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Japanese Garden Trees - the Maple
Landscape architecture and garden design would not be the same without Acer palmatum - the favorite tree of many serious plant collectors.
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Japanese Maples: Luxury Lace
Japanese maples are not just gorgeous - they come in so many shapes, sizes and colors that you can fit them into almost any garden scheme.
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Online Nurseries 2000 - Foliage Gardens
It's that time of year again! Time to tell you about more mailorder nurseries who are online with marvelous plants to feed our gardener's lust. Foliage Gardens is a nursery that all shade gardeners should know about. There are lots of lovely images, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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Japanese Zen Garden Plants
These plants are authentic choices for a Japanese garden and provide color, contrast of form and a meditative beauty to a reflection garden area.
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Mobile Botanical Gardens in Mobile Alabama
Of the many things to do in Mobile, Alabama, visiting this 100-acre botanic garden in the heart of the city is the most relaxing.
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Planting a Shade Tree and Memories
Trees affect our lives and deserve recognition and planting in gardens and parks.
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Plants for a Japanese Garden
The homeowner said yes to a Japanese inspiration garden. Now it's time for the interior designer and landscape designer to visit the nursery and finish their plan.
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The Beth Chatto Gardens - Part 2
Continuing from the last article, looking at Beth Chatto's waterside and woodland plantings.
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Spring Themed Garden Plants
In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.
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Color in the Garden
Everyone has different views and desires when it comes to color. Many landscape designers and garden architects prefer foliage color over flowering garden plants.
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Come Wine and Dine with My "Flying Flowers"
Summer has finally arrived! It's time for the butterfly gardener to enjoy the wonder and delight of watching magical "flying flowers" come to wine and dine! It's also time for the gardener to take a small respite from gardening tasks. I invite you to enjoy a "virtual" stroll with me as I show you the results of just a few of my spring gardening efforts.
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Designing a Japanese Zen Garden
A relaxing garden atmosphere for reflection and meditation is easy to create using some of these ancient Japanese principles in your garden landscape design.
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Halloween Themed Garden Plants
Spooks, magic, ghouls, and black cats. October's All Hallow's Eve can be fun to celebrate in the garden with these Halloween named plants.
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Harvest and Autumn Themed Garden
Plant names are rich with charm and description. These annuals, perennials and shrubs all have fall, autumn or harvest themed names.
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In Bed with your Garden
A coppice here, a coppice there<br>A bed of beauty everywhere
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Installing a Japanese Garden
It's planting day for the Japanese gardens and the temperature is soaring. Will the inspiration garden be inspiring?
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Pondside with a Damselfly
Learn about these lovely creatures and how you can enjoy them at your pond.
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Fall Leaf Color
California Has Fall Leaf Color, Too!
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Planting Under Trees - Part 10
Some plants who are happy and some who are not, growing under an oak (Quercus>) and four dogwoods (Cornus florida) in my USDA zone 7 garden.
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Waiting for the Autumn Fall
The gardens smell earthy after the now frequent rain spells, as if the gardens are holding their breath before the last brilliant scene, a last fling before it all begins again.

Goodbye Yews All - Front Yard Garden Opportunities
That obligatory line of evergreen shrubs that seem to front most houses is no longer a feature at the Wallace's. But it was an accident - and now the possibilities for replanting are endless. So let the fun begin! (All suggestions welcome.)

Christmas Eve Services in China
For many Westerners spending the holiday in China, finding a church and attending Christmas Eve prayer is not as difficult as may be imagined. But they may be surprised.
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RED ALERT!
The first signs of fall are bold but fleeting -- don't get left behind!
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Trees and Shrubs for Fall Color
Fall Color Occurs as the Result of Temperature and Daylight Changes. Trees Species and Selection is Best Made in the Fall to pick a Tree with Desirable Color.
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Black Walnut: Never Plant A Black Walnut Tree
A tale of terrible toxin. Fighting back with hardy species.

Descanso Gardens Visitor Guide
Tourists and local visitors alike will thrill to the flowers, plantings and natural areas at Descanso Gardens. Don't miss the blooming camellias, rosarium and lilacs!
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Herb Glossary: Epazote to K Lime
These plants have a myriad of medicinal, culinary and decorative uses, several of which are detailed here.
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Juneau and the Mendenhall Glacier
Juneau has an olde-worlde American feel about it not unconnected to the rip-roaring days of the Gold Rush.
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New Plants for 2004
Many new plants are introduced each year. I trialed these in my home garden last year.
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Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines
Celebration and Thanksgiving in the fall garden -- some plants for fall and winter interest.
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Planting Around Your Pond
Discover why the area around your pond is just as important as your pond itself and the easy to find plants you can use to provide haven for wildlife.
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The Joy of Gardens
I felt proud and happy that the gardens of Kees and myself could make the visitors forget the troubled world and lose themselves in the soothing, calming and exciting experience of walking our garden paths.

Trees for Southern Landscapes
If there is such a thing as "The Mystique of The South", it is not unrealistic to conjure up a vision of a landscape with magnolias and Spanish moss-draped oaks.
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Watering Basics
Water plants thoroughly with soaker hoses and other efficient watering aids.
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A Winter Garden
There are many choices available to provide color, texture, form and berries for your winter container garden.
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AUTUMN COLOURS.
Admiring some autumn colour in the garden.

Autumn Rest Time? Not Likely
But, in the mean time, I am taking insurance by printing out large photographs taken over the past years to attach to my articles in Suite101.com! The closing of the gardeners’ year? I don’t think so!

Autumn Rest Time? Not Likely
But, in the mean time, I am taking insurance by printing out large photographs taken over the past years to attach to my articles in Suite101.com! The closing of the gardeners’ year? I don’t think so!

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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Dress Up Your Garden
Adding decorative ornaments to your garden --- anything from statues to fountains to gates --- will enhance its beauty and give you a distinctly unique garden space.
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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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Foliage all around me: And Not a Drop of Green
You can have color all year even when nothing is in bloom.
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GARDEN OF DREAMS
Kees and I have shared many happy moments, amongst the times of great anxiety and drama. We have busied ourselves in the creation of a beautiful thing, sharing the toil, the contentment, the anxiety and the sense of fulfilment.
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In Search of Purple
In all its shades and hues, purple is a versatile and striking color in the garden. It can stand alone as a dramatic statement or be combined with a variety of other colors.
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