Stinky flowers
There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers
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Plants
Beauty in a bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour
By Dorothy Dobbie If there is one thing that bulbs, especially summer bulbs, have in common it’s incandescent colour. The
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Garden bug control
Bugs are a part of any gardener’s life. Some are beneficial and welcome additions that help develop a healthy garden
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Easy-care Perennials
These easy-care perennials are the old reliables of the garden. It’s not that they live forever, their lifespan can be
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Taking on the Martagon
The wind whips the water and howls among the rocks. We leave its fury on shore, follow a zigzag path
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The happy heuchera
This time of the year can be a bit dreary with all the garden chores either ending or hidden by
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Stonecrop Savvy
If you’ve seen one sedum, you’ve “sedum all”, a prairie horticulturist’s son was heard to murmur at a plant sale.
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Leave your perennials till spring.
If you’re a neat freak, then cut your perennials down in fall. However, there are many benefits to leaving the
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Help for summer-stressed plants
Plant Strengtheners: Help for summer stressed plants Don’t let summer stressors ruin your landscape’s good looks. Instead give your plants’
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Understanding botanical names
For years, people referred to plants by their common names almost exclusively – only the eggheads and botanists used botanical
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