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Tips for Choosing and Planting Trees and Shrubs

Tips for Choosing and Planting Trees and Shrubs

Stephan Winterfeldt

Planting Trees and Shrubs Long-lived and beautiful, shrubs and trees give your landscape its "bones," the height, texture, color, and often fragrance it needs on a grand scale. Follow the...

Tips for Choosing and Planting Trees and Shrubs

Stephan Winterfeldt

Planting Trees and Shrubs Long-lived and beautiful, shrubs and trees give your landscape its "bones," the height, texture, color, and often fragrance it needs on a grand scale. Follow the...

Cutting Flowers for Arrangements

Cutting Flowers for Arrangements

Park Seed Author's Guild

Enhancing the Beauty and Longevity of Cut Flowers from Your Garden One of the great joys of growing flowers is being able to cut a big bouquet for the house...

Cutting Flowers for Arrangements

Park Seed Author's Guild

Enhancing the Beauty and Longevity of Cut Flowers from Your Garden One of the great joys of growing flowers is being able to cut a big bouquet for the house...

Cucumber Disease Abbreviations

Cucumber Disease Abbreviations

Stephan Winterfeldt

Understanding Cucumber Abbreviations Used to Signal Disease Resistance Selecting the right varieties of cucumbers each year goes beyond just flavor, yield, and growth habits. An equally important factor to consider...

Cucumber Disease Abbreviations

Stephan Winterfeldt

Understanding Cucumber Abbreviations Used to Signal Disease Resistance Selecting the right varieties of cucumbers each year goes beyond just flavor, yield, and growth habits. An equally important factor to consider...

Herbs that Attract Pollinators to Your Garden

Herbs that Attract Pollinators to Your Garden

Shelby DeVore

A Pollinator Garden that Leverages the Benefits of Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs Want to bring butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds into the garden without having to create a special “theme” planting...

Herbs that Attract Pollinators to Your Garden

Shelby DeVore

A Pollinator Garden that Leverages the Benefits of Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs Want to bring butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds into the garden without having to create a special “theme” planting...

Know Before You Grow: Preparing the Garden for New Plants

Know Before You Grow: Preparing the Garden for ...

Shelby DeVore

Analyzing Sun and Soil The first task when considering a new plant for the garden is to make sure you have a suitable location for it. Plants can be moved,...

Know Before You Grow: Preparing the Garden for ...

Shelby DeVore

Analyzing Sun and Soil The first task when considering a new plant for the garden is to make sure you have a suitable location for it. Plants can be moved,...

How to Protect Plants from Frost

How to Protect Plants from Frost

Shelby DeVore

Protect Tender Plants Before a Cold Night All gardeners know that we may have consequences for anything we do ahead of schedule. Yesterday it was in the low 80s, today...

How to Protect Plants from Frost

Shelby DeVore

Protect Tender Plants Before a Cold Night All gardeners know that we may have consequences for anything we do ahead of schedule. Yesterday it was in the low 80s, today...