Articles related to "Cottage Garden"



Cottage Garden Flowers
Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.
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Cottage Garden Plants Part One
There is something delightful about the ironic nature of a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See twelve of the best!
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Cottage Garden Plants Part Two
There is something delightful about the a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See part two of the twelve best plants!
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Cottage Garden Annual Flowers
Cottage gardens should be filled with flowers all season long. Grow these pretty and popular annual flowers for masses of easy color in the cottage garden.
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Mandy Alford's English Garden
An English garden
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Foxglove Plant Profile
The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.
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Gay Klok's Tasmanian Garden Story: Garden #1 on the Virtual Gard
A Tasmanian Paradise
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Heirloom Country Gardens
Horticultural researcher at Rodale Institute Experimental Farm, Sarah Wolfgang Heffner presents a delightful book introducing gardeners to heirloom country gardens.
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English Alba Hybrid Roses
These English Roses are developed from Alba roses giving them the wild-rose daintiness, gently nodding flowers and a lighter scent than other English Roses.
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Flower Garden Style
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
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Hollyhock (Alcea) Plant Profile
A strong accent plant reminiscent of heirloom gardens and cottage borders, Hollyhocks are a charming addition to any garden space. See how to cultivate the hollyhock.
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Patriotic Themed Garden Plants
What better place to celebrate Independence Day than in a garden full of plants that celebrate that spirit of "freedom and liberty for all".
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Graham's "Paradise" Tour
A tiny bit of paradise in England
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Growing Centifolia Roses (Rosa centifolia)
Highly fragrant, gently nodding flowers - these are the "roses with a hundred petals". Find out more about how to use and care for Centifolia Roses.
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Growing Native Annual Vines
North American native annual vines are colorful through the summer and easy to grow from seed.
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How to Grow Polemonium Plant Profile
Shade loving, bright flowering and extremely winter hardy, Jacob's ladder is an excellent choice for a wide variety of gardens and landscapes.
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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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The No-Fail Herb Garden: Informal Recipe for Success
Herb Gardening for Beginners: what to plant, where to plant it, how to plant it and what to do with it once you've grown it!
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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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English Country Gardens - Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst is the creation of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. Their ideas on garden design and innovative planting have made it a mecca for gardeners worldwide
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COMPOST! The Quick and Dirty Net Trip to Humus
Compost is hot stuff! Get some for your garden now!!!
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Fragrant Sweet Peas Plant Profile
From heirloom cottage gardens to today's modern landscapes, the twining sweet pea adds colorful fragrance to any home garden space.
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Gardening for all 5 senses part IV: Sippin' the scenery.

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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On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
Herbs are wonderful in the garden and in the kitchen. How to relax, begin with a few herbs in your garden using the "here and there" approach, and have fun. So try it! You'll like it!
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Plant Profile: Cranesbill Geranium
A favorite of English and Cottage Gardeners, the garden cranesbill is an excellent choice of flowering perennial for any garden situation. Here's how to care for them.
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Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!

Spring Blooming Annuals
These annuals all provide exciting color in the spring when gardeners are ready for the first signs of life in their garden. Here are some favorite early annuals.
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Spring Blooming Perennials
Many perennial plants are just breaking dormancy in the spring and won't be blooming until summer or fall. These great plants however add spring color with early flowers.
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Summer Annual Cut Flower Plants
Add some summer blooming annuals to your garden for beautiful indoor cut flower plant arrangements. See five of the best annuals and tips for cutting and care.
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Add ANOTHER Water Feature! Just Do It!
Water features are fabulous fun -- and you can make a simple fountain all by yourself with some basic equipment: an outlet, a pump, and a catch basin to hold the water.
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
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Knock Off the Old Knot Garden? NOT!
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TICK TALK: Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Tick Control
Lyme disease is no joke -- learn about ticks, learn how to reduce your risk of exposure and find out about the new vaccine.
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? On Daylilies and Woodchucks
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Flower Gardeners II
Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti
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Seeds - How to be Successful
Following just a few simple rules, you will get a great set of plants to jump start the gardening year.
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UK - Ironbridge Shropshire
Over two hundred ago the Industrial Revolution changed the world forever. It all began in a beautiful valley in Shrophire, England and it spread around the world.
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Add Another Easy Water Feature! The Second of Three
Easy tips on water gardening in a container -- perfect for deck or patio!
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All-America Selections Winners
Each year gardeners look forward to seeing which plants will earn the All-America Selections award for being easy to grow and beautiful garden specimens.
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Ecobabble or Ecopsychology? (Organic Gardening Part Three)

Flowering Herbs for Flower Gardens
Many herbs have pretty flowers and should be grown in flower gardens. Many favorite flowers are also herbs. Do you grow these herbs in your flower garden?
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Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew
Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!
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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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Garden. Sculpture. Garden. Ever the Twain Shall Meet!
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Get Wild! Garden Parties to Attract the Neighbors!?!
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Medieval Herb Garden Plants Part 1
This article discusses briefly some aspects of medieval gardens and gives a list of several herbs and other medieval plants still in use today.
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Perennials: Design to Impress
Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"
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Plants with Fine-Textured Foliage
Often when combining plants to create dramatic containers you want to select plants with contrasting foliage type and color. Choose some fine cut foliage plants.
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Plants with Silver Foliage
Plants with silver foliage blend well with other plants and add shining accents to a mixed border or flower bed. Use grey-leaved plants in moonlight gardens also.
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