Adding Water Features to Your Garden
There is nothing more relaxing than taking a break from gardening and settling down beside a gently splashing waterfall. However, it is not as soothing to think about the expense and back breaking labor it may take to install a full blown pond ... [... more]
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Planting Perennial and Annual Plants in the Garden
Gardening guide to planting annual and perennial plants in the garden, with explanations of the proper method of preparing the area and possible problems which may be encountered Annuals and perennials come to you from the protected environment ... [... more]
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Composting your Garden Waste
Composting is the method of turning garden waste into compost to feed your garden organically. These are the basics of composting and building compost bins and piles. Anyone can compost, and just about anything that once lived is suitable for ... [... more]
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Children in the garden
Let your child know that gardening is fun. Invite them to join you in the garden! Like most other avid gardeners, I consider my tasks and chores in the garden I learned my love for gardening, and earned my green thumb, when I was very ... [... more]
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Grandma Clara's Favorite Christmas Cookies
A time treasured collection of my favorite cookie recipes, which my Grandma Clara used to make. (I accept no responsibility, whatsoever for weight gain brought on by ingestion of these goodies.) I know that you are going to enjoy all of these ... [... more]
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Free Desktop Wallpaper
Free Desktop Wallpaper featuring nature and flower photographs. Download them free, for your personal use. Photographs are a necessity for a gardening web site such as mine. Although I purchased a digital camera because of the ease of using the ... [... more]
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Pests and Problems in the Garden
A Gardening Guide to Identification and Elimination of Pests and Problems in the Garden Although I strongly resist the use of toxic chemicals to control garden problems, there are circumstances when it may be necessary to use these pesticides and ... [... more]
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Rock Garden Perennial Plants
Recommended flowers and plants for rock gardens, including description and basic cultivation requirements Dense mat of evergreen, coppery-purple foliage spreads rapidly Medium sized succulent that form rosettes of waxy blue-grey rosettes tinged ... [... more]
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How to Build a Raised Planting Bed
The best time to begin building a raised bed is during the fall or winter, while your primary gardening projects are on hold. By the time spring arrives, the soil will be settled into place and you'll be ready for planting. Raised planting beds ... [... more]
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Creating a Hummingbird Garden Habitat
Gardeners guide to creating a hummingbird garden, including flowers and plants which attract hummingbirds to your garden, as well as creating a suitable habitat What flowers are good to plant to have hummingbirds visit your flower garden. My ... [... more]
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The Garden Helper's Library
An extensive collection of classic web page graphics, images, art and music files, archived for for public useage This library of animation files, gifs and midi files on my site was collected from throughout the internet. I began the collection ... [... more]
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My Hummingbird Garden
Feel free to 'right click' on this photo to save, or set as your desktop wallpaper Photograph of a hummingbird garden [hummgarden+pix ] [... more]
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