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Picking the Right Shape for Your Plant Pot
Plant and flower pots are wonderful landscaping ideas for your entrance way or backyard. A front door might call for...
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Lawn Care Tips: What to Know About Fertilizer
An adequately fed lawn is denser, more weed free, and more attractive. A well-fertilized lawn withstands wear better and is...
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Adding Geraniums to a Landscape
Although the name geranium is usually used to describe the bright-flowered summer bedding annuals, perennial geraniums are the true geraniums...
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Top Tips for Garden Landscape Planning
Before getting started on a new garden landscape, it's best to plan your project on paper first. You...
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How to Enhance Your Landscape with an Herb Garden
If you want a section of your landscape to be devoted just to herbs, you have a choice...
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The Complete Guide to Building a Wooden Bridge on Your Landscape
Adding a wooden bridge to your landscape is both attractive and practical. A bridge can span a stream, help you...
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How to Build a Raised-Bed with a Retaining Wall
A stone wall does more than make a clean border along your lawn. It's a handsome visual statement in itself;...
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Sloping Yard Landscaping Ideas
Many front gardens have a gradient, which makes mowing a lawn impractical. Here we'll llook at some easy landscaping ideas...
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Adding Lacebark Pine to a Landscape
Lace bark pine is a multi trunked evergreen tree native to China that is grown primarily for its...
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How to Build a Timber Retaining Wall
If you want to hold back a bank or keep a slope from slipping, a retaining wall is what you...
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How to Build a Dry Stone Wall on Your Landscape
Natural stone is the perfect choice for a wall that harmonizes with the beauty of any landscape, from an informal...
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Building Raised Beds to Maximize Your Landscape
A raised bed can do wonders for maximizing your landscape araea. Virtually all plants other than large trees are...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Landscaping on a Budget
Landscaping doesn't have to cost thousands of dollars. Here are 8 ways to rein in a landscaping budget.
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How to Grow Eggplant in Your Garden
Eggplant is amongst one of the easiest vegetables to grow in your garden. This warm-seaon crop ranks as of the...
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Gardening Tips for Dry, Free-Draining Soil
On free-draining soils you can grow a range of plants that are not happy in moist conditions. Since...
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Landscape Design: Make Your Own Water Garden
The sight and sound of water, the colourful fish and varied plants water can support, and the vitality of the...
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Planning Your Vegetable Patch for Your Garden
Designing your vegetable garden can be a fun and exciting task! Before you get rolling with your favourite and dream...
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How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden
The most landscape-friendly of fruits, strawberries grow wild in temperate regions across America and Europe.Today's cultivated varieties are...
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Garden Tips: Removing Leaves from Your Landscape
Raking may not be everyone's favourite task but it will benefit your landscape and garden in the long...
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How to Build a Stylish Gravel Garden For Your Landscape
Gravel gardens are low-maintenance and clean. There's no worry about having to weed it or mow it; it just simple...
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Adding an Arbour or Pergola to Your Garden
Gardeners have used arches, arbours, and pergolas to add interest and height to gardens since the time of...
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Types of Plant Beds and Borders for Your Garden Landscape
Beds and borders fall loosely into four categories: single, herbaceous, shrub and mixed. The style of border you...
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Garden Design From a Florist’s Perspective
The garden of her Surrey home is dotted with pots at every turn: some decorative, some functional, some...
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Tips for Gardening with Children
If you have a child in your life who's interested in growing plants, make a space in the...
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Landscaping Tips: Things to Know about Boundary Walls
A boundary wall shelters the garden from strong and cold winds and presents a marvellous opportunity for growing...
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How to Hand Weed Your Garden
Weeding a garden can be one of the most dreaded tasks a gardener faces. Because it's so unpleasant many gardeners...
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Growing Apples: Problem Signs and Symptoms to Watch for
The majority of apple pests can be controlled with one dormant spray plus the controls specified in the...
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Growing Plums: Common Plum Problems
There are over a hundred varieties of plums currently growing in Canada. Some of these are commerical, others are experimental...
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How to Grow Peas in Your Garden
Peas are one of the prime examples of the taste difference between bought and fresh from the garden. Normally peas...