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Cottage Garden Design
The first in a series to help you achieve the kind of cottage garden you've been dreaming of. In this series, I share some of my professional garden design concepts, beginning with creating a sense of "enclosure".
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Cottage Garden Design Part II
A delight for the plant collector and the ecologically responsible gardener, growing a wide variety of plants and staying in harmony with nature are critical to a succesful cottage garden design.
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Cottage Garden Design, Part III
A garden built on poor soil will fail. Don't let it happen to you! In the densely planted and highly productive cottage garden, the proper care and feeding of the soil become more important than ever. Another secret you should know.
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Cottage Garden Style Today
Cottage garden style is all over the map from venerable rose covered cottages to well, you'll see -- where do you fit in?!
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Daylilies to Bring Home
Take home a daylily this week! Pick one you love -- and enjoy. Visit a display garden, shop at the nursery, order by mail or dig one from a friend's garden, there's always room for "just one more"! ps Check out the 4th Annual Tacky Yard Art Contest oooohlala!!!
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Follow Your Heart: Cottage Garden Design
Plant what you love, and your garden will love you back.
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Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 2
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Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 3 of 3
Make your own mosaic step stones. Part 3.
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My Spring Garden
Spring comes fast and furious in the cottage garden with its broad plant pallette and anything goes approach to color. Make sure your garden is full to overflowing with these well loved favorites!
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Snowbank in September
OOps it did it again! Every garden should have snow in September -- if it's a boltonia in action. Great links for designing a garden with fall blooming perennials, too.
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Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden
Are there really blue and pink daylilies? You be the judge! More reasons why you should ADD MORE DAYLILIES to your garden. This just might become your favorite plant.
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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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Cottage Garden in the City
Stop the car! I see flowers! Cottage gardens enliven the city landscape like no other garden style. Walk with me and enjoy photos of some of Baltimore's charming and exuberant cottage gardens in June.
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Cottage Garden Planting Plan
Creating a cottage-style, drought-resistant planting design for a cottage front garden.
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Daylilies For Your Cottage Garden
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are a must in the cottage garden, and you'll never have too many. How to choose the one (make that a dozen) that's right for your garden and everything you need to know to grow them beautifully when you get them home. Plant some to enjoy now, swap and share with friends and bring pleasure for years to come! (Part 1 of 4.)
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Herbal Beginnings
Herbs belong in every garden -- add some to yours now! How-to tips and designs using popular herbs plus some interesting historical notes.
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Live Butterflies Before Your Eyes
Butterfly Garden or Cottage Garden? Do both and have your cake and eat it too. Make sure you grow the best of both! Essentials of butterfly gardening and plenty of detailed links to help you enhance your garden to welcome butterflies with maximum enjoyment and delight.
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Make Mosaic Step Stones
Make your own decorator quality mosaic step stones and add a personal, custom touch to your yard or garden. It's an easy project requiring no special skill or talent -- if I can do it with great results, so can you! And hey -- make them as tacky (or as tasteful) as you like. It's all up to you.
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Container Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Add pizzaz to your container gardening this season! How-to tips, tricks and techniques plus some fun design ideas for window boxes, pots and improvised containers.
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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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How To Show Off With Big Plants
Sometimes bigger really is better! Have fun and show off with big bold foliage accents from hardy bananas to dinner plates. Your neighbors won't know what to think!
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The Things Mothers Grow For Love!
A fun, tongue in cheek look at the many "rare and exotic" plants and non-plants gardening mothers grow to please their children!
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What is a Cottage Garden?
Everyone is familiar with the geometrically-trimmed formal garden. A cottage garden is easier to plan and maintain, both for pleasure and for growing a few extra crops.
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The Woodleigh Replicas
The Woodleigh Replicas are a slice of British history in miniature and are perhaps the most unique family attraction to be found on Prince Edward Island.
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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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