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We teach you how to grow and care for your dream garden, and how to decorate with plants.
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Gardening Advice: Sluggish Greens
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Growing tips for beets, swiss chard and spinach. 
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Gardening Advice: Pruning Lavender
Get your lavender plants back into shape. 
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Gardening Advice: Pruning a Crab Apple Tree
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Is it okay to cut off the low branches of a crab apple tree?
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Gardening Advice: Dividing Perennials
The best time for dividing perennials
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Gardening Advice: Gunnera
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Can gunnera survive in zone 6?
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Gardening Advice: Hillside Blues
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The best plants for a steep, sloping lawn
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Gardening Advice: Getting Rid of Tree Stumps
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How to hide a large tree stump
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Gardening Advice: Seeds in the Winter
Germinating perennial seeds in the winter
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Gardening Advice: Frozen Hollyhocks
Protecting hollyhocks and lupines from cold, winter weather
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Gardening Advice: Decorative Fruit
The best fruit shrubs for winter 
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