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How to Grow Daylilies Plant Profile
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are popular flowering perennials with dozens of blooms, each lasting only one day. Hardy plants and colorful blooms look great in the garden.
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Low-Maintenance Plants for DIY Landscape Gardens
Low-maintenance plants are top choices for DIY landscape gardeners in designing a feasible landscape. They are no-nonsense picks for memorial and meditation gardens.
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Spring Rose Care, Feeding Help Plants Flourish
Tending winter-ravaged roses hits full stride in May when new growth emerges, providing welcome confirmation your prized plant survived another season of snow and cold.
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Avoiding Deadheading
Planning is the key to cutting down on your deadheading chores. Find out which shrubs, perennials, and annuals you should choose if you're interested in a low-maintenance garden.
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Easy Care Gardens for Gardeners of All Ages
Our priorities and interests change as we age. Yet, most people want to continue gardening as they grow older. With the right garden plan and proper gardening tools, we can progress from middle age to our senior years without giving up gardening.
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HELPFUL HINTS ON CHOOSING HERBS
A new gardening season will begin soon. Here are some helpful hints on choosing herbs for your garden.
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How to Grow Creeping Phlox Plant Profile
Known for evergreen foliage color and a blanket of color in the spring, creeping phlox is a well-deserved favorite of garden borders, rock gardens and raised beds.
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How to Grow Spider Flower Plant Profile
Spider flowers are fast growing annual plants that are tall and long-legged. Cleome plants are great for the back of borders.
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How To Use Beardless Iris
Beardless irises are easy to use. Species like the Siberian iris and Louisiana iris are excellent low maintenance plants for the perennial plant gardener.
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Ornamental Grass Hakonechloa Macra Aureola
Learn why the Perennial Plant Association named Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' Perennial Plant of the Year for 2009. An ornamental Japanese Hakone grass worth growing.
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Ornamental Grasses
Discover 4 fabulous ornamental grasses to grow in key areas of the garden, creating striking contrasts of color and shape. Plus tips for where to plant for best effects.
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Memorial and Meditation Garden Landscapes
Modern low-maintenance plants surrounding walkway and patio edges in memorial and meditation garden designs convey intimacy. Choosing suitable garden plants is crucial.
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Learn How To Grow Veronicas
Veronica is an easy to grow perennial plant. Commonly known as speedwell, veronica will grow in butterfly and cutting gardens where their upright spires will be enjoyed.
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Low Maintenance Garden Plants
Everyone wants foundation landscapes that look great, but not everyone wants to spend hours in the garden each week. These plants are easy keepers that look great!
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Peonies are Legacy Plants
The garden shouldn't be skipped when looking for treasures to share with your children. Peonies are perfect plants to share with future generations.
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Sky Pencil Holly
Does your garden design make you hum? Or, do you look at the layers of plantings and hear a symphony? If you want a symphony, include Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil Holly'.
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Choose From Many Types of Coleus
Choose the type of coleus that will thrive in part shade or part sun. Whether called Solenostemon or coleus, these plants grow easily indoors or outside in gardens.
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How to Grow Coleus Plants
Learn how to grow coleus as a houseplant or in summer annual in planting beds. Solenostemon is a tropical low maintenance foliage plant, a good choice for any gardener.
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How to Plant and Care for a Bottlebrush Plant
Planting and caring for a bottlebrush (latin name: Callistemon) requires minimal upkeep but results in maximum floral beauty.
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Mistakes Made Container Gardening
When container gardening remember plant spacing and maintenance, such as regular watering and deadheading flowers, are necessary for a healthy potted garden.
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Put Some Spring in Your Sleep!
As the last few months of winter wane, spring is in everyone's minds. Garden expert P. Allen Smith demonstrates some easy ways to bring a spring garden inside.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Joe Pye Weed
Find out how to use Joe Pye Weed in a Bog Garden setting and what it does as an old folk remedy.
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Colonial Homes and Revival Gardens
The House of the Seven Gables Historic Neighborhood and complimentary Colonial Revival Gardens result from foresight and actions of antiquarians Emmerton and Chandler.
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Companion Planting With Poppy and Iris
Oriental poppies and tall bearded iris are excellent companion plants in a garden. These perennial plants begin as spring flowering plants but continue to early summer.
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Deer-resistant Loropetalums
The 2009 Southern Living™ Plant Collection features three dwarf deer-resistant Loropetalum cultivars for low-maintenance southern landscape gardens.
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Eight Easy Perennials
Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.
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Flowers of Shasta Daisy Brighten the Garden
The bright flowers of the Shasta Daisy contrast well with its glossy, dark green foliage, and seem to glow at night.
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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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Perennials: Design to Impress
Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"
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Recycling Glass Can Save You Money
Glass containers of all kinds can be recycled, repurposed and reused in stylish and elegant ways if you just resuscitate that little old imagination gene.
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Spring Flowering Plant Solomon's Seal for Shade
Solomon's seal is a native perennial plant that flowers in spring while growing in shade. The tiny white flowers light up dark woodland plantings.
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Stokes' Aster for Sustainable Gardens
Drought tolerant native perennials like Stokes' Asters are good for sustainable gardens. Stokesia laevis 'Purple Pixie' is one summer blooming aster for small spaces.
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Texas Gardening – Cover Crops to Enrich Soil
Cover crops are not just for farmers. A Texas vegetable garden reaps great rewards from cover crops. Cover crops planted in fall will feed a spring garden.
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Top Ten Tips for Growing a Drought Tolerant Yard
States across the country are experiencing severe droughts and homeowners are being charged more or being fined for watering their lawns (and the sidewalk)!
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Tough Easy to Grow Rosa Rugosas
Rugosa roses are easy to grow plants perfect for tough landscapes. Gardeners who like naturalized gardens will find wild shrub roses low maintenance plants.
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Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia) Shrubs and Trees
Landscape gardeners have numerous crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia) hybrids and cultivars from which to choose. Options suit most southwest and southern landscape settings.
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EASY CARE GARDENS WITH HERBS
To keep gardening chores to a minimum, easy care gardens are needed. Start with herbs and other low-maintenance plants.
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Gardening With Wild Indigo
Wild Indigos are good meadow plants but also look attractive and are well-behaved in a perennial border, not crowding out their neighbors.
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Summer Flowering Plants for Hot Humid Weather
Grow these summer flowering plants in gardens during hot humid weather. Types of Achillea, Ajuga, Dianthus, Rudbeckia and Scaevola tolerate damp summer heat.
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HERBS FOR GROUND COVERS
When ground cover plants are needed choose herbs. They bring interesting textures, color, and fragrance to the landscape.
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The Creaky Gardener Simplifies the Yard
Garden 'til you drop? Sure - as long as you can simplify the lanscape into something manageable.

When Pigs Fly
"Easy Low Maintenance Perennials" are a joke and the joke's on you! But it's a relative term -- there are some easy spring tasks in the perennial garden. And there are some low maintenance perennials. Find out what they are here.
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How to be Popular with Your Perennials - and Vice Versa
There are some perennials which are lovely, and care-free - or close to it. This week we look at the criteria for a really low-maintenance perennial that will make gardening a real pleasure.

More Plants in the Circle Garden
This week, we'll continue around the perimeter of the Circle Garden and talk about the plants that live there.
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Potpourri to Attract Pretty Butterflies!
Butterflies are already migrating north from their southern overwintering habitats. A brand new generation will soon be seeking nectar for energy and host plants on which to lay their fragile eggs. Plant a potpourri of nectar and host plants early to attract them to your garden.
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Gardening - Make it Easy on Yourself
Sometimes contemplating the amount of work that the garden seems to demand can be daunting. Here are some hints, tips, tricks and tools that can help to keep keep the enjoyment in our garden activities.

Late Color
As November wends it's way into December, bleak becomes the adjective to describe the landscape for gardeners in the northern hemisphere. This week, I have some eyecandy to stave off color starvation for winter frustrated gardeners. <b>Warning - this one is photo intensive</b> and may be slow to load for you.
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Mints
Suite101 column description: Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.
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The Nearly-No-Work Shade Garden
Some plants for the shady garden that demand little from the gardener - except maybe some admiration.

Coleus Angel Wing Begonia and Sweet Potato Vine
Here is an annual plant combination for a container in a small front porch garden. Coleus, an angel wing begonia and a new lime green sweet potato vine is one idea.
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