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A Garden Plan That Works
The Plan! The Plan! You know you're supposed to do it, but how do you start? The first of three steps to an individualized garden plan you can do yourself and then really use.
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Bones in the Garden - A Tale of Garden Planning, Part 1
Bones in the garden? Sounds frightening unless you realize they are made of stones and shrubs and benches - all those lovely things that give your garden shape - and winter interest.
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Book Review: Really Small Gardens
Book review of "Really Small Gardens" by Jill Billington. This is a guide to plannig a small garden.
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Dream Gardens: Planning for Reality
Winter gardening -planning so that THIS year you'll finally get that garden in your mind out into the yard.
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Garden Design Sites to Savor
Thinking of a new bed for the New Milennium? Here are Editor Susan's netpicks on garden design, from sites that guide you through the basics of balance and symmetry, through sites where you can choose specific bed plans.
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Garden Dreams and a Winter Meal
Which seeds will grow the best plants for you? Winter garden planning, and while you're planning, have a bowl of Winter Stew...
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Garden Planning and Indoor Plants
Holiday shoppers will find gardening books suitable for may people. Here are two that will help gardeners design gardens or select suitable houseplants.
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Garden Plans
Making the right choices for your garden in the spring can help simplify maintenance later on and ensure a bountiful, carefree garden season.
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Garden, Conservation, Red Tape
When we purchased the land, we learnt that originally there had been a good stand of Backwood trees growing naturally on the property. We decided to restore a small forest of the Acacias as our conservation gesture.
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Herb Garden Planning: Seeds
Start planning your herb garden now by selecting and ordering seeds.
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Hiring A Landscape Professional
A new landscaping can be a tremendous undertaking, both monetarily and mentally. If the homeowner delves into this task with little or no planning, the results will be dismal at best. Here is what you need to know when considering your latest landscaping project.
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Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Introduction
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situation and how the problem is solved. The first of a series of articles on plants that will thrive in these difficult conditions.
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January Garden Planning
It's January, and the warm days of spring and summer are still far into the future for most. Now is the time to make plans!
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Our Changing Climates and Mulches.
Changing Climates and Mulches in the garden. Climate change is impacting now. Have you noticed?
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Part Three: Put It On Paper
How to make a garden plan you'll eally use, part three.
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Plan Now for Next Year's Garden!
Planning ahead for the next year's garden is a key fall activity.
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Plan Your Kitchen Garden
Learn how to plan your ideal kitchen garden - including garden type, ideal plants, gardening method, and layout.
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Planning the food security garden
1st of 3 articles exploring food security and garden design
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Planning Your Herb Garden
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Put It On Paper: Garden Plan Part Three
From idea to scale drawing and shopping list: how to get perfect results from your garden plan in three easy steps.
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Taking Stock, out in the Garden
By now all of your gardens should be in full swing. Early plants have gone, and the Summer ones are producing. Now is the time to take stock. You need to record the successes and total bombs, in your gardens.
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The Garden Notebook
A garden journal can be a real help to the organic gardener. By recording the daily happenings in your garden, you can avoid future mistakes, repeat your successes, and make your garden more productive. This article tells how to keep a garden journal and how to use it.
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The New Garden: Dreams & Plans
Let the garden transformation begin! How to turn a small, soggy section into a gardening paradise.
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The Organized Gardener
How to bring some organization to your gardening activities!
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Theme Gardens - Planning without the Pitfalls
Theme gardens can be great fun to plan but may not always work out in the garden unless you use your common sense, give youself a bit of latitude and remember what the plants need.
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Thinking About Fall
Wildscaping is a year-round activity. Don't forget to plan in fall.
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Thinking: Garden Plan Part Two
A good plan takes a little thought -- and the payoff is terrific! Make it easy on yourself!
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Time to Plan Your Veggie Garden
It may be February, but it's time to plan your Veggie Garden. From the plan to the seed purchase, I'll help you get ready for Spring Veggies.
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Unity - Part 5 - Texture
This is the fifth in a series about how to create a garden that is a unified work of art.
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Vegetable Garden Planning: A Little Goes a Long Way
Meat doesn't grow on trees, but vegetables do! Before time gets away from you, start planning next year's vegetable garden. A little planning today will make next summer's gardening (and eating) much more relaxing!
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Where Do We Go From Here?
When a gardener finds the space is full, what next? Here are some thoughts on how to decide what to take out to make room for more.
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Winter is the Time to Plan
Winter is a good time to plan for the future success of your backyard habitat. Some thought now will enhance the wildlife-friendly nature of your garden.
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Yard and Garden Planning Reader Questions
Readers ask questions about dividing and deadheading perennials as well as overwintering coleus and fish in a water garden.
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Your Child's New Garden, Plan now for Planting Later
Gardening holds many benefits for children and families. Start early in the winter to be prepared for gardening during the following season. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Herbal Tea Garden Design
Learn how to design an herbal tea garden using herbs such as mint, lemon balm and chamomile that is not only practical but also a fun place to entertain.
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A Chance to Start Over
The silver lining in this cloudless time of drought - we now have a chance to correct old mistakes and plant things that will do well for us and look great.
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A Small Garden in the West of Ireland
A small garden - but full of wonderful things!
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An Illusion Of Space
How to make a small garden feel larger
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Annual Flower Varieties
A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.
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Autumn - Time For Change
Autumn is the best time of year to start making changes to your garden
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Beating the Gardener's Winter Blues
This is a brief review of garden planning techniques. I review considerations touched on in the "Planning Your Garden" article of March in advance of the seed-starting season in February.
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Camellias Flourish in the Spring Garden
Spring arrives and the camellias are dazzling
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Can This Garden/Marriage Be Saved?
Garden with a partner and you have to develop strategies for coping and compromise.
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Design with Confidence
Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!)
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Florida Garden Tune-Up
Overview of basic Florida garden tasks for mid-summer.
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Flower Garden Style
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
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Front Entry Facelift and Gardens for Butterflies
The front door of your home sends out a welcome to family, neighbors and passers-by. But if your front entry could use a little makeover, find out how to give your front entry a facelift. Plus, learn basic techniques to turn your backyard into a rest stop for fluttering butterflies.
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Garden Restoration of a Country Garden
The history of a beautiful Tasmanian garden
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How Many Plants Do I Need?
Tips on figuring out how many flower plants you need to complete your flower garden design and how to space your plants in the flower garden.
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How Many Plants To Use
Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)
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