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Here's Looking at You, Kid: Focal Points in the Garden
A cottage garden without a strong focal point is like Bogart without Bacall, the Mona Lisa without her smile, or Florida without its Crackers.
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Create a Pizza Garden
This is a fun activity to involve kids in gardening - or to do for yourself, as a unique focal point in a vegetable garden.
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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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The Garden of Octavius Quartio
The garden of Octavius Quartio is unusual for a Roman townhouse. Covering a large area, it displays many of the features usually found in the gardens of country villas.
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Weeping Silhouettes in the Garden
One way of adding interest to the garden is through the use of plants with pendulous, weeping growth habits.
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A Seat by the Pond
Use wooden, wrought iron, or cast aluminum benches to draw attention to the pond, or use them as a place to sit quietly next to the water garden.
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Early Spring Flowers Can Take the Cold
As winter fades into memory, plant these hardy annuals for a burst of spring color. Each flower can withstand typical spring weather and chilly nights.
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Give Gardens a Tropical Touch with Heliconias
The spectacular Heliconia is exotic and graceful. It is ideal as a landscape focal plant, thrives as a potted plant and lasts for ages as a decorative cut flower.
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Outdoor Holiday Decorating Ideas
Instead of focusing all your energy on hanging Christmas lights and trimming the tree, spend some time decorating the outdoors with these holiday decorating ideas.
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Dwarf Conifers for Suburban Gardens and Patios
For maintenance free gardening, especially on patios and suburban gardens, dwarf conifers are the ideal choice. Dwarf conifers come in many colors and sizes.
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Gardens of Moorish Spain
While much of Europe was still in the dark ages, Moorish rulers in Spain were creating gardens of breathtaking sophistication.
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Larkwhistle garden
Continuing our photo tour of the Bruce Peninsula, we pay a visit to Larkwhistle, the garden of writer Patrick Lima and his partner John Scanlan.
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Sissinghurst Castle - Part Twelve
Sissinghurst's Moat Walk is one of the most restrained parts of the garden, but it has a complex design.
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