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Designing a Perennial Garden, part 2

Now that you've chosen a color scheme for your new perennial garden, it is time to start working on your design. The
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How to design and plant a rain garden to help water quality. Feather Reed Grass "Karl Foerster" (
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New and classic All-America Selections plant introductions such as Vinca Pacifica Burgundy Halo, Petunia Opera Supreme
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So what's new in the seed catalogs? This year there are only four All-America Selections. These plants have been tested
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Projects for early spring before you can get out in the yard and gardens. When deciding where to cut, look for a
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Pace yourself. Take short breaks to gently stretch and "get the kinks out." Rather than working continuously
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Last year, I attended a seminar given by Tom Ogren who wrote the book, Allergy-free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide
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Every year umpteen new plants are introduced and many don't live up to all their advance hype. There are, however, some
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Hosta Virus X or HVX is a new threat to one of our favorite shade perennials. Some symptoms of HVX to look for are
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I come from a long line of gardeners. My grandmother had a huge perennial bed, my aunt gardens every inch of her yard
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Past Gardening Articles by Linda Staciokas (Fairbanks News-Miner) Gardening articles by Terry L. Yockey Selecting "
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How to have a less chemically dependent and more natural lawn using organic lawn products. Admittedly, I have my own
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My sandy loam offers so little resistance to aggressive rhizomes-almost any plant has the potential to spread too far.
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Last fall I was giving a program on "Planting for Fall Color" and I showed a slide of monkshood (Aconitum
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