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We teach you how to grow and care for your dream garden, and how to decorate with plants.
Lay Your Own Path
Instructions for how to install a basic garden path.
Designing a Backyard Shed
Possibilities for creating a tiny building with big impact
Ferns: A Circle of Fronds
Unfurling the mystery of ferns.
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Gardening Advice: Low Creepers
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The best low creepers for between stones in natural garden rock walks   
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Gardening Advice: Daylily Decline
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Should you divide wild daylilies that have stopped blooming?
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Gardening Advice: Double Daffs Don’t Open
Fixes for double daffodil buds that don't open
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Gardening Advice: Tulip Offspring
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Why many tulips don't grow back a second season
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Ferns: A Circle of Fronds
By Dora Galitzki
Unfurling the mystery of ferns. 
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Advocacy Gardening with Ecology Action
Small is bountiful and politics is dirty in the world John Jeavons wants all of us to dig
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Gardening Advice: Sickly Rhododendrons
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How to grow rhododendrons in raised beds
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Gardening Advice: Container Gardening
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Interesting flower ideas for container plantings 
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Gardening Advice: Neglected Grape Vines
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Pruning and trellis-building tips for bringing neglected grape vines back to life. 
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Gardening Advice: Container Flowers
Fertilizing tips for container flowers 
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