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This Old House Jerry Pavia |
Versatile Vines These fast-growing plants could be your best landscape investment this summer. |
This Old House Kathryn Keller |
Hedging Your Best A shrub border can enhance your property -- if you keep it in top shape. Here is some expert advice on maintaining a living fence. |
National Gardening |
Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
National Gardening |
Amazing Annual Vines If you've been growing common vines, like morning glory and sweet peas, consider trying something new this year. Here are a few suggestions. |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
15 Foolproof Shrubs Our top picks for plants that provide maximum beauty with minimal hassle |
National Gardening |
Pruning Trees and Shrubs With a little instruction and some common sense, you'll be able to prune your trees, shrubs, and roses like a pro and have beautifully shaped, flowering plants to boot. |
National Gardening |
Backyard Ideas When you start thinking about your yard as place to live in, not just to garden in, a shift in priorities occurs. Where you once saw places for flower beds, shrub borders, and a vegetable garden, you now see the need for places where human activities can take place comfortably. |
This Old House October 11, 2000 Lynn Ocone |
Improving the View From the Curb An attractive front yard improves the look of your home and makes visitors feel welcome... |
National Gardening Veronica Lorson Fowler |
Amazing Annual Vines These speedy climbers offer old-fashioned charm and quick landscape solutions |
This Old House Christopher J. Cohan |
Foundation Plantings The plantings closest to your home should play up its assets and soften its hard edges. |
This Old House Max Alexander |
Yard Work The landscape plan takes shape at the Concord TV project house. |
National Gardening Karen Jescavage-Bernard |
Problems with Deer What to do? Here's the lowdown on fences, repellents, and scare tactics. |
This Old House David Hawk |
An Urban Oasis With a little forethought, the Charlestown courtyard was transformed into a garden sanctuary for a hot summer day. |
National Gardening Jane von Trapp |
Entry Garden Make-Over A front entrance garden has to be functional and inviting, but where do you begin? |
National Gardening |
Animal Fencing Fencing is the most reliable defense against garden-raiding animals. |
National Gardening John R. Dunmire |
Guide to June Gardening The month may present different images in various parts of the country, but to most gardeners, it conveys feelings of richness, abundance, and completion. |
National Gardening Kathy Bond Borie |
Need to Justify Those New Plants? It's well known that attractive landscaping can increase the selling price of a house, but before you bank on a return on any big landscaping projects, here are some data to consider. |
National Gardening Lynn Ocone |
Landscaping ... For the Birds How to plan a bird-friendly garden |
This Old House Roger Cook |
Gardening by the Sea The author shares tips on growing a healthy and beautiful seaside garden. |
This Old House Jeanne Huber |
Planting in Pots Container gardens are a movable feast for the senses. Here's how to assemble and care for knockout combinations |
This Old House Max Alexander |
Can't a Fella Get a Little Peace and Quiet? How to block or diffuse the sound of cars and mowers penetrating your property. |
National Gardening |
Pruning a Hedge Don't hedge your bets. Here's when, how and how much you should prune your hedges. |
This Old House Ashley Womble |
Space Invaders How to prevent nonnative plants from running amok in your yard. |
This Old House Stephanie Hubbard |
Yard Work The author, who's a landscape designer, picks the proper plants for Billerica's tough New England climate. |
AskMen.com Jasper Anson |
Landscape Upgrades Attention to landscaping details can add value to your property. |
National Gardening Karen Dardick |
The New Patio Trees After filling my garden with roses, delphiniums, irises, daylilies, buddleia, heliotrope, and a host of other plantings, I ran out of space, but not out of the desire to grow more plants. So I turned to plants called standards or patio trees. What are they? |
This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
National Gardening Andy & Sally Wasowski |
Spectacular Desert Plants Colorful native plants for Southwest gardens |
National Gardening Alain Charest |
Trumpet Vine Native American plant makes good, especially in the North. Many garden plants are described as blooming all summer long, but trumpet vine is one of the few to actually live up to this description. Its only requirements are a sunny exposure and a good pruning in winter. |
This Old House February 2, 2001 Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
The Kindest Cut How and when to prune small trees and shrubs |
This Old House Kathryn Keller |
Backyard from Scratch 7 features that will transform a plain stretch of lawn into a lush landscape you'll really use and enjoy |
National Gardening Vicky Congdon |
Smoke Bush Cotinus, or smoke bush, can be grown across the United States and is available in several varieties. Buying, planting and growing suggestions are offered. |
National Gardening Nan Sterman |
Hardy Kiwi Have you tasted these remarkable miniature kiwis yet? Every bit as delicious as the larger, more familiar fuzzy kiwi, hardy kiwis are much easier to grow and eat (skin and all). |
National Gardening Patt Kasa |
Shop for Trees & Shrubs Years of experience have helped me hone my detective skills and I've developed an almost fool-proof method of choosing the healthiest specimens for my landscape. You can become a savvy shopper, too, by following these same guidelines. |
This Old House Lynne Ocone |
10 Minutes to More Flowers A quick annual pruning will keep flowering shrubs shapely and full of blooms. |
This Old House Joseph Truini |
Fencing Lessons If you're thinking about putting up a fence this summer, the first challenge is finding one that appeals to you. Although it's easy to fall into a rut and put up the same stodgy stockade or plain picket your neighbors have, there's no reason to compromise. |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Winter Bloomers A mid-winter shot of color for your landscape. |
National Gardening William Ross |
Fruit Trees in Containers For folks who want to grow their own fruit, but who don't have adequate space or a suitable climate, growing fruit in containers offers several opportunities. |
National Gardening June 2000 Victoria Matthews |
Tropical Visions Given the right conditions, these flamboyant vines can grow almost anywhere |
National Gardening Bonnie Lee Appleton |
Fall Tree Care The attention young trees need in Fall |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
National Gardening Ann Whitman |
Making a Water Garden in a Tub To the uninitiated, water gardens seem complicated, expensive, and fussy. But many of the principles of gardening in water are the same as those for gardening in soil. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow a water lily. |
This Old House Josh Garskof |
Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
National Gardening Karen Dardick |
Shrub Roses Many kinds of shrub roses have been introduced in recent years, especially the ground covers, such as "Cliffs of Dover," "Flower Carpet" and "Jeepers Creepers." |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Early Bloomers Need a fix of flowers to offset the drab colors of winter? Just step outside. By pruning branches from many common deciduous trees and shrubs, you can create beautiful indoor bouquets to serve as harbingers of spring. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Fungi for Roots Mycorrhizae fungi help plants grow... |
National Gardening |
Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Gold Medal Plants For the past 15 years the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has awarded gold medals to under-appreciated woody landscape plants. The 2003 gold medal winners include two noteworthy plants in particular that gardeners may want to try in their yards this year. |