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Cottage Garden Ideas
The term “cottage garden” is used often in gardening magazine and articles. This style of garden may evoke various images in our minds. A cottage certainly would give the idea of a humble, little home,...
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Rock Garden Ideas
Nature creates some masterpiece scenes. The imagery of rocks and plants grouped together is greatly appealing to us with the contrast between solid stone texture and soft foliage and colorful blooms....
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Herb Gardening
For centuries gardeners have grown herbs for a variety of reasons. Herbs can be used to make teas, flavor cooked foods like meats, sauces, and soups, or add flavor to butters, dips and mustards. Herbs...
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Xeriscape Garden
As the last few summers have experienced extreme heat and drought conditions, we often find ourselves needing to be more creative with our gardening. One form of creative landscaping that has become...
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Gardening with Native Plants
As gardeners, I think that we often enjoy the wildlife that comes to our gardens as much as we enjoy the planning, growing, and care of our landscape. I greatly enjoy the hummingbirds, songbirds,...
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Nature’s Garden
I have been blogging about garden styles for the last several weeks, and I had to include a very natural style of landscape beauty – a wildflower meadow. Nature does a wonderful job of providing...
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Container Gardening
More and more people are learning about the benefits of gardening in a container. With an apartment balcony, courtyard, deck or front porch, it is possible to grow a wide variety of plants. Maybe a...
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Trough Gardening
The first time I heard the term “trough garden,” a picture formed in my mind of an old cow trough filled with plants – but that couldn’t be right, could it? Yes! A trough garden is indeed an old water...
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How to Create a Butterfly Friendly Garden, part 1
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― R.H. Heinlein Not many people would consider themselves to be fans of insects. In fact, many of us are absolutely scared of them. There is, however, one...
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How to Create a Butterfly Friendly Garden, part 2
Monarch Butterfly on Agastache “Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.”...
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