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Florida Edible Landscape
Creating an edible landscape can revive your garden.
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Edible Landscaping
The current fashion for edible landscapes dates from the publication in 1982 of “The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping”, by Rosalind Creasy.
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Backyard Conservation: where food security begins
Your backyard can provide you, your family and a myriad of other creatures with food.
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Edible Landscapes
Not keen on starting a vegetable garden that takes up a lot of space? Use flower beds to create an edible landscape!
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EDIBLE LANDSCAPES
There are hundreds of edibles you can plant in the borders and flowerbeds throughout your yard. Here they are readily availabe to tickle your palate.
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Edible Vegetables with Red and Maroon Foliage
Gardeners do not have to sacrifice colorful landscapes to stretch their family's food budget. These edible vegetable plants all have brightly colored foliage.
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Ornamental Shrubs with Edible Flower Blooms
When gardeners think about flowers to add to their edible landscapes, they usually consider annual or perennial flowers. But these shrubs have kitchen-worthy uses too.
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ROSEMARY VEREY AND THE EDIBLE LANDSCAPE
Rosemary Verey did much to popularize the edible landscape with her ornamental vegetable garden and decorative, espaliered fruit trees.
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Self-Sufficency
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Tips for Growing Edible Plants
Many gardeners are trying to save money on grocery budgets by growing Victory Gardens and adding edible plants to their home landscapes, and can try these tips.
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All America Selection Winners 2007
There are four award winning plants in three categories for 2007. Here are some details about growing them, why they're special and how they won.
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Plant Vegetables to Create Edible Landscapes.
Many vegetables are attractive as well as nutritious. When used imaginatively it is easy to create stunning edible landscapes which are a pleasure to see and eat.
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Planting for Primates
Plants that are safe for primates and suggestions on where to obtail further information for landscaping using edible plants.
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Edible Flowers for Victory Garden Beauty
While many gardeners think of fruits and vegetables in their victory garden, many beautiful flowering plants have edible blossoms.
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Edible Plants for Summer Border Edges
These edible plants will make attractive garden border edges, while still providing a harvest for the kitchen table.
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Edible Vegetables With Black or Purple Foliage
These fruits and vegetables with dark foliage make great victory garden substitutes for the typical bronze, burgundy, or black-colored landscaping plant selections.
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Pawpaw Patch at New Quarter Park
Pawpaws, enjoyed by mammals, Indians, early settlers, and slaves, are abundant in the park environment. Try a recipe for the wild food or propagate an edible landscape.
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Permaculture Gardening
A description of permaculture gardening, principals and valid reasons for its development. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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SWEET DELIGHTS OF SPRING
Tips and background on choosing, growing, and using delectable strawberries, the earliest fruits of the season.
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The Edible Garden
Fruit trees and vegetable plants are great garden choices but should be blended into the landscape. In other words you may not really want a totally edible garden.
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Victory Garden Plants for Vertical Interest
Growing vegetables instead of ornamental perennial plants, doesn't mean a gardeners landscape has to look boring. These tall vegetables will add height to the landscape.
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For The Birds:
This week, we will begin our look at berries, from blueberries, bearberries to strawberries and service berries, somewhere there is a berry or two that is just right for you.
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LEWIS AND CLARK PLANTS, PART I
Lewis and Clark described or collected some 170+ plants. A dozen of these were fruits, some of which are featured here.
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LEWIS AND CLARK PLANTS, PART II
Celebrate the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by planting some of these fine native fruits.
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NASTURTIUMS-JEWELS OF THE GARDEN
Some plants like to be pampered. Others prefer a hands-off approach. Nasturtiums thrive on neglect. Just give them a sunny spot in poor, dry soil.
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SAGE-A VERSATILE LANDSCAPE PLANT
Sage brings so much beauty to the landscape in terms of texture, color, and fragrance. This wonderful plant has earned its place in mixed borders, flower beds, foundation plantings, and edible landscapes.
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Front Yard Garden
Turn your front yard into an edible landscape instead of a nonproductive grass plot. It's good for the environment and good for you.
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Arm Chair Shopping for Gardeners
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Part I-Minor Fruits for the Home Garden
Some unusual fruits won't be found in supermarkets or at produce stands. If you want these, you'll probably have to grow them.
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Black Currant
Black currants are experiencing a popularity now: an example of edible landscaping with great benefits!
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Ornamental Edibles
Some plants aren't merely edible - they are also beautiful.
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Vegetable Gardens Can be Beautiful
Plant a veggie garden that's gorgeous.
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Pyracantha Berry Jelly Recipe
Pyracantha berries are not just, "for the birds." Contrary to a common myth, they are not poisonous. Pyracantha, a relative of apples and roses, is entirely edible.
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Edible Desert Gardens
There are many plants that are beautiful, produce edible fruit (or are edible themselves) and grow well in desert gardens.
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Flowering Annual Vines and Rambling Plants
These annual plants will add a climbing wall of color to your garden landscape areas and are perfect for small garden spaces.
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101 Recipes From the Herb Lady
Review of the 176 page herbal cookbook written by Catherine Crowley. The book is full of recipes which feature fresh and dried, herbs and spices.
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2009 Guide to Reno-Sparks Area Public Markets
Reno's summer markets vary from small collections of stands to a huge outdoor bazaar with entertainment. Now there's also a public market that's open year-round.
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AUTUMN IN THE FRUIT GARDEN
Not to be outdone by the maples, a number of fruit plants sport brilliant autumn foliage.
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Grow Leafy Vegetables for Healthy Good Eating
The delicious world of easy-to-grow leafy greens goes far beyond spinach and lettuce.
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Shrubs for Bright Fall Foliage
Red, yellow, orange and burgundy-purple colors make the autumn landscape shine with brilliant colors. These shrubs add fall foliage accents to the garden.
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Wildscaping for Waxwings
These elegant birds can be a blessing to suburban homeowners plagued with bugs -- and a real pest to the local fruit orchards.
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BASIL-HERB OF THE YEAR FOR 2003
Basil is Herb of the Year for 2003. This marvelous culinary herb makes a great ornamental.
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COOKBOOK TITLES FOR GARDENERS
When gardeners need a break from poring over seed catalogs, another indoor winter activity is needed. Get creative and try new recipes. Here are some cookbooks with great recipe ideas.
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FRUITS OF FALL-THE PERSIMMON
The warm days and cool nights of fall work wonders. They make apples sweet, and turn astringent persimmons into tasty treats.
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Gardening for all 5 senses part IV: Sippin' the scenery.

New Herbs for 2005
For hard-core gardeners, this is by no means too early to begin planning for the coming season. In 2005, you should see a number of excellent new varieties of herbs on the market.
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October Gardening In The Low Desert
What to do on Oct. in the low desert garden.
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Parsley-An Ideal Foliage Plant
When it comes time to choose plants for container gardens, and mixed borders, consider parsley. This herb is very versatile in the landscape.
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Review of Gaia’s Garden
In Gaia's Garden, Toby Hemenway presents the theory and practice of Permaculture, and brings them home to the average backyard. A challenge no gardener can miss out on.
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SUMMER FINALLY ARRIVES IN THE GARDEN
Count on flowering perennial herbs to bring color to the garden in June. Chives happen to be one of my favorites.
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