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Spring Blooming Deciduous Shrubs
Deciduous shrubs are great additions to the garden and these spring blooming shrubs are some of the most pleasant and familiar of the spring-flowering plants.
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How Do You Prune Lilacs?
How and when lilacs are pruned has a large impact on how much they'll bloom. This article will explain it all.
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Identifying Chocolate & Lilac Cats
This article will share a few tips on how to distinguish a lilac or chocolate cat before buying one from a breeder.
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Bewitched By Lilac: Magic Memories
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Lilacs: History and Culture
The ubiquitous lilac deserves its spot in the garden. It is an easy to care for, sweet-scented harbinger of spring.
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Patriotic Themed Garden Plants
What better place to celebrate Independence Day than in a garden full of plants that celebrate that spirit of "freedom and liberty for all".
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A Minnesota Garden
A small slice of heaven in Minnesota
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Choice Vines for Florida Gardens
Vines for connoisseurs
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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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The Fungus Among Us
Ways of dealing with weather-related fungus problems in the garden
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Mackinac Island Area Spring and Summer Events
Mackinaw City, St. Ignace, and Mackinac Island offer a variety of festivals, parades and historical activities each May, June, July, August and September.
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The Collector
You become a plant collector as your passion for gardening increases. Ignoring the limitations of your plot of land the lure of new plants urges more and more purchases that leave you with potted plants waiting to find a home in your garden. But, even in a crowded garden new areas can open up.
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Women, Keepers of the Garden
Though men have designed great gardens, the home grounds and traditions have been kept by the women.
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Transition Desert Garden
The "transition" zone portion of your desert garden will require less water and less maintenance after establishment. Here are some suggested plants, as well as watering
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Geniuses' Getaway
Edison and Ford, celebrated men and long-time friends chose a sublime piece of paradise, off the Caloosahatchee River, to escape to and have fun in the sun
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Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
Spring is glorious in the Cottage Garden -- find out what's in mine.... I hope you like purple! Don't you just love spring!?!
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Summer Flowering Shrubs
There are many shrubs available to choose from for summer flowers. Today's article takes a look at ones that are both loaded with flowers and easy to care for.
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Trees: The Gift of Love - III
Trees can supply a merger of love, good wishes and functional design in a home landscape. Here are some examples of what I've planted.
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Winter and Holiday Themed Plants
There are so many fun ways to enjoy winter in the garden year-round including planting some of these winter themed plants.
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Tulip: History and Culture
Robert Browning is just one writer who has extolled the virtue of this springtime flower. This article looks briefly at the history of the flower "Tulipa"
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Shrubs for the White Garden
Every white garden or moon garden needs white flowered shrubs, either as a surrounding hedge or within the garden itself as an accent. Consider some of these!
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How to Wear Purple in 2008
Purple in its many hues is the color of the season, from lilac and lavender to violet and plum. Find it on footwear and bags, coats, maxi dresses and dirndl skirts.
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Easy Garden Rainbows - Blue
True blue in the garden - difficult to acheive. Many plants sold as blue are actually purple or violet. This list of plants and instructions for growing lists some truly blue flowers to join part of the Easy Garden Rainbows series of articles
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A Garden of Helpful Herbs
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.
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Bedding Plant Time
Gardening in a mild wet and windy climate in the west of Ireland.
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EK Success launches new collection
EK Success is launching a new collection December 2006.
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Oxalis my old Friend - Part 1
White tame flowering, well behaved oxalis to delight your spirits both at flowering time and when in leaf. Oh, the geometry of form.
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Fall Fashion Trends: Vibrant Hues vs. Pastels
Step aside black, this upcoming season is all about sophisticated hues from across the color spectrum.
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Indoor Geraniums-Part 3: Mint-Scented Pelargoniums
Scented Pelargoniums - Part 3
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 4
Bulbs for fall bloom in the shady garden.
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Free Online Greeting Cards
Celebrate your holidays and special occasions by sending free online greeting cards to your friends and family.
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How to Wear Blue for 2008
This guide will help you to choose the right shade of blue to suit your complexion, and tell you which blue hues are fashionable for fall 2008
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Lovely Camassias
Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.
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The Millenium Mullein
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White Fringetree
White Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) is a small native tree to North America with long white fringe flowers. It was the delicate fragrance that caught my attention.
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Another DIFFERENT Winter!
How weather affects dormancy and hardiness of garden plants.
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Butterfly Gardens, 6th in a Series of Children's Garden Themes
Butterfly Gardens need nectar plants and host plants to be really successful. Make a butterfly garden with your child for a fun backyard learning experience. Learn about flowers which attract butterflies and plants which host butterfly eggs and caterpillars. <META Name="keywords" Content="Butterfly garden, children, butterfly host plants, flowers for butterflies, butterfly flowers, kids, butterfly links, children's activities."> Butterfly Gardens attract kids and butterflies in for exciting science learning experiences. Plant to attract the fllying flowers to your child's garden. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Haunted Historic Octagon
The Octagon has a rich history, several legends, is home to multiple ghosts and has poltergeist activity. It was the scene of tragedy which some of the haunters repeat.
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Make a Flower Garden Cake
Are you anxious to see your flowers blooming again? Make a cake to celebrate spring.
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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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Pruning for Plant Health
Proper pruning methods can increase fruit and flower production, and discourage diseases by increasing air circulation and allowing light to reach the plant.
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Pruning Shrubs
How to prune a shrub and when to prune a shrub. Which shrubs flower on new wood and which on old wood.
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Right Plant, Right Place
Right Plant, Right Place is a simple yet powerful concept: plant flowers matched to the growing conditions in your flower garden for better success with less work.
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Traveling Quebec to Montreal
Churches and shrines in villages like Leclercville, St. Michel, St. Antoine de Tilly, Ste. Croix and enchanting views of St. Lawrence River highlight Route 132 drives.
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Balinese Cats
This is a breed very much like the Siamese, but with an incredible, long, ermine coat. The Balinese will keep you entertained!
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Blue Flowered Shrubs
Blue flowering shrubs are unusual but welcome accents to the flower garden. Use them alone or use them to form the bones of an all blue themed flower garden.
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Bringing spring indoors
As the grey days of winter surround us, we are desperate to see a bit of spring. Bringing this feeling into your home can be easily obtained with a few simple steps.
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Clematis in the Spring Garden
There´s a Clematis for every season, but spring-flowering Clematis are the most rewarding and least difficult to grow
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Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew
Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!
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Getting Garden Soil Ready
Sandy, clay or loam, it's important to make sure a garden's soil is ready to feed new plants.
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