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Agastache
Agastache is a genus of mostly aromatic plants with small flowers in spikes.
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Have an Explosion of Pinks in your Garden
Grow this cheerful flower in your garden or in containers for a brilliant profusion of pinks and reds.
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Heavenly Borders To Allure Hovering Hummers!
Attracting hummingbirds by planting tall border plants with blossoms rich in nectar is a great option for gardeners. Read about some striking border flowers that offer both beauty for your garden and nectar for your "jewels of the sky."
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Making an impression: an artist's eye for colour
Take a look at your garden through the eyes of an artist. Sonia Day reveals how to use the rules of colour theory to add sparkle to your garden.
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Revamping The Rectangle!
Design ideas to add interest to a rectangular garden
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Shrubs for Florida Gardens
Shrubs can give Florida gardens real drama.
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A Glimpse of the Gardens of Lawrence Park
Here's a sneak preview of some of the gardens of Lawrence Park featured on the 2002 Through the Garden Gate tour sponsored by the Civic Garden Centre.
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Flowering Herbs
Create the garden of your dreams with flowering herbs. By choosing carefully, you'll have blooms from spring through frost.
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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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Native forbs for a dry garden, Part I
On a sun-baked corner by a busy highway, I never dreamed I could plant such a prolific garden as the one now bursting along the front sidewalk.
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Outstanding perennials - not just another bunch of pretty flowers
Here's a roundup of perennials whose sole purpose in life is to pander to our horticultural desires, providing lots of flowers, interesting foliage and healthy growth.
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Plan Before Planting (Creating A New Border Or Bed)
How to plan a new border - location, size, shape, preparation etc.
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Plant these jewels of the fall garden
Sedum 'Autumn Joy', Japanese anenomes, Perovskia and Monch's asters sparkle in the autumn garden.
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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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Using Plants for Winter Interest
Learn the many ways to create interest in the garden landscape even during the winter months. Use some of these techniques for year round beauty.
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Autumn is Spring Bulb Planting Time
Daffodils and tulips are not the only spring flowering bulbs. Some specialty bulbs, like camassias and fritillarias are equally easy to plant in garden borders.
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Color in Your Garden
Enhance and improve the design of your garden by understanding a few guidelines that start with the color wheel.
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Iris Book by Geoff Stebbings
Iris book to read and help you plan your garden, if you are new to Iris.
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Mandy Alford's English Garden
An English garden
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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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Lewis and Clark and Jefferson
Before George Mahris and Martin Milner and <I>Route 66</i>; before Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy and <I>On the Road</i>; before Laura Ingalls Wilder and <I>Little House on the Prairie</i>; before Joseph Smith and his Mormons; before all these westward-ho wayfarers, seekers, and dreamers struck camp and hit the road there were a couple of guys by the name of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who first followed the sun across this great land of ours. And botany was a focal point.
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A gardener's guide to online holiday shopping
Shopping on the Internet is a good way to beat the crowds of holiday shoppers. Pull up and chair, light the fire, and sip some eggnog as you surf for some of the best gardening tools and equipment the 'net has to offer.
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A Tropical Garden With Cannas
At the nursery this year, we have many landscape customers buying tropical plants. Cannas are a top seller because they are easy to use in the garden and in containers.
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Dill (Anthenum graveolens)
Dill is a big "must have" for your garden! Read about growing and using dill.
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Fall Planting for a Natural Spring Lawn
Fall is the second busiest gardening season. While gardeners put their gardens to bed for the winter, they are also planting. Plant in fall for a natural spring lawn.
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Garden Sows Seeds of Delight in Western Beijing
Gardeners visiting Beijing shouldn't miss the chance to visit the Beijing Botanical Garden in the western suburbs. It is a tourist attraction and a research facility.
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Great Garden Writers
Reading books and articles by garden writers can often be the best way to learn how to make a great garden. Here are some sage thoughts on planting spring bulbs.
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Growing Nasturtiums to Eat
A favourite edible bloom, nasturtiums are a lovely, colourful addition to any vegetable patch or community garden plot.
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How to Clear Couch Grass
A range of effective techniques for clearing this persistent weed, using both organic and chemical based methods.
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In A Persian Garden
Wildscaping doesn't have to be stuffy -- just look at the Persian designs!
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Perennial Edging Plants
Any flower planted en masse or in large groups will result in a stunning display. A border edged in the same plant will offer the same show and a neat orderly appearance.
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Perennial Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new perennial plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.
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Preparing Your House For Sale
But believe it or not, it's not just about making sure it's clean and tidy to draw the crowds. There are some professional tips that we can share with you.
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Setting Spring Goals
Spring is traditionally a time for clearing out the old and encouraging in the new. Take advantage of this powerful time of rebirth by setting goals for the coming year.
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Sightseeing In And Around Hanover in Germany
Visitors to Lower Saxony in Germany can start in the lively city of Hanover and then move on to explore the area's fairytale medieval towns like Celle, Goslar and Hamelin
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Six Elements to Complete the Garden Design
A simple garden design can be given a finishing touch with structures, hardscapes and ornament. Learn how to use these elements effectively for a pleasing outside space.
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Some Herbs with Attractive Foliage
With good landscape designs, we don't have to depend upon flowers alone for visual interest. By making full use of herbs with attractive foliage, our gardens can remain interesting without suffering from the summer doldrums.
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Sweet William Old-Fashioned Favorite in Gardens
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) is a very popular garden ornamental in colors ranging from burgundy, purple, red, pink, white or variegated.
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Tasha Tudor - Living Women's Herstory
Tasha Tudor's Garden.. a stunningly beautiful and inpsiring book by Tovah Martin and Richard W. Brown that gives us a glimpse into the life and gardens of a surprising woman.
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Big Ideas for Small Places
Thinking big in a small garden is not only possible it is essential. How to make sure you plant shrubs and perennials that give you pleasure the year round and provide value for money.
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Campanulas, columbines and credit card damage
It's Spring in New Zealand - and what better excuse is there for a horticultural shopping spree!
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Cardinal Flower Lobelia
Learn the uses, care and varieties of perennial lobelia in the garden. Cardinal flowers are a popular choice for many gardeners; find out why.
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Diascia (Twinspur)
A review of Diascias and what you can expect from them, with excellent links.
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Equinox? Solstice? Move the Furniture!!!!
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Herbal Update
Spring is a new beginning. This season will bring a number of new herb varieties for landscapes along with herb-related products.
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Late Summer Performance
How to bridge the late summer flower gap with some very interesting and dependable plants for both the border and containers and pots.
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On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
Herbs are wonderful in the garden and in the kitchen. How to relax, begin with a few herbs in your garden using the "here and there" approach, and have fun. So try it! You'll like it!
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Plant Profile: Cranesbill Geranium
A favorite of English and Cottage Gardeners, the garden cranesbill is an excellent choice of flowering perennial for any garden situation. Here's how to care for them.
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Putting the Lawn to Bed
What should we do to prepare our lawns for the winter? That depends on what kind of lawn you have.
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SEEDS OF HOPE
A third of the flowering plant species on our planet are in danger of extinction. Linda shows you a practical way to help.
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