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Companion Planting is the practice of creating a healthy garden environment by putting certain plants near and others away from each other.

Before building a garden, homeowners should have a clear understanding of their needs and wants - their design intent.

Move vegetable seedlings outside after they have grown strong and all danger of frost has passed. They are now ready to compete with weeds and start producing.

There are many, many types of roses. It is wise to know something about the different rose varieties before purchasing a rose or planning a garden.

How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size.

The weather outside is chilly, the ground is hard, but it is time to begin the garden plan for the New Year. In addition to planning, there are gardening tasks waiting.

Gardening isn't a top priority as November begins the countdown to the holiday season, however, for gardeners spending time in the dirt provides welcome stress relief.

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.

Celebrate spring with composting in this hands-on garden activity that brings reading, writing, and science curricula together for elementary school students.

Look for some gardening gift ideas to celebrate Father's Day, in June. Plant a memory, while spending time in Dad's garden.

Gardening is a fun and rewarding activity. Most children love to help in the garden, so teach them what it's all about with these lesson plan ideas.

Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)

Use these simple landscape design concepts to lay out a flowerbed in the right location, that's harmonious in size and shape, and enhances your overall landscape.

A spring garden might take a little work, but planned properly, even a small area can provide enough vegetables for an average-sized family.

It's always a comforting sign when air outside begins the warming process and when new life is ready to sprout up from the ground.

Gardeners should consider what to plant, what can be grown from seed, and how to incorporate colour into the vegetable garden in the upcoming growing season.

A perennial is an ornamental, usually flowering plant that comes up year after year. The cost of replacing flowering annuals is making perennial gardens more popular.

Right Plant, Right Place is a simple yet powerful concept: plant flowers matched to the growing conditions in your flower garden for better success with less work.

Every white garden or moon garden needs white flowered shrubs, either as a surrounding hedge or within the garden itself as an accent. Consider some of these!

Once the snow has melted and the leaves begin to bud, it's time to plant your garden. Here's what you need to know to get your garden growing.

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.

Attracting birds to the backyard is a great hobby venture and to make sure you get a variety you may need more than seed trays.

Learn how to use citrus trees and citrus scented herbs such as lemon balm, lime balm and mint to create a citrus theme garden.

Enjoy gardening without all the back-breaking work.

Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti

Now is the time to start thinking about how to incorporate herbs into your holiday celebrations. Learn how to make the most from your herbal harvest.

Learn how to design an herbal tea garden using herbs such as mint, lemon balm and chamomile that is not only practical but also a fun place to entertain.

More sun and shade tips. How to analyze the light conditions for a foundation planting, pointers on how light exposure changes by compass point, season and time of day.

Make best use of the available space with an evergreen patio. For year round appeal consider such green shrubs as Skimmia, Photinia Red Robin, Pieris and many more.

Planting your first flower garden from scratch is exciting – and a challenge! Start out right with this simple guide to selecting the best possible site for your garden.

Increase the enjoyment of your garden by designing a better lay out to please all five senses -- touch, taste, smell, hearing and of course, sight!

Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers.

The gardener's flowerbed is a canvas. His yard art uses dirt as the background and plants to create the pictures, colors, and textures of his masterpiece.

Description: This article has ideas and instructions for planting a simple vegetable garden and relates the history of Victory or War Gardens during World War II.

A water garden can add an interesting and attractive element to your landscape plan. Enjoy all the benefits that a beautiful water garden can add to your property.

A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed by James Fenton is a light-hearted read that will inspire a newfound freedom and creativity in your flower garden.

Take preventive steps and learn how to cope with drought before it hits your area.

What can be gained from spending time gardening with children? What values shared? What do grandparents and grandchildren learn about each other while gardening together?

Preeminent Australian landscaper Paul Bangay's latest book takes readers through the process of planning and creating a garden design of balance and beauty.

When August rolls around, waterwise gardeners begin to take some action for a bountiful fall harvest.

Have a fun panini party! Here are ideas and recipe ideas to entertain with a grilled sandwich lunch or dinner event. Guests will love designing their own custom paninis.

A field of Red Flanders Poppies that blooms on Remembrance Day on Fay Helwig's Granite Belt Farm in Queensland, is part of the Glen Aplin region's Red November Festival.

If you intend to plant an heirloom vegetable garden, you will certainly want to save your heirloom seeds. To keep heirloom seeds pure, you should have a garden plan...

The average garden hasn't room for too many winter flowering shrubs. Their selection, quantity and position in the garden are factors requiring careful consideration.

Melanie Burns shares some of the joys and challenges she encountered this season in her urban community garden plot.

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.

Whether you are designing a new garden or improving an existing plot, there is a lot of work involved. But with proper planning, it can be fairly inexpensive.

An in-depth review of a culinary cookbook which features herbs and spices.

Get back to basics with ideas and activities that provide great learning opportunities as well as good, old fashioned family time.

Greywalls Hotel is known in the golfing world as the best place to stay if you want to play on the Muirfield Golf Course - a venue for several British Open championships.