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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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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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Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
Plant catalogs are the stuff of dreams. Find your favorite here! Brilliant descriptions and fabulous plants beguile and bewitch us. Year in and year out, we read and dream. Connect with The Catalog of Catalogs.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2000
Chelsea Flower Show 2000
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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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How to Grow Viola Tricolor Johnny Jump-ups
Cool season flowers, these miniature pansy like blooms are a perennial favorite in cottage gardens world wide. See tips for how to grow Heartsease in the landscape.
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Kerria Japonica
With flowers as golden as a sunrise, Kerria japonica brings sunbeams to the shadiest spots of a garden.
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Cottage Gardens Still Charm Us
Featured in Fine Gardening, House and Garden, Horticulture and Sunset magazines, Annie Hayes, owner of Annie's Annuals Nursery is a self-described flower floozy!
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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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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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Hot Colours in the Country Garden
Do the hot colours - red, yellow and orange - have a place in the country garden?
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How to Grow Calendula - A Plant Profile
Long-prized for herb gardens and flower gardens alike, the pot marigold has many uses. A hardy, sun-loving annual flower that provides months of color.
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Plant Profile Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)
A popular and charming cottage garden plant that adds grace to partly shaded gardens, the bleeding heart is a long-time beloved plant in heirloom gardens.
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A Gardening Remembrance
DaffyClay on Daffodils looks at the roots of his daffodil heritage and finds that many others are rescuing heirloom beloved bulbs from old farms and house sites that are no longer occupied. In addition, heirloom plants are making a come-back as they rightly should. They are worth preserving.
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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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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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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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Delphinium Plant Profile and How to Grow Them
Delphinium flowers are some of the most readily recognized of the tall, vertically-growing perennials. See how to grow and maintain them in the garden.
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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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Global Bee Deaths Threaten Foods
Bees are essential for pollination in nature, but there has been a drastic decline in their numbers around the world. This threatens many of our foods.
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How to Create a Country Cottage Garden
Country cottage gardens are reminiscent of traditional England; learn how to create and choose traditional cottage garden flowers for an old English style summer garden.
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How to Grow Larkspur Plant Profile
The perennial larkspur plant is an easy and delightful thing for many landscapers and gardeners, adding old-fashioned charm to any bed or border.
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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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Sparkler Cleome Wins Award
Goldsmith Seeds' Sparkler cleome wins 2002 All America Selections Award. This is a unique cleome about 3 to 4 feet in size.
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The Last Day of July, 2000
A short article describing some of the activities that take place in gardens in Western Australia in July, and some tips on fertilising.
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Broadlands Fun with Ferrets, Fish and Falcons
The Travelsleuth pays his annual visit to the CLA Game Fair taking place this year at Broadlands, Palladian stately home of Lord Romsey, but must regretfully stand back from the delicious array of gourmet goodies on display.
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Chelsea Flower Show
A report and photos on Chelsea Flower Show 1999
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Chelsea Flower Show 2001
Highlights of Chelsea Flower Show 2001
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Cloves, Picotees & Sops-In-Wine
Do you know the "real" name for these wonderful cottage garden plants with a history older than Shakespeare? Dianthus are tops for garden performance and pure delight!
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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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Perennial Plants for Cold Climates
A frequent frustration of gardeners in cold northern zone climates is hearing about perennial plants that their Southern neighbors enjoy. What plants will survive zone 3?
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Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!

Sidewalk Gardening for Cottage Curb Appeal
A front garden devoted only to evergreen foundation plantings, doesn't have a lot of curb appeal. An array of flowering plants at the edge of your lawn has a wow factor.
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Blessed Be, Oh Betony
Betony has been held in the highest regard since the Ancient Egyptians, and its uses in treating heachache, nervous tension and other common ailments are still popular today. See why...
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How to Grow Bourbon Roses Reblooming Antiques
Bourbon roses were the first of the Old Garden Roses to have a repeating bloom period. These antique roses range in color and form but were very popular and fragrant...
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Spring Ventures
With freezing March winds whistling around my ears, I've been busy preparing for the new season. Spring is now tantalizingly close. Early summer cottage flowers of simple, quite beauty are perfect for town or country. They are unfussy well-mannered partners in the spring garden. If you love restrained beauty, you will love these early summer perennials.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 14
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 14 - The New Planting
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