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Sitemap


 This sitemap is intended to give you a "quick and dirty" look at all the headings and topics found on this site.

Home page

Free Newsletter   This is where I answer questions and post links to those questions.

News and Blog - this is the latest info, opinion and points of interest.   If it just happened, it's here.

About Doug   (I live in USDA zone 4 if that's what you want to know)

Garden Ebooks  a source of good info.

Photography


Garden Pictures main linking page

Vines
Clematis pictures.

Perennials
Sunloving perennials - From  A to ?

Coneflower or Echinacea and some modern varieties

Annuals
Salvia is a fantastic plant with a ton of color

Doug's Backyard

My Backyard Garden.  Here's an opportunity to see my garden and show me yours.

Podcasts

Main linking page to podcasts

August 2007  #1  Hibiscus and two weird things about this plant
#2 Daylilies and moving them right now but nothing else

July 2007 - Doug invents a new vegetable gardening system
                -  Mid Summer Weeding Systems

Gardening Tips (the serious stuff)


Gardening Tips - the main linking page

Antidesiccant - how to use this material to prevent winter damage and increase transplant survival.
Deer repellants always raise the spirits of gardeners in deer country.  Here's my take on it (living in deer paradise the way I do)
Watering the garden is important if you want your plants to thrive and not merely survive.
Here's a free Ebooks right here for you to download  This is the beginner gardening advice my newsletter readers wrote to help out another beginner gardener



Gardening Ideas  (some of the less than serious stuff)


Gardening Ideas - the main linking page

Celebrate Abundance.  There are days when I'm so harried I have to sit back and just celebrate the abundance of my life
Greeting Cards:  When you want to say it with a greeting-card, you now have a "green" option
Giving a gardening gift to somebody who really needs it.

Your lawn furniture is illegal.  Here's how to tell if your wooden furniture is illegal.
Fight Breast Cancer by planting this Echinacea (Coneflower)
Why weeds grow faster when you're on holidays.   My readers help me out.

Skin care and my thoughts on aging hands and change of self-image.


Weekly Columns


June 2007 

Things I Learn in the Garden - like "Never Spit into the Wind".
Long Blooming Perennials
Three Daisies to Grow in Your Garden

Gardens To Visit


Canada


British Columbia
Butchart Gardens in Vancouver Island B.C.  

Quebec
Quebec City Gardens 


Fergus the Frog


Main Linking Page to Stories.

Fergus takes a nap.   Funny how he can get into trouble just taking a nap.
Fergus teases a golden retriever.  It's never a great idea to tease something this big with that many teeth.
Fergus Plays Basketball.   You might think a frog isn't tall enough to play basketball.

Fergus on Halloween.  He goes nuts over candy - and he's not the same frog.
Fergus in the Greenhouse.  He wasn't a lot of help but then again...
Fergus loved to eat flies - and this is what happened when he ate one in the winter

Fergus drives a car.  He'll never drive for Nascar but don't tell him that.






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