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Slow-release fertilizer may be the best way to provide plants with a balance of nutrients.

Plants in container gardens need fertilizers to thrive while growing. Fertilizers that contain nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are good for growing healthy plants.

Lawn care advice and tips from a leading expert on turf grass management can generate a stress-free guide to easy, effective, and inexpensive lawn care and landscaping.

A simple and easy to follow tutorial on growing various silene armeria like a pro.

Pair the best-loved flowering shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla, with your well-loved mother on Mother's Day.

The quickest way to bring flowers and color into the residential landscape is by planting containers full of bright and interesting plants.

A hanging basket or pot of flowers is the perfect decoration for your porch or deck. Use this guide to grow your best looking hanging containers ever.

Avoiding chemical products and working with nature, instead of against it, can result in a lush green carpet that's healthier for people, pets, and the environment.

Not all potting soils are created equal. There are many good reasons to have just the right ingredients for the health of your container plants.

Desert soil, when mixed with water, will have the consistency of concrete. So, when potting desert plants,you'll need to create your own soil mixtures.

Choose the correct potting soil for indoor and outdoor container gardens. Soilless mixes contain added ingredients to improve plant health and garden beauty.

As the waterways of South Florida are over-polluted by rain runoff, municipalities are determined to save their ecosystems, and their economies, before both run dry.

Last week San Francisco's Mayor, Gavin Newsom, signed the first mandatory composting law in the U.S.A.

Dahlias are easy to grow. Follow these quick tips to growing perfect dahlias and enjoy dahlias blooming in the flower garden and as cut flowers, too.

Lemon Verbena leaves have a strong, lasting lemon scent. It is a tender, perennial herb that can flavor marinades, herbal tea, salad dressings, and desserts.

Growing mediums are engineered to support plant growth; however, to also provide environmental benefits, the medium formula must consider the ecological impact.

Growing a Japanese Maple from a cutting is a laborious process which requires patience and careful attention.

Impatiens are perfect in baskets, window boxes, borders, and shaded areas. Colors range from whites and pinks to peaches and reds. Impatiens bloom from summer to frost.

Landscape fabric yields excellent results when we carefully analyze and then prepare project sites. Checklists are important and useful before planting and/or mulching.

Low-maintenance plants are top choices for DIY landscape gardeners in designing a feasible landscape. They are no-nonsense picks for memorial and meditation gardens.

Desert plants, like humans and all living things, need nutrients. The following article briefly discusses those nutrients.

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.

Maybe your lilac bush didn't produce flowers this spring. This article will give you step by step instructions on how to make it produce more heavenly scented blossoms.

Tending winter-ravaged roses hits full stride in May when new growth emerges, providing welcome confirmation your prized plant survived another season of snow and cold.

Catnip is a member of the mint family. It is easy to grow in Texas and cats find the plant almost irresistible. Tea made from catnip is calming and aids sleep.

Gardeners need to be aware of the negative effects of above-average rainfall on plants, and how they can prevent and treat damage to the garden.

Hedges comprised of native plants make the most wildlife friendly garden boundaries, providing food, nesting sites and shelter for birds, small mammals and invertebrates.

States across the country are experiencing severe droughts and homeowners are being charged more or being fined for watering their lawns (and the sidewalk)!

Don't sweep those hair trimmings or strands from your hairbrush into the bin! Repurpose them by using them as a fertilizer, craft material or hair accessory.

One of the best ways to boost your home's curb appeal is with fanciful window boxes. Even if you don't have a green thumb, you can create a show-stopping display.

A new trial garden at Franklin Park Consevatory chose coleus plants among the top best performers in 2009. Four Solenostemon hybrids won in this Midwest botanical garden.

Gardening can be hard physical work but also enjoyable and addicting, if you have the right tools.

Enjoy colorful blooms wherever you want them all summer! Instructions, tips, advice on how to select, design, plant and care for flowers in pots, planters & containers.

If more than half of your lawn is overrun with weeds, invasive grasses or fungus, it is probably smarter to start a new lawn rather than to patch up areas of demise.

Successfully growing roses in a cold climate starts with choosing hardy types of rose bushes. Northern winter care for roses means developing a plant maintenance plan.

A simple tutorial on creating a beautiful, long lived miniature fairy garden. A great project for both kids and adults alike!

The most common problems afflicting tulips include insufficient cooling, early foliage removal, nutrient deficiency, viral and fungus infections, and rodent damage.

A simple to follow tutorial on the general care and growing of peonies.

Scented geranium (Pelargonium) is easy to grow. Learn scented geranium care: correct light, soil, watering, pruning, fertilizer, repotting, pest prevention.

Noted New York environmental advocate Bob DeLuca offers tips on how every day people can love the environment, live green, and save the planet, one community at a time.

Using these five soil recipes, potting mediums can be easily mixed at home for both container gardens and houseplants.

Taking the time to properly prepare for your first vegetable garden can make all the difference between success and failure.

Pruning is an essential gardening chore that is best done in late winter for most trees and many shrubs and bushes to keep them well-shaped, healthy and productive.

Viburnums are the most under rated spring shrub. They produce beautiful flowers and leaves, can grow 4 to 12 feet high and 4 to 8 feet wide, and produce a fragrant scent

What are Wave® petunias? Wave® petunias solve garden landscape color and design needs. Growing and maintaining Wave® petunias is easy with no deadheading needed. Photos.

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