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Gardeners Journal - Growing Brunnera

Brunnera is an amazing spring blooming perennial plant that's ideal for the shade garden. Blooming in early spring with forget-me-not blue blossoms, this

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Gardeners Journal Pruning Hellebore

When it comes to pruning Hellebore, I do it in the fall because I want the new growth to come up clean and early so I can see the flowers. If I allow

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Gardeners Journal Early Vegetable Gardening Using a Cloche

You want an early vegetable gardening tip? This one is simple to do, uses recycled material and can give you early salad grens as well as earlier tomatoes,

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Gardeners Journal - Variegated Daylily Problems

I note reversion is a major problem of some plants - this is where the variegated leaves grow out straight green without the variegation. And if you don't

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Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction'

Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction' was planted in fall of 2006 in a sunny part of the perennial garden and has been a winner for me. Sun: Full sun all day -

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Echinacea Alaska

I wasn't a bit fan of the generic, purple Echinacea, visually speaking. Why? Well, quite frankly, they look like not-really-purple badminton birdies.

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Gardeners Journal - Pruning Roses in the Spring

Pruning roses in the spring isn't tough when you consider the basic shape you're trying to create. As I explain in this short video, you want to create

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Gardeners Journal - A Moveable Raised Garden Bed

As part of my gardener's journal, I'm showing you a lot of behind-the-scenes videos of projects in development. This compares with what normally happens

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Gardeners Journal - Spring Flowering Cottage Garden

This is my spring flowering cottage garden area - at least one small part of it :-) And I'm going to show you some of the bulbs and perennials I have

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Gardeners Journal - Growing Rhubarb

Growing small fruit such as rhubarb has been something I've done since I was a kid. I remember our patch at home (roots came from my grandfather's garden)

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Plant Planner App from Safer

First, I've been a big fan of Safer's organic insect control products for many years; I even used them in the greenhouses and nursery back in the day.

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Gardeners Journal: Naturalizing Daffodils

One of the things I'm doing at our place is planting at least 100 daffodils every fall into different parts of our gardens and lawns. Last year it was

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Gardening Journal - when to divide hosta (and other plants)

This gardening journal video shows you the exact stage when to divide hosta plants. This timing is the same for most other perennials as well - at an

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THE EDIBLE GARDEN

The Edible Garden It all started with a Mojito! It all started with a Mojito one clear balmy evening abroad. It was so refreshing, “I’d like some mint

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My Courtyard Garden - Potted Spring Tulips

Never having tried the technique of layering spring flowering bulbs in a garden pot, last fall I decided to layer 50 apricot tulips. Once the bulbs were

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