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Garden Design Ideas
Design of Outdoor Spaces Just as Important as Inside In garden design, the hard palette refers to constructed elements. The soft palette is strictly plants.
Multiplicity Adds More than the Sum of its Parts One beautifully planted pot is the loneliest number. But create two, three or four identical pots and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Garden Gate by Any Name is a Portal to Your Home A gate is a functional outdoor doorway, but it can also be a bold artistic statement.
Visualize Landscape Design How to know your new design will be the right one.
Create a Mary Garden The growing interest in the relationship of flowers and gardens to Mary is fueling an entirely new devotion, which combines a reverence for Mary with a love of plants and flowers.
Designing Cowboy Gardens The Old West garden is as simple as the wild land it came from.
Elegant London Windowboxes If you live in the heart of the city but are ditzy about gardens yourself, take your inspiration from Londoners.
Garden Design–Mars & Venus At the end of the 19th century the future of the English garden was hotly debated as the style left Victorian ideas behind and embraced the arts and crafts movement.
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Food and Flavor
Achilles' Herb The great mythological warrior Achilles was to make the fine foliage of yarrow famous by using it in his battles at Troy.
Strewing Herbs Among the more well-known today are basil, lemon balm, sweet fennel, germander, hyssop, lavender, santolina, marjoram, pennyroyal, sage, tansy and winter savory.
Herbal Barbecue If you are a BBQ fan, take a fresh look at your herb garden.
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Emergency Wildfire Articles Useful emergency tips, defensible landscaping, architectural design, and all about fire in the natural environment.
Fire Wise Landscape Plants Low Fuel Volume Plants for High Fire Hazard Zone Landscapes
Become The FIRE Why Environmentally Sensitive Vegetation Management is Crucial
5 Steps To Residential Vegetation Management Step One: Learn to identify all species of native trees and shrubs on your property and how they are distributed upon the land.
Of California Fire and Natives Since the beginning there have been forest fires in the west. These early landscape fires were started naturally by lightning or Native Americans, with low intensity burns at frequencies ranging from 5 to 25 years.
Tips on Preparing for Wildfires This Year Learn how to pack a Wildfire Evacuation Kit
Basic Components of a Family Disaster Plan From The Wildfire Survival Guide and Living on Flood Plains and Wetlands
Land Management Dilemma The Good Fire - Bad Fire Controversy
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Garden of Spirit
Vatican Gardens
Capistrano Misson
Garden Sanctuaries
Japanese Tea Garden
Sacred Garden
Plants of the Gods
Moonlight Gardens
Fractured Proverbs Proverbs of Solomon - if he had been a gardener.
Garden of Spirit - Gallery
This Very LotusLand Rare and exotic gardens in Montecito, CA
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Moorten Garden One of the most extraordinary and specialized collections of plants in this botanical garden in the Mojave Desert.
Moorten Gardens
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How to Grow It
Bonsai Made Accessible for Beginners A mighty forest dwells in every venerable bonsai tree.
Dave Barry's Lawn Lament His damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't statement actually points to a very important truth about lawns. It relates to the condition of the soil.
Summer of Love Peaceful Valley is without question the best one stop shop for the organic gardener.
Bird Garden Plants A bird in the hand is worth fewer bugs in the garden.
Curing Annual Decline Your garden needs a little refreshing from time to time
Easy Cutting Garden We all want things easier, don't we?
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Miscellaneous
Benefits of Gardening Extend Beyond Those of a Gym Do you go to a yoga class? It's the question repeated every day in America as our aging population seeks to improve coordination and flexibility.
Public Gardens Have a Life Cycle All Their Own And therein lies the chief factor that distinguishes great public gardens from buildings.
Gather Ye Rose Hips While Ye May Roses, whether patrician or pedestrian, all produce fruit. That's right. Rose flowers, like cherry flowers, mature into a sweet fleshy seed filled fruit after pollination.
Three Perfect Pruning Tools for the Serious Gardener If I was sent to live on a tropical island with only three pruning tools, I know exactly which ones they would be.
Enjoying the Tropics in the Cold, Cold North Do you have a passion for passionflower? Does the scent of jungle gardenia carry you away?
A Garden Often is the True Measure of a Man "Live each day as if it was your last, and garden as though you will live forever." There is no man who better embodied that wisdom than supreme gardener Jim Thompson.
Redbuds Populated the Earth from Pangea days About 200 million years ago, Earth was just one enormous continent scientists named Pangea, which translates to "all earth."
Dust Bowl Legacy Helps Today's Backyard Gardeners They were called black blizzards."Noon was like night. There was no sun and, at times, it was impossible to see a yard."
2,000-Year-Old Seed has Roots in King Herod's Palace In Israel, at Kibbutz Ketura, a 14-inch seedling date palm goes by the name Methuselah.
Nandina has Spread far from its 'Heavenly' Roots
Queen Anne's Lace: Look, but don't Eat Queen Anne's lace can be a dead ringer for hemlock
Zooming in on Garden-Photo Excellence
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