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How to Grow Peonies in Your Garden
Peonies are hardy perennials with large, fragrant blooms and lush green foliage. Once established, they will grace your garden for many years.
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The Peony, A Queen Among Perennials for the North
Peonies are magnificent ancient garden plants that thrive in the colder areas like ours much better than they do in the warmer parts of the world. Here is all you need to know to grow them well and a bit about their history and folklore to give them personality.
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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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Lawbreaking Poppies
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Deer Resistant Garden Shrubs
While no plant is one hundred percent deer-proof, these shrubs will deter most deer from snacking and sampling the foliage and destroying your garden landscape.
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French Impressionist Gardens
Painters Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Gustave Caillebotte depicted many beautiful elements of nature in their works, and they were also avid gardners.
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Garden gazing in southern Ontario
Pack up the car with a few friends, water bottle and sun hat and hit the road for a tour of the gardens in southern Ontario.
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White Tea
The health benefits of white tea are numerous. Prized in China and Asia for centuries, recent research espousing white tea's benefits is making it more popular than ever.
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Health Benefits of White Tea
Learn the facts about white tea. This 5,000 year old beverage is showing promise in keeping you healthy. It's also delicious and easy to make.
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How to Divide Perennials
A primer on how and when to divide perennials, beginner style!
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Moving My Garden
I experienced a move of my entire gardens this year. My worst fears was the drought that had been on going, even when we did get rain just as we moved. Here's how we moved my garden.
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Shady Riches
Spring gardens by design and surprise are wonderful -- especially when a shady "white garden" begins to glow.
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Daffodil Planting Tips
Daffodils are long lived flowers so plant them right! Learn some shortcuts and avoid mistakes using these planting tips and tricks from a long term daffodil gardener.
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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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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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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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Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Set in nineteenth-century China, this national bestseller centers on two women, destined for eternal friendship, whose differences in fate challenge their love.
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Vase Shapes for Cut Flowers Style
As Spring to Summer makes flowers more strident, start sorting out different shapes of vases to display cut flowers when staging a home.
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Control Ants in the Organic Garden
You can kill or repel ants in the organic garden safely and inexpensively.
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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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Thierry Mugler Perfume
Thierry Mugler has now created an innovative set of fragrances inspired by the movie "Perfume: Story of a Murderer" starring Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman and Ben Wishaw.
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Farmer's Market
The pleasures of plant shopping at the Minneapolis Farmer's Market.
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Put the FUN in Fungus!
Here are a couple of great ways to get the rot out of your garden...
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Christmas Shopping for the Power Gardener
Web walking through a Yuppie gardening paradise - suggestions for that gardener who seems to have everything.
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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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Ready, Set - Grow!
What to do in the garden until it is REALLY warm enough to plant in zone 4.
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Foliage To The Rescue! Using Leafy Plants To Fill and Frame.
Foliage that can help us in our garden.
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Midnight Gardens: Black Plants in the Landscape
How to identify the underlying color of black plants and use them in garden designs.
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Perverse Penances: Gardening Our Way Back To Eden
Be a friend to the earth -- stay at home and garden
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Beware of the Passalong Plant
Why do you suppose some gardeners are so eager to share their surplus perennials? Because some of them are the zucchinis of ornamental gardening.
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Chicago's Asian Fusion Food
Chicago’s Spring restaurant, with its marriage of Asian flavours with new American cooking, sits inside a 1923 bath house modelled after those seen in classical Roman times. The mixture of old architecture with a modern, spare interior provides the perfect environment for this Asian fusion cuisine.
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Cranbrook House and Gardens
Cranbrook House and Gardens, located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, combines formal gardens, Arts & Crafts architecture, and serene surroundings.
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Frosty Morn Sedum
Frosty Morn Sedum is a problem solving perennial in my garden. It has earned a place in the garden by being a low maintenace plant that looks great without flowers.
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Gallery Ghost by Anna Nilsen
A fun, hunt-and-find art book for kids.
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Growing Sweet Woodruff
Sweet woodruff is a valuable herb in the garden. It's a perfect choice for those shady spots near trees and overhangs. It's also a natural insect repellent.
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Planting Native Plants
There are some great reasons to plant and grow native species, but there are some significant drawbacks too.
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The Greek Goddess Hestia
Bring balance into your home and spiritual life by drawing on the energy of the goddess Hestia. Learn simple rituals and other ways to connect with her energy and balance
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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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Botanic Garden at Olds College
Located just a few minutes west of Highway 2 between Calgary and Red Deer, Olds College Botanic Garden is easy to walk, well-designed, with beautiful plants.
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Care by Stella McCartney
As people are looking increasingly towards organic foods and products, Stella McCartney has established a line of organic beauty products.
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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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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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Creating Your Own Wedding Flowers
For brides who wish to create their own wedding flowers, it can be quite an undertaking.
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Eating and Drinking in Singapore
Singaporeans love going out and they are passionate about food whether it's hawkers' stall food or gourmet. They also love to hang out at funky clubs and chic bars.
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Fall Division of Perennial Plants
Divide perennials for propagation, to renew plant vigor, or limit spreading. Tip: Many plants may be divided in the fall. Do it now and have more time next spring!
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Flowers and Plants for Drying
Some plants do best air dried, others with glycerin or silica. Tips for preserving plants and suggestions for plant varities to harvest are in today's article.
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Flowers for the White Garden
Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.
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Garden Wedding Tips
An outside marriage ceremony in a garden setting surrounded by flowers is a romantic way for bride and groom to begin their life together. Don't stress over the flowers!
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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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Growing Roses in Pots
Interview with rose gardening specialist, Linda Keese, who shares her experience with growing roses in pots. Find out about choosing pots, planting roses and re-potting.
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