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Garden Hose Repair – Reel Care For Your Watering Friend

Garden hose repair… is what you will need to do if you do not care for this faithful, often taken for granted garden tool. Daily care of the garden hose (Buying Tips Here), during the season when it is being used, is essential. When you finish watering the garden, landscape or some potted plants on […]

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Rabbit’s Foot Fern – The Davallia

The Rabbit’s Foot Fern – To many people, every fern with long slender, furry runners over the side of the pot is a “rabbit’s foot” fern. Their grandmother had one; she called it that and that is what it is, as far as they are concerned. To a certain extent they are right, but to […]

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Cool Couture Coleus Under The Sea™

Growing a coleus plant from seed or cuttings is pretty easy. As for color, coleus plants with all the varieties available can put on a show. Over the years, I’ve seen coleus planted in containers then slid inside a decorative planter to brighten up a walkway or front entrance. Planted in beds using several coleus […]

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How NOT to Have Insects on House Plants

Sooner or later, every indoor gardener finds that his collection of house plants has a rollicking crop of bug pests of one kind or another which, seemingly, has moved in overnight. Of course, the insects don’t just appear – they have to get into the house by some means. Where Do Bugs in House Plants […]

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3 Tips On Pruning Trees and Shrubs – Why, How, When

Pruning… it’s easy to learn… a few simple rules… and the rest is just common sense Why Should You Prune Trees and Shrubs? Pruning can help you accomplish a wide variety of purposes. The most common of which are: A. To train young trees and shrubs into desirable forms. B. To remove damaged or diseased […]

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What Is A Flowering Plant?

Basic Botany For Gardeners… Have you taken a good look at the design of the Space Shuttle? It is a miracle of engineering; each piece is there for a purpose, nothing may be left off, nothing non-functional added. When the shuttle was built, this machine, was designed with sheer function in mind, but has a […]

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Walkway Designs – The Right Path With Walks and Drives

Driveways and walkways are mainly functional. Walkway designs should provide the quickest way to go from street to house or vice versa. For economic reasons both drives and walks need to cover only necessary distances. Eliminate extra curves, wide sweeps, “islands,” if you want to accent the functional. Adjusting For Nature If a lovely tree […]

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Clematis Hardy and Handsome Vine

Clematis they can be irresistible. Once you venture beyond the old-fashioned purple Clematis, it’s hard to resist becoming a clematis collector. The large-flowered clematis hybrids are showy, and perhaps the most beautiful of all hardy vines. And the species are highly varied, interesting, beautiful and useful in a number of ways. Clematis are usually acquired […]

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Bellingrath Gardens History In Bloom

When Walter Duncan Bellingrath established a camp on the banks of the Isle-Aux-Oies (Fowl) River, some 20 miles south of Mobile, Alabama, in 1917, he did so with the idea of making a recreational fishing spot for himself and his friends. The wild countryside around consisted of native trees and shrubs—oaks, pines, sweet gum, black […]

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Making Weather Forecast Work for You – Understanding Your Micro-Climate

Personal home weather stations from companies like La-Crosse Technology, Oregon Scientific and Davis Instruments help growers and homeowners get a better view of their weather on a more one-on-one basis. But not everyone wants to go that route. So, how can a commercial grower or even a local gardener use the weather bureau forecasts to […]

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