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Choosing Garden Flowers - Choosing garden flowers can be fun, but also frustrating. You need to take care to choose and plant your flowers so that your garden has blooms for the entire season. Color, size and shape should also be considered. You will want flowers for cutting and flowers for contributing gaiety and cha...

Shade Trees For Your Garden - Every garden needs a little spot that you can rest in the shade. You want to plant trees that provide the shade for humans, but not overpower your garden in the process. When selecting a tree, make sure you pick one that is in keeping with the type of garden you will be putting it in. Trees...

Garden Shrub Guide - Shrubs are a wonderful addition to any garden. They round out empty spaces and provide a bushy, full feeling to the landscape. Picking shrubs that match with your garden can be a big undertaking. When looking for shrubs be sure to keep in mind the size it will grow to, when it blooms (if at al...

Growing Flowers From Seed - Growing flowers from seed can be a rewarding experience. Seeds can be sown indoors or outdoors depending on conditions in your climate. Many flowers can even be propagated from seed - a technique any frugal gardener will be well advised to learn! Outdoor seed sowing Depending on the variet...

Choosing And Planting Bulbs - Every garden should have a variety of bulbs that you can plant once and watch them bloom year after year! Here in New Hampshire, I love to see the spring daffodils and tulips sprout from bulbs planted long ago. Bulbs are the fleshy underground protuberances of leaves, stems or roots. Actually...

Building A Wall Garden - If you have a garden right next to your house, shed or even a fence, you can spruce up the look of the wall by making a wall garden. Both the strength and beauty of a dry wall may be enhanced by using it as a wall garden. It may acquire a mossy and aged appearance simply by green-planting in ...

Adding Roses To Your Garden - Who doesn`t love roses? They bring beauty to any garden, but did you know that there are different types? Roses can be a bit persnickity so make sure you get good healthy plants. If you plant and maintain them properly, you should have hardy bushes that produce lovely blooms. If you enjoy r...

Vines Add Interest To Your Garden - Vines can add interest to many parts of the garden. Climbing up your mailbox, a lampost or even a trellis, vines add dimension and color to your garden in places where you might not be able to have some otherwise. Vines can be the quick salvation of the new home owner. Fast-paced annuals will...

Biennial and Perennial Guide - Biennials are generally very beautiful plants, with most attractive flowers. They are somewhat more trouble for the gardener, since they keep growing during their first year and do not bloom until the second. Their great advantage is that their seeding stage produces new plants which will bloom ag...

Garden Hedges - A hedge that is well kept and attractive can also do much for your grounds. Used in the front of the house and on the sides of your lot, hedges are a barrier against traffic, noise and all things unsightly; at the same time they enhance the proportions and general appearance of your house and lawn...

Planting Guide For 50 Common Perennials - There are so many different types of perennials for you to chose from that it may be difficult to decide which ones are best suited to your garden. Here is a quick reference guide:NameColorSeasonHeightCommentsACONITEblue, whiteJune2 ft.Plant 6 in. apart. Shade tolerant.ALPINE ROCK CRESSwhiteApril1...

Guide To Evergreen Trees For The Garden - Evergreen trees and shrubs are more expensive in general than deciduous trees (trees that drop their leaves in winter). But they are worth their cost because of their year-round beauty, hardiness and longevity. Evergreens range from the broadleaved shrubs like rhododendron and laurel to the ta...

Building Garden Steps - Steps present as ideal an opportunity for beautifying the outdoors as any other item on your landscaping agenda. Materials which can be used vary from round-cut logs to concrete, brick or stone. Standard step dimensions for outdoors should be the same as for indoor steps, particularly in area...

Using A Garden Terrace - Terraces present wonderful possibilities in the garden. They are outdoor living rooms during good weather and form a transition from the outdoors to the indoors throughout the year. The terrace may be either at ground level, below ground level, or raised above it. The simplest type is ground ...

Creating Graded Areas In Your Garden - Not every house is blessed by ideal surroundings, with promise of easy creation of outdoor recreation and entertainment areas, a good lawn and a good garden. Often it is necessary to undertake a certain amount of construction to insure the quality and life of tree gardens you wish to plant and...

Garden Design And Planning - The desire for healthful, relaxed and informal living is resulting in a growing awareness of the importance of landscaping to a home. Your plans for home modernizing therefore, should not be confined within the walls of your home, but should extend to include lawns, gardens and outdoor living ...

Tools And Equipment Every Gardener Should Have - Whether your grounds are large or small, the right tools and equipment can speed routine tasks and help you to successful gardening. Taking good care of your tools and keeping them in one place will pay dividends in time and effort. If you do not have a tool house or room where you can keep al...

Paved Areas and Water Features In Your Garden - Planning your driveway and walkways so that they take up a minimum amount of room yet still provide a strong enough surface for the traffic they will bear, calls for careful thinking. The well-designed house and grounds have the garage close to the house and near to the street. The garage situ...

Are You Making The Most Of Your Garden? - When you buy a new house or decide to improve your old one, you are, of course, concerned with every foot of ground that goes with it, for modern living and modern gardening can make every inch of your property usable and desirable. New methods of soil improvement, grading, fencing and terraci...

Propagating Plants - Certain varieties of perennials can be used to create new plants. This is accomplished by the use of various propagation methods. The general methods used include cuttings, division of old clumps, propagation from leaves, and budding. Some varieties can be propagated by a number of methods; fo...

Using Trees To Shade Your Garden - Perhaps if any one feature can be singled out as basic to successful landscaping, it is the presence of fine trees. The unfortunate trend of developmental builders in cutting down trees in a wholesale manner, and the growing use of treeless fields for new building, has focused attention on the...

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