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Autumn Crescendo
The music of autumn is played in a different key than that of spring. Although both begin softly and build to a crescendo, spring's song is sweet and high, while autumn's is a more complex ballad, changing key and rhythm as the music builds. Autumn includes the mellow minor keys, totally absent in spring, as well as a touch of melancholy among the brassy highs. It's a subtle season and spring is not. Spring's changes burst upon us; autumn's are wrought more slowly as our plants descend into winter's sleep. Lot's of images, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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Banish The Winter Doldrums
After months of winter our thoughts turn to spring.
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Spring Blooming Deciduous Shrubs
Deciduous shrubs are great additions to the garden and these spring blooming shrubs are some of the most pleasant and familiar of the spring-flowering plants.
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BONSAI FRUITS
From grape vines to blueberry bushes and dwarf pomegranates, these and other kinds of fruits are suitable for bonsai.
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Late Color - Part 3
Subtle variations in tone and tint add a richness to the sepia of our November gardens and conclude this series on Late Color.
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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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WHAT winter color??
Its tough to get color and beauty in a winter garden when you live in the frozen north. But all that blankness does have its compensations.
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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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Trees for the White Garden
Trees bring gravitas. Every white flower garden or moon garden needs a special white flowering tree, either nearby or in the garden itself.
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CORNELIAN CHERRY-HARBINGERS OF SPRING
Cornelian cherry can laugh off those late spring frosts. This hardy fruit tree deserves more attention.
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Winter Blues
Winter flowers that brighten the cold days of midwinter
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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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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 1
Gardening in Shade - Bulbs for Shady Places - Part 1
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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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Late Color
As November wends it's way into December, bleak becomes the adjective to describe the landscape for gardeners in the northern hemisphere. This week, I have some eyecandy to stave off color starvation for winter frustrated gardeners. <b>Warning - this one is photo intensive</b> and may be slow to load for you.
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Late Color - Part 2
Last week, I shared some late color from my USDA zone 7 garden in the green and yellow range; this week, we'll blaze out! Get out your sunglasses and enjoy the color. <b>Warning! Lots of images - may load slowly for you.</b>
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Online Nurseries 2000-Crownsville Nursery, Bridgewood Gardens-p2
Continuation - page 2 - The Crownsville Nursery and Bridgewood Gardens
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Planting Under Trees - Part 10
Some plants who are happy and some who are not, growing under an oak (Quercus>) and four dogwoods (Cornus florida) in my USDA zone 7 garden.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 11
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 11 - The West Border
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Planting Under Trees - Part 12
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 12 - Rhododendrons and azaleas.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 13
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 13 - Plants Under The Dogwood
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Planting Under Trees - Part 14
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 14 - The New Planting
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Planting Under Trees - Part 9
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 9 - Happy and Unhappy Campers
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Selecting Spring Flowering Trees
One of the things I really look forward to after a long and often hard winter is the explosion onto the scene of the beautiful flowering trees. Here is some information on varieties that do well in the Great Lakes Region, with some planting and growing tips. Enjoy!!!
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Subtle Pleasures - Autumn
Despite the brief glory of flaming leaves, autumn is really a subtle season. Flowers change to seedheads, pods and berries. Sometimes these are brilliantly colored but in many plants, these final gifts of the season are tinted with elusive hues only seen on close inspection. There are lots of images, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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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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The Beauty of Bare Branches
Winter interest from colour, form and texture of stems and branches
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Where in the World - Plant Provenance
Hardiness zones are only a rough indication of whether a plant will do well in our gardens. If we really want to have a good idea about a plant's suitability for our conditions, we have to know its provenance, or where in the world it calls home.
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Weeping Form Deciduous Trees
Six of the best deciduous trees with weeping growth habit and pendulous silhouettes. Is your favorite listed?
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