Articles related to "Barbara Martin"
"Om! Mani Padme Hum!"
A fun look at how the water lotus performs in my garden.
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A fun look at how the water lotus performs in my garden.
water lotus • fish pond • floating lotus • water garden • garden design cottage garden barbara martin titani
Cottage Garden Style Today
Cottage garden style is all over the map from venerable rose covered cottages to well, you'll see -- where do you fit in?!
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Cottage garden style is all over the map from venerable rose covered cottages to well, you'll see -- where do you fit in?!
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Daylilies to Bring Home
Take home a daylily this week! Pick one you love -- and enjoy. Visit a display garden, shop at the nursery, order by mail or dig one from a friend's garden, there's always room for "just one more"! ps Check out the 4th Annual Tacky Yard Art Contest oooohlala!!!
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Take home a daylily this week! Pick one you love -- and enjoy. Visit a display garden, shop at the nursery, order by mail or dig one from a friend's garden, there's always room for "just one more"! ps Check out the 4th Annual Tacky Yard Art Contest oooohlala!!!
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Garden Catalogs: A Tall Order
The garden catalogs are coming. What do you expect from yours? Will it deliver?
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The garden catalogs are coming. What do you expect from yours? Will it deliver?
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Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 2
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making step stones continued
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Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 3 of 3
Make your own mosaic step stones. Part 3.
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Make your own mosaic step stones. Part 3.
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Pansies--Hello, or Goodbye?
Where do you live?
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Where do you live?
pansies • pansy • blue hill pottery in maine • cottage garden editor barbara martin
Piggy's Garden Tour
A virtual garden tour like no other. You simply must take a few minutes and join Piggy for a tour of the grounds.
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A virtual garden tour like no other. You simply must take a few minutes and join Piggy for a tour of the grounds.
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Serendipity and the Smokebush
Fall foliage reigns supreme in the Catoctin Mountains and at home in the cottage garden. Find your own inspiration in the colors of nature.
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Fall foliage reigns supreme in the Catoctin Mountains and at home in the cottage garden. Find your own inspiration in the colors of nature.
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Small Garden Dreams
A small garden offers a unique design opportunity -- and plenty of free time to enjoy it! Links to tips on small space garden design strategies.
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A small garden offers a unique design opportunity -- and plenty of free time to enjoy it! Links to tips on small space garden design strategies.
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Snowbank in September
OOps it did it again! Every garden should have snow in September -- if it's a boltonia in action. Great links for designing a garden with fall blooming perennials, too.
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OOps it did it again! Every garden should have snow in September -- if it's a boltonia in action. Great links for designing a garden with fall blooming perennials, too.
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Takin' A Break
Thanks for checking in! I'm still on break... Watch for the Adventures of Piggy, The Flying Garden Pig. Coming soon!
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Thanks for checking in! I'm still on break... Watch for the Adventures of Piggy, The Flying Garden Pig. Coming soon!
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Theme Gardens: The White Garden
Romance, glamor, mystery, brilliance. Every gardener should try planting a white garden, just once. You'll never be without one again!
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Romance, glamor, mystery, brilliance. Every gardener should try planting a white garden, just once. You'll never be without one again!
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WICKED PLANTS
How much do you know about wicked plants? You'll find these African violets a treat.
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How much do you know about wicked plants? You'll find these African violets a treat.
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XERISCAPE: Beyond Cactus and Rocks
Xeriscape (Can you say that?) Try "water wise gardening" or "water conserving landscape". Learn the basic steps to creating a beautiful and successful landscape using the 7 steps to xeriscape -- without using cactus, rocks or gravel!
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Xeriscape (Can you say that?) Try "water wise gardening" or "water conserving landscape". Learn the basic steps to creating a beautiful and successful landscape using the 7 steps to xeriscape -- without using cactus, rocks or gravel!
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Greenhouse Envy, the Iguana & Me
Greenhouse envy is an identifiable condition. Check yourself for symptoms -- and then get the help you need right here.
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Greenhouse envy is an identifiable condition. Check yourself for symptoms -- and then get the help you need right here.
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Annual Flower Varieties
A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.
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A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.
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Annual Flower Variety Names
Select the right named variety of annual flower to grow a specific color or height flower, complete a theme garden, or to try something new and improved -- or different.
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Select the right named variety of annual flower to grow a specific color or height flower, complete a theme garden, or to try something new and improved -- or different.
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April Fools
March has been fooling around acting like February, so I am going to collect an April Fools gallery of photos from my garden. Let's hope the photos document the arrival of Spring in a big way! Don't look out the window, Be Happy! Happy Spring from my Pennsylvania garden to you!
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March has been fooling around acting like February, so I am going to collect an April Fools gallery of photos from my garden. Let's hope the photos document the arrival of Spring in a big way! Don't look out the window, Be Happy! Happy Spring from my Pennsylvania garden to you!
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Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden
Are there really blue and pink daylilies? You be the judge! More reasons why you should ADD MORE DAYLILIES to your garden. This just might become your favorite plant.
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Are there really blue and pink daylilies? You be the judge! More reasons why you should ADD MORE DAYLILIES to your garden. This just might become your favorite plant.
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Buy A Disease Free Rose
Buying a new rose bush requires careful inspection to avoid potentially disastrous disease problems. Do you know the signs of black spot, rust and rose mosaic?
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Buying a new rose bush requires careful inspection to avoid potentially disastrous disease problems. Do you know the signs of black spot, rust and rose mosaic?
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Buy A Rose You Love
How do you make your final selection when it comes to buying a rose bush? Here’s when NOT to go by the book! Hint: Have you experienced it in bloom up close in real life?
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How do you make your final selection when it comes to buying a rose bush? Here’s when NOT to go by the book! Hint: Have you experienced it in bloom up close in real life?
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Buying A Rose Bush
Buying a rose bush is an investment. Will it thrive and flourish in your flower garden? Follow these rose buying tips and be an educated rose consumer!
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Buying a rose bush is an investment. Will it thrive and flourish in your flower garden? Follow these rose buying tips and be an educated rose consumer!
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Buying Roses: Healthy Roots
A good quality rose bush has a healthy root system right from the start. Learn to recognize potential root problems and avoid purchasing a badly grown rose.
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A good quality rose bush has a healthy root system right from the start. Learn to recognize potential root problems and avoid purchasing a badly grown rose.
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Daylilies For Your Cottage Garden
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are a must in the cottage garden, and you'll never have too many. How to choose the one (make that a dozen) that's right for your garden and everything you need to know to grow them beautifully when you get them home. Plant some to enjoy now, swap and share with friends and bring pleasure for years to come! (Part 1 of 4.)
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Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are a must in the cottage garden, and you'll never have too many. How to choose the one (make that a dozen) that's right for your garden and everything you need to know to grow them beautifully when you get them home. Plant some to enjoy now, swap and share with friends and bring pleasure for years to come! (Part 1 of 4.)
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Design with Confidence
Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!)
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Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!)
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Designing the White Garden
This is the final article in the series about how to design the white garden or moon garden by planting white flowered plants and silver or blue foliage in a theme garden
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This is the final article in the series about how to design the white garden or moon garden by planting white flowered plants and silver or blue foliage in a theme garden
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Edible Christmas Trees
Try something different this year, and start a new tradition: Christmas trees good enough to eat! Recipes for tree shaped cookies, brownies, cakes, rolls, candies..... even a Santa's vegetable tree and a few "inedible" recipes just for fun and good looks. Indulge!
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Try something different this year, and start a new tradition: Christmas trees good enough to eat! Recipes for tree shaped cookies, brownies, cakes, rolls, candies..... even a Santa's vegetable tree and a few "inedible" recipes just for fun and good looks. Indulge!
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Find the Right Daylily for Your Cottage Garden
Don't let the "experts" sell you on an ugly daylily just because for some reason it's popular. My rant about poor Stella d'Oro, inexplicably one of the most popular daylilies of all time.
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Don't let the "experts" sell you on an ugly daylily just because for some reason it's popular. My rant about poor Stella d'Oro, inexplicably one of the most popular daylilies of all time.
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Flower Garden Style
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
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What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
flower garden style • garden design • informal garden • cottage garden • formal garden
Flower Garden Weed Control 1
Got weeds? Who doesn't! Follow these simple weed control tips beginning early in the spring to control weeds in your flower garden all season long.
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Got weeds? Who doesn't! Follow these simple weed control tips beginning early in the spring to control weeds in your flower garden all season long.
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Flower Garden Weed Control 2
Don't you have better things to do than weed the garden? More simple steps to controlling weeds in the flower garden all season long -- with minimal work.
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Don't you have better things to do than weed the garden? More simple steps to controlling weeds in the flower garden all season long -- with minimal work.
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Flowers for the White Garden
Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.
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Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.
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Foliage for the White Garden
To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers.
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To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers.
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From Ponies to Pumpkins
Things I learned in the back yard when I was a child. Do other people remember things like this? I hope so because otherwise I'm crazier than my kid already thinks I am.
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Things I learned in the back yard when I was a child. Do other people remember things like this? I hope so because otherwise I'm crazier than my kid already thinks I am.
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Herbal Beginnings
Herbs belong in every garden -- add some to yours now! How-to tips and designs using popular herbs plus some interesting historical notes.
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Herbs belong in every garden -- add some to yours now! How-to tips and designs using popular herbs plus some interesting historical notes.
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How Many Plants Do I Need?
Tips on figuring out how many flower plants you need to complete your flower garden design and how to space your plants in the flower garden.
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Tips on figuring out how many flower plants you need to complete your flower garden design and how to space your plants in the flower garden.
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How Many Plants To Use
Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)
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Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)
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It's Juneberry Time!
The Juneberries are ripe!
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The Juneberries are ripe!
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Landscape Design 101
Use these simple landscape design concepts to lay out a flowerbed in the right location, that's harmonious in size and shape, and enhances your overall landscape.
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Use these simple landscape design concepts to lay out a flowerbed in the right location, that's harmonious in size and shape, and enhances your overall landscape.
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Live Butterflies Before Your Eyes
Butterfly Garden or Cottage Garden? Do both and have your cake and eat it too. Make sure you grow the best of both! Essentials of butterfly gardening and plenty of detailed links to help you enhance your garden to welcome butterflies with maximum enjoyment and delight.
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Butterfly Garden or Cottage Garden? Do both and have your cake and eat it too. Make sure you grow the best of both! Essentials of butterfly gardening and plenty of detailed links to help you enhance your garden to welcome butterflies with maximum enjoyment and delight.
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Make Mosaic Step Stones
Make your own decorator quality mosaic step stones and add a personal, custom touch to your yard or garden. It's an easy project requiring no special skill or talent -- if I can do it with great results, so can you! And hey -- make them as tacky (or as tasteful) as you like. It's all up to you.
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Make your own decorator quality mosaic step stones and add a personal, custom touch to your yard or garden. It's an easy project requiring no special skill or talent -- if I can do it with great results, so can you! And hey -- make them as tacky (or as tasteful) as you like. It's all up to you.
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Part Sun, Part Shade
Some plants prefer sun, some prefer shade so how do you handle part sun/part shade locations? These practical tips will help you decide.
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Some plants prefer sun, some prefer shade so how do you handle part sun/part shade locations? These practical tips will help you decide.
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Perennials Grow Over Time
Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.
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Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.
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Planting In Patterns
Planting in patterns such as rows, circles, knots, or symmetrical blocks is a traditional flower garden style. Tips on spacing a mass planting with bedding plants.
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Planting in patterns such as rows, circles, knots, or symmetrical blocks is a traditional flower garden style. Tips on spacing a mass planting with bedding plants.
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Planting In Patterns Part Two
More tips and techniques for planting flowers in a formal pattern, such as planting staggered rows. And, just how precisely should you plant?
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More tips and techniques for planting flowers in a formal pattern, such as planting staggered rows. And, just how precisely should you plant?
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Right Plant, Right Place
Right Plant, Right Place is a simple yet powerful concept: plant flowers matched to the growing conditions in your flower garden for better success with less work.
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Right Plant, Right Place is a simple yet powerful concept: plant flowers matched to the growing conditions in your flower garden for better success with less work.
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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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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!
white garden • moon garden • white flower • white flowering shrub • alba
Spring Planting: Annual Plants
Is it warm enough yet? Wait until after the last spring frost to plant those annuals! Get your frost date and learn how to harden off your annual flowers.
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Is it warm enough yet? Wait until after the last spring frost to plant those annuals! Get your frost date and learn how to harden off your annual flowers.
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Spring Planting: Perennials I
Your bare root perennial plants are ready for planting. Are you ready for them? When to plant these in the garden and how to delay planting, if you must.
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Your bare root perennial plants are ready for planting. Are you ready for them? When to plant these in the garden and how to delay planting, if you must.
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