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Assembling a Container Garden at Your Local Nursery
Buying plants for a container garden can be a daunting experience. But, with a little planning, you can have a lot of fun at the nursery exploring all the different choices. Here are a few steps for to get you started...
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Flower Garden Design Series
Successful flower gardeners use both art and science to achieve their flower garden design goals, no matter what their garden style. You can, too.
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Shade Flower Garden Design Tips
Shaded flower gardens are a delight when done right. Learn how to design and plant a lovely shady flower bed to enjoy all season long. You'll have it made in the shade!
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Shady Flower Garden Design Tips
Follow these practical design tips and planning advice to plant a flower garden in part or full shade.
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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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Annual Flower Varieties
A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.
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Blue Garden Decor
All gardens need a bit of blue, the all blue theme garden needs more. Decorative blue accent pieces as well as the creative use of blue paint continue the blue theme.
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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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Easy Care Perennials for Hot Sun
Every garden has a difficult hot sunny spot where most flowers fail. Plant some or all of these proven hardy perennial performers in your flower garden this summer.
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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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How Many Plants To Use
Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)
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Landscape Design 101
Use these simple landscape design concepts to lay out a flowerbed in the right location, that's harmonious in size and shape, and enhances your overall landscape.
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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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Planting In Patterns Part Two
More tips and techniques for planting flowers in a formal pattern, such as planting staggered rows. And, just how precisely should you plant?
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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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Right Plant, Right Place
Right Plant, Right Place is a simple yet powerful concept: plant flowers matched to the growing conditions in your flower garden for better success with less work.
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Specialty Non Hardy Blue Flowers
If you live in a warm climate or if you enjoy container plants, consider adding some of these special, tender, non hardy or exotic blue flowers to your flower garden.
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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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A Valentine Garden Design
A specially designed flower garden for a sunny spot, this Valentine theme garden includes antique, heirloom, and fragrant bulbs, vines and annual flowers, heart shaped trellis, and a cheerful pink, red and white color scheme. Just perfect for your Valentine!
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ABC Theme Garden of Animal Flowers
An animal theme garden or plant zoo is fun to design and plant. Use this plant list of animal name flowers from A to Z to start your own pet theme garden.
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Blue Flowered Shrubs
Blue flowering shrubs are unusual but welcome accents to the flower garden. Use them alone or use them to form the bones of an all blue themed flower garden.
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Chelsea Flower Show
A report and photos on Chelsea Flower Show 1999
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Flower Garden Basics
How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size.
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Flower Gardeners II
Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew
Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!
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Garden Journal of Ideas
Keep a garden journal as a garden record, reference and resource full of factual information but pack it full of personal garden design ideas and inspiration, too.
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Just Look at Those Vegetables!
How to use all sorts of vegetables from asparagus and aubergines to zucchini and French pumpkins to enhance your ornamental flower garden.
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Roses for the White Garden
There are so many white roses just perfect for the white garden or moon garden. How can you pick just one?! Here are a few suggested white roses for your flower garden.
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Selecting A Garden Site
Planting your first flower garden from scratch is exciting – and a challenge! Start out right with this simple guide to selecting the best possible site for your garden.
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Welcome Flower Gardeners
Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t
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