Choosing Trees and Shrubs
You can buy trees and shrubs from nurseries, department stores and even grocery stores. Your local nursery is the best place to buy trees and shrubs. But even nursery stock plants can be a poor buy if they in poor condition. Evergreens are often ... [... more]
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Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition
 From Amazon.com: Starting off with ultrabasics, like "how do I get my plants to live rather than die?" Gardening for Dummies is a terrific textbook for the novice gardener. Explanations are laid out simply, and all terms are defined as soon as [... more]
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Fern Grower's Manual
From Amazon.com: Ferns are truly ancient plants, having existed on Earth for millions of years. With approximately 12,000 species of ferns, their array is staggering-- from the red and gold Cinnamon Fern to the shimmery Silver Tree Fern to the lushly [... more]
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The Complete Container Garden
From Amazon.com: Equal parts gorgeous and practical, Reader's Digest's The Complete Container Garden provides clear and straightforward advice accompanied by brightly colored close-up photography. From spring bulbs to winter berries, the range of plants [... more]
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The New Seed Starters Handbook
Vegetable Gardening in Northern Climates: This book should have a subtitle: Vegetable Gardening in Northern Climates. The author assumes that every reader has snowy winters and hot summers, and that every reader is a vegetable gardener. If I just [... more]
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Gardening in Eden: Seasons in a Suburban Garden
Winter Tonic for the Gardener: I read Arthur T. Vanderbilt's book, "Gardening in Eden" as a nor'easter raged outside, blasting our house with a vile wintry mix, and his book brought inside the wonderfully soothing world of the garden in all [... more]
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Massonias - Daubenya and Neobakeria
Massonias - Daubenya and Neobakeria. Because things are not offered for sale at your local nursery or because they have strange sounding names, please don't be put off from growing these things. In Australia and the milder regions of the U.S.A. ... [... more]
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SRW Tip#4: Planting Bare-root Roses
Sometimes you just can't find that "perfect rose" at your local nursery; you'll have to mailorder it. And often that mailorder rose will come to you as bare-root. Knowing how to properly plant your new bare-root rose will improve your chances [... more]
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Kalmia: Exquisite Evergreen
Is there a Kalmia in your garden? With glossy, evergreen foliage all year round and exquisite clusters of blooms in late spring, there should be. If you love rhodos, you'll love Mountain Laurel! When I was at the local nursery this week, I became ... [... more]
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Plants to grow around the Perth Metropolitan Region
Methods of helping to preserve the bushland around the Perth metropolitan area are contained in an easily available and affordable booklet produced locally. In many a local nursery one can find a booklet, produced by Dorothy Redreau of Greening ... [... more]
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Indoor Geraniums-Part 3: Mint-Scented Pelargoniums
Have you ever smelled mint and yet been unable to find it anywhere in the garden? Maybe you've smelled mint at your local nursery but saw nothing resembling the common garden mint. Look around again-if you see something with leaves like a ... [... more]
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Choosing Plants for Home Landscaping
GardenLine / Yard & Garden / Choosing Plants for Home Landscaping Many people feel a little lost when they visit their local nursery or garden centre to buy plants for landscaping. What cultivars should you choose for landscaping your particular ... [... more]
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