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Growing Buddleias or Butterfly Bushes
Buddleias are easy to grow garden plants, producing masses of long lasting flowers. They have attractive foliage and are very popular with bees and butterflies.
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Shrubs for Attracting Songbirds
Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant these shrubs that feed and house native bird species.
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Flower Shrub Buddleia Lo & Behold™ Blue Chip
The newly marketed Buddleia Lo & Behold™ 'Blue Chip' is a miniature flowering shrub. While still attracting pollinators, this dwarf butterfly bush fits small gardens.
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Deer Resistant Garden Shrubs
While no plant is one hundred percent deer-proof, these shrubs will deter most deer from snacking and sampling the foliage and destroying your garden landscape.
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Plants for Butterfly Gardens
These flowering shrubs and perennial plants are all known to attract butterflies to the garden. Flowers and flutters - what could be better?
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Spring Garden Cleanup
To get your garden looking best this spring, winter is the time to clean up and the Stihl Combi Power System is a tool that can get the job done.
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The Buddleia Bush
The 'Butterfly Bush' has magnificent colors and is a mecca for butterflies. It is an invasive shrub, so pruning a buddleia is a must, while increasing the stock is easy.
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Top Low-Water Use Shrubs
Here are some great shrubs and small trees for use in desert gardens, basically for USDA cold-hardiness zones 7-10, and below 6,000 feet.
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Twelve Beautiful Plants for Shade
These twelve plants will make your shade garden the envy of the neighborhood.
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: State Butterfly of Georgia!
The state of Georgia officially designated the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail as their state butterfly on April 4, 1988. Three other southern states later followed suit by naming the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail as their official state butterfly. Learn more about this beautiful butterfly and its nectar and caterpillar host plant needs. You will be doing your part to help swallowtails and other butterfly species to survive by planting nectar-rich flowers and host plant sources in your garden!
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Summer Flowering Shrubs
There are many shrubs available to choose from for summer flowers. Today's article takes a look at ones that are both loaded with flowers and easy to care for.
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Adding Drama to the Landscape
Take your garden from ordinary to extraordinary using these four easy techniques.
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Are we having fun yet?
Time to start putting out the feeders?
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August Flower Gallery
Plants that flower in August - including colour photographs, description, cultivation information and hardiness details
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
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Cater To Those Monarch Caterpillars!
Learn both why and how to cater to caterpillars to attract the magical Monarch butterfly to your back yard. Female Monarchs are very particular about selecting only one specific host plant on which to lay their eggs, or their baby caterpillars will starve. As a butterfly gardener, you can help them out by planting some of the Monarch's host plants in your flower garden.
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Garden Plants to attract 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.
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How to Choose Deer Resistant Flowering Plants
Fill flower gardens with plants that deter deer from foraging. Improve deer resistance with learning how to choose flowering plants with rough foliage and strong scent.
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Integrate Poppies in the Landscape
Early season uniform poppy beds require planning and design to focus attention on residential and commercial landscapes. Presented is a planting sequence for Zone 5.
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June is in Bloom! Come to My Garden Party!
A burst of early flowering perennials attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and a host of happy buzzing bees to gardens. Everyone is invited to my early summer garden party. I'll be escorting you on a colorful tour of some of my favorite perennials in my various garden areas. They have truly outdone themselves this spring and early summer, and are blooming profusely.
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Landscape Plants for Difficult Sites
Trees and shrubs suitable for difficult areas
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Shadows of Doom in the Sunny Border
Sun loving hardy perennials, old fashioned heirloom annuals and prairie wildflowers for the early fall display -- all the colors of the rainbow! And barely a mum in sight.
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Sulphur Butterflies Bring Sunshine to Gardens!
Clouded and Cloudless Sulphur butterflies are attracted to many lovely flowers that are easy to include in your butterfly garden. Learn a bit about these sunny "flying flowers" and their favorite habitats, nectar sources, and host plants.
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Butterfly Gardening
How to attract butterflies to your garden: what plants will draw butterflies. Buddleia, lantana, alyssum and many others.
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Pruning for Plant Health
Proper pruning methods can increase fruit and flower production, and discourage diseases by increasing air circulation and allowing light to reach the plant.
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7 Ways to Attract Wildlife to the Yard
Helping to sustain wildlife in the backyard is a rewarding way to ensure their survival and create appreciation for the natural world.
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A Garden Center
The Watson Garden Center, a rainbow of color, captured under glass,
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Butterfly Gardening
Talks about butterfly gardens. Provides excellent links to information about other areas within the North American continent.
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The Cinderellas of the Garden
Skipping and dancing their way around your garden, butterflies are magical creatures. With very little effort, you can create an inviting haven for them among your flowers.
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Top Ten Summertime Bloomers
Dry summer weather can be a problematic time in areas across the country but there are a few perennials that you can depend on to make your yard shine during the heat.
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"Flying Flowers" are Out and About!
The return of butterflies in the summer is an enchanting sight, and truly gives butterfly gardeners a warm, fuzzy feeling. Read about some summer favorites that are found in gardens, meadows, and along roadsides!
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Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
Great performers for the summer garden. Everyone needs some dependable "easy keepers" and these plants selected among flowers, shrubs and trees have worked for me year after year. Maybe they'll work for you, too.
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How to Plant an Endangered Butterfly–Friendly Garden
How to set up a butterfly garden friendly to endangered butterflies.
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A Fan's Tribute to the Chicago Cubs
Wrigley Field, home playing field to the Chicago Cubs baseball team since 1916, has been replicated in miniature in the suburban Chicago backyard of a longtime fan.
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Attracting Hummingbirds to a Garden: Plants and Flowers for Hummingbird Nesting and Feeding
Could you easily spot a hummingbird's nest if you looked for one? Given the Lilliputian size of hummingbirds, it's only reasonable to expect that their nests will also be minuscule. Learning a bit about hummingbird nesting may help you to spy a hummer's nest more easily!
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Attracting Hummingbirds to a Texas Garden
Several varieties of hummingbird migrate through Texas. It is easy to attract hummingbirds to a Texas garden with a feeder and the right flowers.
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Butterflies in the Organic Garden
Butterfly gardening is a rewarding offshoot of keeping an organic garden. Learn about the flowers, host plants, and habitat that attract butterflies to your yard.
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Camelot Themed Garden Plants
These perennials, annuals and other plants will add a chivalrous feel to your garden as you celebrate the myth of the Knights of the Round Table.
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Painted Lady Butterfly
2009 has been a record breaking year for the Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui). They arrived here in vast numbers after a 1000 mile migration from North Africa.
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Pruning Flowering Shrubs
Planning a late winter or fall pruning of your shrubs (such as lilacs)? Read this first -- or you may be cutting off next season's blossoms.
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Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
The Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly (Aglais urticae) is one of the most common British butterflies and is found almost everywhere in the UK.
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The Ice Garden Cometh
Ice makes its mark on the garden in no uncertain terms. View scenes of shimmering beauty from my own garden, from the bright berries of Aronia "Brilliantissima" to the sweetest of snow angels, taken the morning after a winter night's storm of freezing rain.
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A Chinese Medicine Flower Garden
Not just pleasing to the eye, various parts of these plants, found in gardens worldwide, have been used by Chinese medical herbalists to treat a variety of ailments.
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A Hot New Blue
This perennial herb is a grand companion plant for other sun lovers. You'll love it!
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Bat Friendly Gardens Help Threatened Species
While the focus of these gardens is food and shelter for bats, other wildlife will be attracted as well. The variety of plant types allows for gardener creativity.
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Blue Flowered Shrubs
Blue flowering shrubs are unusual but welcome accents to the flower garden. Use them alone or use them to form the bones of an all blue themed flower garden.
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Butterflies in the Heartlands Part Two
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Butterfly Gardens, 6th in a Series of Children's Garden Themes
Butterfly Gardens need nectar plants and host plants to be really successful. Make a butterfly garden with your child for a fun backyard learning experience. Learn about flowers which attract butterflies and plants which host butterfly eggs and caterpillars. <META Name="keywords" Content="Butterfly garden, children, butterfly host plants, flowers for butterflies, butterfly flowers, kids, butterfly links, children's activities."> Butterfly Gardens attract kids and butterflies in for exciting science learning experiences. Plant to attract the fllying flowers to your child's garden. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Chinese Gardens, Experiencing Cultures Through Gardening Series
Chinese New Year is coming, so let's learn more about China though exploring Chinese gardens and plants. Your child can experience a little of China through plants. Visit virtual Chinese gardens and plant a little of China in your own garden. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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