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Landscape Design, Tips and Terms
The core of Derek Fell's book "Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure" is an information bank of garden landscape photos, but the introduction is its foundation.
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Eastern Redbud Trees in Landscapes
Eastern redbud trees and cultivars enrich landscape gardens with varieties of form, silhouettes and unusual seasonal color. Site selection is essential for good display.
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International Garden Photographs
April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.
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Landscape Garden Chores
Disease and pest damages, mechanical injuries, and moisture and heat stresses initially appear trivial. Inspection keeps minor maintenance from becoming renovation.
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A Fern For Your Thoughts
Lacy and effervescent-looking, the sturdy fern is often a good choice for problem landscaping areas
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Canadian Internet Resources eh?
The best gardening internet resources for Canadians, complete with research tools, general gardening sites, and places where you can ask questions about your garden problems.
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Color in Autumn Garden Landscapes
Michaelmas daisies shout that autumn has arrived. The garden landscape fills with color and autumn landscaping design ideas are abundant.
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Damage Control - Can This Plant Be Saved?
If your landscape has been neglected and looks like it's reached the Plant Point of No Return, think again. There are many steps you can take to resusitate your garden...without pesticides.
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Finding Hidden Treasures
One man's junk is another man's treasure.
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Garden Landscape Hedges
Landscape garden hedges can be formal or informal. They provide shelter, privacy and barriers. They should complement landscape designs for which they are planned.
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Gardens for Sanctuary
A garden is like a room of our own - a place to escape the workaday turmoil and soothe the soul. Here's how to create one for both for ourselves and to share with friends.
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Historic Garden Landscapes
Here is a garden travel guide for late summer. These ten historic garden landscape articles can help to plan a day outing 0r a lengthy trip or act as a virtual excursion.
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How to Landscape a Natural Garden
For a peaceful garden retreat that relieves stress and increases property values, a creative garden plan incorporates good tree choices, patio design and more.
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Landscaping with Old Garden Roses
Using both once-blooming and repeat-blooming old roses in the landscape.
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Landscaping with Roses - Design Decisions
Part 1 of a 3-part series on designing roses in the landscape
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Landscaping with Roses - Location Decisions
Part 2 of designing roses into the landscape deals with where to locate them
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Landscaping with Roses - Selecting the Rose
Now that the how, why and where decisions have been made, the only thing left is to determine the "which."
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Looking at Plants in their Underwear!
Considering how to make the garden look better from inside the house in winter.
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San Diego Gardens
San Diego Zoo: the landscaping not the animals!
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Site Plans
Site plans map out your grounds, so you will know exactly where and why to plunge that shovel into the dirt for the first time.
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Tips to Create a Garden Landscape
The first step to creating flower gardens can be as simple as grabbing pencil and paper. The tip is to research and plan carefully now to ensure later rewards.
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Weeds in Garden Landscapes
Weeds in garden landscapes are plants growing where they do not belong. Here are tips for effective removal and control strategies that can minimize maintenance.
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Common Landscape Design Problems
An outline and checklist to avoid common problems in the landscape design process. Using this list avoids frustrating and often costly problems.
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Landscape Garden Color
Landscape gardens with coordinated color present unified appearances and pleasing public images. Using color in the garden landscape calls for basic guiding principles.
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Landscapes of Love
Five historic landscapes symbolize five extraordinary couples. Historic landscapes and landscape gardens chronicle the fashions and trends of the times that shaped them.
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Wave® Petunia Landscape Designs
Wave® petunias solve many garden landscape color and design problems. Plant them in containers or garden plots, alone or with other ornamental plants. Photos included.
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Wave® Petunias Design Solutions
Wave® petunias provide inexpensive and eye-catching design solutions. Develop and complete a project in one weekend using these planning tips. Photos provided.
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A Day Out At Duke University
You don't have to be a student to enjoy history, art and sports at Duke University. Spend a day exploring this beautiful campus and see why Blue Devils pride runs deep.
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Create a Colorful Garden with Feng Shui
Use Asian principles of Feng Shui to design garden landscapes. Color combinations may consist of harmonies or contrast for a beautiful flower bed.
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Garden Design and Structure
A review of "An Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden" by Derek Fell, over 800 photographs of landscape elements from A to W.
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Garden History
Modern methods are now available to help recreate historic gardens. Whether the garden is from Ancient Rome or post Civil War, we have tools to help us rebuild them.
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Hollister House Gardens – Rural CT
Hollister House Gardens (Washington, CT) demonstrate how garden designs furnished with plants matched to regional- and micro-climates allow garden landscapes to thrive.
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Hostas in Florida
Try this shade loving plant in your landscape.
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Mid-winter gardening
This article describes a presentation given by Judith Adam during a workshop held at the Civic Garden Centre in Toronto on Sunday, February 28, 1999.
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Small Space Gardening-Book Review
Small Space Gardening by Melinda Myers explores the challenges of creating a garden using less space. Read a book review outlining this valuable garden reference.
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Spring Time, Golden Medal Time?
The Spring display has been so beautiful this year. The Magnolias and the Camellias have never flaunted their grace so proudly and the daffodils have been very busy, unseen by my prying eyes, in the warm, deep earth and have increased their colonies by many golden beacons
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Summertime, and the reading is easy . . .
When temperatures top 30 degrees, a gardeners thought turn to summertime reading. From humour to mysteries, there's a book with a gardening theme to get you through the dog days of summer.
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Tree Death in the Landscape
Avoid tree death in garden and urban landscapes by using appropriate planting and cultural techniques, good sense and attention to detail, especially during construction.
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Annual Poppies as Landscape Focus
Seaside and sheltered landscape plantings and herb gardens present some down-to-earth examples for using annual poppies in natural appearing gardens.
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Beacon Hill of Boston MA
Visitors grasp the distinct quality of the Beacon Hill area during walking tours. Stable populations, historic architecture and urban horticulture add up to a community.
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Beacon Hill Public Garden Spaces
Residents of Beacon Hill's North Slope (Boston, MA) and civic and government groups work to transform derelict spaces and passageways into neighborhood garden spaces.
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Book Review: Landscaping with Wildflowers, By Jim Wilson
Native wild flower gardening is growing in popularity as an urbanized population seeks some contact with its agrarian roots. Books on this topic abound. However, this book by a well known TV personality is not one of the better selections from the genra.
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Colonial Homes and Revival Gardens
The House of the Seven Gables Historic Neighborhood and complimentary Colonial Revival Gardens result from foresight and actions of antiquarians Emmerton and Chandler.
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Container Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Add pizzaz to your container gardening this season! How-to tips, tricks and techniques plus some fun design ideas for window boxes, pots and improvised containers.
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Creating Beds and Borders
A gardening book that highlights garden planning, design, plant selection and special techniques shared by some of the top gardeners in America.
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Designing with Trees
While trees are the main tool of the landscape designer they must be selected carefully to avoid future problems.
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Early Spring Gardening To Do List
Early spring is a great time to get started with your garden. These 10 tips will help you and your soil get ready for spring planting.
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Fall Foliage is Eye Candy
Help yourself to some eye candy! Fall foliage is a gift of nature, one we treasure each autumn. Here's where to find it in person or by web cam and how to bring some home to enjoy and grow in the landscape plan for your own yard or garden design.
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