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• Easy Ways to Correct Drainage Problems in the Garden and Landscape
  Drainage problems are common issues, especially in new developments where the topsoil has been scraped away and the only thing left behind is compacted clay. There are options to correcting these drainage problems.
  Published 16Mar2012, viewed 16 times

• Best Gardening Trends to Try in Your Garden This Year
  Like other trends, gardening trends are also related to economy and weather factors. The United States is seeing one of the largest shifts in how people garden and how homeowners are landscaping their yards. With smaller yards, American gardeners are becoming more creative in the limited space that they call their own. While the rest of the world has gardened in small spaces for centuries, we are just learning some of their secrets.
  Published 16Mar2012, viewed 16 times

• Controlling Deer Damage in the Garden and Landscape
  Controlling deer in the garden and landscape takes a well thought out plan that can be painlessly executed. With urban areas creeping outwards from cities, deer, as well as other wildlife, are losing their natural habitats. New home developments are taking all of their survival resources which leave deer to creep into our yards for food. The first step is to selecting deer resistant plants and add other methods as needed for control.
  Published 16Mar2012, viewed 15 times

• Tips for Landscaping Basics - How to Landscape Your New Home
  These tips for landscaping your new home will provide you with the landscaping basics that you need to get started. Whether you are a first time homeowner, own a new home or a new to you home, landscaping is often one of the most daunting tasks for a homeowner. Follow these steps to make your landscape project a success.
  Published 04Mar2012, viewed 49 times

• Gardening with Allergies - How to Select Garden Plants to Control Allergies
  Gardening for the allergy sufferer can be a wonderful experience with some planning. The low allergy garden is full of beautiful plants that have one thing in common. They are insect pollinated plants which eliminates wind blown pollen. There are many, many trees, shrubs and perennials that are pollinated by insects that the low allergy garden is well rounded.
  Published 04Mar2012, viewed 66 times

• Planting a Garden Safe for Pets and Children
  A little planning will help to keep your children and pets safe in your garden and yard areas. Designating a specific area for pets or children allow you to maintain more control over the rest of your landscape. Planting safe plants is only the beginning for keeping pets and children safe in the garden. For those with pets, work into your garden or landscape an area for them to run and play.
  Published 02Mar2012, viewed 26 times

• Bringing Balance to Your Plant Garden Using the Four Elements
  Bringing the four elements to the plant garden can open up many avenues into oneself. Just as Feng shui corrects the positive and negative influences of interior placement, incorporating the elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth can bring balance and peace to the flower garden. Create your own elemental magic with a peaceful retreat right in your own backyard with garden Feng shui.
  Published 01Mar2012, viewed 30 times

• Hydrangeas - How to Grow Beautiful Hydrangeas Flowering Shrubs
  Hydrangea bushes are flowering shrubs that will add summer color in your garden. These old fashioned flowering shrubs grow and bloom the best in morning sun with afternoon shade. Depending on the hydrangea bush that you select, you may be able to determine the blooming color. They will not perform well in heavy shade. The Pee Gee Hydrangea bush variety is the only hydrangea shrub hardy enough to grow in full sun.
  Published 29Feb2012, viewed 51 times

• The Best Groundcovers For Landscaping in Problem Areas and Erosion Control
  Ground cover plants are often forgotten in garden planning or landscape design until a problem occurs such as erosion. Here you will learn about fast growing evergreen ground cover plant varieties that are most commonly used in landscape or garden designs as well as for controlling erosion on hillsides and for ditches.
  Published 29Feb2012, viewed 34 times

• Tips For Growing Knockout Roses and Other Shrub Roses
  Shrub roses, which includes the Knockout Roses varieties, not only beautiful in the landscape, are the easiest flowering shrubs to grow. These rose shrubs require little effort or ongoing attention and yet, they bloom gorgeous rose blooms from April, in many zones, until they are hit by a hard frost in fall. For the color and life they add to gardens and landscapes for such an extended period, they are the best value for garden plants.
  Published 29Feb2012, viewed 25 times

• Best Ways to Garden With Physical Limitations or Gardening With Disabilities
  Everyone should be able to realize the joy of gardening, even those with physical limitations. Gardening with physical limitations can be an easy situation. Follow our suggestions and make gardening accessible for anyone. Let's talk about how to make gardening easier for those with disabilities, whether they have arthritis, are in a wheelchair or are visually impaired.
  Published 15Mar2012, viewed 29 times

• How to Grow Lavender Plants in the Garden
  If you have never grown lavender plants in your garden or landscape, you are missing out on the most fragrant plants available. My experience with growing many different lavender varieties is that they are ever dedicated to making my garden a mysterious, magical wonderland and me a better person because of it. This may sound strange, but if you have ever grown lavender plants in your garden, you understand.
  Published 14Mar2012, viewed 36 times

• How to Grow Strawberry Plants for the best Strawberry Fruit Production
  You can grow strawberry plants in a home orchard, vegetable garden, as a ground cover or in containers such as strawberry pots. You're sure to enjoy the many benefits of the strawberry fruits. Here are a few gardening tips that will get your strawberry plants off to the best possible start. Soon you will be enjoying the strawberry fruits of your labor.
  Published 28Feb2012, viewed 36 times

• Best Winter Gardening Tips to Get a Start on Spring and Summer Yard Care
  Apply these best winter gardening tips and you will get a head start on your spring and summer yard care. There are moments when you look outside during winter and wish desperately for the warmth of summer. Don't fret. Make winter the season of preparing for a long relaxing summer.
  Published 20Feb2012, viewed 121 times

• Plant and Grow Thuja Green Giants - Are Thuja Green Giants Really Fast Growing Trees?
  The Thuja Green Giants are touted as one of the fastest growing evergreen trees on the commercial market. Will they really live up to this adoration? The Thuja Green Giant is an excellent choice for evergreen hedges, privacy screens and even as specimen trees. Will it grow as quickly as it is often advertised as the fastest growing trees that puts on amazing growth each year? You read and decide if the Thuja Green Giant is the tree for your yard.
  Published 10Mar2012, viewed 18 times

• Healthy Lawn Care - Improving Your Soil is the Key to a Beautiful Lawn
  Improving your soil naturally is the key to healthy lawn care. Following these lawn care tips will provide you with the information to build a healthy lawn that is not only a maintenance free lawn, but also a safe lawn for your family, pets and the environment.
  Published 24Feb2012, viewed 29 times

• Mulching Your Plants - How to Mulch, What to Use as Mulch and How Much Mulch
  Mulch has to be the single best thing you can do for your garden plants and get the best results from. With mulch, you can take a drab landscape, apply the mulch around the plants and garden areas and by evening, the same drab landscape looks as though it is maintained professionally.
  Published 02Mar2012, viewed 38 times

• Xeriscape Gardening for Dry Landscapes isn't Just About Choosing Drought Tolerant Plants
  After the extreme temperatures and droughts that have become more regular over last few years, homeowners are searching for plants that require less water, fertilize and care. Just planting cactus and other succulents won't solve the problem. Xeriscape plants are garden plants and shrubs that are drought tolerant and adaptable to most any soil type.
  Published 01Mar2012, viewed 60 times

• How to Design and Plant a Small Yard or Small Garden
  Design and Plant a Small Yard or Small Garden when you only have limited space for outdoor living. When you have a limited budget or inclination to do the landscaping projects you really should do, downsize. Downsize with smaller landscapes and smaller plants. Small yards can be used effectively to enhance bland foundations, corners, and entrances as well as add color, fragrance and interest to patios and other sitting areas.
  Published 29Feb2012, viewed 200 times

• How to Use Plants as Party Gifts and Selecting Plants for Wedding Favors
  Using plants for gifts or wedding favors is long lived. Be sure to keep in mind your guests lifestyle. If most of your guests are city dwellers residing in apartments, they are not going to have anywhere to plant most shrubs or trees, so herbs or flowers would be quite thoughtful.
  Published 28Feb2012, viewed 47 times

• Foundation Plants - Adding Curb Appeal to Your Home
  Adding curb appeal to your home's front yard not only makes it more sellable, but makes it more enjoyable driving into your driveway.
  Published 13Feb2012, viewed 158 times

• How to Brighten Up Shaded Areas with Colorful and Flowering Plants
  Use this listing of shade loving plants to brighten up wooded areas where other plants don't grow. Woodland areas sometimes need a little help from us to add brightly blooming plants for a more natural garden look.
  Published 12Feb2012, viewed 35 times

• Selecting Plants for Planting Around Patios, Decks and Porches
  When you select the right plants for planting around your patio, deck or porch, the results will connect the two areas becoming one large outdoor room. Discover which plants work for these outdoor settings and how to determine which garden plants are best for your project.
  Published 07Feb2012, viewed 52 times

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