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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: Daylilies
How to care for a bed of daylilies
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Gardening Advice: What to Plant in Dry, Wooded Areas
The best perennials and shrubs to plant in wooded gardens with dry soil
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Gardening Advice: Drifts of Bulbs
Seeds that naturalize freely
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Gardening Advice: Unusual Plants
Joining a seed exchange to acquire unusual plants
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Gardening Advice: Spring Flowering Shrubs
Shrubs with early-blooming flowers
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Gardening Advice: Perennials From Seed
How to grow perennials from seed
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Gardening Advice: Southern Vegetable Garden
How to grow vegetables through the Southern winter. 
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Gardening Advice: Bulb Remnants
What to do with the remnants of bulb foliage 
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Gardening Advice: Flowering Shrubs
Shrubs that bloom in late summer
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Gardening Advice: Shade-Tolerant Grasses
The best shade-tolerant fescues 
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