Adding Yellow & Orange to Your Flower Garden
November 23, 2008
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Adding Yellow & Orange to Your Flower Garden
Yellow is a beautiful, vibrant color that seems to be full of life and happiness. It’s an excellent color to add to your garden too, when you want to attract butterflies, hummingbirds, or other birds. Large batches of bright yellow in the garden are particularly attractive for hummingbirds.
Whether you want to create an all yellow flower garden, or you’d simply like to add splashes of yellow to your existing color mix, here are several suggestions for you…
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November 21, 2008
An Introduction to Mulching for Beginner Gardeners
Simply put, mulch is a layer of organic or synthetic material which is laid on top of your garden soil. This top layer is designed to help the soil hold moisture longer, prevent soil from eroding, prevent the soil from fluctuating in temperature too drastically, and prevent weeds from easily being able to grow around your plants.
Mulch is usually light enough to allow plenty of water and air to get through it to the roots of your plants, but it’s also dense enough to prevent weeds from being able to grow easily. Organic mulch deteriorates over time too, and this has an additional effect of adding nutrients, minerals, and vitamins to the soil around your plants too.
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November 18, 2008
Rose Gardening
Creating a garden full of beautiful blooming rose bushes, plants or vines is the dream of many gardeners. Roses symbolize love, hope, passion, and a wide variety of other feelings which make these flowers loved by almost everyone.
Growing a rose garden is not too difficult of course, but some people find themselves a bit disappointed in the way their roses grow or bloom througout the year, so they could use a few growing and care tips. Others simply don’t know how or where to get started with creating a rose garden though, so we’ll summarize some of the first steps in that process too.
Planning a Rose Garden
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November 11, 2008
The Aero Garden, Indoor Garden, and Herb Garden have great interest this time of year.
Here is some web wide discussion of the aerogarden
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November 10, 2008
Raised garden beds
Creating raised garden beds is a wonderful way to get a garden started easily. When you plant your flowers or vegetables in raised garden beds, you don’t have to pull weeds first, turn soil, or dig out a lot of rocks and other debris. Instead, you simply choose the location you want your garden bed to be, lay down your bed retainer walls, and fill it with dirt.
Raised garden beds are popular because they’re easy, but also because they allow you to start growing seeds and small starter plants earlier in the season. A raised garden bed will become warmer earlier in the season than a ground based garden bed, and that allows you to start your gardening earlier in the year.
The first step to creating your raised garden bed is to choose the materials you’ll use for the walls of the bed. There are a wide variety of materials that can be used to create your garden bed. Rocks for instance, can be piled together into a rock wall design. Bricks can also be used to create a more formal looking garden bed too. Wood or railroad ties are easy, attractive and sometimes even free too.
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November 9, 2008
Botanical Gardens are pleasing to the eye and very informative. Grab the opportunity to visit these great garden displays when possible.
Here are some featured botanical gardens ’round the web:
Brooklyn Botanical Garden Seed Start
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Some shots from today… This isn’t really a grand shot, but it is a grand tree. Apx 125 year old Dog Wood that was moved from an old homestead from a nearby city. The rootball at the time it was moved weighed 83000lbs! 
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November 3, 2008
Adding White to Your Flower Garden
Growing white flowers in the garden creates an enchanting, almost other-worldly feel that’s particularly noticeable at night time. Even during the daylight hours though, there’s just something particularly striking about seeing gorgeous white flower blooms against the various shades of green from your foliage.
Planting white flowers throughout your garden is an excellent way to simply mix in something different to compliment all of the other colorful flowers you have growing. White flowers make excellent stand alone gardens too, so you might think about creating one flower bed which is dedicated to growing all white flowers. Another wonderful way to grow white flowers though, is as an accent to other colors.
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