Daffodil Bulbs are in Stores Now!
This is the time of year when daffodil and other bulbs appear in local garden stores, home improvement stores, and the big chain stores. Even if you don't plant bulbs until later, now is the time to buy your bulbs. Even if you've ordered from ... [... more]
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Repair to Her Grave
 Wicked Good Reading: Repair to Her Grave is the fourth tight, enticing paperback mystery, set in Eastport, Maine, and starring home-restorer, Manhattan-escapee, and general busybody Jacopia Tiptree. Her colonial-era house is falling apart, and possibly [... more]
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The Essential Earthman
From Amazon.com: This first collection of Henry Mitchell's garden columns was one of those instant classics, a book which quickly earned a permanent place on thousands of bedside tables. Though written for the Washington Post, these tales of the city [... more]
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Agatha Raisin & the Potted Gardener
The sleuth's a winner, the plot is fluffy: I read this at someone else's urging, not being a regular devotee to the mystery genre, and I was pleasantly surprised. Agatha Raisin is delightful, sort of a middle-aged Bridget Jones with brains and business [... more]
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Lawn Care For Dummies
From Amazon.com: If your neighbors' lawn always resembles a beautiful green carpet while yours looks like something that would cost Tiger Woods several shots, you could use some practical help. Trust the Dummies folks--you really can have a great lawn [... more]
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Creating and Planting Garden Troughs
Great resource for this niche gardening style: Stone agricultural troughs, either as a theme or an accent, can add a special look to a garden. Of course you don't have to use a real stone these days as cement can be used to create the troughs. But, [... more]
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Poppies
From Amazon.com: A field of common red poppies growing wild by the roadside can transform an ordinary landscape into a place of mystery--their fervent, insistent color seems designed to take the breath away. For readers who've fallen under the poppy's [... more]
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Vegetables Named All-America Selections' Winners
Four new vegetables have been named All-America Selections' winners for the new millennium. These award-winners will be available this spring and summer at local garden centers as already-started transplants, or you can order by seed through ... [... more]
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Dazzling Dahlias
If you haven't yet, it's time to get those tubers into the ground, so you can enjoy stupendous, spectacular dahlia blooms this summer I confess; I'm ditzy about dahlias. Several years ago I picked out three tubers at my local garden centre and ... [... more]
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The Crownsville Nursery
The last nursery in the spring 2000 series is two nurseries in one. The Crownsville Nursery has been growing great plants since 1979 when they started as a local garden center. Bridgewood Gardens is their retail outlet and their online Hosta ... [... more]
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All America Selections Vegetable Winners for 2001
Four new vegetables have been named All America Selections winners for 2001. These award-winners will be available this spring and summer at local garden centers as already-started transplants, or you can order by seed through major mail-order ... [... more]
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Dutch Bulbs are now at a Store Near You!
Home » Plants & Animals » Daffodils » Dutch Bulbs are now at a Store Near You! Have you seen the ads? Labor Day brings ads for Dutch bulbs, which are now available at local garden stores and discount stores. And bulbs ordered from [... more]
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