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A Sampling of Articles:
Closing Up Your Container Garden

An Edible Flower Garden

Are You Over Watering Your Garden?

A Dozen Tips For Producing Low Allergy Gardens

Adding A Bird Feeder To Your Garden

A Look At Garden Gazebos

Add Color To Your Garden With Blue Perennial Flowers

Courtyard Gardens Planning Tips

Building A No Dig Garden

Blue Wild Flowers For Your Garden

Asthma Friendly Gardens

About Hummingbirds And How To Attract Them To Your Garden

Choosing The Right Roses For Your Garden

Culinary Herb Gardening

8 Lawn Care Tips For Your Garden

Building A Garden From Nothing At All

About Window Ledge Gardening

A Garden To Attract Hummingbirds

Butterfly Gardening

Butterfly Gardens For Your Region

All About Tulip Gardens

Building A Container Water Garden

Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...what To Watch Out For.

Container Gardening

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Alison Cole A Look At Garden Gazebos
A garden gazebo is the perfect way to accent your garden. Imagine being able to walk along the path between the .....
Angie Noack Early Spring Rose Gardening Tasks
If you live in an area where you can start seeing the promise of spring in late March or early April, then .....
B. Ellis Make The Most From Your Vegetable Garden
All your hard work has paid off, and now you are presented with a dilemma, too many vegetables! After .....
Balaji B About Window Ledge Gardening
The growing of flowering or foliage plants on window ledges is a form of gardening in which most people can indulge .....
Bonnie P. Carrier Decorative Garden Accents
Think of your garden like you would a room in your home. After planning the shape, tilling the soil, choosing the right plants the last step is to add those personal .....
Bonnie P. Carrier Rock Gardens ' A Different Kind Of Garden
Planting a Rock Garden is a great alternative to the normal flower and vegetable garden. Where Should This Garden Go: Typically an .....
Brett Fogle How To Choose Water Garden Plants
So the water garden bug has bitten. You've dug and leveled and sweated and said words you hope that no one else has heard. Now it's time for the .....
Bruce Ballard Jump Start Your Garden With Seedlings & Cuttings
The arrival of March typically has gardeners itching to get outside and start digging, but with many final frost dates well into May it's just too early to .....
C.J. Gustafson Organic Gardening In The Backyard ' Fun, Healthy, And Easier
Organic gardening, which is sometimes thought of as something out of the 60s hippie culture, has been steadily .....
Candee Stark How To Lose Weight While Gardening
Have you ever dreaded the idea of pulling weeds, planting a tree, or pushing a lawn mower around the yard' Does just thinking about it make you .....
Carole Pagan Planning Next Year's Garden
Seems like it's a little early to start thinking about next year's garden, doesn't it' But now is the time to survey your gardens and see what's going on. What needs .....
Catherine Olivia Teak Garden Furniture - A Lasting Value
The purchase of teak garden furniture is a true investment in value. Teak is an excellent choice for .....
Chris Towland Gardening And YOU
The beauty of gardening is known by millions of people all around the world and it seems this hobby is starting to get more .....
Colin Smith 5 Most Popular Flowers For Your Garden
When planting a garden there are many questions which you must ask yourself before you begin. Where are you going to plant it, do you have the .....
Colin Smith 5 Pieces Of Equipment Gardeners Can't Live Without
Gardening is fun and rewarding and may be considered a hobby, talent or both and sometimes it's just luck. .....
Danielle Dickinson Selecting The Right Water Feature For Your Garden
Selecting the Right Water Feature for Your Garden When contemplating a water feature for your garden it is important to .....
David Kurshel How To Plan A Garden Right
Gardening is a hobby that brings joy, entertainment, and a better quality of life. It is a creative activity, the result of .....
David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com Starting Vegetable Garden Seeds & Plants Indoors
Starting Plants IndoorsSeeds can be germinated and seedlings started in a box, pan or flowerpot of soil in a window. In addition to .....
David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com Garden Soil Preparation?
Different types of plants each require varying degrees of soil acidity or pH. Some plants are very sensitive to soil pH levels. Some garden plants will prefer acid soils .....
David and Alissa Dewitt How To Plant A Heather Garden
HEATHER GARDENS - Mass plantings of heather, either planted with one of each variety or one hundred, can be ideal for a sunny area. Spaced .....
Debbie Rodgers Closing Up Your Container Garden
All good things eventually come to an end and so summer is waning, even as autumn gives most of us a fresh start. I'll bet your summer container .....
Denny Soinski The Importance Of Garden Decor
The Quest for Significance People are looking for ways to add significance, peace of mind, a quality experience, and to escape from .....
Don Rohde, Cedar Creek Woodshop Grow Your Own SIMPLE Tea Garden
Materials Needed 1 decorative clay or metal planter 1 package of clay pellets (approx. 30 pellets) 3 packets of organic tea leaves seeds (YOUR .....
Ed Rooney Edible Flowers In Your Garden
Flowers can be an integral part of cooking. While most of us are aware that violets can be candied and nasturtiums can be eaten in salads, there's a bounty of flower .....
Ed Rooney Fall Garden Chores For Spring Flowering Bulbs
As the school busses begin to rumble down the road again we are reminded that the gardening season is drawing to a close. For the gardener with an eye .....
Gary Guzman Dog Days Of Summer - August Gardening Tips
Well these truly are the "dog days of summer". It is still hot some days really humid and every now and then not a .....
Gene Gardening For Birds
Creating the perfect garden for birds begins by understanding the needs of birds. Birds, as with other wildlife, require certain .....
Gordon Goh Planning A Water Garden...
A water garden is the area of your landscape that will provide you with relaxing sounds of the water, while adding to the overall details of your landscape. The water .....
Graham McClung The Perfect Garden Sundial
Is it possible for a garden sundial to tell perfect time? The chances are very good if you can make one yourself, or get .....
Jan Money Hydroponics Gardening Verses Organic Gardening.
Hydroponics gardening offers many advantages to the cannabis grower. In fact hydroponics gardening .....
Jan Money Love To Garden But Short On Money' Here's 10 Money Saving Ideas
A great perk of organic gardening is finding different ways to achieve the same or improved result .....
Jane Lake Butterfly Gardening
Butterfly gardening is not only a joy, it is one way that you can help restore declining butterfly populations. Simply adding a few new plants to your backyard may .....
Jeff Pozniak How To Use Color In Your Perennial Garden
Just like most things in life, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If purple blooms put a smile on your face, then you should most definitely use plants with purple .....
Jeff Slokum Preserving Flowers From A Potpourri Garden
Fresh cut flowers all spring and summer are one of the bonuses of having a flower garden. Wouldn't you love .....
Jeff Slokum Planning A Serenity Garden
"Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth." -- Dorothy .....
Jeff Slokum Culinary Herb Gardening
There is nothing more pleasing than walking right outside your kitchen door and finding all the spices you'll need for a .....
Jenny Harker Making Love To My Garden
I have one of those handy-dandy small roto-tillers made especially for gardeners. It can do darn near anything, short of creating world peace .....
Jenny Harker My Garden Soul-The Agonies Of Our Delightful Addiction
Here is a scenario familiar to every gardener: I tense with eager anticipation whenever I walk into my favorite nursery, or any nursery. I'm a kid in a toy store .....
Jill Dow Online Garden Seed Exchanges
If you've been gardening for any length of time you have probably realized a couple of things. 1: Gardening .....
Jill Dow Gardening In Containers
Container gardening is a wonderful idea whether you have a garden bed or not. It's perfect for apartments or small areas, but can also really enhance your .....
Jill Dow Gardening - Using Annuals In Your Perennial Garden
Annuals in your perennial garden are something to think about! Annuals give you season long color, easy propogation, they're cost .....
Jill Dow Gardening - Using Bulbs In Your Landscaping
Naturalized bulbs look beautiful in a wooded setting. You can plant them and leave them to multiply. After the .....
Jill Dow Fall Garden Planning - Garden Plans For Next Spring
It's August, the weather has cooled a bit here and the summer monsoons where I live in New Mexico have begun. The kids are starting back to .....
Johann Erickson Garden Arrangements Can Make A Huge Difference In Your Yard
Gardening is a very popular hobby, and one that can be enjoyed by young or old, whole families, someone employed outside the home, and those who are .....
Johann Erickson Adding A Bird Feeder To Your Garden
If you are the type of person who enjoys all aspects of nature, and loves to see it right at your door or outside the window, consider hanging some bird .....
Johann Erickson The 'Minimal' Garden
Some people who lead busy professional and personal lives, don't feel they have the time to invest in the constant upkeep of floral .....
Johann Erickson Tips For Windowsill Gardening
Believe it or not, keeping the green of Spring in you life year-round, is easier than you think. While it's great fun to get outside and start planting that vegetable or .....
John Sanderson An Edible Flower Garden
To most of us, the idea of eating flowers evokes the humorous image of someone biting into a rose, or chomping off the head of a daisy. Yet there was a time not so very .....
John Sanderson A Garden To Attract Hummingbirds
'Mommy, come see! There are fairies in the garden!' And so they might have been to the eyes of a five year old who grew up on tales of pixies, elves and fairies. The .....
John Sanderson Gardening For Senior Citizens
Are you in a wheelchair, and long to dig in the dirt and create flowering beauty and grow far more zucchini than you can give away' Or are .....
Judy Williams Gardening For Kids
Children are continually bombarded with advertising for fast food and unhealthy treats. One of the .....
Judy Williams Building A No Dig Garden
The no dig garden is exactly what it describes...a fertile garden bed with no digging at all. It involves .....
Karen Gross Pest Control For The Vegetable Garden
One of the biggest challenges for vegetable gardeners is pest control. Anyone who has tried to keep a .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard Rose Garden Tips
The rose garden ultimately is a get away for you and your thoughts any time of the day. You can plan and create a rose garden of your own that will take away the stress .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard Starting A Shade Garden
Starting a Shade Garden The shade garden can be exploding with color and texture. No matter how much shade is in your landscape, the right .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard The Birth Of A Small Container Flower Garden
The Birth of a Small Container Flower Garden This is the first in a series of essays on how I am converting a small (12' x 16') yard in Cody, Wyoming .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard How To Create A Decorative Garden Window
If you have a sunny window in a room where you don't have to worry about privacy, this d'r idea will provide a country home feel along with the beauty of .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard How To Attract Butterflies To Your Garden
The flittering of the butterfly through your garden is no accident if you planned your garden carefully. The adult butterfly flitters from .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard Blue Wild Flowers For Your Garden
Planting wild flowers in your garden, or simply scattering wild flower seeds around an area of your .....
Kathy Burns-Millyard Choosing The Right Roses For Your Garden
There are literally hundreds of types of roses that you can grow in your garden. With such a selection to choose from, it .....
Lee Dobbins Planting Roses In Your Garden
Roses are an old standby for any garden and one of the worlds favorite flowers. There are over 5,000 .....
Lee Dobbins 5 Perennials For Shade Gardens
We all know that flowers love sunshine, but did you realize that there are perennials that love the shade' You can create a beautiful garden in the shade that can act as a .....
Lee Dobbins Orange Perennials For Your Garden
Perennials are wonderful because, they bloom year after year. Sometimes, I forget that I even have them planted and then they .....
Lee Dobbins Planting Blue Flowers In Your Garden
Blue garden flowers can add a splash of unique color to your yard. You can buy blue and blue purple perennials and annuals to enhance your garden design. Plant them .....
Lesley Dietschy About Hummingbirds And How To Attract Them To Your Garden
Visualize watching a bright green hummingbird in your garden moving from flower to flower in search of the tasty nectar within. These beautiful and tiny birds weigh about 2 .....
Linda Gray 6 Fashion Tips For Gardeners
Clothes and skin cream are far removed from potting out your begonias, or digging a trench for a line of potatoes. But the clothes you wear are .....
Linda Paquette All About Tulip Gardens
As the curtain of winter lifts, tulips are one of the first flowers to take the spring stage. As the last drifts .....
Linda Paquette How To Choose The Right Bulbs For Your Spring Flower Garden
Choosing the right bulbs involves more than just selecting colors and cultivars. Timing, bulb size, and most importantly, bulb health are equally significant factors in .....
Malcolm Kay Courtyard Gardens Planning Tips
With an increasing tendency for empty nesters, young couples and singles towards higher density inner city living, and the desire .....
Marie K Fisher Garden Delights For Midsummer
We have once again reached the wonderful magical time of midsummer, when the garden is aglow with sensational blooms and a fantastic array of colors. Many of these .....
Marilyn Pokorney Earthworm Friends In The Garden
Earthworms are a gardener's best friend. Research has shown that earthworm excrement, also called castings or .....
Marilyn Pokorney How To Control Deer In Your Garden
Deer are the most difficult of all pests to deter from a garden. They love many different plants. Flowers, vegetables, trees and shrubs are all on their menu .....
Mark Falco Garden Composters And Composting Basics
Why Compost' Recent studies show that an average family throws away approximately 200 pounds of organic kitchen waste every year. Combine this with all the leaves, .....
Mark Freeman Are You Over Watering Your Garden?
Take a look at your garden. You can see that it isn't doing as well as you'd hoped. The lower leaves on your .....
Matthew Leo Greenhouse Gardening
A Greenhouse can extend your growing season by months and allow you to sow seeds and harvest crops much earlier than you normally would. With proper .....
Melanie Breeze It's Gardening Season!
It's gardening season again! Are you ready? Whether you are a seasoned gardener, or are looking to start gardening, you will likely need supplies and plants. If you .....
Mike Spencer Garden Furniture - A Touch Of Exuberance To Your Landscape
Garden furniture is in vogue. These add d'r and liveliness to the landscape of your house. Depending upon your taste and surrounding of your .....
Mike Spencer Garden Furniture: A Natural Extension Of The Home
Garden Furniture: A Natural Extension of the Home In the past, the garden has traditionally been a separate entity, with wrought iron .....
Mike Yeager Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...what To Watch Out For.
There are so many plants available for you to choose from that it's hard to know where to start. Are you looking for house plants, tropical plants or some .....
Mike Yeager Release Some Tension...Spend Some Time In Your Garden
Gardening can be one of the most rewarding and relaxing hobbies that you can engage in. Picture a beautiful spring day, the sweet smell of grass in the .....
Mike Yeager Seeds And More Seeds...What Your Garden Needs
Seeds are the most important ingredient in all gardening. Without quality seeds it would be impossible to have a beautiful .....
Paul Curran More Types Of Shrub To Use In Your Garden
Buddleia, the butterfly bush, is 16 feet or more if not killed back by winter, and gets its name from the fact that in the summer, butterflies .....
Paul Curran How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden
An annual, from the point of view of the amateur gardener, is any plant which must be replaced each year and which flowers only once in its life. .....
Ron King The Tools Of Rose Gardening
Like any job you tackle, it's always easier if you have the right tools. Before heading out to your rose garden, make sure you .....
Ryan Larson Planning A Container Water Gardens For Any Yard
I have an admission to make. I'm a natural born swamp-child. To me, there are few things in this world more .....
Ryan Larson More Than Just Flowers - Fun Garden Accessories
Flowers and plants are rightly the central attraction of your garden ' but they needn't be the only one. Garden 'accessories' can add .....
Ryan Larson Container Gardening
Container gardening is quick becoming a favorite with a lot of gardeners. Generally you will find people living in apartments and condos without any lawn area are .....
Samuel Murray Building A Garden From Nothing At All
Gardening doesn't have to be an expensive hobby. Some of the most beautiful gardens I've ever grown cost me nothing but sweat and sore .....
Samuel Murray Butterfly Gardens For Your Region
I grew up in the city surrounded by asphalt and concrete sidewalks, brick buildings and vacant lots ' but .....
Sandra Dinkins-Wilson October In The Flower Garden - Preparing For Winter
A very busy time begins in the garden as the summer and autumn flowers fade. Although much depends upon the weather, the time is .....
Sandra Dinkins-Wilson Organic Roses In The Flower Garden
Many people believe growing their flowers and vegetables organically is healthier for them and their .....
Sandra Dinkins-Wilson Perennials In The Flower Garden
Perennials are the basic flowers of any flower garden. To many people, a flower garden is simply beds of perennials. Each year they die and renew themselves .....
Sandra Dinkins-Wilson The Flower Garden In August
Our flower garden in August can be brimming with activities we can do at this time of year, as we can for most of the year. We have some flower gardening .....
Sandra Wilson July Garden Chores
It's getting hotter every day or so it seems. There are still some things that can be done in the garden even at this time of year. Below are a few gardening tips for those .....
Scottie Johnson Mosquitoes In Your Garden' Try Planting These.
If you are a serious gardener, you spend lots of time outdoors. And, for sure, you would rather be .....
Shaan Randow Make The Most Of Fall Gardening
While most gardeners consider spring the most serious planting season, and consider planting season over my mid summer this isn't the case. Now .....
Shaan Randow Gardening Fun With Children
Do you recall your very first plant' Your first garden' Perhaps it was the geranium seeds you planted in a milk carton or Styrofoam cup as .....
Shaan Randow Gardening In A Square Foot
If you haven't heard of square foot gardening, you're about to learn one of the most useful and versatile gardening .....
Simon Harris Add Color To Your Garden With Blue Perennial Flowers
Blue flowers are some of the most striking plants around and can add a rich splash of color to any garden. Plant them in a cluster of all blue or mix them in with other .....
Steve Wilcott Building A Container Water Garden
Once you've chosen a spot for your container water garden ' remember, 6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day, no .....
TC Thorn Nontoxic Pest Control For Your Home And Garden
Pesticides are toxic and, while often effective against pests, can be dangerous for your family and .....
Tammy Clayton Pre-Spring Garden Planning
The end of Februrary already' My how time does fly! The sun has already become more readily available than in the past few months. Perhaps more .....
Terry Lowery Cut Flower Gardening For Beautiful Bouquets
Imagine a never-ending supply of beautiful flowers for your home, bouquets and arrangements to give to friends, flowers to pluck at will for gifts, get-well .....
Terry Lowery Five Rose Garden Ideas
If you've always shied away from growing roses because you believed their press, it's time to put away your .....
Terry Lowery Edgings Can Enhance Your Flower Garden
The edging of a garden is almost as important as the garden itself. It's like a picture frame. The picture can be .....
The Gift Wizard Green Thumb Gifts: Beyond Gardening Gloves
Ahh, spring! It has sprung! Gardeners (and budding gardeners - no pun intended) have begun the quest for a weedless lawn, or a bountiful .....
Thomas Leo Ogren Asthma Friendly Gardens
Asthma Friendly Gardens Tom Ogren Recent studies have shown that babies born to mothers who .....
Thomas Ogren A Dozen Tips For Producing Low Allergy Gardens
What we plant often has a direct effect on our own health and the health of those near us. A pollen-producing .....
Tim Henry Herbs For A Spaghetti Garden
Herbs are one of the delightful pleasures of life. They add flavor to your food, scent to the air and beauty to your garden. In colonial times, no home was .....
Tim Henry Herbs For A Tea Garden
Is there anything more refreshing on a hot summer day than a tall glass of iced tea with a sprig of fresh mint' Or a .....
Valerie Giles Gardening Is Good Therapy
Many of us garden just for the sheer joy of it. But did you know that all over the country the healing aspects of gardening are being used as therapy or as an .....
Vince Apps The Container Vegetable Garden
If you live in an apartment or town home, you probably think you don't have enough space to grow vegetables. Lack of space is no longer an excuse since .....
Websition Article Team 8 Lawn Care Tips For Your Garden
I'll show you 8 simple steps how you can follow extremely simple steps and procedures to maintain a spectacular landscape beauty. Here goes. Get to know .....
james ellison Here Is Why You Should Use Gypsum In Gardening
Do you have clay or layer of hard subsoil problems in your garden' Then gypsum may be the answer to help loosen the soil .....



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