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What Are The Best Flowering Trellis Plants?
Choosing the ideal trellis plants that flower can be a challenging decision. There are plenty of climbing plants and flowering vines for growing on…
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Topiary Trees – The Lost Art of Pruning
Topiary is found most of the time at large theme parks like Disney World because of a significant amount of time required to trim…
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How To Care For The Beautiful Flowering Dogwood
The dogwood tree is an attractive tree in every season of the year. In the springtime, dogwood trees burst into full blooms blanketing the…
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Ways To Minimize Transplant Shock
Transplant shock occurs because plants and trees are designed to stay in one place. Transplanting is more than just moving the plant. Gardeners need…
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Care Requirements For Shrimp Plant
Shrimp plant belongs to the genus Justicia and an evergreen shrub of the family Acanthaceae.
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How To Winterize Roses and Rose Bushes
We get asked every year on: “How to prepare rose bushes for winter? How do I winterize roses?” There are many different types of…
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How Solar Powered Landscape Lighting
Adding solar powered landscape lighting and other features to your landscape is one of the easiest and most affordable ways to make excellent use…
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On Picking The Right Garden Fertilizer
Most soil usually does not contain enough nutrients to help plants reach optimum performance and growth levels. Even the very best garden soil becomes…
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Get Rid Of Striped, Spotted Cucumber Beetles
The Cucumber beetle is a common pests throughout most of southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Cucumber beetles spread plant disease and lay…
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11 Colorful Summer Flowers That Beat The Heat
Which summer flowers help you light up the hottest dog days of summertime? Below are 11 flowers that bloom all summer and an tips…
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Backyard Landscaping Ideas For Small Yards
A townhouse garden can be a place to getaway, enjoy nature, go tropical or just getting outside. The smallest backyard and garden, well-arranged and…
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Asiatic Lily Care: How To Grow Asiatic Lilies
Beginners new to planting bulbs find Asiatic lilies among the easiest of all lilies to play with. They are the first lilies of the…
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Pergola Design: Make Your Backyard A Beautiful Hangout
In pergola design plans, also known as an arbour or arbor forms a shaded area, a passage, a walkway or sitting areas & standing…
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Coffee Grounds for Plants
You’ve heard that adding coffee grounds to your compost speeds decomposition and adds much-needed nitrogen to the compost. Coffee grounds are good for plants…
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How to Grow Your Own Topiary
Topiaries are plants that have been pruned and trained to grow into distinct decorative shapes. They’re basically slow-growing artistic masterpieces. Whether you grow them…
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Growing Perfect Plants For Balcony, Deck, Patio and Front Entry
Container gardening is very popular today, but it’s not new. People have been growing container plants for centuries, and there are favorites found in…
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Scale Insects on Plants – Removing Scale Bugs On Plants Indoors and Out
Plant scale insects come equipped with piercing/sucking mouthparts and are widespread around the world. There are over 8000 types of plant scale, and they…
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35 of the Best Houseplants For Your Home!
NASA recommends adding houseplants to your home environment to help clean the air and overall improve indoor air quality. Common sense will tell you…
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Gardening Hand Tools for Planting and Cultivating
Just how important are garden hand tools? Well, you wouldn’t have much of a garden without them. Hand planting tools constitute the backbone of…
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7 Reasons To Install Landscape Garden Lighting
There are many good reasons to install landscape garden lighting in your garden. In this article, we will look at guiding your path, safety,…
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Bring Spring Flowers and Bulbs into Your Home
Notes from the Old Ottawa South Garden Club The last meeting in 2016 of the Old Ottawa South Garden Club (OOSGC) featured a presentation…
