Check Out Your Potted Plants
If a potted plant dries out unusually fast, tips over easily or has roots coming through the drainage holes, take a look at its…
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Bring On The Cool Weather
Cooler days are a good time to get back into the garden. Start with the plants that have spent the summer outdoors, then look…
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Bold and Beautiful Hosta
Hostas are a useful choice when you want leaves, rather than flowers, to carry a garden bed. They are perennials that come back from…
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Get a Bright and Cheery Black Eyed Susan
For a sunny bed with a long stretch of yellow flowers, consider black-eyed Susan. This post is about Rudbeckia fulgida, a clump-forming perennial with…
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Enjoy the Benefits of a Raised Flower Bed
A raised flower bed makes the most sense when you want to control the soil, define a planting space or bring the work a…
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Behold the Lovely Flowering Trees!
Choose a flowering tree for the space it will occupy after the spring display has passed. Redbuds, serviceberries, cherries, dogwoods and magnolias can all…
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Beginning Perennials
A perennial is a plant that lives for more than one growing season. Many garden perennials die back in cold weather and return in…
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Annuals
Annuals can fill the open spaces around shrubs and perennials with flowers for a growing season. They also work well in pots when you…
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