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Forsythia (Golden Bell)
Dreary landscapes come alive with the bursting buds of the Forsythia. In both formal and in informal settings this hardy shrub is a carefree addition to your landscape.
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Growing Forsythia
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Spring Blooming Deciduous Shrubs
Deciduous shrubs are great additions to the garden and these spring blooming shrubs are some of the most pleasant and familiar of the spring-flowering plants.
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Forsythia Welcomes Spring
How to Propagate Forsythia shrubs and its different cultivars available to gardeners
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Spring Flowering Plants
The earliest blooms in the garden frequently give us a taste of spring, a promise that warmer days are coming. These spring flowering plants make a garden burst alive.
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Spring: Feed the Need
Earliest spring is a time to be greedy in the garden. Make sure you enjoy the first blooms of the season. Here are some of my favorite spring blooming plants.
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Yellow Flowering Shrubs for Theme Gardens
These gorgeous shrubs provide interest and backdrop to the yellow themed garden setting off the other flowering plants well.
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Landscape Plants for Difficult Sites
Trees and shrubs suitable for difficult areas
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Fences Build Good Neighbors - Part 1
A short history of fences and how popular philosophy and sentiment influenced use in residential landscaping in the United States are discussed. Basic fence types and materials to investigate are suggested for homeowners.
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May the Force Be With You
Some things just can't be forced, and spring may be one of them. A lighter look at the doldrums of late winter.
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Pruning Deciduous Spring-flowering Shrubs
Skillful early summer pruning practices for spring-flowering deciduous shrubs are essential for DIY landscape gardeners. Proper pruning promotes healthy, vigorous shrubs.
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Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs
Knowing the right time to prune spring flowering shrubs can be the difference between a mass of flowers and a few blooms
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Ready for Spring
If you've got a case of late winter gardener's and forager's blues, here are some projects and harvests to cure what ails you.
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Spring Themed Garden Plants
In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.
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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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Allelopathic Plants: Lone Killers
Some plants just can't get along with other plants. In fact, they might just be out to kill their neighbors.
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Mid-winter Weather Concerns for the Mid-Atlantic Gardener
As we reach the mid-point of our winter season there are several weather related concerns for gardeners this year.
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Online Nurseries 2001 - Variegated Foliage Nursery
Stan Megos' Variegated Foliage Nursery, in Eastford, Connecticut, fosters the same type of uncontrollable greed in the heart of a variegated plant nut as a candy store does in the heart of a child. I have lots of plants to show you, so please be patient while the page loads.
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Shrubs as the Start Point in Garden Design
In garden designs, evergreen and flowering shrubs, in their huge variety, offer an ideal backdrop for other garden plants. Many can give year round colour and interest.
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Trees: The Gift of Love
Suggests an interesting way for gardeners and others to give gifts that keep giving and also aid the environment.
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Hedging to Mark Garden Boundaries
Colorful hedging spruces up the landscape for picture-perfect curb appeal. Rows of flowering shrubs are easy to care for and add a little more punch than cedar or privet.
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New and unusual small trees and shrubs
Looking for outstanding shrubs and trees for a small garden? At her lecture at the Civic Garden Centre in Toronto, Marion Jarvie gave us the scoop on some of the best!
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Easter Decorations for Entertainin
Easter Decorating made simple for your Easter Brunch, styling your springtime home display or welcoming guests to your front door.
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Pruning Flowering Shrubs
Planning a late winter or fall pruning of your shrubs (such as lilacs)? Read this first -- or you may be cutting off next season's blossoms.
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The Propagator's Calendar - Part 2
A guide to when to propagate your plants
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Recording in a Garden Diary
As the season changes, gardeners record observations about plants in their summer flower gardens. Phenology information is a useful addition to the garden diary.
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Trees: The Gift of Love - III
Trees can supply a merger of love, good wishes and functional design in a home landscape. Here are some examples of what I've planted.
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Focal Plants for all Season Gardens
Eye catching plants can be ideal to give focus to a garden. Choosing the correct focal plant can give any garden an all year round appeal.
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Spring Flowering Shrubs Lift the Winter Gloom
The feel-good factor of spring is portrayed spectacularly by spring-flowering shrubs. These first rate, easy to grow, hardy plants are a real tonic as winter fades.
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New article in Living Simply - forcing winter branches
Even at the tail end of winter you can have brilliant blooms, all over your house, for free. Here's how to force woody branches the easy way -the latest article in the Living Simply section of the Suite Eco-Home and Garden Hub.

Wake-Up Call!
As the signs of spring arrive, a certain silliness runs through us all. Hallelujah.
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Landscaping Slopes in Full Sun
Whether landscaping a hillside or replacing grass on a steep slope in your front yard, drought tolerant shrubs and perennials make reducing landscape maintenance easy.
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Landscaping with Herbs
Visualize your yard containing these functional and beautiful herb plants. Focus on plants you will use and that are beautiful to see in the landscape.
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Lazy Gardening
Do you like to garden, but hate to dig? Do want to make gardening easier and better for your plants? Do you want to preserve the vital soil creatures? Then no-till is for you. It's an easy, highly effective way to garden. Here's a short introduction to how you can throw away that rototiller and hang up the shovel.
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Of Weeds And Thugs, Part1
Wouldn't it be nice if our gardens only held the plants we like? No one loves to weed, especially when they get out of hand. And have you ever planted something you regreted later? Find out what you are up against and what you can do about it in this two part article.
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Random Thoughts
Just some random thoughts for the spring. How come my plants aren't up? Is bone meal safe? Want some wood chips?
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Visit to the Botanical Garden
A vist to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
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Bluebirds of North America
Rallying against a scourge of many challenges, the bluebird population appears to have gradually increased in recent years.
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Easy Spring DIY Decorating Tips
If you are looking forward to discarding your heavy winter clothing for something lighter, you're also probably looking for easy ways to lighten and freshen up your home.
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Fear of Trying
IF you're hesitant to begin your garden, don't despair. We all had to start someplace!
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Flower Arrangements for Allergy Sufferers
Don't let allergies keep beautiful flowers from gracing the table at the next dinner party. Today's silk flowers are so realistic, they just might have everyone fooled.
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Planting Native Plants
There are some great reasons to plant and grow native species, but there are some significant drawbacks too.
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Spring BBQ Party
The end of spring signals the onset of Graduation parties, Confirmation/Communion celebrations & Memorial Day BBQs. Host your own Spring BBQ with easy entertaining ideas.
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Spring Flowers for Spring Parties
The DIYer can create unique seasonal flower arrangements for Easter, Graduation and all spring events, while still maintaining a budget.
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Winter Lawn Care
An article from HGTV with some different thoughts about weeds and winter lawn care.
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Decorating How-To: Bring the Outdoors In!
The calendar tells us it's Spring - here's how to decorate to make your home agree with the calendar!
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My Garden in Daffodil Season, Week 2
See what's blooming this week in this daffodil garden!
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Ostara/Easter Celebration
There are practitioners of the Olde Religion who are also Christian. Both spiritual paths celebrate spring's holidays with seasonal flowers and foods.
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Pruning: A Cut Above
Pruning. Don't be afraid to prune trees and plants. Most of the time, pruning results in a healthier specimen.
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Spring's In Bloom
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