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Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.

Put away your lawnmower, and turn your landscape into a sanctuary for native plants and wildflowers. These hardy plants need no chemicals and little care.

Compost and barrier-mulches are the secrets to easy wildflower landscaping. Establish wildflower meadows and lawns without using a pre-planting contact herbicide.

Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.

Annual poppies bring unity to wildflower meadows or a natural garden as well as create a breath-taking display. Seeds of annual poppies are easy to find and buy.

It just takes seed to get the ball rolling in your yard, neighborhood, or community. Toss seed balls on the land and watch how they change the face of a place.

Rediscover nature this spring and get children involved in planting a wild flower mix, such as 'Farmer's Nightmare', to create a small meadow in an English garden.

Views of nature from windows improves health for some people in some places. Landscaping trees in the built environment is one way of ensuring more contact with nature.

From an easy stroll to an elevated climb, numerous hiking trails offer a chance to get close to Sedona's signature red rock formations that surround the area.

Early season uniform poppy beds require planning and design to focus attention on residential and commercial landscapes. Presented is a planting sequence for Zone 5.

Musk mallows are a gardening favorite. Beautiful mallow plants are prolific and produce delicate flowers covering stems that grow to approximately 3 feet.

Cowslips (Primula veris) readily self seed in Spring. Gardeners can use propagation methods to encourage cowslips to grow in their backyard woodlands and meadow gardens.

A field of Red Flanders Poppies that blooms on Remembrance Day on Fay Helwig's Granite Belt Farm in Queensland, is part of the Glen Aplin region's Red November Festival.

Roaring River State Park, in southeastern Missouri's Ozark region, offers natural beauty, history, and trails for the outdoor enthusiast.

A recommended outing for hikers of all ages, this trail accesses two lakes, good fishing, and some of the best high alpine scenery in the Rocky Mountains.

Seaside and sheltered landscape plantings and herb gardens present some down-to-earth examples for using annual poppies in natural appearing gardens.

The American Southwest is known for dazzling landscapes, and ample National Parks. Read below for a guide to the "not-to-be-missed" National Parks this summer.

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco recently moved into a new facility with an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest.

Native cowslips produce bright yellow nectar-rich flowers from early spring that can be added to edible flowers spring salads and preserved in sugar, syrup and vinegar.

These sewing and quilt books feature garden quilts, place mats, and other projects with garden-related motifs.

Memorial Day is observed in the U.S.A. on the last Monday of May. Corn Poppies enliven summer gardens while symbolizing remembrance. These articles offer design ideas.

Organic flower gardening requires much less work if you use plants that evolved in your city, state, region, or country. You may think of native plants as wild flowers.

Pensthorpe lies a mile from Fakenham, along the A1067 road to Norwich. It is primarily a wetland site, but also contains flower gardens, woodlands and hay meadows.

Powell Gardens, located about an hour outside of Kansas City in Kingsville, MO, hosts an attractive display of plants along 1.5 miles of paved trails.

Dominated by the beautiful gothic cathedral, Canterbury is chock full of old world charm, while offering great attractions for the modern day visitor.

There are two things that determine your success as an organic gardener - soil and weather. You can change soil; you cannot change weather.

There is an impressive diversity of native bees across North America. While they don't look like your typical honey bees, they do a yeoman's job of pollinating crops.