Build Your Own Raised Island Planter – Part 2
And now for the second and final part of this home landscaper’s guide to building a raised island planter for your yard, that will be the envy of the neighborhood.…
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Build Your Own Raised Island Planter – Part 1
Some of the best home landscapes just stand apart from the rest, and landscapers and gardeners are always asking me how they can get theirs to look as impressive. There…
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Making Sense of Botanical Plant Names – Good Reasons for an Unreasonable System
At some point in their lives, everyone will be exposed to botanical plant names. People generally know various trees, shrubs, and flowers by their common names, but invariably they will…
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Taking Gardening to the Vertical – Designing With Vines and Climbers
Vines are among the most wonderful plants garden artists have at their disposal. They are amazingly versatile, giving our landscapes a vertical component where trees and shrubs just won’t do…
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10 Tips for Starting Seeds Indoors – Germination Basics
Getting ready to plant those seeds you brought back from the garden center or that have just arrived from your order? It’s true that nature has worked hard at ensuring…
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Understanding Ground Covers, How to Cover Large Spaces With Plants
A ground cover is essentially the flooring for the rooms of your outdoor living spaces. It’s the variety of surface materials that cover the earth and dirt which are the…
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10 Helpful Tips for Spring Planting
Spring is a time when gardeners eagerly run out to the garden centers and plant sales to purchase their supply of annuals and perennials for the season’s gardens. Here are…
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How to Make a Patio Garden
A yard full of flowering bushes, vegetable plots, and fragrant herbs is a gardener’s dream. Unfortunately, even with the greenest thumb, this isn’t possible for apartment dwellers or anyone without…
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Creating a Desert Garden on Your Deck or Patio
When planning to make a desert garden planter, you need to consider where you want to put the planter, and whether you want to have cacti or succulents in the…
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The Right Shoes for Gardening
Gardening is viewed by many gardeners only as a hobby, but very few gardeners are aware that it is pure work. A lot of technology is used in gardening, even…
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Guide to Replanting a Christmas Tree
Congratulations. You’ve bought yourself a live Christmas tree that can be replanted in your yard and enjoyed for years to come. If you don’t know how to replant a Christmas tree, your…
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Homesteads in an Urban Environment
Beginning an urban, green homestead in your city. Gardening, composting, vermiculture, and raising animals are included in this article. In today’s economy, it comes as no surprise that the price…
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Will Gardening Mulch Stop Grass from Growing?
Will gardening mulch stop grass from growing? Learn how mulch works in your garden or flower bed, and how to use gardening mulch the right way while improving your garden’s…
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Rain Gardens: What They Are and How to Plant One
A rain garden is a beautiful way to clean the water that runs from a lawn to sewers and eventually into lakes, rivers, and oceans. A rain garden consists of…
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Small Gardens: Choose Perennials!
Perennial plants in a small garden maintain order and are easy-to-care-for. A small space needs a strong design and judicious plant selection: It needs a big impact! A small garden…
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Designing a Small Garden Begins with Good Planning
A successful landscape for a small garden must begin with a clear plan whether it is done as a DIY project or by a landscape designer. A small garden designed…
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A Small Garden Needs a Strong Design
Only a good landscape design will give a small garden harmony, function, and value. After the ground-breaking step of planning for a small garden, next is the sketching of the…
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