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Birth Flower for October
The language, legends and history for the calendula; the flower for those born in the month of October.
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Another Mashed Marigold for Mom, A Plea for Cutting Gardens for Kids
Children love having a cutting garden where they can put together surprise bouquets for Mom and other loved ones at whim. Moms love bouquets and Cutting Gardens allow kids the opportunity to pick flowers for mom or themselves. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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An Easy-Care Moonlight Garden
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Annual Flower Variety Names
Select the right named variety of annual flower to grow a specific color or height flower, complete a theme garden, or to try something new and improved -- or different.
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Difficult Gardens: Shady Northern Exposures-Part 2
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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Annual Flower Varieties
A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.
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Herb Teas from My Garden
Herb teas are best if picked fresh from your garden rather than being bought dried and packaged. Many herb tea ingredients can be found in every garden. Experiment to determine your favorites.
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Bedding Plants for Summer Gardens
Brighten up summer gardens with bedding plants. They are ideal for spectacular color displays or as container plants. Check out Salvia, Geraniums, Violas and many more.
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Easy Garden Rainbows - Orange
A top ten list of easy to grow orange-flowered plants, and reasons why orange is such a hot colour in the garden.
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Ewww! Slugs in the Garden!
What's the goofy connection between St. Patrick's Day and slugs? Find out for yourself! Slugs in the garden: how to trap them, catch them, and otherwise deal with them. Did you know some slugs are quite benign? Yechh.
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Top 30 Low-Water Use Perennials
If you're interested in water conservation, but also want a beautiful garden, take a look at these low-water-use flowering perennials.
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Edible Flowers for Colorful Salads
Edible flowers are making a comeback in celebrity chefs' cookery books and in stylish restaurants. Salads are a wonderful way to enjoy the color and flavor of flowers.
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Summer's Last Hurrah
Summer's Last Hurrah: Flowers to keep your summer going into fall/winter.
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
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Easy Garden Rainbows - Yellow
Yellow in the garden, and a listing of top yellow-flowering plants.
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Make a Mary Garden
Learn how to plant a heavenly flower garden full peace and symbolism of the Virgin Mary. Reviving the medieval art of the Mary Garden with some additional modern ideas.
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Northern Spring Perennials
These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.
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Cutting Flowers in the Garden
Cutting flowers in our gardens to bring their pleasure inside.
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Daffodil Blooms are Done, What Now?
What do you do with that ugly daffodil foliage?
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Keeping A Garden Journal
Flower gardeners need to keep written and photographic records for future reference. The best place to do that is in your garden journal. Every good garden deserves one!
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Vegetable Gardens Can be Beautiful
Plant a veggie garden that's gorgeous.
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Common Herbal Substitutes
Every so often, the precise herb that is called for in a recipe may not be available. Here is some information on finding an acceptable substitute.
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Herbs as "Companions"
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Summer Annuals
How to start summer annuals outside in time to enjoy them in the height of the summer.
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Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!

Annual or Perennial?
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters!
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Calendula Colorful Annual Flower
A colorful, hardy annual, Calendula is used as saffron in cooking. This sunny flower has healing antiseptic properties. It is used for decorating Hindu temples.
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Butterfly Gardening
If you choose the right plants and set up your garden in an appealing way, you can encourage butterflies to visit and even establish colonies in your area.
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Plant an Egg Carton Garden
This short article gives instructions for planting a windowsill garden.
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September Gardening In The Low Desert:<P> Get ready! Get set! Grow!

These Plants Came From Africa? Teaching Kids the Origin of Garden Plants
It's important to teach children the origin of plants. Plants we commonly grow can come from many different countries. This article is about plants from Africa. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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What are Bunions ?
A painful swelling next to the big toe joint, this article looks at the causes and conventional and natural treatment of bunions.
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A Tribute to Garden Moms, from Your Garden Kids
A big thank you to the gardening moms who pass on a love of gardening to their kids. A Mother's Day tribute to garden mothers from garden kids. Thanks for loving us. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Gardening In Shade - Introduction
Shade:. Shade can be cool, dappled, heavy, light, dank, dry and wet. It gives relief from summer’s unrelenting heat. Shade provides a home to some of the most beautiful of plants.
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Gardening With Kids
Gardening is easy to do and you can add sparkle with these easy kids crafts.
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Heat Loving Plants
Plants that thrive in the heat of summer. From vines to colorful annuals the summer can fun and fancy free for everyone, including the the gardener.
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Ladybugs in the Organic Garden
Welcome ladybugs to the organic garden to kill several common pests without using any pesticides or chemicals.
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Online plants
How to buy plants online: what to look for in the descriptions.
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Soil for Desert Container Gardens
Desert soil, when mixed with water, will have the consistency of concrete. So, when potting desert plants,you'll need to create your own soil mixtures.
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starting seeds
A guide to when to start sowing seed indoors. How to decide when to start seeds according to your growing zone.
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The Dirt on Dirt
A great science activity book to keep kids entertained in the warmer months!
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Animal Gardens
Animal theme gardens are a great way to involve children in gardening. Linda Mazar shares how how children can plant and play with the lions and tigers and bears or plants named after farm animals. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Butterflies in the Heartlands Part Two
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Planting Plan for a Shady Border
A wide variety of plants can be grown in a shady area. This planting plan provides all-year interest in a north-facing border.
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Aphid Time
Aphid Cntrol
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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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Choosing a Baby Name from Tolkien
JRR Tolkien has inspired a number of parents to call their babies Galadriel and Arwen. Here are some Professor-esque alternatives for Middle-Earth baby names.
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Citrus Plant & Herb Themed Garden
Learn how to use citrus trees and citrus scented herbs such as lemon balm, lime balm and mint to create a citrus theme garden.
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