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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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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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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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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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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 Small Garden in the West of Ireland
A small garden - but full of wonderful things!
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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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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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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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Growing Shrubs and Perennials in Containers
Growing permanent plants in containers
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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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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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Agapanthus stands the test of time
Agapanthus come in many forms. These are enduring plants for all gardens
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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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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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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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Plant Profile Annual Cosmos
Bright and colorful blooms that last for weeks make Cosmos a popular plant choice for gardeners. See more about growing and using Cosmos plants in your landscape.
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Potpourri to Attract Pretty Butterflies!
Butterflies are already migrating north from their southern overwintering habitats. A brand new generation will soon be seeking nectar for energy and host plants on which to lay their fragile eggs. Plant a potpourri of nectar and host plants early to attract them to your garden.
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Sky Pencil Holly
Does your garden design make you hum? Or, do you look at the layers of plantings and hear a symphony? If you want a symphony, include Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil Holly'.
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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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Plant a Pub to Please "Flying Flowers"
Planting a colorful "butterfly pub" can be a fun project and will attract flocks of "flying flowers!" Read about some great nectar-rich flowers that will thrive in a butterfly pub container and also brighten up your deck or patio. Containers can be placed wherever you prefer, or moved from place to place. Their versatility makes them a great gardening option.
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Specialty Non Hardy Blue Flowers
If you live in a warm climate or if you enjoy container plants, consider adding some of these special, tender, non hardy or exotic blue flowers to your flower garden.
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How to Grow Snapdragon Plant Profile
Snapdragons are charming long-time favorites when it comes to flowering garden play-things. See how to grow and use snapgdragons in the garden and some popular cultivars.
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Plants for Dramatic Containers
Putting together a seasonal container planting full of color and excitement means combining plants with contrasting growth habit, color and foliage texture.
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Saving Plant Seeds
Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.
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THE COLORS OF SPRING
The world is at its finest in the spring. On this occasion we bid farewell to dirty, snow banks and the predominant colors of winter--depressing grays and brown. These seem to be replaced by gorgeous pastels in an instant when spring arrives.
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Deer-resistant Flowering Shrubs
Appetites of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) include ornamental landscape plants. Choosing native deer-resistant shrubs equals landscape success.
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A CyberGarden Party Leads to New Discoveries about Bulb Planting
When a bunch of online friends made a date for a garden planting party, they dug their holes in different areas of the country - but also helped each other to make new discoveries about bulbs and how to plant them for thegreatest ease and enjoyment.

Growing Easy Container Gardens
Read about some great ways to create beautiful container gardens.
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How To Grow Geraniums
Summer blooming plants, like annual geraniums, are easy to grow. Geraniums are low maintenance plants, whether planted in a container or garden bed.
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Online Nurseries 2000 - Foliage Gardens
It's that time of year again! Time to tell you about more mailorder nurseries who are online with marvelous plants to feed our gardener's lust. Foliage Gardens is a nursery that all shade gardeners should know about. There are lots of lovely images, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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Palms
Palm trees -- often chosens for landscaping in warm areas.
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Single Oil Look: Mint
Discover the wonders of mint.
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A First Landscape: 2
The quickest way to bring flowers and color into the residential landscape is by planting containers full of bright and interesting plants.
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Amaryllis Bulb Growing Tips
Having trouble with your potted amaryllis? Follow these practical tips and suggestions for better amaryllis bulb growth and blooming year after year.
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Bay Laurel, the Sacred Tree
Bay laurel is an evergreen perennial that is known as The Sacred Tree of Apollo. This herb has a very rich history.
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Bulbs for the New Year
These bulbs, corms and runner grown plants represent new varieties recently bred, and heirloom plants rediscovered and reintroduced for all gardeners to enjoy.
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Buying Roses: Healthy Roots
A good quality rose bush has a healthy root system right from the start. Learn to recognize potential root problems and avoid purchasing a badly grown rose.
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Choose Potting Soil for Containers
Choose the correct potting soil for indoor and outdoor container gardens. Soilless mixes contain added ingredients to improve plant health and garden beauty.
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Container Gardening
Container gardening provides fresh vegetables for thousands worldwide who don't have time or space for a vegetable garden. Gardening ideas and gardening tips...
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