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Dwarf Conifers for Suburban Gardens and Patios
For maintenance free gardening, especially on patios and suburban gardens, dwarf conifers are the ideal choice. Dwarf conifers come in many colors and sizes.
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Conifers for the Garden
Use a wide variety of conifers to add color and dignity to a garden. The elegance of conifers and their different colors can enhance any type of garden, large or small.
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Planting Trees for Autumn and The Story of Dwarf Conifers
Autumn is the perfect time to plant a tree. Find out the right way to select and plant a tree plus learn about dwarf conifers which can add interest and intrigue to your lawn and garden.
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A Small Garden in the West of Ireland
A small garden - but full of wonderful things!
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Simplify Your Garden with Shrubs
Simplifying the planting scheme means reducing the number of different plants with different cultural requirements that you need to keep track of. One way to do that is to plant mixed borders that incorporate easy to maintain shrubs and trees.
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Upright Conifers for the Garden
Upright conifers are perfect complements to residential landscapes and gardens, providing strong vertical accents and year-round interest.
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Mugo Pines in Nature and the Landscape
Mugo pines grown from seed usually outgrow their location due to genetic predisposition - read on and learn how to properly select plants for the garden.
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Neat Plants! Gardens for the Terminally Tidy
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WHAT'S BLOOMING AT PLANTATIONS?
To learn more about herbs and landscaping with these versatile plants visit the many gardens at Cornell Plantations in Ithaca, NY.
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Dream Gardens: Planning for Reality
Winter gardening -planning so that THIS year you'll finally get that garden in your mind out into the yard.

Gardening - an Attitude Adjustments -Part 2
We've all grown accustomed to our own styles of gardening, as well as with certain plants that we love even if they are a lot of work. But as we grow less able, something has to change - and it could very well be our attitude about what our garden should be, or about the plants we love.

An Almost No Work Sunny Garden, Part 1
Let's start with the basics - plants that ask little and give big - filling spaces with year round interest and few requirements - and some that even help you with your gardening work! This week we look at shrubs, vines and groundcovers for an almost no work garden. Next week we'll fill in the blanks with flowers.

Color for the Winter Garden - Part 1: Groundcovers.
On those days when the snow melts and we can see through to the ground, wouldn't it be nice to see something besides brown dirt? And better still - as nice a color as green is - wouldn't it be even nicer to see colors? Plants that are anything but green? Read all about them - in this first of a series of articles about color in the winter garden.

Gardening Gifts for Father's Day
Look for some gardening gift ideas to celebrate Father's Day, in June. Plant a memory, while spending time in Dad's garden.
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Bekonscot Model Railway in UK
Bekonscot in Buckinghamshire, UK is the oldest model village and railway in the world. A unique piece of heritage, it depicts England as it was in the 1930s.
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Chicago Botanic Garden a Treat for the Senses
The Chicago Botanic Garden offers an escape from the stresses of the city, with 26 different formal gardens and natural environments located north of the City of Chicago.
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Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines
Celebration and Thanksgiving in the fall garden -- some plants for fall and winter interest.
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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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Celebrating Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines!
Fall Gardening: Celebration and Thanksgiving
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COLOUR IN THE WINTER GARDEN
COLOUR IN THE WINTER GARDEN
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Scree Beds
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THE WINTER PLANTS.
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Virtual Winter II: Beyond black and white in the winter garden

Avoiding Deadheading
Planning is the key to cutting down on your deadheading chores. Find out which shrubs, perennials, and annuals you should choose if you're interested in a low-maintenance garden.
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Bones in the Garden - A Tale of Garden Planning, Part 1
Bones in the garden? Sounds frightening unless you realize they are made of stones and shrubs and benches - all those lovely things that give your garden shape - and winter interest.
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Gardening American Style?
We have clear pictures of what English style gardens are, and French and Japanese. Ever wonder what they think when you say "American style garden"?
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Going Japanese: A Garden Design Dilemma
How do we house three bonsai in an English cottage-style garden?
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My Garden's Got the Blues (And I Love It!)
There are blue things blooming everywhere I look in the garden. I wonder why I never noticed this before?

Slow Stroll through the Gardens Once More
The slow, therapeutic stroll through the garden continues. This time we make it out of the secret garden and up the [ath to the gazebo. (And no - we're not done YET!)

The Creaky Gardener Simplifies the Yard
Garden 'til you drop? Sure - as long as you can simplify the lanscape into something manageable.

Yellow Plants - Just Try to Say No!
You just think that color that you hate so passionately will never find a way into your yard.

Gardening with Limitations - A Few Adjustments
None of us are getting younger, and most of us are finding that we are less able than we once were. Here are a few aadjustments to your garden and gardening style that can simplify the work and keep the joy in gardening.

Low Maintenance Gardening
Creating a garden that looks good without demanding too much from the gardener.

Secrets to an Almost Instant Secret Garden
Some quick growing plants that will help you to create a feeling of privacy in your garden.

WHAT winter color??
Its tough to get color and beauty in a winter garden when you live in the frozen north. But all that blankness does have its compensations.
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Winter Garden Interest V - Berries and Broadleaf Evergreens
There are plenty of plants with bright berries that summon the birds to your winter garden. And there are shrubs and trees that keep their leaves in the cold, adding more color and fullness to the scene.

Bye Yew Hedge, Hi New Hedge: The Optimist's Garden
If you must use evergreens as a foundation planting in your front yard - if, in fact, you insist on a foundation planting with shrubs - then why not go the creative route and use colorful dwarf conifers in blues, golds, and bronzes? And while you're waiting for them to grow up, why not use some temporary but attractive filler to make the garden look finished long before it actually matures?
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Practically Painless Perennials for Sun
Some stalwarts of the garden - perennials that do much and ask little.


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