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Christmas Ferns
Versatile, easy-care Christmas Ferns are an elegant solution to many problems in the shade garden.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part III
More hardy ferns for the shady garden - royal fern and Christmas fern, an evergreen native with a tough constitution.
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Clearing Woods - Ferns and Other Forbs - Part 1
The woodland floor is a secret place. Plants, often unnoticed in the profusion of greenery, go about their business quietly. Until you literally crawl a woodland floor, you never know just what plants are part of the jumble.
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More Plants in the Circle Garden
This week, we'll continue around the perimeter of the Circle Garden and talk about the plants that live there.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 11
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 11 - The West Border
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Planting Under Trees - Part 12
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part - 12 - Rhododendrons and azaleas.
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Two Ferns and a Hellebore in the Circle Garden
Gardening in Shade - Two Ferns and a Hellebore in the Circle Garden
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Perennial Foliage For Early Winter
The tree and shrub leaves have drifted over my borders and most perennials in my garden have retreated underground, or into tight rosettes, for the winter. Nevertheless, a jaunt around the garden found several perennials whose leaves are still very much in evidence; aiding the evergreen trees and shrubs in furnishing the early winter garden.
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Online Nurseries 2001 - Fancy Fronds Nursery
A shady garden is not a garden without ferns. Judith I. Jones' Fancy Fronds Nursery, in Gold Bar, Washington - near Seattle - has a marvelous selection for your gardens.
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"The Wilderness": A New Garden From Wild Woods
Extending the garden into the ‘Wilderness' is a large project entailing major clearing to turn this weedy, rooty bit of ground into a proper garden and the fun of selecting new plants to take the place of Nature's weedy bits.
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Drought Tolerant Ferns
There are three ferns highlighted here that you can use in areas where you need hardy drought tolerant plants.
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Perennial Plants for Dry Shade
The soil under trees can be dry even with regular watering because the roots use the moisture quickly. See seven perennials that thrive in difficult shady conditions
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Postcard from the Backyard
One of my major goals in this topic area is to encourage gardeners to discuss what they are doing in their gardens and to share information and experience. With that in mind I will send you occasional 'postcards' from the backyard to let you know what I am up to in my garden and to stimulate discussion on what you are doing in yours.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part IV
More hardy ferns. I have two other members of the Polystichum family that are quite different from Christmas Fern and from each other plus Woodwardia, the netted chainfern.
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Propagating hardy ferns
Plenty of readily available hardy ferns which grow well in most of north America can be found in garden centers or online. These ferns will generally multiply on their own and are easy to propagate by division. In this article we will look at the anatomy of ferns, and explain how to propagate and grow them.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 5
For those of you just joining this series, it's about planting in that inhospitable soil directly under mature deciduous trees. In previous parts of the series, I've shared my methods of dealing with the soil and some tough no-coddling groundcovers that do well in these conditions.This week, we'll look at a few more plants that I have found, over the years, will tolerate the rooty conditions under these trees - with a bit of extra TLC and water.
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Color for the Winter Garden - Part 1: Groundcovers.
On those days when the snow melts and we can see through to the ground, wouldn't it be nice to see something besides brown dirt? And better still - as nice a color as green is - wouldn't it be even nicer to see colors? Plants that are anything but green? Read all about them - in this first of a series of articles about color in the winter garden.

Plant Descriptions - Actuality
We gardeners are always looking for something new for our gardens. "New" means we haven't grown the plant before and if we haven't seen it in another garden, we have to rely on plant descriptions written by authors or nurseries to sort out just what a particular plant is like and whether it is what we want
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Planting Under Trees - Part 3
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part 3 - Tough Groundcovers
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Planting Under Trees - Part 7
Gardening in Shade - Planting Under Trees - Part 7 - Mostly Natives
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Spring - Beauty and Beast - Part 1, Beauty
Spring is my favorite time of year - no question about it - but it's also the most frenzied time of year in my USDA zone 7 garden. Especially in years like this, when the weather doesn't let me get that much needed head start on cleaning up winter's debris. In my garden, spring is beautiful, but it's also a beast in many ways.
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Online Nurseries 2000 - Foliage Gardens
It's that time of year again! Time to tell you about more mailorder nurseries who are online with marvelous plants to feed our gardener's lust. Foliage Gardens is a nursery that all shade gardeners should know about. There are lots of lovely images, so please be patient while the page loads for you.
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