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A Guide To Planting Trees
Before planting new trees, determine both your needs and the existing conditions of your site. Like all plants, trees have specific light, soil and space requirements. Remember that many trees grow quickly and continue to grow for many years. Once a trees ...
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About Rose Gardening
Roses are perhaps the most commonly grown and most beloved plants in the world. Though they have the reputation for being difficult to grow and maintain, the opposite is true. Roses are easy to grow, hardy, and are suitable for most any garden provided it ...
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An Introduction to Greenhouse Gardening
Greenhouses come in a wide variety of different styles and types. Each is suited to a special need or want and degree of seriousness for greenhouse gardening. For the beginning greenhouse gardener there are smaller versions available that come in the form ...
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An Introduction To Indoor Plant Grow Lights
There are basically two types of grow lights used in horticulture. These are:High Intensity Discharge Lights (HID) - These come in two types, the Metal Halide Grow Light (MH) and the High Pressure Sodium Grow Light ...
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Bamboo Does Require Maintenance - But Oh How It's Worth It!
Bamboo is an extremely hardy plant yet it still requires a solid level of maintenance to ensure it continues to flourish. Keeping bamboo well fed and moist is one of the keys to maintaining it in a healthy state. One of the common misconceptions with ...
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Bamboo Orchids Under The Spotlight - Five Growing Tips You Can Try!
Bamboo has become such a popular plant in recent times; not only can you grow and enjoy it but it's use in other areas such as wood flooring and as blinds is rapidly gaining in popularity. Then there's the human version in the shape of musical band Bamboo ...
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Biodegradable Waste and Your Compost Pile
Biodegradable waste is a type of compost that has elements which breakdown more easily. Bioplastics are plastics that come from plants sources like hemp and soy beans as well as corn starch, as opposed to traditional plastics which are derived from ...
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Bonsai Gardening - Introduction to a Living Art
The first thing that comes to mind when you say the word art is sculptures and painting. However, there is one kind of sculpture that is very popular but does not make use of wood and stone, but its own materials, which is known as bonsai. ...
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Can A Leaf Vacuum Take The Work Out Of Yard Work?
Ah, the beautiful colors of fall foliage. It's a wonderful time of year. There is a cool crispness in the air, a welcome change after the heat and humidity of the summer. In fact, fall is some people's favorite time of the year - unless, of course, they ...
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Caring for your Wooden Garden Furniture
Garden Furniture Scotland expert, John Duff, has a put together a simple strategy which can be applied to keruing, balau or jarrah wood furniture.The first thing to remember is that wood is natural and the appearance of wood will ...
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Clean Glass Bird Feeders Mean More Birds
Express your love for birds uniquely through glass bird feeders. The artful designs done on glass feeders are sure to make your bird cage, porch, or garden a little more interesting and lively. The intricate designs, placed around the feeders so that you ...
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Colorful Spring Gardens
In the spring, while trees and shrubs are still showing their pale green new growth, the early border generally consists of colorful bulbs and a few early blooming perennials against a backdrop of green foliage and brown earth. Spring bulbs are perhaps ...
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Creating Japanese Gardens
Japanese gardens create landscapes which resembles nature through the careful placement of trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, and water. Zen and Shinto traditions have greatly influenced Japanese gardening and as a result the gardens are ...
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Designing An Entrance Garden
Foundation plantings have traditionally been intended to screen cement foundations of houses. This is a bit short sighted, however. Creating a welcoming entrance garden is a more appropriate way go about designing these spaces. Entrance gardens are ...
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Easy Care Shrubs
Shrubs are essential to a successful garden. They provide fragrant flowers in the spring, lush green foliage during the summer and colorful foliage throughout the fall. Evergreens add color to the winter landscape. Shrubs give a landscape design its ...
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