How to choose trees and shrubs for Year Round Interest
Spring flowers are easy. Summer shade is ideal. Fall color is a piece of cake. What about winter? Why do we settle for cold, dead landscapes when we can have color and warmth? Shed your old ways of thinking and imagine what your landscape could ... [... more]
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10,000 Garden Questions
 How? When? ýand even Where?: This book comes off the shelf to be consulted often. Answers to 10,000 gardners' questions comprise sixteen sections that include sound advice on planning and landscaping; shrubs, trees, and vines; roses, perennials [... more]
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Great Flowering Landscape Shrubs
With stunning color photos throughout, this gardening guide describes more than 50 types of the best flowering shrubs and details their use in home landscaping. Shrubs are arranged by genus, separated into deciduous flowering and notable evergreen shrubs, [... more]
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How to Buy the right Shrubs and Trees for your Landscape ...
As a landscaper, I buy a lot of trees, shrubs and other plants and I have to fit them in to a new or existing landscape perfectly. However I see many shrubs and trees that are not suited for the area in which they have been planted. I also get ... [... more]
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How to Grow Flowering Shrubs
Flowering shrubs are a quick and sometimes inexpensive way to get color and interest into your landscape without a lot of maintenance and upkeep. Once you've decided upon the correct shrubs for your property, it's easy to maintain them. Once ... [... more]
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How to Do Basic Garden Design with Plants
Garden design is a complex subject, but, as with anything else, you can start with the basics. This article will give you an overview to designing with plants in your landscape, starting with four areas to concentrate upon. How to Do Basic Garden ... [... more]
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How to Choose Shrubs for Colorful Fall & Winter Berries
Four-season interest! That's the latest trend for selecting garden plants. Sure we want evergreen or fall color. Who doesn't like flowers? Take your landscape farther with brightly colored berries that extend the garden color through winter. ... [... more]
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How to Sterilize Pruning Tools
Pruning out diseased foliage and dead or dying wood is an important way to stop plant diseases in their tracks, but contaminated hand tools can spread disease to healthy parts of a plant and around the garden. Sterilizing hand pruners, loppers ... [... more]
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How to Lower Utility Bills With an Energy Efficent Landscape
Rising home energy prices are hitting pocketbooks hard. While you can't control the price of oil, electricity or natural gas, you can use the landscape around your home to cut energy costs. The United States Department of Energy reports that ... [... more]
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How to Care for Bushes and Saplings During Drought
Don't let your plants suffer during times when lack of rain threatens to dry them up. Soaker hoses are nice but in the cases where you need to care for individual bushes, saplings and other plants that are a fair distance from one another, that ... [... more]
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How to Prune Hedges
Plant a hedge to mark boundaries, form a barrier, create a background or define a planting bed. All hedges will look best if kept trimmed and in good health. Begin trimming hedges when they're first planted. Young plants respond well to shaping ... [... more]
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10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 20 Experts
How? When? ýand even Where?: This book comes off the shelf to be consulted often. Answers to 10,000 gardners' questions comprise sixteen sections that include sound advice on planning and landscaping; shrubs, trees, and vines; roses, perennials [... more]
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