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A Guide To Planting Trees
Before planting new trees, determine both your needs and the existing conditions of your site. Like all plants, trees have specific light, soil and space requirements. Remember that many trees...
An Introduction To Flower Gardens
Becoming familiar with the general planting and maintenance requirements perennials and annuals is essential to the long term success of your flower garden. Here are some guidelines which will...
Colorful Spring Gardens
In the spring, while trees and shrubs are still showing their pale green new growth, the early border generally consists of colorful bulbs and a few early blooming perennials against a backdrop of...
Colorful Summer Gardens
In mid-summer the perennial border is at its peak with a wide variety of sun-loving flowers in bloom. There are even some long lasting, early blooming flowers still...
Creating A Container Garden
Container gardens are the perfect way to add texture, color and fragrance to a terrace, balcony or deck. They often provide the only way for people who live in apartments or urbanized areas to garden. Most plants, including...
Creating Japanese Gardens
Japanese gardens create landscapes which resembles nature through the careful placement of trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, and water. Zen and Shinto traditions have greatly...
Easy Care Shrubs
Shrubs are essential to a successful garden. They provide fragrant flowers in the spring, lush green foliage during the summer and colorful foliage throughout the fall. Evergreens add...
Essential Tools For The Gardener
There's an appropriate tool for every garden project. Using the right tool will make your job much easier. When shopping for garden tools make sure they're comfortable. Tools which are too...
Flower Gardening Tips
Flower gardens are simple to install and easy to care for. They do, however, require a basic understanding of the natural conditions of your garden as well as the specific needs of the individual flowers. Different flowers have different requirements. Annuals, for example...
Gardening 101
Successful garden designs create landscapes which are practical, beautiful and compatible with a site's natural conditions. Gardens should be designed to...
Gardening With Groundcovers
There are always those spots in your garden where grass just doesn't seem to grow or that are either too rocky or rooty for shrubs. Groundcovers can solve all kinds of gardening problems and are often...
Lawn Alternatives and Natural Gardens
From coast to coast the lawn is one the most ubiquitous garden features in the landscape. Planting a natural garden can help restore the landscape, attract a variety of bird species and provide the garden with a wonderful mix of beautiful plants...
Marketing Your Website and Product With Articles
Writing and submitting articles is a free and easy way to drive traffic to your website. Article directories allow writers to submit, promote and make available articles to website or newsletter publishers in search of content. When an article is...
Planting An Herb Garden
Herbs of all kinds have been cultivated and used for thousands of years. They have been used for cooking, tea and medicinal purposes. Herb gardens easy to grow and require little maintenance. The following article covers...
Preparing A Vegetable Garden
The first step when planning a vegetable garden is to find the ideal spot. Most vegetables require lots of sun so choose a location with a southern exposure. Ideally the sunlight...
Successful Article Marketing
Writing and submitting articles is one of the easiest, most effective ways to market your website or product. For an article marketing campaign to be successful, however, your articles need to be well written, informative and...
Transplanting Tree & Shrubs
There times when a plant out grows its spot or needs to be moved to make way for a new garden design. When transplanting a shrub or tree be aware of the weather. Though possible, transplanting shrubs during very hot weather is definitely not recommended, it can cause...
Using Your Website Content As Article Inspiration
Submitting articles to article directories is a great way to increase traffic to your website, promote your product and establish yourself as an expert in your field. Its also an easy and effect way to gain...
Winter Gardening
By December, most gardeners have raked all their leaves, finished planting their spring bulbs and are preparing to patiently wait until spring to visit the garden again. If, however, you don't mind the snow or freezing temperatures you don't need to put all those tools away just yet. Winter can be
Writing & Submitting Effective Articles
Article publishing has become one of the most effective and important marketing tools of website owners. Smart and savvy website publishers often use articles as a way to increase traffic to their site and to promote...