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Sweetly Scented Tulips
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All About Starting Seeds
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Lilacs: Time for a Fresh Look
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Cool-Season Annuals
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Make Your Own Hypertufa Container
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Celebrate Spring with Cool-Season Containers
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Viburnums are Versatile Shrubs
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The Only Shrubs You Need to Grow
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Building a Compost Bin
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10 Perennials Easily Grown from Seed
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Spectacular Spring Bloomers
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How to Grow Raspberries
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Friendly Ways to Battle Garden Pests
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Find the Perfect Tomato
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Perfect Edges for Your Beds and Borders
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A Gardener's Checklist for Early Spring
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Variegated Plants Create Drama
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Design an Engaging Entryway
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Backyard Makeover Game
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Video: Make a Straw-Bale Garden
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Soil Testing is Worth the Effort
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How to Start a Vegetable Garden
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Enchanting Japanese Maples
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15 Deer-Resistant Plants
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Easy Garden Simulations - Win A Free Design Book!
2 commentsWhat if you could simulate the garden of your dreams using software you already have on your computer? Imagine experimenting with flower and foliage combinations without spending a dime on a single plant or digging a hole? Grab a hot cuppa cocoa and read on...
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Wrapping Up Raleigh - Really!
6 commentsMy September trip to Raleigh NC was a fading memory until I ran across these fab photos of the plants and people who made the visit so special.
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Planting Design Lessons from Raleigh NC
3 commentsBlessing or curse, I find it difficult to look at a garden without awakening the design teacher in my brain. A voice in my head instantly starts deciphering the visual principles in place as if I were explaining the tableau to my students. I imagine it’s no different for a film critic enduring their brother-in-law’s home videos. Join me as I cruise this lovely garden and share a few design ideas you can use in your own garden.
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Win a copy of Designer Plant Combinations!
170 commentsThis book resonates with me on many levels - visually elegant, clearly and buoyantly written and chock full of down-to-earth plant information. You can win your own copy just by leaving a comment about your own garden combos.
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Could YOU Keep A Straight Face? Coyote Pee Interview
6 commentsWelcome to another fun article and interview from my recent visit to the Garden Writers Association trade exhibit in Raleigh, NC. With my nose for news, I sniffed out this promising product, a predator-pee infused pellet that triggers the natural fears of many garden pests, including deer, woodchucks and mice.
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Bovine Biscuits Get a New Lease on Life
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” That is the essence of one of the exhibitors that Kate Frank and I visited in Raleigh last week. Darn! Now I have to delicately bridge the thought of lemonade and cow manure.
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Why Are You Working So Hard? Blow Up Your Rototiller
16 commentsSkip the soil amendment, toss the slow-release fertilizer, make your rototiller into a sculpture. Sustainable landscaping means responding to what nature gives you. Let's start using plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of your yard.
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Computer-controlled Cauliflower? When Software Meets Spinach
5 commentsWouldn't it be totally cool to be a professional futurist? You'd get a paycheck for predicting what the world will look like in a hundred years, then wait for everyone to die before they can tell...
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Irrigation Gizmos & Gadgets -- Part II
4 commentsThe Brainiacs of Irrigation Timers How close are we to living in a Jetson's futureworld? When it comes to irrigation technology, pretty darn close. "Smart controllers" represent the next wave of...
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Irrigation Gizmos and Gadgets - Part I
3 commentsHave you ever looked at the surface of your soil and thought, “Man, that looks dry; I’d better break out the hose”? If so, I envy your moisture-sensing x-ray vision! How else would you explain your super hero ability to know the amount of moisture below the soil just by observing the top 1/16” of crust?
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Part II -- It's Like Road Rage, Only Wetter
19 commentsRoad rage: A motorist's uncontrolled anger usually provoked by the behavior of another driver. The affliction is officially recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. "Water rage," however, is not yet listed. But if it were, I'd probably be the poster child.
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Part I -- When The Well Runs Dry
21 commentsPerhaps it’s just a passing cycle, just a blip. Maybe next year the skies will open up and we’ll all be fine. I’m usually a cockeyed optimist, but not anymore—not when it comes to the big unknowns of climate change.
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Too Bad My Dog's Color Blind - Sizzling Hot Colors of Summer
4 commentsI was walking my dog the other afternoon and as is frequently the case, I had my trusty camera with me. Biff the Wonder Spaniel is a patient soul, waiting as I compose my shots. We were just taking a short neighborhood walk as the sun was shooing away the last of the gloom when I noticed that we were surrounded by all the hot colors of summer.
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Flowers From A Bad Sci-Fi Flick
11 commentsEvery once in a while I run across a plant I just can't figure out how to use. The other-worldly flower of Puya alpestris dazzled and confounded me once again.
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You Love To Garden--Are You Ready To Turn Pro?
18 commentsThe big news from my San Diego visit was that this professional economist, wife and mother had just enrolled in the horticulture program at Cuyamaca Community College, majoring in landscape design! There’s an enthusiastic “I can DO this” demeanor that pours from Roberta Correia and convinces me that she will soon be a force to be reckoned with.
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Why Not Replace Your Plants With Styrofoam?
26 commentsMaybe I’m missing something and you can straighten me out. I’ve been under the impression that people put plants in their yards because they want to bring a little bit of nature into their lives.
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Do You Suffer from One-of-Each-itis?
21 commentsFor gardeners, impulse shopping is hard to avoid when everything at the nursery is calling to you. Don't distress. There's a cure for what ails you and it doesn't require the use of pharmaceuticals.
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