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Foxglove Fingers and Rootbeer Pinks
How much of your garden design is influenced by the gardens you remember as a child? Does your ideal garden setting reflect childhood experiences?
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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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Alternative Easter Baskets
Trying to avoid the candy overload this Easter? Here are some ideas for alternative Easter basket fillers.
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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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Children's Garden Gifts and Treasures
The gardener's guide to keeping little hands busy! How-to instructions for children's fall and winter garden crafts and projects (fun stuff no matter the weather). Some include mud.
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Cottage Garden Sensations
A cottage garden stimulates all of our five senses and brings creative inspiration to us all, young and old alike. When is the last time you explored the jungle out there!
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Designing your Child's Garden
Children's gardens should be fun, but applying some design principles can make it look more unified and inviting. Learn how to incorporate simple design elements into a child's garden. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Five Fun Flowers for Kids Garden
Children's gardening or gardening with children is more popular every year. Get ideas for a child's garden and what to grow with your kids. Have fun gardening together!
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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Growing Trust in the Garden
Get your family involved in the garden and reap a harvest more lasting than flowers.
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In A Child's Garden
An after school enrichment program for budding gardeners ages 9 to 12.
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Kids' Garden, Hollyhock House
No children's garden is complete without a special place to meet friends or hold tea parties. Here's how to make a hideaway from hollyhock plants.
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Organic Edible Gardening With Kids
Even the most reluctant child may eat his broccoli when he commands the organic growing process from soil to table.
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Roots, Shoots, Buckets, Boots
Green thumb know-how for the young and the young-at-heart: "Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots" by Sharon Lovejoy is a great addition to any garden library.
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Sweetheart Garden, Themes for Children's Gardens Series
February is the perfect time to consider planning a Valentine sweetheart garden for you and your child. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Ten Essential Garden Tools
Gardeners need a good selection of garden tools. You might not use them all every week, but having them on hand is better than running out to buy them at the last minute.
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The Carolina Children's Garden
The Carolina Children's Garden in Columbia, South Carolina provides a retreat for families to connect with nature, each other, and eco-challenges facing homeowners.
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The Pumpkin and Gourd Patch: More Themes for Children's Gardens
Growing pumpkins and gourds make a garden full of fun for kids, and they can be used for all kinds of utensils and even for birdhouses and as a bath sponge later. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Time Concepts Gardens, 5th in a series on Children's Garden Themes
Plant a Sundial garden and measure time in your child's garden using a garden journal. Let Linda Mazar show you how time concept gardens teach children to learn about time and gardening simultaneously. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Whimsy in a Child's Garden
Adding bits of found, made, or purchased fun can add whimsy to your child's garden and maybe to your garden, too. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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A Real Garden for Real Kids
Explore the Michigan 4-H Children's Garden and experience the excitement of hands-on interaction with plants. The garden is filled with 56 theme gardens. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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A Childs Garden
A child's garden teaches more than just gardening skills: your child will learn math, science & more! Gardening for kids can be easy, educational and fun.
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The Playground Garden
Making a garden out of broken outdoor toys brings order into chaos and is lots of fun as well! Linda Mazar takes stock of her yard and makes a playground-themed garden with her child. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Another Mashed Marigold for Mom, A Plea for Cutting Gardens for Kids
Children love having a cutting garden where they can put together surprise bouquets for Mom and other loved ones at whim. Moms love bouquets and Cutting Gardens allow kids the opportunity to pick flowers for mom or themselves. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Borage
Though borage is by no means as popular as some of the other herbs, this species is well worth including in the landscape.
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Create An Archaeological Garden
Boys everywhere are always looking for an excuse to get dirty. Fulfill their dreams, as well as spark their vivid imaginations, with this special garden.
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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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Memorial Gardens Revisited
Due to recent events, families may be in need of a memorial for a loved one. A memorial garden can be a beautiful and healing way to remember a dear one over the years. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Showing Plants at the Fair
exhibiting plants at the local fair gives kids the opportunity to show the whole area what great gardeners they are! © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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The Importance of Outdoor Play for Kids
Experts say a child's connection with nature is essential for their development. But how can a parent get her kids involved in more outdoor play?
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ABC Theme Garden of Animal Flowers
An animal theme garden or plant zoo is fun to design and plant. Use this plant list of animal name flowers from A to Z to start your own pet theme garden.
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Animal Gardens
Animal theme gardens are a great way to involve children in gardening. Linda Mazar shares how how children can plant and play with the lions and tigers and bears or plants named after farm animals. © <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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Community Gardens, Part 3
If a community garden is going to work, then there are two things that need to be in place or the potential problems will erode the garden.
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FAMILY FUN IN THE FRUIT GARDEN
The fruit garden is a place for the entire family. There children can have fun while they learn about gardening, nature, and nutrition.
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Garden Books as Holiday Gifts
Those gardeners on your gift list are sure to love books. Whatever their gardening interest, there is a perfect book.
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Healing Herbs
Herbs are a mainstay in landscapes. Often these are planted in decorative herb gardens. But they can also be featured in other garden areas, including perennial beds and borders. Traditionaly, a number of herbs have been used for healing.
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Letting Go
Letting go of control over your child's garden can be difficult, but allows the child to have a wonderful learning opportunity. It gives the chance to learn from their own experiences, not from mom's. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Memorial Gardens
Losing a loved one or a pet can be a difficult time for children. Involving them in a living memorial is a good way of helping them through their grief. Involving children in making a living memorial for a loved one or pet who has passed on, helps them through their grieving process. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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NASTURTIUMS-JEWELS OF THE GARDEN
Some plants like to be pampered. Others prefer a hands-off approach. Nasturtiums thrive on neglect. Just give them a sunny spot in poor, dry soil.
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Space Alien Garden, Themes for Kids Gardens Series
Growing a space alien theme garden may be a fun way to encourage your child to garden. It could also help clear out the house of those space theme toys which might be lying around in places where they are in your way. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Success with a Kid's Garden
Tips for making your family's gardening experience successful and fun. Simple things parents and grandparents can do to help make a child's gardening experience a success. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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The Pizza Farm
The pizza farm is a growing cottage industry. Pizza farms are examples of inventive land use or agri-tourism. Read about three pizza farms offering tours, pizza, and fun.
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The Quarter Life Crisis in Brief
An introduction to the Quarter-Life Crisis phenomenon, a time of questioning and soul-searching that afflicts twentysomethings as they graduate and enter the workforce.
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Verbena Plant Profile
Graceful clusters of bright flowers attract gardeners and butterflies equally. See why these charming plants are great for more than just hanging baskets and containers.
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Your Child's New Garden, Plan now for Planting Later
Gardening holds many benefits for children and families. Start early in the winter to be prepared for gardening during the following season. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Memorial Garden to Diana, Princess of Wales
We visit a very special and inspiring play area or childrens garden created in London as part of the Memorial Garden to Diana, Princess of Wales.
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