Articles related to "Flowerbed"



Choosing Plants for the Flowerbed
Colors, textures, blooms, and types--so many choices are available to the gardener in creating a beautiful yard. Here are some helpful tips to make choices easier.
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Declaring War on Flowerbed Weeds
Flowerbeds need to be weeded on a regular basis, but weeding often comes after other priorities. If neglected too long weeding becomes a major effort, not a small chore.
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Irrigation with Gutter Downspouts
This article explains the benefits of using gutter downspouts to protect the home's slab or foundation. The rainwater can be channeled off to use irrigating the garden.
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Lawn Care and Landscaping Tools
When the homeowner shuns the lawn care contractor or lawn care service, it's important to know what equipment is critical to work the landscaping.
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Feng Shui in the Front Yard
The front yard of a home says something about the people living there, but it also influences their health, happiness, and overall prosperity.
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How to Prepare and Plant a Quick and Easy Flower Bed Using Sheet Composting
Create a new herb or flower bed the easy way. This method involves no digging, or tilling.
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Parterre Gardens for Kids
Planting a child's name or a fun design in a flowerbed can be a good way to encourage children to get out from in front of the TV and out into the garden. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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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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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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Garden Soil From Clay, Sand or Compost
Successful gardeners know the importance of good garden soil. They also know the necessity of matching the soil to the plants. Here are a few quick pointers.
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The Gardener Becomes an Artist
The gardener's flowerbed is a canvas. His yard art uses dirt as the background and plants to create the pictures, colors, and textures of his masterpiece.
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Create Inexpensive and Easy Garden Design
Bringing color and individuality to your garden doesn't have to involve a horde of laborers and a big price tag.
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Winter Planting for Spring Blooms
Planting spring bulbs in winter will ensure colorful gardens in Spring. Choose the correct bulbs and select a suitable bulb planting area for best garden results.
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HERBS FOR ANNUAL FLOWER BEDS
A number of herbs are just ideal for those annual flowerbeds. These include colorful basils, stately fennel, and scented geraniums.
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Kids Gardens
In her articles about gardening with children, Linda Mazar wrote about how to instill a love of gardens in children by encouraging their creativity.
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Vegetable Garden
Description: This article has ideas and instructions for planting a simple vegetable garden and relates the history of Victory or War Gardens during World War II.
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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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Winter Tasks in the Flower Garden
Don't stop caring for your roses, bulbs, and perennials when the first snow flies. They require your occasional presence to ensure a glorious spring performance.
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A Chinese Medicine Flower Garden
Not just pleasing to the eye, various parts of these plants, found in gardens worldwide, have been used by Chinese medical herbalists to treat a variety of ailments.
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A Frog Story to Remember
I think the word is out that I serve a pretty good breakfast buffet, at least the frog family seems to think so and keeps coming back for seconds!
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A Jewel of a Weed
Impatiens cousin, poison ivy soother, hummingbird's brunch. Not bad for a weed!
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A Seed Packet Flower Bed
A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed by James Fenton is a light-hearted read that will inspire a newfound freedom and creativity in your flower garden.
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Bermuda Wood Sorrel
Last winter in southern California I marveled at all the big, bushy yellow wildflowers in bloom, all of which were <I>Encelia</I> or <I>Coreopsis</I> species. They were big, showy things, in your face and impossible to ignore. But there was another rather ubiquitous yellow wildflower in bloom, nearly a ground cover but often so widespread it was every bit as impossible to ignore as Giant Coreopsis or Bush Sunflowers. That was Bermuda Wood Sorrel.
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Chore Cards
Running a blended family household is hard work. Using chore cards to assign and manage tasks can help a large family keep things running smoothly at home.
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Create an Indoor Flower Garden With Geraniums
Over-wintering annual geraniums as houseplants save plants and money for next summer's gardens. Pelargoniums make good plants for indoor flower gardens.
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DESIGNING YOUR RENTAL (How much is too much?)
How much time and/or money should you invest in decorating someone else's property? Is it really worth it? Just how much is too much? These and other questions answered in this article.
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Garden Watering in Summer
Dry weather in summer can ruin a gardener's hard work. Preparation can be made to save and recycle water to best effect.
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Habitat for Green Anoles and Other Wildlife
My favorite lizard is a Green Anole, and our yard plays host to a number of them as a result of our efforts to create habitat suitable to their needs. Read about the National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Habitat program.
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How to Design Gardens Where Dogs Live
Many gardeners want to enjoy time in the garden with a dog. Here is a guide to design flowerbeds that protects plants and man's best friend.
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How to Make a Bog Garden
This is an easy to follow tutorial on putting in a bog garden for water plants and other aquatic life.
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Keep Pets Out of an Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can encourage a peaceful coexistence between their beloved pets and their favorite hobby without chemicals or harsh methods.
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Landscaping Software for the Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can shop for garden and landscape software that allows them to plan an entire garden design at once, avoiding piecemeal mistakes.
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Other Companion Plants That Offer Pest Control
Companion planting for pest control utilizes many different plants and herbs for healthy flower and garden beds, all without the use of insecticides to control pests.
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Recycle those Tires!
Ways in which to turn those unwanted eyesores in your yard, into attractive, practical enhancements for your garden; raised beds--pamper your plants!
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Ten Tips for Terrific Trees
Tree planting tips for new wildscapers
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The Bare Bones View
You can see through the garden now to notice what needs to become visible this summer. Make note of the bare spots in your garden while you can see them without their growth. Doing this will give you an idea of possible locations for hardscape features.
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Valentines For Married Couples
Valentine's Day can catapult you into the romantic arena, if you give the holiday a chance to work its magic.
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What to do WIth Fall Leaves
Although we all enjoy the colorful fall leaves when they are on the trees, they soon come down and need attention. Raking, mulching, bagging are all chores to be done.
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A Garden of Color
Our gardens don't exist in a vacuum. Often, they're influenced by contemporary color trends.
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Are wild gardens providing an excuse for lazy gardeners?
The management and control of wild gardens
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Bargain Horses--Are They Really A Bargain?
What you need to know before purchasing a cheap horse or accepting a free horse.
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BRAIN GAMES
Thinks.com is just one of the many engaging links you'll find on the Brain Games Web Guide. There's board and table games from A-Z, including backgammon, chess, gomuku, monopoly and scrabble. Not to mention scores of puzzles, visual illusions, fractal art and music.
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Container Gardens for Kids
There is room in almost every home for a garden planted in containers--planters, window boxes, or flower pots! Children will be thrilled to grow a planter of flowers.
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Decorate Your Home Shoestring Cheap
A change of everyday scenery freshens a home and lifts the spirits. These simple, inexpensive decorative changes can work wonders.
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DOORYARD GARDENS
Americans are supersizing their homes at the expense of the home landscape. As a result the front yard becomes more important than ever.
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Hitchcock's Rear Window
One of Hitchcock's very best, and more proof that Jimmy Stewart was one of the best actors around, as well.
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Homeless Shelter For Geese
The river is flooding and the geese are moving in!
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How To Keep Your Dog From Getting Bored
Our busy lives mean our poor dogs are often left to entertain themselves. Here are some helpful tips on keeping your dog happy and ensuring fun times whilst you're out.
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Just Ducky
Things aren't back to normal here yet - now the ducks have trust issues. Does Dr. Phil make house calls?
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Kids Halloween Activities
There's more to Halloween than tricks and treats! There are also fun and games!
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