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Fertilizer management of South Florida's alkaline soil can help any gardener or landscaper improve plant care and create a lush tropical environment.

It can be difficult to find good plants for shaded areas in your garden design, but many attractive evergreen and flowering shrubs will grow well in a shady garden.

Garden plants can benefit from sun, water and a good nutrient solution. Natural fertilizers help plants to grow healthy and strong plus benefit the environment as well.

Here are more Rudbeckia hirta ideas to grow. These easy to grow black-eyed susans attract butterflies helping to create sustainable annual plant gardens.

Building a water garden is a wonderful hobby, but it can take several seasons to get the balance right to create the perfect atmosphere. Patience is the key to success.

Celebrate spring with composting in this hands-on garden activity that brings reading, writing, and science curricula together for elementary school students.

Beardless irises are easy to use. Species like the Siberian iris and Louisiana iris are excellent low maintenance plants for the perennial plant gardener.

Easy instructions for creating garden markers with old wood pieces and your favorite images or specialty papers.

Cattails are a water garden favorite, here is more about them.

A look at a few bog plants designed for water gardens or just plants for a bog garden.

While many will naturally use water lilies in the water garden for floating plants, there are those that will like a change of pace.

The common sundew is a carnivorous bog plant that grows in temperate climates. The Drosera genus catches and eats insects using sticky tentacles.

A look at three ferns that stay under two feet tall in a landscape.

Vitamin K, or phylloquinone, is often found in topical creams used to minimize dark circles and spider veins.

Flowerbeds need to be weeded on a regular basis, but weeding often comes after other priorities. If neglected too long weeding becomes a major effort, not a small chore.

National display gardens have reliable plant collections. In Canal Winchester, Ohio, Garden on Cedar Hill Road has more than 1000 daylilies growing.

Gardeners often choose garden plants that are attractive to birds. Here's a sampling of plants of various types that you might use.

Year-round color, rich greenery, and bright, flashy blooms are available to gardeners who live in dry climates, such as the southwestern United States.

Sandy, clay or loam, it's important to make sure a garden's soil is ready to feed new plants.

Introduce the family to something new by growing these five unusual food plants in the vegetable garden or container.

Combine several flowering plants with different colors and leaf textures into a single large container to create a stunning visual effect-like an impressionist painting.

By forcing bulbs indoors gardeners can enjoy the scents and colors of early spring when the ground outside is still covered in snow.

Seed saving is an old art form that is coming back into fashion with the fears of a recession hitting. Learn how to save money while growing your own food

Before you spend money on expensive pesticides and weed-killers for your garden, consider an organic alternative by planting beneficial plants together.

Companion planting is an organic, chemical-free way to achieve maximum productivity, beauty and health in your garden.

Designing a garden in the Capitol City and other hot summer climates can prove challenging. Read on for tips that will help to produce a landscape that thrives.

Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!

Purple foliage creates a stunning accent in the garden, particularly when contrasted against gold or yellowish green leafed plants. Here are several great purples.

Trees and shrubs are easy to plant if you follow a few simple rules: Plan first, buy from a reputable dealer, and dig the hole properly.

Even though there are a wide variety of plants available, some may not be suitable for your tank because of the environment you created.

Propagating plants can be for a variety of reasons; for personal pleasure or to make money. Either way, it can be a rewarding pastime.

Rex begonias grow best in shade. The striking foliage of Begonia rex cultorum makes this a good choice as a houseplant or for outside gardens.

Combine landscape design principles with regionally adapted plants to personalize the sterile outside of a building with one's unique perspective on beauty and form.

Don't give up on keeping houseplants just because you've had some disappointments, even spectacular disappointments, in the past.

Floral bouquets are beautiful. But unless you take time to preserve them, they won't last more than a few days. Here are some tips for preserving cut flowers.

This deciduous ethnobotanical tree from Africa is easy to cultivate and contains a number of beneficial medicinal compounds.

Some vines in trees work well with the tree, but some invade the tree's canopy and eventually kill the tree.

Don't rest on your laurels now that you've got everything planted. Your crops need more from you than the occasional watering in order to thrive.

Rotting stems, withering plants and yellow foliage are all signs of disease or nutrient deficiency in cabbage and other plants.

Versatile in so many preparations and cuisines, garlic is also an easy home garden crop. A little fall planting will yield deliciously fragrant early summer rewards!

Pruning hydrangeas correctly at proper times produces large, eye-catching flowers. Hydrangea plant structure and bud formation determine pruning methods.

Peaceful education at home can extend outdoors as families commune with nature.

Seaside gardens need protection against coastal winds and seaside erosion. The types of trees and shrubs are limited, but native plants already extant are good choices.

How to find a good quality plant store or nursery when you shop for flowers and plants. Use this handy check list to evaluate retail nurseries in your local area.

More people are becoming vegetarians, and experts say that as long as you eat a variety of fruits, vegetables and whole grains you will get all the nutrients you need.