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Scented Geranium (Pelargonium)
Scented geraniums are heirloom plants still grown today for their fragrance, essential oil, culinary use and foliage. Learn about these fragrant, easy care plants.
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How to Grow Scented Geranium
Scented geranium (Pelargonium) is easy to grow. Learn scented geranium care: correct light, soil, watering, pruning, fertilizer, repotting, pest prevention.
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Collecting Scented Geraniums
Scented geraniums are highly collectible, fragrant plants. Children (and adults) love them. Find out what to collect and where to buy your scented geraniums.
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HERBS FOR ANNUAL FLOWER BEDS
A number of herbs are just ideal for those annual flowerbeds. These include colorful basils, stately fennel, and scented geraniums.
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A Geranium That's Not Really A Geranium
Scented geraniums offer alluring fragrance, interesting foliage and texture, easy cultivation and are excellent container plants.
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Herbs For Your Container Garden
Herbs come in a variety of shapes, sizes and scents and most are perfectly suited to growing in a container.
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Perennials for Potpourri
Potpourri is an ancient craft that uses dried flowers and plant materials to create lovely scented mixtures. Why not extend and preserve your garden's beauty and fragrance through potpourri?
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Fragrant Annual Plants
Annual plants grow and flower quickly and these annuals are perfect additions to a nose-pleasing fragrance garden. Which scents will you add to your garden?
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Fragrant Houseplants
Houseplants don't just add beauty and clean air to our homes, they can also add a fresh scent! Here's a look at some popular and easy care scented houseplants.
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Learn the Types of Geranium Plants
Gardeners become familiar with different types of annual geranium plants. Explore all Pelargonium's cultivars for plant beds and container gardens, indoors and outside.
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On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
Herbs are wonderful in the garden and in the kitchen. How to relax, begin with a few herbs in your garden using the "here and there" approach, and have fun. So try it! You'll like it!
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Overwintering Tender Herbs
In recent years, tender herbs have become very popular as container plants. Some gardeners may choose to discard them at the end of the growing season. I prefer to bring my favorites indoors for the winter.
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Plectranthus or Spur Flower
Plectranthus or spur flowers are tender perennials. They're well worth overwintering indoors, though many gardeners may discard them at the end of the growing season.
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Table Top Topiary
Try a quick topiary for an unusual, living holiday decoration or start a more ambitious long term project. Table top or window sill topiaries offer something for every one!
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The Well Rounded Herb Garden
Isn't it time you planted a little herb garden? With this simple "wagon wheel" plan, you can do it!
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Add A Little "Scents" To Your Garden
Have you ever taken a drive on a balmy spring day and caught the scent of a stand of lilac bushes? Perhaps in the summer, you have notices a hint of honeysuckle on the air. Scents can bring back powerful, long forgotten memories. It can create marvelous new ones. This article is going to explore some of the choices of scented plants available to gardeners of the Great Lakes Region. Don't let that stop you if you don't live in our neck of the woods! Many of the plants discussed do well all around the United States and Canada. Come and visit for a while, and be prepared to become inspired!
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Saving your Geraniums
Learn how to keep your geraniums over the cold season. Here, three methods are outlined, and there are links to more geraniums information.
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Growing Herbs in Containers: Light, Life Cycles, & Propagation
Lists of herbs that can be grown in containers, with info about their light needs, life cycles, and best methods of propagation.
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Five Fun Flowers for Kids Garden
Children's gardening or gardening with children is more popular every year. Get ideas for a child's garden and what to grow with your kids. Have fun gardening together!
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Herb Plant Sources Online
Order herb plants online for the best selection and convenience.
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Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
Here's a plant beloved for so many qualities -- for fragrance, butterflies, fragrance, container, fragrance, window sill, fragrance, Grandma's garden or cottage garden or ... fragrance? Try heliotrope, or as some people know it, old fashioned "cherry pie"! WOW!
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LANDSCAPE YOUR DECK IN A WEEKEND
Landscape your deck or patio in a weekend. Do it the easy way with container gardens. Here's how. It's as easy as 1-2-3.
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NEW HERBS FOR 2004
2004 brings a new gardening season. This year, a number of fine herbs are being introduced to American gardeners.
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Edible Flowers
Learn about the history and how to prepare flowers for eating. It is the new rage in haute cuisine. Don't be left behind!
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Flowering Herbs for Flower Gardens
Many herbs have pretty flowers and should be grown in flower gardens. Many favorite flowers are also herbs. Do you grow these herbs in your flower garden?
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Herbal Beginnings
Herbs belong in every garden -- add some to yours now! How-to tips and designs using popular herbs plus some interesting historical notes.
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Harvesting Herbs
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses. This weeks article is about harvesting and storing herbs.
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Grow a Garden On Your Windowsill
Being an urban gardener doesn't mean you can't have a lush garden. With an accommodating windowsill and the right containers, you can grow a wide variety of plants!
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Propagating Herbs
Avid gardeners may want to eventually start propagating their own plants in order to increase their supply of herbs.
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Bold and Beautiful Herbs
Mention foliage plants, and the things that usually come to mind are hostas and ferns. That's a shame. Many herbs have bold and beautiful foliage.
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E.O. Wilson's Biophilia Theory and Health
Renowned biologist, eco-psychologists and "green" builders agree that interaction with nature is vital to our wellbeing. Here are simple ways to add nature to each day.
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Family Gardening - Window Box Style
Gardening is a great way to teach your family responsibility, unity and values of self sufficency, while adding charm and beauty to your home. No space for a garden? If you have a window - you have a garden space!
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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Herbal Tea Garden Design
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.
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Organic Edible Gardening With Kids
Even the most reluctant child may eat his broccoli when he commands the organic growing process from soil to table.
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Please DO touch the plants
There is much to be learned from the plants around us with our touch.
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Red Roses on Valentine's Day
Why do we send roses on Valentine's Day, and why are they red? Learn a dozen other ways to use flowers to communicate secret messages to your loved one.
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Sensory Garden Design Tips
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!
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Single Oil Look: Citronella
<b>Special Summer Pick</b>. Single Oil Look: Citronella
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Unique Vegetable Plants in Toronto
A guide to shopping for interesting annuals, perennials, herbs and vegetables in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Victorian Pomanders in My Closet, I
If you make your own Victorian Pomanders, you won't need to endanger your health with mothballs. You might want to make some for mom and grandma for Mother's Day.
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