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A simple and easy to follow tutorial on growing sweet alyssum like a pro.

A Lobularia maritima 'Inlbusnopc' is the new Snow Princess™ sweet alyssum idea for summer gardens. This annual plant is easy to grow in hanging baskets or mixed borders.

Nicotiana, sweet alyssum and marigolds have similar growing needs. Beginning gardeners will find these annual plants easy to grow when starting a garden hobby.

Top six annual plant selections for weeping growth habit that adds lovely growth to containers, hanging baskets, raised beds, mixed borders, rock gardens and more.

No garden is complete without attractive ground covers and these fragrant plants will work perfectly in a fragrance garden! Plants for both sun and shade are included.

Not all flowers will thrive in the zones of 7a to 8b, those zones of South Carolina. These will. Choices for the garden include annuals and perennials.

These annuals all provide exciting color in the spring when gardeners are ready for the first signs of life in their garden. Here are some favorite early annuals.

Cool season annual flowers bloom into late fall and earliest spring and sometimes flower all winter. Ideal in pots or planters by the door, walk or mailbox.

Plant these flowers to grow a garden that is deliciously, wonderfully, romantically fragrant, perfumed with floral scent and in bloom all season from spring through fall.

Love the color and freshness of annuals but don't have any space outdoors? Don't worry-many of them do just fine indoors! Here are the best ones and how to grow them.

Consider these planting ideas to soften the appearance of a sidewalk or finish a pathway garden. Flowering plant groupings make beautiful landscaped walkways.

Good deer control methods start with prevention. Stop deer damage in your organic garden by growing plants that deer rarely browse.

Butterfly gardens are easy to grow and attract beneficial insects. Understanding these pollinators will help when creating a flower garden for butterflies.

With the right selection of butterfly plants you can create a butterfly garden attracting butterflies even on sunny days in the depth of  winter.

Use vertical space in a garden to create an enabling garden. Here are some vertical gardening ideas to grow plants in small spaces.

Renowned biologist, eco-psychologists and "green" builders agree that interaction with nature is vital to our wellbeing. Here are simple ways to add nature to each day.

Close your eyes and cast your seeds to the wind. It's almost that simple. A list of nearly fail-proof seeds that produce living, green plants.

Flowers and butterflies (and caterpillars) go together. Plan your flower garden to attract butterflies and grow a magical butterfly habitat in your own back yard.

Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.

Fresh strawberries are at their best when an organic gardener grows strawberry plants in a garden free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Roses can succumb to many pests and diseases, but the organic gardener can grow these lush flowers without resorting to herbicides or pesticides.

Aphids appear to come from nowhere in the spring, sucking the life from your vegetables and flowers. Control aphids without chemical pesticides.

If your seedlings look like a team of miniature lumberjacks invaded in the night, you have a cutworm problem. Control these pests naturally.

Let freedom ring in a festive Fourth of July garden of floral fireworks.

Mealybugs damage leaves and shoots of many garden plants in the landscape. Kill mealybugs on vegetables and flowers without using chemical pesticides.

Plan a summer visit to the Charles E. Nail Memorial Rose Garden at Kingwood Center. This public estate in Mansfield, Ohio, offers home garden ideas for growing roses.

When growing tomatoes in an organic garden, one can control garden pests and diseases like the tomato hornworm and tomato blight with natural gardening methods.

Just about any plant can be grown on a patio or balcony in a container, with the right care and conditions - including shrubbery.

Learn which perennials thrive in windy Northeastern North American gardens.

What is "not as hard to grow" as people say? Not so temperamental, and rewards you with big, bold, and beautiful blooms? The bearded iris, that's what!

Perennial gardens can be stunning in just a couple of years. A big budget helps, but there are cost-cutting tricks to building beautiful perennial gardens.

It just takes seed to get the ball rolling in your yard, neighborhood, or community. Toss seed balls on the land and watch how they change the face of a place.

The Turner House (House of the Seven Gables - Salem, MA), made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne, overlooks an early 20th Century Colonial Revival Garden

Attract these beneficial insects to your organic garden, and take advantage of this natural pest control source.

In the top list of bedding plants, the Salvia remains an eye-catcher in any garden. It is a tried and trusted plant with a stunning visual effect.

Organic gardening is the practice of working with nature, not against it, by imitating and enhancing the cycles of nature.

When you plant seeds which you will transplant outside in your garden depends upon many factors.

Window boxes allow city dwellers to create miniature gardens offering a feast for the eyes and decoration for the interior and exterior of the home on a manageable level.

Beneficial insects make it possible for gardeners to manage pests organically. This can lessen or eliminate the use of potentially harmful synthetic pesticides.

Keeping the kids happy and the parent's pocketbook full this year has never been more fun. By simply using items from around the home a person can have a world of fun.

A border of plants around a vegetable patch can be useful and decorative. Here are ideas for edging plants to surround the kitchen garden.

Sowing seeds in fall is a good way to extend the growing season and begin next year's garden.

This is an easy to follow tutorial on creating an outstanding bonsai display with various tiny plants and other natural additions.

Use these tips and plant lists to select red, white and blue annual and perennial flowers to plant a traditional flower garden design with a patriotic theme this summer.

You can start your own plants from seed without buying a bunch of lights, cell packs, or pricey seed-heating mats. It's called Winter Sowing, and it couldn't be easier.

To create a pet-friendly garden, choose non-toxic plants and avoid those that are highly poisonous.