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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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Adding Drama to the Landscape
Take your garden from ordinary to extraordinary using these four easy techniques.
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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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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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FAMILY FUN WITH HERBS
Gardening is a family activity. Herbs are the perfect plants to introduce your child to gardening.
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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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My Quiescent Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden
It’s that time of year once again . . . my garden sleeps. Another summer has passed, and fall has surreptitiously surrounded us with a splendid array of vibrant colors. Old Man Winter is not far behind. It's time to get your butterfly and hummingbird garden in shape before he descends.
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Plants For Your New Border
Having planned and prepared your new border, now choose and combine the plants to fill it!
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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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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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Twelve Beautiful Plants for Shade
These twelve plants will make your shade garden the envy of the neighborhood.
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