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Citrus Plant & Herb Themed Garden
Learn how to use citrus trees and citrus scented herbs such as lemon balm, lime balm and mint to create a citrus theme garden.
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Herbal Tea Garden Design
Learn how to design an herbal tea garden using herbs such as mint, lemon balm and chamomile that is not only practical but also a fun place to entertain.
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How to Design a Japanese Garden
The Japanese have developed their gardens into an art-form. Over time, westerners have borrowed these methods and expanded landscape possibilities.
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"Om! Mani Padme Hum!"
A fun look at how the water lotus performs in my garden.
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Bare Bones - Part II - Designing Your Garden: Site Consideration
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Design with Confidence
Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!)
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Design-A-Garden: What Would You Do?
Designing your own garden.
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Designing Desert Gardens
Design and planning is essential in order to have a beautiful and bountiful desert garden. Read about principles of design and maintenance of your desert garden.
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Designing: don't forget the bees.
How to choose plants that will help heal the Earth.
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Gardening and Computers
The Gardener's Computer Companion is a book showing how the average gardener could benefit from using a computer to keep track of their gardening activities or for designing the garden itself.
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Herbal Holiday Decorations
Now is the time to start thinking about how to incorporate herbs into your holiday celebrations. Learn how to make the most from your herbal harvest.
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I'm a Gertrude Jekyll Wannabe: Mistakes Beginning Gardeners Make
Unless you have an estate sized garden, and a small staff of gardeners, some borders are just a bit ambitious.
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Not Everything in a Garden is a Plant
You think you have everything ready for your new garden. Perhaps you've forgotten that not everything in your garden should be a plant.
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Planning and Designing your Garden
Tips and Guideline to planning and designing your garden
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Planning the food security garden
1st of 3 articles exploring food security and garden design
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Summer Flower Champs
Troublefree color in the summer garden, leaves you time to sit back, sip some lemonade and enjoy the butterflies. Whether you garden in the country, the suburbs, or the city you are sure to find some winners here.
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The Garden Architect
Architectural garden planning. How to give your garden the bones and structure it needs to be attractive all year.
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Common Landscape Design Problems
An outline and checklist to avoid common problems in the landscape design process. Using this list avoids frustrating and often costly problems.
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How to Design a Front Yard
By re-doing the front yard with a new walkway, flagstone path and creative garden design, you'll create a landscape that will get rave reviews from the neighbors.
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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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A Small Garden in the West of Ireland
A small garden - but full of wonderful things!
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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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Designing the White Garden
This is the final article in the series about how to design the white garden or moon garden by planting white flowered plants and silver or blue foliage in a theme garden
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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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Flowers for Butterflies
Flowers and butterflies (and caterpillars) go together. Plan your flower garden to attract butterflies and grow a magical butterfly habitat in your own back yard.
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Foliage for the White Garden
To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers.
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Garden History
Modern methods are now available to help recreate historic gardens. Whether the garden is from Ancient Rome or post Civil War, we have tools to help us rebuild them.
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Give your garden a bubble bath!
Add a touch of water to your garden with a bubbler. It's easy to assemble and racoon-proof!
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Grow a Millenium Garden This Year
Here are some ideas on planning a special millenium garden for the special year 2000. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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How Many Plants Do I Need?
Tips on figuring out how many flower plants you need to complete your flower garden design and how to space your plants in the flower garden.
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My Garden
Tour our Garden Design editor's garden.
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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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Planting In Patterns
Planting in patterns such as rows, circles, knots, or symmetrical blocks is a traditional flower garden style. Tips on spacing a mass planting with bedding plants.
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Red White and Blue Flowers
Use these tips and plant lists to select red, white and blue annual and perennial flowers to plant a traditional flower garden design with a patriotic theme this summer.
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Robert Canterbury's Raised Bed Urban Garden
A city garden that faced a lot of difficulties - and became an oasis.
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The White Garden in Shade
A shaded white garden or moon garden can be the most magical of all: sharp contrasts of white flowers and silvery foliage against deep shadows and dark corners. Oooh!
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Vines for the White Garden
Flowering vines add another dimension to the flower garden. Enjoy the many spectacular, romantic and often fragrant vines suited to a white garden or moon garden.
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White Flower Garden or Moon Garden
Learn to design the white garden, a flower garden with only white blooms. Or design your own moon garden -- a white garden designed to be seen at night. Magic!
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The Landscape Design Book Shelf
Here are some of my favorite basic books about landscape and garden design that have prominent places on my bookshelf. I reach for them first.
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Canada Blooms opens the gardening season
What's hot at Canada Blooms? Lorraine Flanigan hits the highlights from southern Ontario's premier garden show.
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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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Designing with Trees
While trees are the main tool of the landscape designer they must be selected carefully to avoid future problems.
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Designing your Child's Garden
Children's gardens should be fun, but applying some design principles can make it look more unified and inviting. Learn how to incorporate simple design elements into a child's garden. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Grow annual vines for quick cover
Looking for a quick fix to cover that chain link fence? Try a fast growing annual vine.
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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 Landscape with Boulders
Designing the formal garden is not a trend of the past, but more often landscape designers are shifting to low maintenance garden plans.
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Killruddery Gardens' 19th Century
Ireland's Killruddery Gardens retain original 17th- and 18th- century garden features. Early 19th century maintenance was ongoing; owners purchased cast-iron statues.
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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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Small Space Gardening-Book Review
Small Space Gardening by Melinda Myers explores the challenges of creating a garden using less space. Read a book review outlining this valuable garden reference.
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The Coastal Redwood Tree
Many are surprised to find that the grand Redwood tree of California is a useful landscape specimen for utility,dependability and beauty.
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