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Rounded Growth Container Plants
Plants with mounding growth habit add weight and substance to a container planting combination by filling it in and creating a mass of color.
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Herb Garden in Pots
Culinary herbs can be grown right outside your kitchen door. Pots can be moved to enhance sunlight exposure and they can be moved to protect plants from weather.
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Berries for the Birds
Shrubs that have bright winter berries provide food for the birds, plus they provide color and interest in your winter garden.
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Container Gardening (part one)
Turn your dull urban patio into a friendly habitat by planting container gardens. Get all the advice you need to get started and tons of resources to get ideas.
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Container Plants for Summer Color
Summer is a time for enjoying the outdoors. These colorful summer container plants make it easy to create interest and drama in an outdoor porch or sitting area.
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Erodiums - Heron's Bill or Stork's Bill
Heron's Bills, like their close cousins the hardy geraniums, are extremely versatile. Read how to grow them, how to use them in your landscape and view a bunch of really nice pictures of them too.
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Fall Seasonal Container Plants
With harvest parties, Halloween and Thanksgiving autumn containers can be a dramatic focal point on a deck, patio or open garden spot.
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Gardening ideas: from Philadelphia to southern Ontario
The gardeners of Philadelphia have a lot in common with the gardeners of southern Ontario. On a recent trip, I visited private and public gardens of Philadelphia and came away with ten great gardening ideas that we can do in Ontario.
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May Gardening In The Low Desert
What to in May in the low desert garden, pest control, tomato problems, container plants and building a pond.
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Moisture Balance
Choose the right plant and container to work with your lifestyle and environment.
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Plants for Troughs and containers.
Plants for Troughs and containers. Bulbs for colder climates for troughs. Perhaps even plunged into a sand trough for extra protection. The pots are potted with bulbs and growing medium, then plunged into the sand trough which acts like a blanket to give more protection. Some of the smaller Primula look great in pots, like Primula parryi found in the wild in Colorado.
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Soil for Desert Container Gardens
Desert soil, when mixed with water, will have the consistency of concrete. So, when potting desert plants,you'll need to create your own soil mixtures.
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The Natal Plum
Though there are many kinds of sub-tropical fruits, the citrus seems to get most of the attention. It's time to look at some of the others, such as the Natal plum. -
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Upright Growing Container Plants
These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.
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Where It All Began.
My interest in food and food security began with photography.
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Plant Care While on Vacation
Summertime is when people go on vacation. If you have containers and potted plants around the house, learn how to keep them healthy while you are away.
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A Geranium That's Not Really A Geranium
Scented geraniums offer alluring fragrance, interesting foliage and texture, easy cultivation and are excellent container plants.
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A Wading Pool Garden
A bright blue plastic wading pool may not be the latest in high tech gardening tools or the epitome of high gardening style, but it makes gardening possible from roof top to parking lot and everywhere in between. Now you can grow bog plants, water chestnuts, breed frogs, or even grow bright cheerful flowers and pounds of healthy nutritious vegetables in an inexpensive and amazingly productive container. You might even be so successful you'll have extra produce to share!
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Balm of Gilead, an aromatic Shrub
Balm of Gilead is a perennial shrub with a lovely eucalyptus aroma. This fragrant herb has a rich and ancient history.
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Baskets of spring flowers
Celebrate spring with a basket of cool-weather annuals and tender perennials.
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Bedding Plants for Summer Gardens
Brighten up summer gardens with bedding plants. They are ideal for spectacular color displays or as container plants. Check out Salvia, Geraniums, Violas and many more.
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Coming in from the Cold
Bringing your precious plants in for the winter need not be an exhausting, complex ordeal. Here are a few tips and guidelines for what to do and how and when to do it.
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Common Garden Issues
Gardeners frequent face these common issues: ponds, no place to garden, and too much shade. The books reviewed this week discuss these issues.
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Designing and Planting Container Gardens for Sun and Shade
Container gardening is the solution to gardeners lacking space or time to create a beatiful garden. Discover how to put together a bountiful container garden and get ideas for container gardens made for sun and shade.
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Edible Organic Container Gardening
If sticker shock at the grocery store is keeping you from enjoying chemical-free produce, grow organic fruits and vegetables on your porch, balcony, or windowsill.
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Garden Containers
Container gardening ideas begin with the vessel. When choosing garden containers consider what is needed to water container plants.
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Grow Blooming Roses
How to grow these colorful perennial favorites organically? Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Heavenly Hanging Hummer Baskets!
Create striking hanging baskets to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your deck or patio. Easy to follow directions and other tips for making moss-filled wire baskets, along with a list of great plants to fill them!
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Mistakes Made Container Gardening
When container gardening remember plant spacing and maintenance, such as regular watering and deadheading flowers, are necessary for a healthy potted garden.
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Not Your Grandma's Coleus!!
Stodgy old coleus is sporting a new name and new style as it moves into a starring role in today's gardens.
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Ornamental Grasses
Discover 4 fabulous ornamental grasses to grow in key areas of the garden, creating striking contrasts of color and shape. Plus tips for where to plant for best effects.
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Terrariums? Holy Seventies Batman!
Terrariums make great Christmas gifts. They're easy to make and easy to care for.
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The Garden Parties Without Me
We treat our gardens like babies that can't get along without us - only to find that even gardens can grow up and act mature and responsible - or, like most unruly adolescents, sometimes get a bit out of control.
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THE POTTED FRUIT GARDEN
Make winter rewarding by growing fruits indoors if you live in a cold climate.
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Time to Start Your Tomatoes
Tomatoes are so easy to grow from seed. Not only are the savings great, but you have a much better selection when growing from seed.
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AUTUMN IN THE FRUIT GARDEN
Not to be outdone by the maples, a number of fruit plants sport brilliant autumn foliage.
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BASIL-HERB OF THE YEAR FOR 2003
Basil is Herb of the Year for 2003. This marvelous culinary herb makes a great ornamental.
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Container Gardening and other hot pepper tips.
Container gardening is cost-effective, makes beautiful borders and is DROUGHT-RESISTANT!
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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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Easy Gardening
Enjoy gardening without all the back-breaking work.
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Fruit Seed Potted Plants
This article gives directions for planting a small windowsill garden from fruit seeds.
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Grow Vegetables in Containers
Create a victory garden in containers and have homegrown food. Learn about growing a fruit and vegetable garden in small spaces.
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Growing Shrub Plants as Standards
A unique way to display plants in the formal garden landscape is to grow or train them to a standard form. These tips will help you grow shrubs in tree form.
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Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
Here's a plant beloved for so many qualities -- for fragrance, butterflies, fragrance, container, fragrance, window sill, fragrance, Grandma's garden or cottage garden or ... fragrance? Try heliotrope, or as some people know it, old fashioned "cherry pie"! WOW!
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Let Your Trowel Dig True for the Red, White and Blue
Celebrate Memorial Day and the rest of summer. Check out these annuals for great red, white and blue combinations.
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