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Memories, Milestones & Miracles
Memories, Milestones & Miracles: breast cancer research campaign during the month of May.
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Create Blooming Winter Gardens
Use Weeping Winter Jasmine, Clematis, Honeysuckle and other climbing plants to color winter gardens. Vigorous climbing plants can be used for cover of unsightly walls.
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Sansevierias
Sansevierias: their cultivation, propagation and species.
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Grasses make unusual decorations
Pots of showy grasses for table decorations bring the outdoors in and reflect personal style. Perfect table decorations for themed wedding receptions and other parties.
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Buying A Rose Bush
Buying a rose bush is an investment. Will it thrive and flourish in your flower garden? Follow these rose buying tips and be an educated rose consumer!
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Grow Plants From Seed or Seedling
Some gardeners prefer to start vegetable and flower plants from seed. Others purchase young plants. Most growers do a little of both. Here are tips to help you decide.
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Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part I
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situaiton and how the problem is solved.
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Finding Your Geographic Zone
Use the USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map to ensure the plants you choose for your landscape will survive even the most extreme weather conditions.
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Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part 3
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situaiton and how the problem is solved. Part 3 - Discusses Lavendula plants as good choices for hot, dry, clay soils.
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Preparing A Garden Plot
Preparing the garden plot for vegetable gardening success. A basic how to for garden soil amendments. Links to cooperative extensions in US and Canada Agriculture.
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Guide To Buying Houseplants
You can buy houseplants almost anywhere. Here's a guide to getting the best plants for your money. Learn what to look for and what to avoid.
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Sure You Can Grow It - It’s Just An Annual Here
Using tender perennials as annuals to expand a gardener's choices in the North.
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Vermiculture and Worm Composting
Vermicomposting (Worm Composting) saves money, recycles, and benefits the earth. Worm castings are natural fertilizer. E-Z vermiculture with this basic worm bin plan.
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Black Lace Sambucus
With the way the winds blow in Kansas, I'm wondering if I should have skipped the Japanese laceleaf maple and planted a Black Lace Sambucus.
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Science Technology Lesson Plan
Students create their own "virtual garden" in the classroom and share it with others in the cyber community. Learn how to set up your own classroom project in this article.
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Shopping for Native Plants
Finding retail garden centers that sell native plants has become easier with a new website. Read today's article to learn more about American Beauties.
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Adding a Pergola to Your Garden
Pergolas or architectural arbors are a great addition to your exterior, drawing guests into its space.
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Books About Houseplants
Whether you need growing tips, troubleshooting advice or just need to identify a plant , these books can help!
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Buy An Insect Pest Free Rose
Beyond overall looks and vigor, check your new rose bush carefully for pests before you bring it home from the store. Does it have aphids, whiteflies, or spider mites?
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Feeding Your Houseplant
Plants, like people, need food to grow and thrive, but it's important to give them just the right food and just the right amount.
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Keeping A Garden Journal
Flower gardeners need to keep written and photographic records for future reference. The best place to do that is in your garden journal. Every good garden deserves one!
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Mulch Mulch and More Mulch
Mulch in your garden is a wise investment. Any time and money you spend will be richly rewarded with a big reduction of pests and disease. Your plants will be healthier
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Native Plants in An Organic Garden
Native plants make a fine addition to your organic garden for a variety of reasons; economy, ecology, beauty and more.
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Poinsettia Basics
Selecting and caring for a poinsettia is simple and easy.
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Shopping as Muse?
Going shopping means you're hit with a lot of inspiration all at once... and not only for the project you've gone out for. Bring a notepad to jot down what you see!
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Therapeutic Gardening
Spring is here and there has never been a better time to glean the spiritual and therapeutic benefits of gardening. Learn what plants to choose and get started.
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Trees and Love: Sources
Selecting a tree for celebration or remembrance can be as simple as a visit to a local garden center. Or you may want to donate to a nature or garden charity.
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Comfrey for the Urban Herb Garden
This next installment of "Medicinal Herbs for Small Gardens" focuses on easy-to-grow comfrey, and includes recipes for medicinal preparation and the usual dose of magic.
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Cool Season Containers
Cool season annual flowers bloom into late fall and earliest spring and sometimes flower all winter. Ideal in pots or planters by the door, walk or mailbox.
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Farmer's Market
The pleasures of plant shopping at the Minneapolis Farmer's Market.
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First Aid For Houseplants
Like people, houseplants can contract diseases. Some are caused by bacteria, others by viruses or fungi. Here's how to nurse them back to health!
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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Gardening for Beginners
Call it Gardening 101 - even the greenest beginner can learn how to have a beautiful yard that will be the envy of neighbors. And it doesn't have to cost a fortune.
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Gardening Gifts for Spring
This article contains and ideas for spring gifts of plants and flowers that children can prepare and give. Celebrate the growing season with these gifts of joy.
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Get Your Lawn Ready For Winter
Preparing your lawn for wintertime is easy and inexpensive. Simple things you can do now will help make your grass green next spring.
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Global Gardening Zones
Global Gardening Zones gives resources for gardening zones worldwide, including information on what gardening zones are and how to use them to plant your garden
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Growing Garden Plants from Seed
Many types of vegetables, herbs and flowers are very easy to grow from seed. You can save money and find a larger variety to choose from when you start your own.
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Growing Vegetables in Containers
You don't even have to have a small patio to grow vegetables. A front stairway stoop will even work for a container garden.
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Growing Vegetables Part I
Part I of a 3-part series on growing vegetables in spring: Vegetable plant list; gardening tips; planting asparagus and beans; best gardening tool to stake beans...
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How to Buy Healthy Plants
This is the time of year when the gardening bug bites and people are beginning to buy a lot of plants. Make sure you know what to look for when buying your plants.
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How to Keep Pond Fish Healthy
Having a healthy pond assures a healthy start for the fish you add to it. Fish will thrive with little care if proper set up is done before they are brought home.
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How to Plant Tomato
I've added gardening tips that turn a simple article on "How to Plant Tomato" into an article on building better root systems and support systems to increase yield...
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