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Texas Gardening Adding Antique Roses
Antique roses are hardy plants that survive and thrive in Texas's challenging conditions. Old rose varieties smell like roses should. Lots of color and style variety.
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In Love and War: The Saga of the Rose
The rose's place in love, war, and history
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Trapped in the Garden: Adventures in Spring Pruning
Learn the three Ds of pruning - and what happens when you get so caught up in the sheer joy of sculping your trees and shrubs into healthy, well shaped plants that you forget to look at the area surrounding them.
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Heirloom Country Gardens
Horticultural researcher at Rodale Institute Experimental Farm, Sarah Wolfgang Heffner presents a delightful book introducing gardeners to heirloom country gardens.
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How to Grow and Use Edible Flowers
Plant edible flowers among the rows in the kitchen garden. They're useful in attracting pollinators like bees to the other plants, ornamental - and also delicious.
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How to Grow Bourbon Roses Reblooming Antiques
Bourbon roses were the first of the Old Garden Roses to have a repeating bloom period. These antique roses range in color and form but were very popular and fragrant...
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Roses that Bloom in Multicolor
Some shrubs almost look like trick plants, because they flower in several colors at any given time in their blooming period.
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Spring Gardens: Problems and Promises
The anxiously awaited green things are peeping through the mulch - along with a few less pleasant surprises. Here we go again - Gardening time!

Cottage Garden Plants Part Two
There is something delightful about the a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See part two of the twelve best plants!
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Selecting an Old Garden Rose
Here is a list of the recognized rose classifications for Species and Old Garden Roses and ideas for using rose plants in various garden designs and landscape situations.
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Heirloom Gardens PT II
Part 2 of Heirloom Gardens article listing some of the heirlooms available to gardeners.
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Giverny
Giverny, located about 45 miles northwest of Paris, is a quaint French village, best known as the home of Impressionist painter, Claude Monet.
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How to Grow Organic Roses
Roses can succumb to many pests and diseases, but the organic gardener can grow these lush flowers without resorting to herbicides or pesticides.
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Rugosas -- Prickly perfection: Antique Roses, Part 2
If you think of roses as high maintenance, difficult-to-grow plants, try rugosas. Lovely, repeat blooming and very easy to grow and care for.

TO EACH HIS OWN
We all have our own gardening styles, and there is no wrong way to garden.
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Gardening - an Attitude Adjustments -Part 2
We've all grown accustomed to our own styles of gardening, as well as with certain plants that we love even if they are a lot of work. But as we grow less able, something has to change - and it could very well be our attitude about what our garden should be, or about the plants we love.

Meet the 'Other' Clematis
We know them as vines - do we know their shrubby counterparts that can help to weave the garden together?

One Garden - Two Pairs of Eyes
You may both be looking at the same garden - but you may both be seeing something entirely different.

Blooming Biases - Plants that will never make my "A" list.
It's your garden party - so give some thought to the invitation list. Do you really want bores, or uptight plants, or those that demand to be pampered and petted beyond endurance? Or would you prefer those that bring delight and variety to the party?
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Temptation in the Garden
How to turn plant lust into long term love. Believe it or not - it could take some research!

Workhorses and Soul Satisfiers - Plants I'd Never Give up.
There are some plants a gardener simply can't do without. More than pretty fillers of spaces, these guys do double or even triple duty in extending our gardening pleasure.
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An Almost No Work Sunny Garden, Part 1
Let's start with the basics - plants that ask little and give big - filling spaces with year round interest and few requirements - and some that even help you with your gardening work! This week we look at shrubs, vines and groundcovers for an almost no work garden. Next week we'll fill in the blanks with flowers.

Garden Miracles in the Grocery Store Line
Just check the magazine covers as you stand in line waiting to pay for your groceries. Look at the promises. No work gardens. Instant beauty. Perfect plants. What's myth? What is reality?


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