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Category Archives: Spring Tips
Tips for Annual Selection & Care
Choose Well To ensure attractive healthy annuals all season, choose full, well branched plants with good foliage color and - on flowering annuals - an...
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Lighten Up! Brightening and enlivening the shade garden
Hosta and ferns are standards for the perennial shade garden. They have similar growing condition requirements and the contrast of fine-textured fronds and broad Hosta...
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Pruning Landscape Trees & Shrubs
Pruning of trees and shrubs can help them stay within a certain size limit to fit the confines and aesthetics of a garden space. More...
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Plants to Celebrate Spring’s Return
Late winter into early spring is when we crave fresh growth, a bit of color…some sign that spring is really returning!! Swelling buds on Pussy...
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Beneficial Mulches Assist with Chemical-Free Garden Health
Benefits of Mulching Long before modern day use as a purely decorative element, mulch had an established history of benefitting plants, soil and gardeners. This...
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Helpful Garden Reference Links
Landscape Calculator for mulch, stones, plants, etc. created by professional landscape contractors. Pest I.D. for Vegetables. Clear Insect photos, descriptions, damage details and management suggestions....
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A Garden to Have and to Hold - Creating Miniature and Fairy Gardens
Miniature gardens…. a refreshing take on container gardening, an enchanting way to introduce children to the world of plants, and for those of you who...
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Perennials – A Garden Investment
Perennials come back year after year and give an excellent return on a gardener’s investment of time, energy and money. Perennials can provide a beautifully...
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Nature’s Support System
For all those who garden, it is common knowledge that gardening is truly therapeutic. However, there may be some folks out there that are unaware...
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