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Miniature Bulbs for Small Spaces
It is easy to maximize your gardening space by planting some of these beautiful miniature varieties of favorite bulbs. Great for small garden space or to add extra color!
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Galanthus - The First Sign That Spring Will Come
The wind may howl (as it's doing as I write this), sleet may fall and ice and snow cover all, but Spring Will Come. The first sign that the season has turned in my USDA zone 7 garden is my patch of snowdrops (<i>Galanthus</i>).
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I Spy Spring!
Spring is just around the corner and with it all the promise of a new and exciting gardening year. I explore some of the plants for late winter colour and scent.
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Spring Returns
Winter passes and spring flowers
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International Valentine's Day Fun
Spice up your Valentine's Day and add one of these international customs to your celebration; homemade chocolate is one way to show your sweetheart how much you love him.
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Planting Flowering Bulbs for Spring Blooms
After the first hard frost is the ideal time to plant spring bulbs. A selection of well-placed bulbs in the fall will produce glorious bursts of spring color.
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Baja California Sur
Escape from the winter that wasn't
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The Magic of Primulas
Add masses of bright colour to your mixed borders, shrub beds, planters, and windowboxes. As there's over 400 species of primulas, there's at least one for your garden!
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The Garden Blooms in Winter
You may be surprised to discover what's blooming these days - even while the snowflakes are flying. Here are several plants that are extremely early bloomers - with pictures taken this wek - March 6 and 7 to be exact - to prove it!
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The Glory of the Garden
What makes gardening such a popular pastime? It is without doubt the pleasure and satisfaction of growing a variety of plants in the most trying of circumstances. In this article, we glory in the garden of town and city.
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EARLY SPRING FLOWERS
Early spring flowers in the garden.

Springing into Action
With the snowdrops nearly over and hellebores in full swing, I look at some early spring jobs. These include how to feed the soil and keep it healthy and I also attempt to sort out two major new problems. Whilst Sophie my cat plays amongst the pots in the sunshine.
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Galanthus and other Buried Treasures.
Welcome to Hill View’s annual offering of bulbs and tubers. This year’s list is world class, even if we do say ourselves, and represents the very best in cool climate bulbs.
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COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
Take a moment to stop and look at the flowers or hear the bird song. Linda looks at all those tiny joys which we often fail to appreciate during our busy day-to-day lives, then shows how we can deserve these blessings.
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Plant Bulbs Now for Spring Blooms
Learn a variety of ways to use bulbs in your garden now so you will enjoy colorful flowers in the spring and summer next year and maximize your growing space.
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Imbolc: Pagan Fire Festival
Feast of Lights or Torches or the Virgin or Waxing Light, Festival of the Ewe's Milk or Lights, Imbolgc Brigantia, Lupercus, Candlelaria, Snowdrop Festival....
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Walsingham North Norfolk
Walsingham is a Beautiful English Village with Scenic Abbey Ruins and many Chapels and Churches to welcome pilgrims.
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Beautiful Winter Flowers
Let's examine a some of the winter blooming plants that we can add to our gardens to create that year round beauty and interest. Add some winter color and excitement!
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Layer Bulbs for Maximum Color
With this one simple technique you will be able to increase the blooms in your garden by combining bulbs and plants. Learn how to layer bulbs in mixed borders.
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Make a Mary Garden
Learn how to plant a heavenly flower garden full peace and symbolism of the Virgin Mary. Reviving the medieval art of the Mary Garden with some additional modern ideas.
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Beautiful Poisonous Flowering Bulbs
The most beautiful spring flowers are poisonous, including flowering bulbs. Learn to recognize them so that they won't make you sick.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 1
Gardening in Shade - Bulbs for Shady Places - Part 1
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Spring is in the Air
With winter having a final wild fling, there are signs that the year is now turning. Snowdrops and other heralds of spring warm the heart at this time of year. With the wind whistling around my ears and the rain relentless in its intensity, I go in search of treaures lost and visit a friend with long ears.
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Winter Planting for Spring Blooms
Planting spring bulbs in winter will ensure colorful gardens in Spring. Choose the correct bulbs and select a suitable bulb planting area for best garden results.
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Plants by Post
Spring has arrived and it's green for go in the garden. Seed sowing and planting will be the top jobs for many gardeners. Serious gardeners get their plants and seeds from specialist suppliers, small family firms that supply plants and seeds by post. Gardening mail order is big here in the UK. I look at the big advantages of receiving your plants with the letters and parcels in the morning post. How to find your plants and Nurseries using the invaluable 'Plant Finder' which lists thousands of plants and the nurseries that supply them.
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A Taste of Spring
Some early-blooming daffodils, thanks to the quirk in our winter weather.
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IN LIKE A LION
Hybridising the Primulas

Silent chuckles and quiet muses:
To grow or not to grow, communicating with folks. Galanthus are snowdrops and Leucojum are snowflakes.
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Pest-proof Spring-blooming Bulbs
All daffodils are deer and garden-pest resistant. Daffodils planted with minor pest-resident bulbs create stunning and hardy spring displays in garden landscapes.
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Easter Decorations for Entertainin
Easter Decorating made simple for your Easter Brunch, styling your springtime home display or welcoming guests to your front door.
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Mailbox Gardens
Grow a green mailbox garden sending seasonal plant postcards to the postal carrier and passersby.
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Autumn Leaves
Stuart Buchanan MacWatt reads a poem to Autumn that was penned on a European battlefield over 80 years ago and thinks of friends and loved ones now battling in Afghanistan.<B>Updated 10 October</B>
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Flower Crafts
Flowers are beautiful as they bloom in spring and summer. Here are some fun flower crafts for your kids. Also enjoy four super coloring pages that you can print at home.
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Low Water Use Plants
Plants that need less water are rapidly becoming available at nurseries across the world. Colorful, fragrant and beautiful, these plants have transformed desert gardening
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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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Spring-blooming Bulbs Design Ideas
Planted together Narcissus (daffodil) bulbs and specialty (minor) bulbs lead to pest-resistant, perennial and naturalized landscape garden designs.
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The Tenderness of Wolves--Review
Set in 1867, this invigorating debut pursues themes of love, loss, and loyalty against the backdrop of a murder mystery set in the harsh wilds of the Canadian frontier.
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Christmas Cookies for Kids to Make
Everyone loves cookies. Let your child help you make some of these yummy Christmas cookies. The whole family can enjoy them!
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Liverpool's St. James' Cemetery
Down a gravestone-lined tunnel under Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, emerge into a city garden of history, blossoms, and strange beauty. Volunteer to garden on Saturdays.
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Spring Divisions
Spring is the ideal time for American Gardeners to take divisions of perennials, spring bulbs, grasses and even multistemmed shrubs. All are easy to do when the plants emerge in the spring.
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The Deer Repellent Organic Garden
Good deer control methods start with prevention. Stop deer damage in your organic garden by growing plants that deer rarely browse.
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The White Garden in Shade
A shaded white garden or moon garden can be the most magical of all: sharp contrasts of white flowers and silvery foliage against deep shadows and dark corners. Oooh!
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Using Written Prayers
You can come close to God by using prayers written by other people. Written prayers can help you to grow spiritually and deepen your life of prayer.
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Winter Flower Garden Indoors
Every winter gardeners crave blooms, color, flowers, green leaves and spring! Try raising some of these easy flowering plants inside.
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Daffodils in January?
Where to get your daffodil "fix" in January!
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Cotswolds Gardens
2007 is the centenary of one of the most famous gardens in the Cotswolds, so it's a great time for garden lovers to explore the area
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Plant Profile: Hellebores
The so-called Christmas roses, and Lenton roses, are hellebores. The Hellebore is a great plant with a lot to offer gardeners at a time when not much else is going on.
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Busy again
Things are getting again in the garden.


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