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Use Chartreuse Green Foliage to Brighten Gardens
One way to add strong color and eye-catching vibrant light to a dark garden landscape is with light green foliage that will catch the sun.
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Container Herb Plants for Homegrown Tea Blends
Many herbs are used in delicious and nutritious brews and tea blends to drink, in addition to being used for cooking and other purposes.
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Perennials for Brewing Homemade Tea
Many perennial herbs and plants are known for being useful in homemade teas, giving gardeners the chance to enjoy plants and money-saving drink too!
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Edible Flowering Plants to Brew Tea
With a move back to victory gardens, edible landscapings and organic or homegrown food and drink, one easy project is a tea garden
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Best Make-It-Yourself Christmas Ornament Crafts
Christmas greeting cards can be used to create Christmas tree ornaments that are both attractive and easy for kids to make.
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Growing Broccoli Fall or Spring Tips and Tricks
While broccoli plants are often grown in the spring, before harsh summer heat, broccoli performs best in the fall vegetable garden.
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Best Types of Finches for Pets
There are so many birds available from big pet stores it can be confusing to know which types make the best pets. For starters, try these easy to care for finches.
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Ten Old Testament Plants From Scriptures
These ten Biblical plants were mention in the scriptures and are still popular or widely used today. Find out some interesting facts about these Bible plants.
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Choosing Baby Shower Themes
Choosing a theme for a baby shower party can be a stressful but necessary part of being a baby shower hostess. Here are tips for baby shower theme selection.
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Best Developmental Toys for 5-Year-Old Boys
Toys for five-year-old boys can be tricky presents to buy because they are at an in between stage. Between preschool and school, developmental toys can help!
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Non-Toxic Carpet Cleaning Solutions
Many people are searching for ways to decrease the amount of toxic chemicals used in their homes and natural carpet cleaning solutions can be effective.
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Non-Toxic Cleaning Products and Ingredients
Cleaning products don't have to be harsh, toxic or produce noxious fumes in order to clean house effectively and thoroughly. Use these natural cleaning products instead.
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Best Lavender Plants in Garden Landscapes
Lavender herb plants are an aromatic and useful choice for cottage gardens, drought tolerant landscapes and other garden situations.
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Best Plants to Give at Christmas or Holidays
Gardeners love plants for Christmas, of course, as most are eager to be back in the garden. What plants would be the best gifts for gardeners?
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Preschooler Songs With Actions
These preschool songs all have a rich tradition of actions and movements that go along with them, giving parents and teachers the chance to keep young kids moving!
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Plants in Sympathy Flower Arrangements
A reader asked about the meanings of the FTD funeral flowers delivered online and sent same day for sympathy situations. Here's what the funeral arrangements meant.
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Summer Bulbs for Mid-Season Flowers
Many bulb gardeners overlook the beautiful summer flowering bulbs because of the popularity of the spring bulbs. Here are plants to extend the bulb garden season.
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Best Gardening Bulbs for Spring Color
Several spring flowering bulbs will provide gardeners with long-lasting color from a few minutes of fall bulb planting in the autumn.
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Best Holiday Quilt Patterns for Christmas
The winter holidays is the perfect time of year to curl up with a newly made quilt, but for something that will only be enjoyed a few weeks, you want it be easy-to-make.
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Make Additional Money From Blog Posts
One of the great things about freelance writing or blogging is the large number of ways to make money from home or create passive income streams from writing.
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Crocus Plants for Fall and Spring
Crocus plants are unique in that bulb gardeners can enjoy fall bulb planting or spring bulb planting and yield crocus flowers twice a year!
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Basic Ingredients in Homemade Beauty Products
Making bath and beauty treatments from scratch is a great way to save money and cut back on potentially harmful chemicals found in some store-bought products.
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Baptisia Plant Profile and Tips for Growing
False indigo, or wild indigo is a useful perennial plant for flowering gardens with attractive fall seed pods and late spring flowers.
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Inexpensive Halloween Kids Crafts to Make
Dressing up in costumes is only part of the fun of Halloween for children. These inexpensive Halloween crafts will extend the fun for kids of all ages.
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Delphinium Plant Profile and How to Grow Them
Delphinium flowers are some of the most readily recognized of the tall, vertically-growing perennials. See how to grow and maintain them in the garden.
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Fall Flowers for Autumn Color
With the cooling days of autumn, many summer perennials begin to cease their blooms. Gardeners can keep the color going for the autumn months by including these plants.
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Cold Hardy Camellia Selections
Camellias are a fragrant, evergreen shrub associated with southern landscapes and gardens. Recent hybridizers and developments are creating more cold-hardy cultivars.
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How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds
Many gardeners enjoy the large, colorful blooms of summer but are left wondering how to harvest sunflower seeds to use after the flowers begin to fade.
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Planting Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower seeds are not only an edible snack, but they are large seeds easy for kids to hold and manipulate. Here's how to go about planting sunflower seeds for yourself.
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Early Blooming Bulbs to Plant
Gardeners who want the earliest blooms during the cold of winter will want to consider these bulbs that will often bloom as early as January or February.
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Tall Flowering Plants for Back of Borders
Home gardeners can mimic the success of professional landscapers by using plants of varying heights. These tall growing plants do well for behind shorter flowers.
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Russian Sage Plant Profile and Tips for Growing
Russian Sage is not related to the Salvia family of plants, but provides gardeners with an amazing flower display in dry conditions.
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Astilbe Plant Profile and Tips for Growing
Astilbe plants are an excellent choice for gardeners to add color to a shade garden and flower heads also make good cut flowers.
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Shrubs for Attracting Songbirds
Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant these shrubs that feed and house native bird species.
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Garden Perennials for Attracting Songbirds
Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant perennials that provide songbirds with a source of food.
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Annual Plants for Bringing Birds to the Garden
Some plants are known for their ability to attract songbirds to the garden. These annual plants are a must for a bird-friendly landscape.
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Favorite Sunflower Plants to Grow
Whether growing for the delicious seeds, to attract wildlife to the landscape, or for cut flower blossoms, gardeners love sunflowers.
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How to Grow Bachelor's Buttons
Long used as a cutting flower or dried in everlasting flower arrangements, the Bachelor's Buttons also go by the common name of bluet or ragged sailor.
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How to Grow Larkspur Plant Profile
The perennial larkspur plant is an easy and delightful thing for many landscapers and gardeners, adding old-fashioned charm to any bed or border.
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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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Growing and Caring for Rudbeckia Plant Profile
Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan, is a beautiful daisy-like flower that adds a beauty and splash of color to the summer garden for weeks.
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How to Grow Daylilies Plant Profile
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are popular flowering perennials with dozens of blooms, each lasting only one day. Hardy plants and colorful blooms look great in the garden.
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How to Grow Creeping Phlox Plant Profile
Known for evergreen foliage color and a blanket of color in the spring, creeping phlox is a well-deserved favorite of garden borders, rock gardens and raised beds.
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Tips for Growing Edible Plants
Many gardeners are trying to save money on grocery budgets by growing Victory Gardens and adding edible plants to their home landscapes, and can try these tips.
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Best Coleus Varieties and Cultivars to Plant
Plant breeders love to create new, brightly colored varieties of Coleus plants for container gardeners or home landscaping. These are some of the most popular choices.
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How to Grow Coleus Plant Profile
Coleus is usually an annual plant grown for the colorful leaves and is a favorite edging or container plant. Many varieties of coleus are available.
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Do Rats Make Good Pocket Pets?
While many people hate the idea of wild rats, pet rats are known to be intelligent, sociable and clean animals for keeping as pets in small apartments.
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Ornamental Shrubs with Edible Flower Blooms
When gardeners think about flowers to add to their edible landscapes, they usually consider annual or perennial flowers. But these shrubs have kitchen-worthy uses too.
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Edible Flowers for Victory Garden Beauty
While many gardeners think of fruits and vegetables in their victory garden, many beautiful flowering plants have edible blossoms.
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Victory Garden Plants for Vertical Interest
Growing vegetables instead of ornamental perennial plants, doesn't mean a gardeners landscape has to look boring. These tall vegetables will add height to the landscape.
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Edible Plants for Summer Border Edges
These edible plants will make attractive garden border edges, while still providing a harvest for the kitchen table.
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Edible Vegetables With Black or Purple Foliage
These fruits and vegetables with dark foliage make great victory garden substitutes for the typical bronze, burgundy, or black-colored landscaping plant selections.
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Edible Vegetables with Red and Maroon Foliage
Gardeners do not have to sacrifice colorful landscapes to stretch their family's food budget. These edible vegetable plants all have brightly colored foliage.
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Flowering Annual Vines and Rambling Plants
These annual plants will add a climbing wall of color to your garden landscape areas and are perfect for small garden spaces.
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How to Grow Spider Flower Plant Profile
Spider flowers are fast growing annual plants that are tall and long-legged. Cleome plants are great for the back of borders.
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How to Grow Calendula - A Plant Profile
Long-prized for herb gardens and flower gardens alike, the pot marigold has many uses. A hardy, sun-loving annual flower that provides months of color.
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How to Grow Ipomoea Vines - Plant Profile
This family of annual vines has been charming gardeners for centuries as a staple of cottage and heirloom gardens. Fragrant and colorful flowers abound.
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Caladium Bulb Plant Profile
Caladiums are one of the most popular foliage plants for adding color to shade gardens. See how to grow favorite caladium bulbs in your garden.
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Annual Plants With Attractive Foliage
All these annual plants are grown for their beautiful foliage, rather than bright flowers, and add an extra dimension of interest to the garden.
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Annual Plants for Border Edges
Border edgings are important for blending the garden bed with the outside landscaping. See annual plants that provide color for garden border edges.
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Top Five Gifts for Gardeners
There are some can't-miss gifts that gardeners will always enjoy. Here are the top plant and bulb picks for gardening presents.
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Christmas Quotations, Sayings and Phrases
Greeting cards, children's crafts, homemade gift tags, ornaments and holiday decorations all use favorite or meaningful quotes of the holiday season.
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Christmas Preschool Unit Study Activities
See a complete preschool unit study based on the holiday season and learning ideas for math, science, art, music, language skills, food, outdoor activities and more.
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How to Grow Viola Tricolor Johnny Jump-ups
Cool season flowers, these miniature pansy like blooms are a perennial favorite in cottage gardens world wide. See tips for how to grow Heartsease in the landscape.
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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 Look Young and Hip
Television personality Charla Krupp shares tips for looking "young and hip", not "old lady," in her fashion, style and beauty guidebook for any woman over twenty years.
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How to Grow Lilac Shrubs Plant Profile
Lilacs are the perennial harbingers of spring, and a favorite deciuous shrub to include in fragrance garden, heirloom cottage gardens and more.
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How to Divide Herbaceous Perennial Plants
Gardeners can share plants inexpensively or increase perennials in their landscapes, through division. How do you divide rhizomatic perennials?
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Thanksgiving Preschool Unit Study Plans
See a complete preschool unit study based on the Thanksgiving holiday for math, science, art, music, language skills, food, outdoor activities and more.
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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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Halloween Preschool Unit Study
A complete preschool unit study based on Halloween, complete with math, science, art, music, language skills, food, outdoor activities and more.
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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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Sweet Autumn Clematis Vine
Sweet autumn clematis is a deciduous perennial vine that takes center stage in the garden every fall with showers of white fragrant flowers.
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Reborn Baby Dolls Increase in Popularity
The art of reborning started a couple decades ago when doll artists began creating lifelike vinyl dolls resembling real babies.
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Creative First Anniversary Gifts
Wedding anniversaries are a time to celebrate a marriage. See unusual ideas for giving on the first anniversary.
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Arkansas and Michigan State Flower - Apples
Apple blooms are the state flowers for both Michigan and Arkansas states. Michigan and Arkansas states were known for apple production early in their statehood.
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Logee's Tropical Garden and Container Plants
Logee's Tropical Plants Company specializes in ornamental tropical plants for growing indoors, or outside, in containers. Add exotic charm to your garden, inside or out!
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Plant Profile Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)
A popular and charming cottage garden plant that adds grace to partly shaded gardens, the bleeding heart is a long-time beloved plant in heirloom gardens.
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The Flowers of the Astrological Zodiac
Most people know their horoscope sign; there are garden plants associated with each zodiac sign as well. Perhaps we should ask "What is your bloom?" when we meet someone.
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Monarda Plant Profile Growing Guide
Monarda didyma is highly attractive to hummingbirds, honeybees and butterflies, as well as providing weeks of colorful blooms each summer and early fall. Learn more!
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Yellow Spring-Planted Bulbs
The bulb growing season can be extended by using tender bulbs or other summer flowering, perennial bulbs in the yellow themed garden.
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Shrubs for Bright Fall Foliage
Red, yellow, orange and burgundy-purple colors make the autumn landscape shine with brilliant colors. These shrubs add fall foliage accents to the garden.
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Alaska State Flower Alpine Forget-me-not
Forget-me-not is a perennial plant native to alpine areas of the United States and is the Alaskan State Flower.
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Biennial Plants with Yellow Flowers
Biennial plants are usually hardy, easy to grow plants that self-sow in the garden, so these yellow blooming plants will make great additions to a yellow themed garden.
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Yellow Ornamental Grasses
Ornamental grasses are fast becoming a "must-have" addition to the garden landscape. Here are some garden grass selections for a yellow themed garden.
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Yellow Flowering Shrubs for Theme Gardens
These gorgeous shrubs provide interest and backdrop to the yellow themed garden setting off the other flowering plants well.
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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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Trailing Plants for Yellow Flower Gardens
These yellow flowering plants are all great choices for hanging baskets and containers in the yellow themed garden.
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Yellow Flowering Modern Roses
There are many yellow flowering roses that will add cheerful color and warmth to your garden. Here are a few favorite roses of gardeners worldwide.
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Personalized Father's Day Gifts
These two artistic ideas are a fun way for toddlers or school age children to make for their fathers for Father's Day or other holiday gift.
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Plants with Silver Foliage
Plants with silver foliage blend well with other plants and add shining accents to a mixed border or flower bed. Use grey-leaved plants in moonlight gardens also.
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Yorkie: Right New Dog For You?
There are some things prospective owners should be aware of before getting a Yorkshire Terrier. Here are tips to help decide whether a Yorkie is right for your family.
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Walk-On Lawn Substitute Plants
With people looking for ways to make their gardens more "green", some are replacing high water need lawns with grass turf alternatives or ground covers for their yards.
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English Bulldog: Right For You?
There are some things prospective owners should be aware of before getting an English Bulldog. Here are tips to help decide whether a bulldog is for you.
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About the English Bulldog Breed
The English Bulldog has increased in popularity over the past decade and is now in the AKC top ten dogs registered. Who can resist their lovable looks?
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Are Gerbils The Right Pet Animal for You?
Gerbils are active during the day, easy to care for, clean, friendly and curious. They are one of the most popular rodents to keep as pets. See how to care for gerbils.
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Creating a Tropical Terrarium
Many tropical herps (reptiles and amphibians) need a humid, specialized environment. Learn to assemble a home for some lizards, snakes and tree frogs.
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Green Anole: Right Pet For You?
These small, agile lizards do change colors from green to brown but Anolis carolinensis are not true chameleons. See the common traits and needs of keeping anoles.
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Best Pet Choices for Classrooms
These four animals are good choices for school class pets as they require minimal interaction, are easy keepers and lead to educational opportunities.
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Selecting The Right Classroom Pet
Classroom pets are an excellent way to add enrichment and responsibility to a young child's learning experience but special care should be taken picking the right animal.
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