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One-Seed Juniper
Along with the pinyon pine, the one-seed juniper can add beauty and structure to a desert garden.
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Junipers, not just the same old boring evergreens
Junipers are often thought of as boring plants. Well...often they are when they are hedged and made to mimick the neighbor's yard. Be wild! Grow them like they belong there!
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JUMPIN' JUNIPERS!
Is the juniper the answer to all your wildscaping problems? Probably not, but there's a lot to recommend this overused native plant!
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Top 5 Low Desert Evergreen Trees
Low-desert gardens, those areas that are below 4,000 feet in elevation and between zones 7 and 9, are suitable for these trees.
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The Lost Girl
The Lost Girl touches on a number of interesting methods used by fortune tellers and serves as an introduction to parapsychology.
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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 Gourmet Vegetarian in Italy
If you fancy trying your hand at some gourmet vegetarian recipes, check out The Vegeterranean, a new Italian cookbook.
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Low Water Use Plants
Plants that need less water are rapidly becoming available at nurseries across the world. Colorful, fragrant and beautiful, these plants have transformed desert gardening
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Arid Zones in The Garden
The third zone in a desert garden is the "arid" zone, one that requires little or no supplemental water after they are established. Read about the "arid" zone, and the pl
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International New Year's Customs
Great ideas to add international New Year's customs into your celebration; ideas from Spain, Japan, Scotland, and Venezuela are included.
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Homemade and Homedried Potpourri
We all know how expensive store bought potpourri can be. Then your stuck with someone else’s idea of a good blend. Why not make your own? It isn’t hard and will save you lots of money.
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Allelopathic Plants: Lone Killers
Some plants just can't get along with other plants. In fact, they might just be out to kill their neighbors.
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Evergreen Plants in Winter Gardens
Learn some guidelines for using evergreens in the garden to provide winter winterest. Look at the types of evergreens available, and variety of uses for your landscape.
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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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More Helpful Healing Herbs: HAWTHORN to MILK THISTLE
The herbs included in this section, from Hawthorne to Milk Thistle, are fascinating and offer great aid to overall good health. The world of alternative medicine, which is the use of herbal treatments and remedies is full of helpful and beneficial information. There are numerous supplements and treatments which can prolong and enhance life. They're certainly worth a try and this information should constantly reinforce our will to "never give up!"
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Top 12 Evergreen Trees
There are 5 species of evergreen trees that do well in high deserts up to 7,500 feet and 7 species that do well up to 10,500 feet.
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WHAT winter color??
Its tough to get color and beauty in a winter garden when you live in the frozen north. But all that blankness does have its compensations.
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Where to Eat in Manchester England
Good restaurant guide showing places to eat, types of food, and prices , in and around Manchester. Proof that food in England can be interesting as well as delicious.
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Major Pinyon Diseases
Several diseases and parasitic infestations cause untold damage to pinyon pines. Here are ways to help recognize and diagnose them.
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Egyptian Medical Treatments
Ancient Egyptian physicians took advantage of their available natural resources to help treat many common ailments and conditions.
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Low-Water-Use Desert Trees
Here are some evergreen and deciduous trees suitable for some desert gardens.
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Make Your Own Perfume
With perfume selling at around $40 to $90 just for a normal mass produced scent, why not spend just $20 and create your own?
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Foliage: The Living Palette - Part 4
Today, I'd like to explore other ways to use foliage contrasts and echoes in the garden.
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How To Make Your Own Body Scrubs
These are not only fun to make but help keep your skin soft and velvety too.
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Crabapple Tree Diseases
Crabapple diseases ruin landscape designs. Bacteria and fungi cause the majority of crabapple diseases. Awareness and proper environments lead to healthy crabapples.
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One Man's Guide to Cheap Flights
How Low Can You Go: Times' travel writer Tom Chesshyre's tale of his budget airline Odyssey round Europe using cheap fares to places he can't spell and can't pronounce
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Planting Gold in the Garden
Many gardeners have discovered that using gold foliage in the landscape is an easy way to add color without depending on flowers.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part IV
More hardy ferns. I have two other members of the Polystichum family that are quite different from Christmas Fern and from each other plus Woodwardia, the netted chainfern.
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Technicolor Winter
Who says winter has to be black and white?
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Colorful Cactus for the Holidays
Place one of these cactus on your mantel or table for festive holiday eye candy. Then plant it in your garden in the spring.
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Kelsey Grammer wins Simpsons Emmy
Television and movie actor wins his 5th Emmy Award for his work on Fox's The Simpsons.
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Winter Tasks for Trees and Shrubs
Trees and shrubs add structural interest to the winter organic garden. Ensure they survive the season with proper maintenance.
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West Coast Groundcovers - Mass Planting Where no Plant has Grown (well) Before
A groundcover guide - with information on planting, spacing, caring for, and groundcover links!
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Beefeater - a London Dry Gin
Beefeater is the only London-style dry gin actually distilled and bottled in London.
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Fire Magick
Ways to bring the positive energy of Fire into your magickal work and daily life. Includes a list of herbs, plants, goddesses and more associated with the element of Fire
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Foliage for the White Garden
To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers.
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Is Your Garden in an Arid Region?
Tiny variations in precipitation, sometimes less than an inch, can change the definition of an area from desert to arid.
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June's Full Moon- the Lover's Moon
Use essential oils, gemstones and meditation on the Goddess Kamala to enhance the energies of love, success and positive relationships during this full moon time.
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Pest Control for Japanese Beetle
Garden pest control tips for Japanese Beetle. The #1 lawn pest, Japanese beetles feed on 300 plant species. Discover organic pest control for Japanese Beetle.
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Selecting a Crabapple Tree
Are you thinking of buying a crabapple but have heard that they are disease prone? Today's article will help you select a crabapple that is disease resistant.
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Using Landscape Fabric
Landscape fabrics work for specific projects. Some plant groups thrive and are easier to maintain than other groups when used with these erosion and weed control fabrics.
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What To Do With Pansies and Violas
Grow pansies and violas to attract butterflies, grow near cool season vegetables, fill in early container gardens or as edible flowers garnishing salads.
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