My Wildflower Garden in the Creekbed – Don’t Mow It!
I first discovered that I had a small wildflower garden when I found blue flowers blooming in the rear of
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Backyard Flower Garden
Plant Pick: Campanula portenschlagiana
Campanula portenschlagiana is an alpine plant. Perfect! This is just the kind of plant I look for when I want
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Gazing Ball Hack! Is Yours Broken Again?
The humid weather is creeping upon us! And our plants and trees are turning lacey with the invasion of the
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Midsummer Garden Chores To Get Done!
Sometimes it seems that the summer arrives quickly and is gone before you can really stretch out and enjoy it.
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How To Water Houseplants Easily – And Methods for Other Containers Too!
I have found a wonderful time-saving device to use for watering your plants. This would work for indoor plants or
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My Perennial Shade Garden – So Many Shades of Green
My Shade Garden and Elephant Ears The elephant ears are coming up well in my perennial shade garden. I have
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Old Overgrown Lilac? Cut It Way Back After Blooming!
I have a lilac that I planted here at my house soon after we moved in. It has been there
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Chipmunks In My Hypertufa Planters! Help!
How do you keep chipmunks out of your planters? I am having some trouble with this and it is getting
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Plant Pick – Salvia viridis or Clary Sage
Lovely veining? Stained-glass-window look? No matter what makes you fall in love with this foliage plant, it is breathtaking,
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I Have A Thing For Hanging Plants This Summer
All of a sudden, I have this Thing for hanging plants. I am not sure where this came from but
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Companion Planting – Attempting Tomatoes & Bell Pepper Together
Haven’t we all read about companion planting for our gardens? Most of the time, I associate that with compatible colors
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Spring is…..The Sweet Scent of Peonies
Oh, the scent of peonies! Nothing is quite like the sweet scent of peonies in spring and early summer. Those
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Moving Hypertufa Pots, Another RePlant & Rip Up Bushes
One of my hypertufa pots that I have grown for several years seems to have one of the plants dying
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Gorgeous Butterweed – She’s The Devil in Disguise!
This spring I had a beautiful yellow drift of daisy-like flowers in my backyard. These plants were bunched together near
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Front Porch Planters – “Dress” Them For The Season!
Ok now. We are not going to talk about those Cement Geese that are dressed in different outfits each season.
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