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How to Plan a New Garden

Laura — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:50:55 +0000

How to plan a new garden with detailed advice about effort, sun, soil, deer, rabbits, trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals. With careful planning, you can have a new garden that will thrive! Planning a new garden — especially when you’re starting from scratch or are new to gardening — can seem overwhelming! But the...

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Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Bulbs

Laura — Thu, 20 May 2021 16:43:33 +0000

The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Bulbs is a great gardening book. With botanical illustrations and photos, it covers 66 different bulbs. I bought this book, and here is my own review. The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Bulbs is a great little book to have. And it’s also a great book for gift-giving to...

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Six Gifts for Gardeners They Will Love

Laura — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:19:48 +0000

What do you give a gardener? Today I have six gifts for gardeners they will love. I personally purchased each one of these, and would love to receive any of these as a gift! I hope my six gift ideas will help you out when it comes to finding a gift for a gardener in...

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Red Tip Photinia is one of my favorite evergreens!

Laura — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:11:39 +0000

Red Tip Photinia is one of my favorite evergreens! It provides year-round red and green color in your landscape with a bonus of pretty Spring blossoms. Here’s a look at our own Red Tip Photinias over the past few years . . . My love affair with trees and shrubs began when we left city living...

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Charming fairy garden mushrooms from acorns and twigs!

Laura — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:32:33 +0000

You can make your own miniature fairy garden mushrooms using acorn caps and twigs from your yard! I was inspired by the new book Crafting with Nature, which is my new favorite gardening and crafting book. The first thing I did was to gather acorn caps and twigs from our backyard. We had a crazy amount...

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Bulb by Anna Pavord: the ultimate gardening book about bulbs!

Laura — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:32:38 +0000

I treated myself to the book Bulb by Anna Pavord. And what a great treat it has been! This book is heavy, literally and figuratively, because of the content as well as the wonderful paper the text and photos are printed on. How heavy? I weighed the book and – according to my bathroom scale which...

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