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Eastern Redbud Trees in Landscapes
Eastern redbud trees and cultivars enrich landscape gardens with varieties of form, silhouettes and unusual seasonal color. Site selection is essential for good display.
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cercis canadensis 'covey' lavender twist
Memorial Day Themed Garden Plants
Creating a special garden in honor and memory of a loved one, wedding anniversary, child's birth or other special event is easy by selecting one of memorable plants.
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memorial day
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themed garden plants
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memory garden
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achillea
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agapanthus
Pumpkins for Everyone! Part 1 - Getting Started.
Time to grow pumpkin seeds! Listed here are steps for beginning gardeners to follow. Also, listed here are some good web sites with pumpkin facts and fiction.
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kids korner
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the green thumb club - plants for kids
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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king author
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excaliber
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merlin
Deer-resistant Landscape Trees
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) readily select small trees as available food sources. Native deer-resistant plants ensure success in built landscapes.
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amelanchier
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hamamelis
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flower trees
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 flowers
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evergreen trees
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deciduous trees
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ornamental trees
Tree Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new shade and ornamental trees available to home gardeners in 2008. Healthy plants, unique forms and beautiful colors.
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2008 plant introductions
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new trees
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ornamental trees
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dogwoods
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crabapples
Book Review: Restoring American Gardens
Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants - 1640-1940 by Denise Wiles Adams is a refreshing look at the expanding field of garden resotoration. This book is also a welcome addition to the professional or dedicated amateur gardener's reference bookshelf.
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designing home landscapes
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suite101
Bread - Part 1 - Good to Make and Great to Eat!
A description of how bread wheat and yeast work together in partnership to give us bread. Here are also explanations of the roles played by some common ingredients in bread recipes.
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georgene a. bramlage
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wheat berries
Catalog Shopping for Northern Gardeners
Shopping from mail order plant and seed catalogs requires different considerations for northern gardeners than for those from more southerly regions. Here is the lowdown. Included is a resource for customer feedback from almost any garden catalog you can name.
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No Time to Leave Ohio: Day 1, Back on the Road
Mid-April’s no time to be leaving Ohio. Winter’s fingertips have finally been pried from the landscape; everything is green and new; Robins sing lullabies each evening while Cardinals sing all day long. And early spring wildflowers begin unfolding their petals.
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no time to leave ohio: day 1
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back on the road
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gregg m. pasterick
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wildflowers of north america
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botany
Pumpkins for Everyone! Part 2 – The Wide World of Pumpkins
Here is an interesting story about a U.S. soldier growing pumpkins in Iraq. And, some answers to the following pumpkin questions: Where do pumpkins come from? What plants are their close relations? How did pumpkin growing spread to so many countries around the world?
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georgene a. bramlage
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georgene bramlage
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suite101
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kids korner
Pumpkins for Everyone! Part 3 – Pumpkins in Many Languages
Learn what adults and kids in other countries like about pumpkins and how pumpkins are important in their lives. Discover not everyone likes pumpkin pie or celebrates Halloween in the fashion of Americans and Canadians.
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kids korner
Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
Spring is glorious in the Cottage Garden -- find out what's in mine.... I hope you like purple! Don't you just love spring!?!
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Recent and Readable: A Terrific Design Duo
A review of two recently published and complementary garden design books. One shows how modern gardeners can adapt "Classic Garden Designs" to their own property. The other, "The Essential Garden Design Workbook", is a fundamental and pragmatic guide for students and design professionals, as well as serious gardeners wanting distinctive garden designs
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georgene bramlage
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home landscape design
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designing home landscapes
Shady Riches
Spring gardens by design and surprise are wonderful -- especially when a shady "white garden" begins to glow.
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design
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shaded
Spring Flowering Trees
The right flowering tree can bring great beauty to your spring garden. Here are some favorites to consider for your own landscape design plan.
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Subtle Pleasures - Bark
All woody plants have bark, but it's not something most gardeners think about much until after autumn leaf fall when form and bark become prominent. If the enchantments of bark have eluded you, come along with me on a little tour of only a handful of the many species and cultivars of woody plants whose extraordinary bark enriches our gardens. This is rather a photo essay, so please be patient should the page load slowly for you.
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