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Discover the Art of Year-Round Gardening with Cold-Resistant Flowers

Discover the art of year-round gardening with cold-resistant flowers, providing vibrant colour and visual interest through all seasons. Learn planting tips, care guidelines, and the ecological benefits of maintaining a seasonal garden. Enhance your outdoor space's beauty and sustainability, and support local wildlife with cold-resistant flowers like calendula, pansies, chrysanthemums, and more. Start your journey to a vibrant, eco-friendly garden that thrives even in the harshest climates.

The Joy of Growing Edible Plants - A Journey to Self-Sufficiency

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The Joy of Growing Edible Plants: A Journey to Self-Sufficiency

Have you ever stopped to marvel at the wonders of nature and its ability to nourish us? There is something truly magical about growing your own edible plants, witnessing their…

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Planting Bulbs This Weekend? Ten Q&A Tips for Guaranteed Success

It’s that rare, magnificent autumn day, and you want to take full advantage of it by planting all of your spring-flowering bulbs, today. The following ten tips will guarantee the…

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Bountiful Landscapes: Ideas for Edible Gardens

When I was young, the late great naturalist Euell Gibbons was often on the radio or television encouraging people to eat from nature. The thought of an edible landscape instantly…

New And Enduring Plants for Northern Landscapes

Northern gardeners are always excited to catch wind of new plant introductions they’ll be able to bring into their yards and gardens as the palette of landscape plants gets ever…

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The Magnificent Flowering Giants of The North: Ornamental Crab Apples for Your Yard

We northerners sometimes don’t realize just how lucky we are. For all the very showy trees and shrubs that grace the landscapes of our southern neighbors, we actually have a…

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Top Ten Plants for Hummingbirds: Favorite Blooms for Attracting Hummingbirds to the Garden

Learn how to use plants in your landscape to attract hummingbirds to the garden. The Hummingbird is a long-time favorite of gardeners; little jeweled fliers that buzz about almost too…

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A Thousand Lilies for Every Landscape: Reporting From the “World Lily Capital”

To borrow the timeless words of Rod Serling, “Imagine if you will…” an idyllic community awash in a cacophony of colors, its countless gardens floating like shimmering islands atop the…

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Top 10 Wish List of a Northern Gardener

How many gardeners and landscapers have started a sentence with the words “If only…”? Everyone has their own list of plants they would like to see or see more of…

A Lifetime of Endless Summers: Special Hydrangea Care Tips for Northerners

A Lifetime of Endless Summers: Special Hydrangea Care Tips for Northerners

There are few northern gardeners who haven’t at least once wished that they could grow the lovely florist’s hydrangeas in their gardens, the kind with the enormous globular mopheads of…

A Hummingbird Haven in Your Backyard

A Hummingbird Haven in Your Backyard

Many northern gardeners that we speak to in the course of our work are both surprised and delighted to hear that with some effort, they could easily enjoy hummingbirds in…

Guide to Flowers that Grow Best - Little Sun: Gardening in the Shade Tips & Advice

Flowers for Shade Gardens

If you have a shady area and have had trouble growing flowers, then read on for information about flowers for shade. Learn the particulars of growing plants and flowers in…

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