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Be Bold With Your Bulbs
Bulbs are not for the faint of heart. Spring only comes once a year, so think big and think bold! Take the plunge and pour on the color!
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Fall Remembered
Natures extravaganza, the display of Fall color.
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Great Garden Writers
Reading books and articles by garden writers can often be the best way to learn how to make a great garden. Here are some sage thoughts on planting spring bulbs.
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Planning and Preparing a Spring Bulb Garden
Careful selection and preparation will enhance a yard or garden with spring flowering bulbs like tulips, crocus, iris and daffodils.
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Spring Bulbs in the South
Spring bulbs in the South need cold. You need to give them special attention if you are to be successful with them in the warm winters of the southern USA.
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When to Plant Spring Bulbs
Bulbs are a popular flower of choice for gardeners. These colorful perennials need to be planted in the fall for a spring flower garden.
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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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Yellow Flowering Spring Bulbs
Bulbs provide a delightful and surprising splash of color in the garden without which no landscape design would be complete. Here are some yellow flowering bulbs.
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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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Spring-blooming Bulb Designs Now
Midsummer is a good time to plan pest-free spring-blooming bulb gardens. Design combinations for all garden styles - containers, small patio gardens, or large spaces.
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Autumn - Time For Change
Autumn is the best time of year to start making changes to your garden
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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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Protect Bulbs from Animal Damage
Ten simple ways to stop wild animals from digging, eating or stealing your newly planted tulips & crocus. Save your bulbs from hungry wildlife or destructive critters!
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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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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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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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Crocus Plant Profile
Harbingers of spring, and shining gems of color in the autumn, crocus bulbs are popular for small garden spaces. See how to care for and use them in the garden.
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Fall Gardening To-Do List
As the leaves change and weather turns cooler, tasks such as weeding, mulching, digging up bulbs, and planning for spring need to be done.
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Fall Planting Combinations
Perennial gardens finish with a bang in autumn. Hot colors, made more intense by the changes in sun angle, render a garden complete for the season.
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How to Grow Perennial Iris Plants
Whatever landscape a gardener has to work with, there is sure to be an iris he can grow to enjoy months of colorful flowers and attractive foliage.
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How to Winterize Your Garden
The growing season may be over, but that doesn't mean your work is done. What you do in your garden now can make a big difference to next year's crop.
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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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Lovely Camassias
Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.
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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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Ready, Set - Grow!
What to do in the garden until it is REALLY warm enough to plant in zone 4.
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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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Bulbs add colour to the fall garden
Plant drifts of autumns crocus, colchicum, cylcamen and lycoris to brighten the fall garden.
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Bulbs to Plant in the Spring
While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.
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Heather: A Plant for all Seasons
Looking for a shrub that will provide your landscape with color all year round? Heathers are the answer.
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Peonies that Bloom All Summer?
The procession of blooming perennials through the season is far more exciting than having a garden that stays the same from frost to frost.
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Garden Disasters - It's a GOOD Thing.
Every disaster is an opportunity, every mistake is a lesson. The gardener's creed for serenity. Right now we may need that creed.
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My Little Shady Acher Farm
Welcome to my little piece of heaven. One shady
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Paying it Forward
Sow some seeds of happiness, plant some joy - it takes very little effort and it really can help to make the world a bit of a happier place.

Mandy Alford's English Garden
An English garden
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Amazing Irises for the Home Garden
Irises come in an astonishing variety of types, The curious gardener may want to experiment with some of these.
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Blue Garden Decor
All gardens need a bit of blue, the all blue theme garden needs more. Decorative blue accent pieces as well as the creative use of blue paint continue the blue theme.
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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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How to Grow Catmint Plant Profile
Catmint was originally grown as an herb for tea and to keep flying pests out of the garden. Now, many cultivars are highly ornamental.
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Marigolds Great for an Inexpensive Garden
Marigold flowers are an annual flower that you only need to purchase once for years of beautiful flower gardens.
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Retirement Gift Ideas
Retirement is a milestone. The gifts given should reflect the passions of the person and encourage them to continue a lifetime of learning and fun.
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White Fringetree
White Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) is a small native tree to North America with long white fringe flowers. It was the delicate fragrance that caught my attention.
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Cottage Garden Flowers
Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.
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English Country Gardens: Howick Hall
Howick Hall Gardens are close to the beautiful Northumberland coast. After viewing the gardens you can enjoy a walk by the sea.
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FALL CHORES
A hurricane's destruction reminded me to put the garden to bed for the winter.
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Fall is Coming!
Fall perennials, pleasures and chores as the garden looks forward to frost.
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Low-Maintenance Plants for DIY Landscape Gardens
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.
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Michigan State University Gardens
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Perennials for Windy Northeastern Gardens
Learn which perennials thrive in windy Northeastern North American gardens.
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Permaculture Plants
Agricultural methods are more about the ease of using machines and less to do with gaining maximum production. Smart choice of plants helps us to redress this balance.
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Spring Blooms in Winter
Winter and cold seasons need not take away your chance to grow blooming flowers; gardeners, get ready for blooms during dreary days.
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