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Lavender: An Old-Fashioned Flower for Today's Gardeners
Lavender is grown around the world for its wonderful flowers and scent. This article reviews a book discussing all the species known today.
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Cottage Garden Flowers
Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.
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Flowers and Herbs for Halloween
Old fashioned cures, remedies, protections, amulets and charms from your herb and flower garden to make your Halloween trick or treat night a safe, relaxing experience.
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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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The Greeting Card Garden Syndrome: Are You Afflicted? - Part II
A comparison of purist and old-fashioned or tradtional gardeners. A look at the joys and pitfalls each might encounter in pursuing a unique style.
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Herbaceous Borders - Part One
When nineteenth century gardeners began to create herbaceous borders, they thought that they were reviving seventeenth century gardening practices.
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Canna -- An Old Garden Favorite Returns to Popularity
Canna are old fashioned garden plants returning to popularity once again. Learn how to take care of these wonderful plants and about the varieties now available in this new book.
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Cupholder Bouquets
A great inexpensive last-minute hostess gift is a bouquet from your garden.
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Easy Plants to Grow From Seeds
Close your eyes and cast your seeds to the wind. It's almost that simple. A list of nearly fail-proof seeds that produce living, green plants.
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Sweet Memories: Sweet Peas
Sweet Memories; Sweet Peas
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All America Selections for Cottage Gardens
The All America Selections for 2003 include several -- or maybe more than several -- new flowers for cottage gardeners to grow and enjoy in the coming new year.
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Are you Real Gardeners in True Gardens?
I have always qualified the owner of a garden, be it large or small, a wilderness or a precisely laid out formal garden, as a gardener. If the garden speaks of the love and thoughtfulness of the owner, that is qualification enough for me!

Cut Flowers Bring the Garden Indoors
Cut Flowers Bring the Garden Indoors
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Rising Stars
In which I make a prediction about which names will rise to new heights in the future. Spooooooky psychic powers revealed! (Well, no psychic powers, but a good deal of old-fashioned deduction.)
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Simplicity in Herb Garden Design
In the center of a wildly flowering and fragrant herb garden, an inward focus on serenity and classic design.
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Twelve Beautiful Plants for Shade
These twelve plants will make your shade garden the envy of the neighborhood.
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Heavenly Borders To Allure Hovering Hummers!
Attracting hummingbirds by planting tall border plants with blossoms rich in nectar is a great option for gardeners. Read about some striking border flowers that offer both beauty for your garden and nectar for your "jewels of the sky."
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Theme Gardens - Planning without the Pitfalls
Theme gardens can be great fun to plan but may not always work out in the garden unless you use your common sense, give youself a bit of latitude and remember what the plants need.


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