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More sun and shade tips. How to analyze the light conditions for a foundation planting, pointers on how light exposure changes by compass point, season and time of day.

Red caladiums are popular in any flower garden. The colorful leaves can display accents of greens, whites, pinks and darker shades of red to add color to summer gardens.

Many factors affect the health of landscape plants, but one of the most confusing is light intensity - the amount of sun or shade a plant needs for optimum vigor.

Some plants prefer sun, some prefer shade so how do you handle part sun/part shade locations? These practical tips will help you decide.

Knowing the daily and annual sun positions helps to make landscape designs accurate and realistic. Sizes of extremely shady or sunny spots are easy to estimate.

Some flowers and plants prefer sun, some prefer shade. Is your garden sunny or shady or part sun or part shade? Find out how to tell the difference.

The climbing varieties of lonicera, or honeysuckle, bear sumptuous, often sweetly scented blooms from early summer to autumn. Some also have attractive evergreen foliage.

Too often soil in the garden is degraded and washed away because it has no protection. Plants struggle to grow because moisture evaporated from the soil too quickly.

These annuals all provide exciting color in the spring when gardeners are ready for the first signs of life in their garden. Here are some favorite early annuals.

Recognizing and working with environmental factors helps to avoid expensive and distressing landscape design mistakes. Environmental factors interact with each other to make every site unique. Paying attention to these factors is also essential for a yard or garden plan to be successful over time.

Turn your front yard into an edible landscape instead of a nonproductive grass plot. It's good for the environment and good for you.

There are alternatives to cementing the yard when lawn maintenance becomes too frustrating. Personal preferences, price, and location, influence your choices.

Variegated evergreen shrubs provide loads of color and interest to the garden, year round. These shrubs all have green with white, yellow or cream colored leaves.

Choose the type of coleus that will thrive in part shade or part sun. Whether called Solenostemon or coleus, these plants grow easily indoors or outside in gardens.

Nature has myriad ways up her sleeve that are still to be fully understood. What seems like mundane behavior could turn out to be a surprise package.

Compost enriches your garden soil, providing nutrients the organic way. You also retard moisture loss and reduce the strain on landfills.

The sun's height in the sky is crucial in determining climates and microclimates. Latitude, longitude and the earth's tilt govern amounts of sun reaching locations.

Read about some great ways to create beautiful container gardens.

Large ornamental plants create the backdrop for garden landscapes and set off other plants and bulbs. Learn how to grow and care for flowering and garden shrubs.

Choosing the perfect hanging basket plant is clearly up to the consumer who will be viewing the handing basket. Some good choices are listed for hanging baskets.

Knowledgeable plant selection leads to dynamic garden landscape designs. One key decision factor is knowledge of site environment.

We no longer learn gardening from our parents, so learn where a new gardener can go to learn how to grow a productive and enjoyable garden.

While many will naturally use water lilies in the water garden for floating plants, there are those that will like a change of pace.

How to buy plants online: what to look for in the descriptions.

One of the best sport climbing areas in Cyprus, Dhiarizou North and South are situated to north east of Paphos and offer quality rock climbing on limestone.

Following just a few simple rules, you will get a great set of plants to jump start the gardening year.

Cilantro is the feathery leaf of the Coriander plant. An aromatic herb, it is an essential ingredient in salsas, Pico de Gallo, and adds flavor to many Asian dishes.

The Speke Resort and Commonwealth Hotel is situated at Munyonyo, just outside Uganda's capital, Kampala.

'Venus' & 'Hartlage Wine' (Calycanthus spp.) are new hybrid cultivars, large, shade-loving shrubs excellent as specimen plants in many landscape garden designs.

Follow these easily implemented, do-it-yourself garden design techniques to achieve the look of a professionally designed backyard landscape

If you want a blue flowered theme garden or just like blue flowers in your flower garden, be sure to plant some of these blue flowering perennials.

Carolina spicebush or sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) and its cultivars are large, hardy, shade-loving shrubs at home in hedges, mixed shrub beds and natural gardens.

Some commonly used herbs that grow easily are: basil, bee balm, catnip, chamomile, chives, dill, lemon balm, peppermint, and spearmint.

Colors, textures, blooms, and types--so many choices are available to the gardener in creating a beautiful yard. Here are some helpful tips to make choices easier.

Choice of broadleaf evergreens for northern garden landscapes is limited since they lack winter survival adaptations. Description and images are included.

Here is an annual plant combination for a container in a small front porch garden. Coleus, an angel wing begonia and a new lime green sweet potato vine is one idea.

Enjoy gardening without all the back-breaking work.

While many gardeners think of fruits and vegetables in their victory garden, many beautiful flowering plants have edible blossoms.

Evergreens are a great way to have a garden without any bare spots or lack of foliage as the seasons change.

Plant these beautiful, easy to grow flowers in your shady or partially shaded garden for colorful blooms all season from spring through summer and fall.

Foliage plants play a big role in garden design. They offer contrasting leaf color and texture, and help to ground the colorful flowers in a mixed border.

No garden is complete without attractive ground covers and these fragrant plants will work perfectly in a fragrance garden! Plants for both sun and shade are included.

Many are surprised to learn that there is a cold hardy hibiscus that will grow in wet swampy conditions, bloom all season and draw hummingbirds to the garden.

Elephant ear plants add a dramatic accent to any landscape. Their colors range from bright green to purple and black and they take little care after planted.

Cat mint is an herb that is so easy to grow, even if you don't have a green thumb it will thrive.

Many commonly used kitchen and medicinal herbs do not have to be planted in full sun to thrive. Below are five of these including growing tips for each one.

Angkor Wat grows more popular by the day and visitors to the complex should try to make a reservation before travelling to Cambodia, home of the famous Kymer ruins.

Indoor air pollution is an increasing problem these days, but some plants naturally remove harmful toxins and make the air we breathe cleaner!

Indoor air pollution is an increasing problem these days, but some plants naturally clean the air and make our homes healthier.

Pruning clematis is quite easy, but different varieties of these stunning flowering climbers must be pruned differently to give the best results.