a small garden
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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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Focal Plants for all Season Gardens
Eye catching plants can be ideal to give focus to a garden. Choosing the correct focal plant can give any garden an all year round appeal.
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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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Perfect Patios - Part 2
Using containers, borders and raised beds to grow a range of climbers, shrubs, perennials and annuals to enhance your patio garden
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The flowerless garden: Foliage can be beautiful
You can create a gorgeous garden with only foliage - and never miss the flowers at all!
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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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There is a Japanese Maple for your Garden
?It was stupid of us to think that at our age [52 and 62] we were able to have such an exciting garden adventure, it would be best to give up now and face reality?

True Confessions about Gardening Obsessions
Every gardener is obsessed. Few of them will admit it. So I'll confess. I am an addict.
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Walnut Trees and Soil Toxicity
Black Walnut trees exude a toxin that can make growing plants underneath them difficult. Learn what plants will in this article.
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Goodbye Yews All - Front Yard Garden Opportunities
That obligatory line of evergreen shrubs that seem to front most houses is no longer a feature at the Wallace's. But it was an accident - and now the possibilities for replanting are endless. So let the fun begin! (All suggestions welcome.)

Selecting Plants: Will That Plant Grow Here? The Reality of Zone Maps.
A synopsis and comparison of various plant zone and climate zone maps available to gardeners. Encourages designers of home landscapes and home gardeners to research plants before committing to choices.
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Simplify Your Garden with Shrubs
Simplifying the planting scheme means reducing the number of different plants with different cultural requirements that you need to keep track of. One way to do that is to plant mixed borders that incorporate easy to maintain shrubs and trees.
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Winter Garden Interest III - Sculpture and Structure
Trees with interesting forms or exotically contorted branches can function as living sculpture in the garden. Add that to a bit of non-living structure - arbors, trellises, or simply the outlines of the raised beds in a garden can create interest on even the dreariest of winter days.

Gifts to Soothe the Gardeners' Body and Soul -Part 4
And finally let's get to the pampering part - a great soaking bath and a terrific gardening book or two to see us through winter.

Spring Gardens: Problems and Promises
The anxiously awaited green things are peeping through the mulch - along with a few less pleasant surprises. Here we go again - Gardening time!


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