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Summer Blooming Perennial Plants
Summer is the season when perennial plants take center stage with bright, long lasting flowers that stand up to the summertime heat. See eight perennial garden favorites!
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A Garden in the Jungle of Weeds
Use self sown annual and perennial flower plants in garden design for right plant right place and naturalized plants to attract hummingbirds and butterflies
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Color in the mountains.
A look at the colors Appalachia has to offer year round.
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Cranesbills for summer flower power
Hardy Geraniums or Cranesbills are perfect plants for the border in cottage and city gardens. Ranging from tiny alpines to tall stately giants. Utterly dependable and easy to grow, they cover a wide range of colours.
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Grow a Sunflower Garden
Sunflowers are generally easy to grow, but a few problems can sidetrack any gardener.
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Plant Profile Goldenrod (Solidago)
Goldenrod is often thought to provoke allergies, but the goldenrod pollen does not bother allergies at all. All solidago species are attractive to native butterflies.
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Summer Annuals
How to start summer annuals outside in time to enjoy them in the height of the summer.
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Summer Blooming Shrubs Part One
Hardy summer flowering shrubs for your cottage garden or mixed border.
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Summer Flower Champs
Troublefree color in the summer garden, leaves you time to sit back, sip some lemonade and enjoy the butterflies. Whether you garden in the country, the suburbs, or the city you are sure to find some winners here.
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Summer Flower Garden Weed Control
Whether you went on vacation and came home to weeds or you have been battling weeds in your garden all season, follow this guide to summer weed control now.
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Summer Flowering Bulbs
Included in the wide array of summer flowering bulbs, you will find cut flowers, fragrant blooms and colorful foliage plants.
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Summer Flowering Shrubs
There are many shrubs available to choose from for summer flowers. Today's article takes a look at ones that are both loaded with flowers and easy to care for.
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Tigridia Pavonia - Facts and Myths:
Tigridias are bulbous plants, which have been in cultivation since the 17th century. Even so, there still remains many myths regarding their growing requirements.
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Summer Blooming Annuals
Summer blooming annuals are plants that flower in the summer, produce seed and then die. See six of the most popular and useful annual plants for summer flowers.
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Flowers for Summer Color
Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.
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Perennial Flowers Summer Care
Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!
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Bedding Plants for Summer Gardens
Brighten up summer gardens with bedding plants. They are ideal for spectacular color displays or as container plants. Check out Salvia, Geraniums, Violas and many more.
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Cypella under another name.
What's in a name? Everything, if you are in the position of ordering plants! The changing names of plants often leave us all bewildered. So let us look at a Cypella which is a Hesperoxiphion and another which is a Phalocalus.
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Growing Dahlias
There is a dahlia bred for every taste, from simple to exotic. Every flower garden should include dahlias for color and excitement from July until the first fall frost.
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Red White and Blue Flowers
Use these tips and plant lists to select red, white and blue annual and perennial flowers to plant a traditional flower garden design with a patriotic theme this summer.
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Sow Now for the Late Summer Gap
Sow annuals now to bring colour to the garden after the June peak
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Sprekelia formosissima
This gorgrous orchid faced six petal flowers made of rich velvet red is off set with bright gold anthers.
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Sternbergia lutea:
Sternbergia lutea is arguably the best Fall flowering bulb for the garden.
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A Birdbath Full of Sedums
Garden tours can be a source for creative ideas to take home and recreate in your own gardens. Today's article will help you create your own birdbath full of sedums.
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Fall-Blooming Cut Flower Plants
Fall is a time of richness and warmth in the garden. See some of the best autumn cut flower plants you can grow to bring that beauty indoors.
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Grow Flowers in Pots and Planters
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.
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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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Recording in a Garden Diary
As the season changes, gardeners record observations about plants in their summer flower gardens. Phenology information is a useful addition to the garden diary.
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Rounded Growth Container Plants
Plants with mounding growth habit add weight and substance to a container planting combination by filling it in and creating a mass of color.
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Verbena Plant Profile
Graceful clusters of bright flowers attract gardeners and butterflies equally. See why these charming plants are great for more than just hanging baskets and containers.
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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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Plant Profile Thyme (Thymus)
Thyme, an ancient herb plant long known to gardeners, can be added to every garden space. See how to grow the evergreen plant that comes in ground cover or bush forms
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THE JOYS OF JUNE.
Late spring and early flowering plants in the alpine garden.

Moraea - Part 5
Moraea for the average gardener to grow, the delight of their hue and flowering times.
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Spring Comes Early to the Garden
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Ideas for Winter Containers
For many container gardeners winter means ugly containers full of weeds, waiting to be planted again in spring. Here are a few ideas to break that cycle and create a lovely display during the winter.
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Spring Themed Garden Plants
In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.
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Amaryllidaceae: Rhodophiala.
The Gradual unmaking of Americans, with Apologies to Gertrude Stein. Amaryllidaceae: Rhodophiala.
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A Gladiolus Makes Me Glad
You'll be glad you gave Glads a try in your cut flower garden.
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Anxiety Can Be Debilitating
Anxiety at the wrong times can be debilitating.
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Brookgreen Gardens
For eight decades and counting Brookgreen Gardens has been one of America's premier horticultural and sculptural powerhouses
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Quick, Easy Centerpieces for Bridal Showers, Valentine's Day, Parties, and Thanksgiving
Simple but creative centerpieces for any occasion.
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Vines - Part 3 - Clematis
Vines are amazing plants. With their ability to either climb vertically or spread horizontally, they enable us to create many-layered interest in our gardens. If you've avoided using vines because you think they can get out of hand and become weedy pests, think again. While this is true of some, it's also true of many garden-worthy plants that none of us would be without. With some exceptions, weediness is not a characteristic of Clematis, the Queen of the twining vines.
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Winter Ground Covers and Vines
The garden landscape can seem bare during the winter but with these rambling or spreading perennial plants you can have year round interest.
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A Tropical Garden With Cannas
At the nursery this year, we have many landscape customers buying tropical plants. Cannas are a top seller because they are easy to use in the garden and in containers.
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Annual Poppies as Landscape Focus
Seaside and sheltered landscape plantings and herb gardens present some down-to-earth examples for using annual poppies in natural appearing gardens.
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Beef Up Your Borders
How to use short-term planting to fill out a newly planted border
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Blue Flowered Shrubs
Blue flowering shrubs are unusual but welcome accents to the flower garden. Use them alone or use them to form the bones of an all blue themed flower garden.
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Dahlias for Garden and Vase
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.
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Growing a Griselinia Shrub
Griselinia is a versatile shrub that grows in many different climates. It thrives in coastal regions, is a vigorous grower and can be used in small and large gardens.
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