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Growing Christmas Poinsettias
Poinsettias are a popular gift plant for the Holidays. Find out how to grow yours throughout the year and have your own Christmas plants next year!
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The Diverse Video Game Market
Results of a market research survey released last week found that the video game market is becoming more and more diverse.
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Shamrocks - Growing Oxalis
How to grow Shamrocks and Oxalis plants indoors and out. Shamrock history and origins. Part of the Suite101 St. Patricks Day Event
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Troubleshooting on the Windowsill
How to deal with indoor insect problems.
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Spring Planting: Perennials I
Your bare root perennial plants are ready for planting. Are you ready for them? When to plant these in the garden and how to delay planting, if you must.
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Emily's Daylily Garden
Emily's Garden
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Comet Enke – A Threat To Earth?
Is Comet Enke and the Taurid Meteor Shower that caused the Tunguska Event in 1908 on an inevitable second collision course with Earth?
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Winter Garden Tasks and Plant Care
Autumn and Winter months signal a dormant time in the garden but gardeners don't have to hibernate as well. These are fall and winter tasks to care for garden plants.
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Now What Do I Do?
How to save the bulbs you didn't get planted outside before the weather went bad.
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Give A Home to An Orphan Plant

Things to do to pass the time til Spring
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Growing kiwifruit
Kiwifruit provide healthy vitamin C during winter and are easy to grow in the home garden.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 4
Bulbs for fall bloom in the shady garden.
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Recording in a Garden Diary
As the season changes, gardeners record observations about plants in their summer flower gardens. Phenology information is a useful addition to the garden diary.
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Tropical Plants In Cold Climates
Winter is fast approaching. Which tropical plants are best to overwinter and which ones should you save seeds from to start each spring?
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Bridging the Gap to Spring in the North
What to do between now and "spring" in the North.
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Amorphophallus Titanum Flower
Amorphophallus, possibly the world's stinkiest plant, has made headlines and brought in crowds each time it has bloomed.
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Insect and Disease Control
What can we use that is ecologically responsible and that will not persist or damage the environment when suddenly faced with a horde of hungry caterpillars?
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January Gardening In The Low Desert
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Pruning Your Climbing Rose - Part 1
Part 1 on how and when to prune climbing roses.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part I
No shady garden is complete without some of these most ancient of plants. Ferns are found all over the world in just about every type of climate and growing condition.
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Resurrecting the Garden -- and the Gardener
Things to be learned from your garden

Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 1
Gardening in Shade - Bulbs for Shady Places - Part 1
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Doing in the aphids - organically
Tips for getting rid of aphids in your garden, on street trees and a few points about beneficial insects in the garden.
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Murder & Mayhem in the Garden
Garden clean-up time can also be a great stress-buster
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Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter
If the shade in your garden is provided by large trees, then dealing with leaves is, no doubt, high on your list of "things to do" in putting your garden to bed for the winter.
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The Seventh Heart
Review of author Marina Fitch's first novel, The Seventh Heart.
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Acianthella amplexicaulis
This tiny delicate terrestrial orchid is confined to parts of the Australian east coast and is considered rare.
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Adventures With Crystal Serenity World Cruise
Boomers and seniors with time, money and daring spirits are likely to love Pacific Rim journey; sleep in same cabin but go ashore for treks, flights kayaks, local food.
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Anthrax and Cattle
The latest threat to Canada's beef industry, following mad-cow disease is potential hysteria over the recent outbreak of anthrax infection.
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Dragon's Lair movie?
Now that Dragon's Lair has a new life on Blu-Ray, creator Don Bluth (The Secret of NIMH) wants to put his hero Dirk the Daring in an animated feature film.
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Feeding Your Houseplant
Plants, like people, need food to grow and thrive, but it's important to give them just the right food and just the right amount.
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Feng Shui and Family
Whether you have a breakdown in communication with a family member, or want to improve on something good, feng shui can help.
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Lovely Camassias
Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.
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Low Maintenance Roses
Many gardeners shy away from planting roses due to their high maintenance nature - read on.
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PML and MS Therapy
Recent reports have linked the occurrence of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy with specific treatments for Multiple Sclerosis but this is not the only link.
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Spring Planting: Perennials 2
It’s spring! But is it time to plant perennials yet? Can container grown hardy perennials be planted before the last spring frost? Maybe yes, maybe no. Find out why.
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Trees are Budding
A delightful but sparsely observed phenomenon is the budding of trees in spring, a process that, contrary to widely held belief, does not involve formation of buds.
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Water: Limitless?
Water is our supply endless
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Ascaris lumbricoides – Life Cycle
Ascaris lumbricoides is the large intestinal worm familiar to people all over the world. This roundworm infects people when they swallow soil containing infective eggs.
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Colors and Learning
Aside from its symbolic meaning, the color of a classroom can affect students and their learning. Understand some of the research.
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is not uncommon, it's just not talked about as frequently as the common cold. What may surprise you is that it's almost just as common as a cold.
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Exploring Wilsons Promontory in Victoria
Wilsons Promontory, one of Australia's most magnificent eco destinations, is bouncing back after the 2009 bushfires, to help Victoria recover its nature tourism industry.
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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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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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Frustrated NASCAR Stars2
As the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup season has hit full swing, there are several proverbial names in NASCAR who have yet to accelerate. Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick, Jeremy Mayfield, and Ryan Newman have produced dismal results thus far in 2006.
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Growing a Fuchsia Shrub
Available in a vast array of colors, Fuchsias are very popular garden shrubs. The Fuchsia flowers have an exotic appearance, adding life and elegance to any 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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Lawn Maintenance - Northeast U.S.
A calendar of cultural practices necessary for maintenance and upkeep of cool-season lawn grasses in the Northeast U.S. Other growing zones possess similar requirements.
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Natural Remedies for Cold Sores
Help suppress the Herpes Simplex 1 virus with food, herbs and supplements
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