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Summer Perennial Cut Flower Plants
Cutting flowers to bring indoors - a luxury of having a home garden that everyone should enjoy. Here are a few perennial plants with summer blooms that last indoors.
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Cottage Garden Plants Part Two
There is something delightful about the a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See part two of the twelve best plants!
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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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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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Phlox - a Carpet of Color
Phlox is a spring flower that can give a dynamic statement to your garden in spring. This article will instruct you how to grow and care for phlox.
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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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Spring Themed Garden Plants
In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.
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Fragrant Garden Perennial Plants
What could be more wonderful than strolling through a flower garden full of scent and fragrance? Here are some top perennial picks for a pleasing fragrant filled garden.
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Rounded Growth Container Plants
Plants with mounding growth habit add weight and substance to a container planting combination by filling it in and creating a mass of color.
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Ajuga and other Groundcovers
Perennial groundvers can be attractive and useful and you don't have to restrict your choice to just Ivy or Vinca.
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Organic Garden Seeds of Autumn
Organic gardening opens the door for seeds to germinate wherever they fall. No herbicides will interfere. Nature provides rich rewards for the receptive garden.
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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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Perennial Flowers All Season
Every perennial gardener wants a showy display of flowers all season from spring to fall. Here's how to get it. Follow this guide for your best perennial garden yet.
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Plants For Summer Container Combinations
Here are some of my favorite annuals for summer - Check them out and recommend your favorites!
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Plan a Fall Desert Garden Now
July might seem a little early to plan a fall garden, but the timing is just about right.
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Cool Season and Cold Tolerant Annuals
Now we can plant cool season and cold tolerant flowering plants to reward ourselves for making it through another winter. Just don't forget that they were raised in greenhouses and need to be acclimated to the weather before you leave them on their own.
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The Fungus Among Us
Ways of dealing with weather-related fungus problems in the garden
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Invasive Plants
Many plants in use by gardeners can be considered 'invasive species'. The term invasive describes the ability of these plants to spread rapidly and become dominant over native species. This article identifies some of the more common invasive plants used by gardeners and suggest native alternatives.
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Container Gardening (part two)
Discover all sorts of plants for the perfect containers as well as themes and style suggestions. This is the second part of a two-part article.
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Arid Zones in The Garden
The third zone in a desert garden is the "arid" zone, one that requires little or no supplemental water after they are established. Read about the "arid" zone, and the pl
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Evergreen Plants in Winter Gardens
Learn some guidelines for using evergreens in the garden to provide winter winterest. Look at the types of evergreens available, and variety of uses for your landscape.
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Grow This List of Perennial Plants
The Perennial Plant Association offers a list of dependable perennial plants for gardeners. The Geranium 'Rozanne' is the 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year winner.
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Plant A Fragrant Flower Garden
Plant these flowers to grow a garden that is deliciously, wonderfully, romantically fragrant, perfumed with floral scent and in bloom all season from spring through fall.
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Shady and Native Blue Flowers
If you like blue flowers and need blue flowers for shade or prefer native plants with blue flowers, try planting some of these unusual flowers in your flower garden.
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One Butterfly and Hummer Gardener's Success Story!
A delightful interview with a dedicated butterfly and hummingbird gardener awaits you in this article. Read how she has successfully attracted both of these exquisite "Jewels of the Sky" to her backyard habitat.
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Photos and Field Guides Don't Guarantee Easy I.D.
Photographing wildflowers has taken on more significance since I moved to California. With so many new things to see, I don't want to spend too much time hovering over each and every flower, and I can be a world-class hoverer. Instead, I photograph them and move on, leaving identification for later, when I can sit with a field guide, some photos and perhaps a cup of coffee.
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Sorting Out the Fall Chores
When your schedule gets tight there are ways to cut your fall chore list down to size.
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Sweetheart Garden, Themes for Children's Gardens Series
February is the perfect time to consider planning a Valentine sweetheart garden for you and your child. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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Flowers for Shade or Part Shade
Plant these beautiful, easy to grow flowers in your shady or partially shaded garden for colorful blooms all season from spring through summer and fall.
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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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The Mustard Family
Like broccoli, cabbage, and other related vegetables, many wild mustards are tasty and have anti-oxidant properties which help prevent cancer.
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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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Summer Flower Champs
Troublefree color in the summer garden, leaves you time to sit back, sip some lemonade and enjoy the butterflies. Whether you garden in the country, the suburbs, or the city you are sure to find some winners here.
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Taking stock of the garden
Taking a hard, critical look at the garden is not as easy as it sounds. Here's a five-point plan for taking a fresh look at the overgrown daylilies, the withering vines and the clashing flower colours.
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Saving Seeds - Beginner Style
A beginner's guide to saving seeds. There are the basics here, with links to saving seeds of specific types, special seed treatments, and more!
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Separation Anxiety
Dividing perennials--this is the best time of year to get out and move things in the garden, for the gardener AND the plants.
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Blocking the Gap : What To Do When The Woods Disappear
I’m facing a long term project in the garden, namely blocking the view of a tennis court that replaced the woods next door. I need something evergreen that grows fairly rapidly to at least 20 ‘ tall while remaining fairly narrow in diameter. Here's what I've found.
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Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
Great performers for the summer garden. Everyone needs some dependable "easy keepers" and these plants selected among flowers, shrubs and trees have worked for me year after year. Maybe they'll work for you, too.
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A Fan's Tribute to the Chicago Cubs
Wrigley Field, home playing field to the Chicago Cubs baseball team since 1916, has been replicated in miniature in the suburban Chicago backyard of a longtime fan.
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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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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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Are we having fun yet?
Time to start putting out the feeders?
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Flowers for Butterflies
Flowers and butterflies (and caterpillars) go together. Plan your flower garden to attract butterflies and grow a magical butterfly habitat in your own back yard.
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