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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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Spring Blooming Trees
Ornamental spring-blooming trees can be either deciduous or evergreen. See how to grow some of the most popular spring flowering trees.
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Spring's In Bloom
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Reblooming Daylilies

How to Grow Bourbon Roses Reblooming Antiques
Bourbon roses were the first of the Old Garden Roses to have a repeating bloom period. These antique roses range in color and form but were very popular and fragrant...
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Ayrshire Roses (Rosa arvensis)
Ayrshire roses have been used for hundreds of years in a variety of ways in gardens. Find out why, and how to care for your own piece of Old World charm!
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A Collection of Heirlooms: Antique Roses, Part 1
Tired of thinking of roses as high maintenance and lovely nusiances? Try the antique roses!

How Do You Prune Lilacs?
How and when lilacs are pruned has a large impact on how much they'll bloom. This article will explain it all.
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Fried Dandelion Flowers
I remember my Granddaddy pulling out his pocketknife and carefully digging up dandelions in the yard. Never mind the pretty yellow blossoms. Dandelions were weeds, and they had to go—root and all. Granddaddy would probably have a really good laugh if he knew that I grub up my dandelions, cook them and eat them.
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Gardening Gifts for Spring
This article contains and ideas for spring gifts of plants and flowers that children can prepare and give. Celebrate the growing season with these gifts of joy.
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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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Groundcovers - Self-Seeders
Most plants that set viable seed will seed around a bit if they are happy. Some plants can cover a fair amount of ground via self-sown seed.
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Annual or Perennial?
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters!
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Geniuses' Getaway
Edison and Ford, celebrated men and long-time friends chose a sublime piece of paradise, off the Caloosahatchee River, to escape to and have fun in the sun
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Growing from Seed
How to grow perennial plants from seed. Is it cost effective? Is it different from growing veggies and annuals from Seed?
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May Gardening: Tips for Desert Gardeners
General desert gardening tips, including using vegetables as perennials, planting methods, and composting.
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Pruning Shrubs
How to prune a shrub and when to prune a shrub. Which shrubs flower on new wood and which on old wood.
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Spain Facts: Aragon Travel Trivia
Spain: Information on bombs in Zaragoza's basilica, Teruel, Henry VIII's wife Catherine, Alquezar canyoning, filming at Loarre castle & the birthplaces of Opus Dei & Goya
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Better than a Moat and Drawbridge: Old Garden Roses
If you are looking for fast-growing plants that will create a barrier but also be beautiful, try old garden roses.

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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Cool Season Containers
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.
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Splendor in the crabgrass: Mistakes beginning gardeners make
Before you put even one seed into that ground, consider the basics!
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Sun or Shade?
Some flowers and plants prefer sun, some prefer shade. Is your garden sunny or shady or part sun or part shade? Find out how to tell the difference.
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Things to do to pass the time til Spring
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Rhododendrons & Azaleas
If the Rhododendron is King of the broad-leafed evergreens, then the Azalea is Queen. While I do have something blooming all season, there is nothing like the concentrated flower-power of the "Rhodies" and Azaleas in May. Actually, both are Rhododendrons and members of the ericaceae family like heaths and heathers.
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Daylily Culture: Caring for your plants

Adventure in Daylilies
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Desert Gardening: June Gardening in the Desert
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Greek Events: Top Athens Festivals
Visitors to the Greek capital can expect international music and dance, Changing of the Guard, floral displays, and free entry during Nights Under The Full Moon.
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Trees: The Gift of Love - III
Trees can supply a merger of love, good wishes and functional design in a home landscape. Here are some examples of what I've planted.
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Virtual Winter II: Beyond black and white in the winter garden

The Etruscan Villanovan Period
During the important Villanovan Period, Etruscan society saw the onset of great wealth, social stratification, and a cultural explosion thanks to the migrating Greeks.
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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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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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Planting Flowers in Spring
When is the best time to plant my flowers? Is it too early? Too late? Is there a difference between when to plant annuals and perennials? Find out!
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Spring Divisions
Spring is the ideal time for American Gardeners to take divisions of perennials, spring bulbs, grasses and even multistemmed shrubs. All are easy to do when the plants emerge in the spring.
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Down with Moustaches: Rethinking front-of-the-house landscaping.
Let's put a stamp of individuality on our front yard landscape instead of that same old dreary line of tired shrubs.
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Uma Thurman Dumps Boyfriend
What's new in Hollywood? Find out here.
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Gardening for the 5 Senses Part II: Gardening for Touch

I'm a Gertrude Jekyll Wannabe: Mistakes Beginning Gardeners Make
Unless you have an estate sized garden, and a small staff of gardeners, some borders are just a bit ambitious.
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Planning For Spring 2007
Spring 2006 is the best time to begin planning for Spring 2007. My neighbor's yard is full of spring flowering bulbs and I have a few crocus. Do you have this problem?
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Spring BBQ Party
The end of spring signals the onset of Graduation parties, Confirmation/Communion celebrations & Memorial Day BBQs. Host your own Spring BBQ with easy entertaining ideas.
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Sun and Shade
Knowing the daily and annual sun positions helps to make landscape designs accurate and realistic. Sizes of extremely shady or sunny spots are easy to estimate.
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The Wilds of NYC in Central Park
One of the greatest urban parks, Central Park is a New Yorker's oasis in the midst of the city, offering a mini outdoor getaway.
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New Strips

Virtual Winter IV:: You grew *what* from seed??

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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Cape Town's Mountain
Table Mountain has become a world famous landmark. It is also one of South Africa's and Cape Town's top tourist destinations. But for Capetonians, Table Mountain is more
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Gardening for the 5 Senses Part III: Fragrance Gardening

Lilies Poisonous to Cats
Easter lilies, tiger lilies, rubrum or Japanese showy lilies, and some day lilies are toxic to cats causing acute kidney failure.
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