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How to Deadhead Roses to Encourage Repeat Blooming and Reduce Insect Infestation
Disbudding roses promotes more bloom, conserves plant energy, reduces pests and diseases, and gives you something to do in the summer rose garden. Here's how!
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Perennial Tips for Summer
A few things you can do in your garden to help the perennials get the most out of the warm weather
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Savvy Gardener's Guide to Fall Color
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The Sensuous Garden Tool: Hands
Life beyond the garden glove
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Tools of the Gardening Trade
The right tools make the task easier for you- and make it easier on your body, too.
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Flower Garden Summer Maintenance
A quick guide to flower care during the hot summer months -- and tips on how to enjoy your flower garden more, too.
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Flower Garden Weed Control 2
Don't you have better things to do than weed the garden? More simple steps to controlling weeds in the flower garden all season long -- with minimal work.
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How Do You Prune Lilacs?
How and when lilacs are pruned has a large impact on how much they'll bloom. This article will explain it all.
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Lilacs: History and Culture
The ubiquitous lilac deserves its spot in the garden. It is an easy to care for, sweet-scented harbinger of spring.
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Mistakes Made Container Gardening
When container gardening remember plant spacing and maintenance, such as regular watering and deadheading flowers, are necessary for a healthy potted garden.
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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Top Five Flower Gardening Tips
Grow your best flower garden yet with these super tips on plant selection, soil preparation, watering, mulch, fertilizing and care for annual and perennial flowers.
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Daffodil Care
Daffodils are easy to grow with minimal care. Nurture the bulbs in your yard or flower garden by correct fertilizing, mulching, deadheading and division.
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The Grateful Dead: Rock Legends
The Grateful Dead's reputation as a leading psychedelic rock band remains unchallenged. San Francisco's best-loved people's band gave us a huge legacy of great rock music
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Perennial Flowers Summer Care
Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!
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Creating Beds and Borders
A gardening book that highlights garden planning, design, plant selection and special techniques shared by some of the top gardeners in America.
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Native Penstemon Plant Profile
Penstemon was once prized only in native or wild flower gardens but is now popular for water-wise xeriscapes, hummingbird and mixed border areas as it is very hardy.
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The All Good Music Festival
The All Good Music Festival offers a family-friendly campout weekend, July 13-15, 2007, in Masontown, West Virginia, just 13 or so miles East of Morgantown.
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Gardening with Hot Flashes and Other Heated Dilemmas
Gardening when you're having hot flashes - or even without them when it's just too hot - can feel pretty dreadful. But there are some ways to make it more tolerable.
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Rugosas -- Prickly perfection: Antique Roses, Part 2
If you think of roses as high maintenance, difficult-to-grow plants, try rugosas. Lovely, repeat blooming and very easy to grow and care for.

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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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Wind Tolerant Perennial Plants
Gardens located in exposed areas, near the shore or on the plains, are subject to lots of wind that can damage some garden plants.
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Late Summer Blahs Or I Hate My Garden

Welcome Flower Gardeners
Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t
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The Making of a Gardener: How Plants become Addictive
Just what is it that makes us brake for nurseries and salivate at seed racks?
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More Groundcovering Self-Seeders
Hardy begonias and Columbine - two of my favorite self-seeding perennials.
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Camelot Themed Garden Plants
These perennials, annuals and other plants will add a chivalrous feel to your garden as you celebrate the myth of the Knights of the Round Table.
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1998 All American Flower Selections
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How To Grow Geraniums
Summer blooming plants, like annual geraniums, are easy to grow. Geraniums are low maintenance plants, whether planted in a container or garden bed.
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A New Garden
Starting the first garden in your new home. Basic design considerations including how much time you want to put into the garden for chores, use of the garden and water considerations.
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Bulbs for the New Year
These bulbs, corms and runner grown plants represent new varieties recently bred, and heirloom plants rediscovered and reintroduced for all gardeners to enjoy.
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Grow a Garden On Your Windowsill
Being an urban gardener doesn't mean you can't have a lush garden. With an accommodating windowsill and the right containers, you can grow a wide variety of plants!
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Integrate Poppies in the Landscape
Early season uniform poppy beds require planning and design to focus attention on residential and commercial landscapes. Presented is a planting sequence for Zone 5.
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More White Garden Roses
More white roses perfect for the all white garden or moon garden. Every flower garden deserves at least one rose!
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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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Renovating a Lilac in June
Midsummer is aide memoire for renovating lilac, a large tree or shrub. After flowering early in summer, the longest day signals time for pruning lilac trees heavily.
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Yellow Flowering Modern Roses
There are many yellow flowering roses that will add cheerful color and warmth to your garden. Here are a few favorite roses of gardeners worldwide.
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Annual Flower Varieties
A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.
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Give A Home to An Orphan Plant

Learn How To Grow Veronicas
Veronica is an easy to grow perennial plant. Commonly known as speedwell, veronica will grow in butterfly and cutting gardens where their upright spires will be enjoyed.
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Plants to Train as Standards
These ornamental trees and flowering shrubs are all excellent options for growing and training in a more formal, standard shape.
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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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Verbena Plant Profile
Graceful clusters of bright flowers attract gardeners and butterflies equally. See why these charming plants are great for more than just hanging baskets and containers.
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10 Ways to Easier Gardening
A little foresight and planning can help protect you from aches, pains and fatigue.
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All That
All That is a half-hour show that is filled with sketches, skits, and a musical number at the end.
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Annual Plants for Bringing Birds to the Garden
Some plants are known for their ability to attract songbirds to the garden. These annual plants are a must for a bird-friendly landscape.
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Calendula Colorful Annual Flower
A colorful, hardy annual, Calendula is used as saffron in cooking. This sunny flower has healing antiseptic properties. It is used for decorating Hindu temples.
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Container Plants for Summer Color
Summer is a time for enjoying the outdoors. These colorful summer container plants make it easy to create interest and drama in an outdoor porch or sitting area.
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Flashy Hydrangeas are a Garden's Workhorse
Hydrangeas: Made in the Shade
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