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Cranesbills for summer flower power
Hardy Geraniums or Cranesbills are perfect plants for the border in cottage and city gardens. Ranging from tiny alpines to tall stately giants. Utterly dependable and easy to grow, they cover a wide range of colours.
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Crucial Cranesbill
The history, folklore, and uses of cranesbill (hardy geranium).
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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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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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Blue Flowers for Fall Color
Grow blue flowers that bloom in the fall season whether you are planting an all blue theme garden or just enjoy a few blue flowers in your flower garden.
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More Groundcovers
A couple of my favorite groundcovers and a couple of lovely thugs.
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The Charm of Columbines
The star-shaped,long-spurred flowers of Columbines nodding above their lacy foliage adds a delicate charm to the spring garden. Find out about heirloom varieties of this ever-popular perennial and where to get them.
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Eight Easy Perennials
Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.
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Online Nurseries 2000 - Woodside Gardens
Woodside Gardens is a small, family operated nursery with a lovely list of plants. Browsing their web site was like being six years old in a candy store. My eyes were bigger than the space available to tell you about all the plants I lust for. I had a very tough time narrowing down selections to what still turned out a pretty substantial list. There are a lot of photos, so please be patient while the page loads for your viewing pleasure.
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Elizabeth Law's Dublin Garden
It may be a small garden in Dublin, Ireland, but it has a big impact.
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Propagating Primula veris Cowslip in Spring
Cowslips (Primula veris) readily self seed in Spring. Gardeners can use propagation methods to encourage cowslips to grow in their backyard woodlands and meadow gardens.
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Deer-Resistant Perennials Part 2
Outlines deer-resistant perennials for shade.
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Geranium Heliopsis Crocosmia and Miscanthus
Plant communities work well together because of similar growing needs. The geranium, heliopsis, croscosmia and miscanthus combination is one example for summer gardens.
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Pelargoniums and Geraniums
Pelargoniums and Geraniums are often confused. Rose Geranium is actually of the Pelargonium plant genus whereas Robert Geranium is of the the plant genus Geranium.
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Perennial Flowers All Season
Every perennial gardener wants a showy display of flowers all season from spring to fall. Here's how to get it. Follow this guide for your best perennial garden yet.
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Get the Best of the Blues: Part 1: Annuals
Patches of blue are a great contrasting colour in your beds and baskets. Here are five annuals that have true blue blooms.
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Halloween Themed Garden Plants
Spooks, magic, ghouls, and black cats. October's All Hallow's Eve can be fun to celebrate in the garden with these Halloween named plants.
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High Altitude Gardening Tips
Gardening at altitudes above 6500' is challenging, but with a little effort and proper plant selection, the rewards can be spectacular and unique.
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A Trip to the Burren
Gardening in a wet and mild climate in the west of Ireland
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Early Summer Parade
With May almost over, we look at what is currently in flower and what highlights are to come. June is dominated by roses. I look at what the older roses have to offer for impatient gardeners. Clematis and hardy geraniums are also traditional members of the mixed border in summer. In my own garden there is already a blaze of colour from these reliable performers. Clematis and cranesbills for those difficult places in the garden are described in detail.
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Golden Days
Enjoying autumn flowers and planning ahead for next season.
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Mid Summer Moments
Looking at mid summer highlights in my garden. Roses, clematis and the mixed border provide lots of colour and texture for those warm long evenings. The delights of water in the garden and coping with unexpected visitors are all part of high summer.
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Plant Profile Online Encyclopedia
An alphabetical listing of all the plant profiles covering flowering plants, garden shrubs, ornamental trees and more. An online plant encyclopedia with growing details.
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Scary Gardening
Would you like to spook <cough> I mean spoof up your fall garden? How about adding some spectral ambiance for a Halloween display? Gothic gardens are not only for Halloween, for some they are a way of life and death.
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Sublime Chaos
Early summer is here and with long cool drinks in the evening, but also pruning, cats and a few surprises.
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An English Garden in High Summer
Key front row performers for your garden. Covering such plants as old fashioned roses, a host of clematis and other star performers of the summer garden.
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Deer-Resistant Perennials Part 3
Outlines deer-resistant perennials for sun, and loads of links on the deer-resistance topic.
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Perennial Foliage For Early Winter
The tree and shrub leaves have drifted over my borders and most perennials in my garden have retreated underground, or into tight rosettes, for the winter. Nevertheless, a jaunt around the garden found several perennials whose leaves are still very much in evidence; aiding the evergreen trees and shrubs in furnishing the early winter garden.
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Seed Geranium
seed geranium. The red pelargonium is one of the most popular flowers in summer. Learn how to grow them from seed. In the process I also take a detour around the biological nomenclature which is the way all organisms are cataloged.
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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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Online Nurseries 2001 - Variegated Foliage Nursery
Stan Megos' Variegated Foliage Nursery, in Eastford, Connecticut, fosters the same type of uncontrollable greed in the heart of a variegated plant nut as a candy store does in the heart of a child. I have lots of plants to show you, so please be patient while the page loads.
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