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Patio Maintenance in Fall
Ahh fall! Crisp air, beautiful colors, and -- oh no! -- winter preparation! It's true that fall brings many household maintenance tasks, but the pleasant weather makes it enjoyable to be outside, and the time spent maintaining your patios and yar...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Linda Jenkinson
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Drought Resistant Gardens and Planting from Cuttings
Drought Resistant Gardens
Amaryllis can tell you from experience, that she has seen lush drought-resistant gardens that give color year round.
She learned about it by accident, in California, when she stumbled upon a property a couple had planned f...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Marilyn Jansen
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Enhance Your Garden with Beautiful Edging
Adding edging around your garden or landscape is as important as the garden itself. The edging frames your garden much like a picture frame. A picture can be interesting and beautiful but it needs a frame to enhance its appearance, so it is with ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : David Chandler
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Energy Saving Headlights for Garden Tractors
Can we develop a lighting system for the average garden tractor to save energy, one which would not draw juice from the battery or alternator? We all know how bumpy it is to ride on a ride-on lawnmower. I propose that we use the bumpy-ness of the r...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Lance Winslow
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Be An Exhibitionist: How to Show Your Roses
Now that you have a rose garden you are proud of, it's time to take the next step and let others see the beauty of your roses. Rose shows and exhibits are exciting events where you get a chance to see how your roses stack up against other rosarians...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ron King
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Managing Pond Motives and Expectations
INTRODUCTION
Water in the garden. It brings us refreshing coolness on the hottest summer day. It satisfies our senses with sounds that only water can make. It delights our eyes with the unsurpassed beauty of colorful water lilies, the glimmering ir...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Brett Fogle
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Garden Success in Southcentral Alaska Part 3 of 3
Select for Success
Perhaps the only thing more important in Alaska than soil warming is variety selection. No matter how warm your soil, your garden will be a failure if your lettuce bolts, sending up a seed stalk instead of producing a head, your ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ann Roberts
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Why Grass Seed Mixtures Are The Way to Go
The gardener without years of experience will do well to
consider planting a mixture of grasses rather than a solid
turf of a single species. If he knows exactly what he is
doing, and understands how to control the diseases which
might attack his p...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jon Weaver
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Blue Flowers Add Style and Color to Any Garden
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 flowers for a rainbow of color.
When planting flowers, it is important to reme...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : David Chandler
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Choosing The Right Flowers For Mom
If you are one of those people that are always left wondering what to get dear old mom for her birthday, Mother’s Day, or any other holiday or occasion, the answer is flowers. Flowers for mom are the gift that is always the right size and color, an...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bob Hett
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Tips For Making Your Silk Flower Arrangement Beautiful
Nearly anyone can learn to arrange flowers. You do not have to be a professional to make a beautiful silk flower arrangement. Silk flowers are an excellent choice for beginners because they are easy to work with and last forever.
The best place to ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bob Hett
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Invite Butterflies to Your Garden
With the huge growth that many cities and towns are experiencing we see the dwindling of Natural Meadows. With the absence of natural meadows, the habitat for butterflies, birds and other wildlife are dwindling too. Luckily butterflies are easily...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mary Hanna
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How to Grow Flowering Dogwood Trees from Seed
Flowering Dogwood trees can be easily grown from seed, however 99.9999% of the seedlings that sprout will be Cornus Florida, which is White Flowering Dogwood. It doesn’t matter if you collect the seeds from a White Dogwood or a Pink Dogwood, the se...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael McGroarty
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Starting Seeds for Your Garden Indoors
In much of the United States, the only way to take advantage of a full growing season is to start your plants from seeds indoors. In areas where the last frost can be as late as the end of May, and the first as early as the beginning of October, th...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ed Rooney
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Amaryllis Amaryllis How Does Your Garden Grow? Organically, of Course!
Her First Gardens
Her imagination would take her to faraway places where ancient gardens grew, outside castles in England or country farms around the world. She had no idea, when she began, about soil and water, or how to plan. She just got out the...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Marilyn Jansen
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Is Teak Wood Outdoor Furniture Right for Me?
You are contemplating your first purchase of Teak wood Furniture and you are wondering if you are making the right decision? Well, you are and in this quick article, I will explain why I believe that.
If you already use Teak Wood in some of your f...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Ochoa
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Cattleya Orchid Plant - Why They Are Not Popular
How popular is the cattleya orchid plants? Are they grown by hobbyists or not? How big is the flower? Why are they not popular?
Before we get into the answers for these and other questions let's look at a bit of history of the cattleya. It is fasci...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Robert Roy
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6 Steps To A Greener, Healthier Lawn
It is important to understand that a lawn that is easy to care for and gives you the health and beauty you desire is dependant on several steps including those that occur before you make your first application of fertilizer.
St. Augustinegrass,...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jim Reinhardt
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Southern Flowers
I’m a Southern girl by birth. I live in Colorado now, but you know what they say: “You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl!” I recently spent a couple of months in Georgia with a friend this past spring....
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Wanda Mettarod
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Garden Success in Southcentral Alaska; Part 2 of 3
Know Your Soil
Alaska's major soil for gardening purposes is a very fine-textured glacial silt, low in organic matter, with poor soil structure. It tends to be thicker in valleys and on lower slopes.
Less common, clay is potentially the richest of ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ann Roberts
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Using An Outdoor Canopy To Create New Living Space
Creating “backyard living spaces“ is one of the hot trends in garden landscaping and home décor. Whether your desire is for a place to host parties, or simply to sit back and enjoy a quiet place, the idea is simply to get away from it all right in ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : John Bri
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Container Gardening Indoors and Outdoors
For years people have been gardening in containers, mostly because they lacked space. For some it was because they lived in climates that wouldn’t allow them to grow year round. Container gardens afford you the option of planting outside until the...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mary Hanna
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Mower Safety - Blood On The Blade!
Fall is upon us and the snows and chill of a Northeast winter won't be far behind. Lawnmower safety, however, is a ripe subject for any season. . .especially spring. Spring's a time when a gardener's thoughts turn seriously to mowing the lawns, til...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Fred Davis
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Planting Summer Flower Bulbs
In the summer, the sun is shining and everything is vibrant. Even the summer flowers are brighter and bolder. No meek pastels or pasty whites here; summer flower bulbs are vivacious. While less hardy plants are dried, brown, and dying, summer flowe...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Seth Miller
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