Gardening for Butterflies
Gardening for butterflies is a suspenseful art, a bit like holding a picnic and wondering if your invited guests will show up. It's because butterflies are choosy insects. Any gardener can have aphids, but red admirals, painted ladies and tiger ... [... more]
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Tropical Visions
The words tropical vines conjure up many images--Tarzan swinging though the jungle, warm islands with lush vegetation, brilliant flowers attracting butterflies and birds--but always plants that are exotic, colorful, and king-size. However, if you ... [... more]
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Granny's Garden: A Profile of Roberta Paolo
Providence was working with Roberta Paolo when she chose to move to Loveland, Ohio, to be closer to her kids and grandkids. She happened to find a house right near the grandkids' elementary school. Roberta is a lifelong gardener and has been ... [... more]
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A Rose Guru's Garden
The 1997 All-America Rose Selection 'Scentimental' was created by Tom Carruth. During a trip to sunny Los Angeles, this Boston-based rosarian was delighted to be invited to visit the home garden of Tom Carruth and his partner, John Furman. ... [... more]
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A San Antonio Success
On what used to be a caliche parking lot in one of the toughest neighborhoods of San Antonio, 205 fourth and fifth graders now plant, care for and harvest vegetables in spring and fall at the Avenida Guadalupe Garden. Under the leadership of ... [... more]
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Landscape Problem-Solvers
Would you like to cloak a summer porch in cooling shade? Hide an eyesore such as a chain-link fence? Dress up an arbor? Today, the popularity of annual vines is on the rise. Annual vines are perfect for gardeners who want to create the popular ... [... more]
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Annuals 101
Although there are some annuals that produce foliage only, for most gardeners the word "annual" is synonymous with colorful garden flowers that bloom from early spring right up through the first fall frost. For the record, an annual is defined [... more]
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Alice's Flower Garden
Manchester, Vermont, is a ski town in the winter and an outlet town in the summer. While tourists stream up U.S. Highway 7, few realize that, whether they turn west toward town or east toward the mountains, they are within a mile of one of this ... [... more]
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All About Petunias
Petunias have always offered nonstop summer bloom, but now you're more likely to find a color, size, and growth habit to suit your garden needs. New, vigorous trailing types and miniature-flowered types have rekindled gardeners' ... [... more]
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All About Cloches
Gardeners are always trying to extend boundaries by squeezing in just one more tomato plant, or planting a shrub that should grow in a warmer climate zone. And we'd all like to find a way to stave off Jack Frost for a while before he ends our ... [... more]
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A Roundup of Unusual Rakes
Although a general-purpose wire or bamboo rake is fine for raking leaves and grass and cleaning up around shrubs and perennials, some unusual new rakes are designed for specific gardeners and specific fall gardening chores. After National ... [... more]
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A Gardener's Guide to Frost
It's late fall. The sky is blue, and the sun is bright. Then your local weather forecaster ruins everything with these chilling words: "Possible frost tonight." Once the initial panic subsides, reason sets in. Frost is a local event, and it's .. [... more]
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