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Daffodils VS Narcissus
The consistency in making reference to daffodils and the correct usage of narcissus and daffodils seem to be a lost art. I straighten the bent record in this article. I'm really upset at those garden writers that write about narcissus, I mean ... [... more]
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A Walk through My Garden, part 2
My astilbes are happy here at the back of my yard. There's a small creek not 5 yards from where they are. The soil is generally moist and it's been a wet summer. Last year, I tried astilbes up on a hill under some trees. They received a lot less ... [... more]
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December Gardening In The Low Desert
Using materials from your garden to decorate and enhance your home for the holidays and after. This is the season of celebration for various religions. Though we don't all celebrate Christmas, we can all celebrate love and family at this time ... [... more]
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Sissinghurst Castle - Part Seventeen
Sissinghurst's Lime Walk connects the Rose garden and the Nuttery This is the 17th in a series of articles about the gardens that Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created at Sissinghurst Castle. My previous article was about ... [... more]
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Down to the Dirt in the Spring Garden
I must mention how wonderful I find the fresh new leaves of the deciduous trees, the Birches, the Acers, the Beeches [that wonderful citrus green] and the other players that enhance the mid Spring gardens in our verdant Tasmania. We use no sprays ... [... more]
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Islands of Delight
There is more to island beds than small fiddly shapes cut into lawns and filled with bedding or roses. Well-designed bold island beds can add immeasureably to your garden design and also provide good growing conditions for your plants away from ... [... more]
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Meet the Begonia Family
Begonias are popular shade garden plants. Growing Begonias will help the newcomer learn to grow them well. Wax Begonias are well known to anyone gardening in the shade since they are widely available in garden centers each summer. The tuberous ... [... more]
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August has brought a little rain.
A short description of August in a garden in Western Australia Yes, there were 30 mm (1 inch) one day last week, and it's raining again right at this moment. Whoopee. It's really amazing you know, when one writes these regular pieces about ... [... more]
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A Time for All Things
Mother Nature has her own seeding timetable. Gardeners do well to pay attention to that timetable to reap the best possible harvest. The "preacher" of the Old Testament starts one of his sermons with the following declarations: To everything ... [... more]
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In Harmony with Nature
Gardening with nature should be on the agenda of all gardeners. High summer brings problems of drought, aphids, fungal disease that can all affect our plants performance. I look at how nature can help us to help ourselves combat some of the ... [... more]
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Trilliums
Discusses Trillium, a common woodland wildflower, reviews a new book on Trilliums and encourages physically impaired to use their limitations to take the time for more careful observation of plant life cycles than ordinary gardeners do. Trilliums ... [... more]
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