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After spending most of the Summer fighting bugs and insects and praying for rain to grow vegetables that arc fit to eat, some of our gardeners like to store surplus vegetables. When I was a youngster at home, stored vegetables made up a large part of...

All woody plants have a regular sequence of bloom. Whether they are growing in Florida, California, Massachusetts or Illinois, this sequence is always the same and can be depended upon from year to year. The redbud always blooms with the flowering...

If you're in search of the perfect look for the yard, you need to make sure that you are acquiring fantastic landscaping concepts. It is possible to find numerous various places that will give you great hints as to what you may do for your yard. You may...

The spring season is overcrowded with gardening work, and in some years the soil remains wet and cold for a long time. By contrast, in most years, the Fall period is a pleasant time to work in the garden, and it is possible to relieve some of the...

Phooey on averages! While naturally frost comes earlier to the areas north of us, we are supposed to get our first killing frost here (on average) about October 24. What will this year bring us? After last season - frost that caught a lot of things...

For more than 40 years I have been growing daffodils in small gardens in eastern Canada and in California, usually just planting them wherever I could find room. But it is only recently that I have realized that daffodils are primarily garden flowers....

When the tall bearded iris season is over in June, it marks the end of iris bloom to the average gardener for another year. So often people have remarked to me, "Iris are very beautiful, but what I don't like about them is that they have such a short...

While the present vogue of yews for house front plantings is an improvement over the earlier "chess formation period" of golden chamaecy paris, peaky arborvitae and such, it has brought about a marked degree of monotony. This is not so much a matter of...

If you are planning a wedding, you probably already know how much work is involved when trying to make your day special. Brides with a desire to marry outside have extra issues. However, marrying in the warm sunshine and celebrating beneath the evening...

These days, everyone seems to need to get back to nature and enjoy the great outdoors whenever there is an opportunity. However, we do not always have the time to get out into the wilderness to pursue this pastime. What we can do is to design our own...