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Thomas Andrews - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Thomas Andrews is a garden writer for the Park Seed Company. Drawing on the experts and resources of Park Seed, His goal is to make the most difficult aspects of gardening and horticulture available to everyone. He is also a regular contributor to the Park Seed blog, the Park Seed Garden Journal.
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- A Quick Guide to Storing Bulbs For Winter
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Many of the flower bulbs that we plant are winter-hardy, like daffodils, tulips, and crocus. Usually, we plant our bulbs in the fall for spring blooms. But many of the really fun flower bulb plants are tropicals or they have very tender bulbs that would be ruined if we left them to face winter without any protection.
- Dealing With Drought - How to Keep a Green Summer Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] As drought conditions are getting more and more common across the country, gardens that are more brown than green are becoming an everyday sight. You don't have to give up your healthy garden to save water, though. More careful, thoughtful planning can make all the difference. This quick guide contains a few of the methods for maintaining your garden in drought conditions.
- Planting a Rain Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Planting a rain garden helps to filter and absorb storm water, helping to clean up the environment and improve local water sources. It's also a great way to deal with difficult-to-plant sections of your garden that get too much moisture. This guide gives you a few tips for how to plant your own rain garden.
- Garden Design For Curb Appeal
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Street-side landscape design, or "curb appeal" gardening, is becoming a bigger and bigger issue with many homeowners as they seek to maintain high property values. This easy guide will give you some of the simple methods of designing for curb appeal.
- Gardening is a Fun and Educational Summer Activity For Kids
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you're looking for a great educational summer activity for your kids, you can't do much better than starting a simple garden. It's an easy way to teach kids many lessons about science and more, and it's a lot of fun for both of you!
- Entertaining In The Evening Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There is nothing better after a long day's work than enjoying the quiet beauty of a well-designed garden. Most of our best opportunity to enjoy our landscaping is in the evening, but most gardens aren't designed with that use in mind. This quick and easy guide will give you some ideas for designing your garden to maximize your enjoyment and ability to entertain in your evening garden.
- Growing Container Herbs - 5 Great Choices for Indoor Herb Gardens
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Growing herbs in containers is a great way to always have fresh, healthy ingredients for your kitchen. Here are five great herb options for an easy indoor herb garden.
- Growing Clematis Vines Successfully
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Clematis vines are some of the easiest plants to keep and grow successfully if you know what you're doing. This article will give you some of the knowledge you'll need on choosing quality Clematis plants and when to prune them.
- The Types of Petunias and How To Grow Them
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Armed with just a little knowledge, choosing and growing Petunias is very easy. This guide briefly explains what you need to know about the varieties of Petunia that are available and what you need to know to grow them successfully.
- Deer Resistant Gardening - Simple Things You Can Do To Protect Your Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] As the population skyrockets, gardeners across the country are having more and more trouble with deer. This guide gives a few easy tips for keeping deer out of your yard and away from your plants.
- Landscape Garden Design Ideas - Creating Interest With Contrast
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Laying out a plan for garden design can be a daunting task. Using the basic principles of design, however, can make it a much simpler process. Here are a few easy ideas for using contrast to create visual interest in your next garden plan.
- From Climbing Hydrangea to Oakleaf Hydrangea - Types of Hydrangea Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Hydrangea has grown to be one of the most popular perennial plants in American gardens, and the variety that is available now is quite impressive. This quick guide to the commonly available varieties of Hydrangea plants, from the common Garden Hydrangea to the more unusual Oakleaf and Climbing Hydrangeas, will help you find the right Hydrangea for your garden.
- Growing Bamboo As a Landscape Plant
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Bamboo is one of the most versatile and beautiful plants in the world. No landscaping plants are as easy to grow or quick-growing. Armed with just a little knowledge, you can make bamboo an excellent addition to your landscape or garden.
- Starting Tomato Plants From Seed
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Starting tomato plants from seed is really very easy with just a little bit of knowledge. The most difficult part for most gardeners is that they don't know exactly how to get their tomato seeds started. In this article I briefly explain how to simply and dependably start great home-grown tomato plants from seed.
- Fruit Trees - Good Reasons To Grow Your Own
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Sturdy apple trees, ancient olive trees, voluptuous cherry blossom trees, and gnarled fig trees are among the many fruit-bearing trees that appear throughout history, in mythology and legends from Chinese to Norse, from Judeo-Christian to Native American. Fruit trees were an important food source for the first hunter-gatherers, and they continue to be an essential part of our lives today, providing important vitamins, minerals, and pleasant summertime memories.
- Hydrangea Care - Guide to Huge, Colorful Blooms
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Following just a few simple growing tips for hydrangea will produce healthy plants with fluffy colorful blooms year after year. Hydrangea are small deciduous shrubs or climbers that usually have thick clumps of pink or blue flowers. Many newer varieties now offer more brightly colored or white flowers. The most popular questions that come up about hydrangeas usually relate to the general care, color-changing properties of the blooms, and hydrangea pruning techniques.
- Caring For Japanese Maples
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Some popular Japanese Maple varieties can be expensive, but they are an investment that will mature into one of the most interesting pieces in your garden. Because of its value and incredible potential, losing a Japanese Maple would be devastating to any dedicated gardener.
- Herbs Grown in Containers Quick, Easy, and Fun
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Growing an herb garden allows for plenty of variety and experimentation for both the culinary artist and the gardener. An herb garden is fun for first time gardens and a staple for people who have been playing in the dirt since they were kids. The promise of harvest and experimenting with new flavors is hard to resist, but if you are living in an urban area or a small apartment, trying to stretch your horticultural legs could leave you feeling cramped. Growing a container herb garden could be the answer.
- Low-Maintenance Rose Varieties - Changing The Culture Of Rose Gardening
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] New, low-maintenance rose varieties are introducing rose gardening to new demographic groups, and redefining the schema of the traditional rosarian. After the Rose Knock Out was chosen as an All- America Rose Selection (AARS) in 2000, it sold better in the following years than any rose ever before. The disease resistance and hardiness of this plant made it accessible to even the most novice gardeners. Commercial landscapers who normally avoided roses because of the hassle began using them everywhere. This was the start of a different way of thinking about roses.
- Japanese Maples - Choosing The Right Acer
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Trying to compare over a 1000 cultivars and make a fair decisions would be really tedious if not impossible. So, instead of listing some variations and telling you which ones are the best, I will try to decipher a little of the horticultural jargon as it applies directly to Japanese Maples. Hopefully this little bit of knowledge will give you some confidence and authority when you go to buy your next Japanese Maple.
- Shedding Light On Shade Gardening
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Shade gardening is one of those horticultural techniques that seems to have originated as an answer to a problem and gained so much popularity that gardeners strive to intentionally recreate the exotic environment that their predecessors were trying to overcome, much like the rock garden or bog garden. Whether you are looking to grow a shade garden because your only other option would be to cut down a couple of trees that your family planted eight generations back, or because you are looking to add a rugged touch to your bland suburban garden, there are a few things you need to keep in mind to be successful.
- Annuals and Tropicals Make Gardens Interesting
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Most of us know the difference between annuals and perennials. Perennials either grow all year round or they come back every year, while annuals germinate, grow, and die all in one season. Perhaps less familiar are the plants known as tropicals - those plants that would, in a warmer region, thrive year-round, blooming, producing fruit, and growing to sizes they'd never reach in your garden. Used appropriately, annuals and tropicals can both add special zest to your gardening year.
- Growing Hydrangea Cut Flowers
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you have bought a hydrangea specifically for cut flower use, you have truly made a commitment and an investment. It can be very frustrating if that investment fails to pay off, especially if you have planned to use your hydrangeas for some special occasion. Here are a few simple tips to help you successfully grow hydrangeas for cut flowers.
- Picking the Right Tomato for Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The best way to pick your tomato is to grow for your needs. If you want sandwich tomatoes, grow Beef Steaks. If you love tomatoes in your salad, try some different cherry varieties. If your garden is the source for most of your canned goods, you should probably try to grow a few paste tomatoes. Growing your own tomatoes will give you power over selection and power over growing methods. It is cheaper than than buying them at the supermarket, and it can be much more rewarding.
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