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Enliven your Fall Garden with Dahlias
With tips for digging up the tubers and storing them for winter Single dahlias (where you can see the center of the flower) are perfect choices for a…
Winter Seed Sowing in Old Milk Jugs
The first thing to do is to collect your supplies for winter seed sowing – old plastic milk jugs, a knife to cut it, labels and pencil, seeds…
Self-Sown Flowers – Create Bargain Fullness and Happy Accidents in Your Garden
Gardening Quote “Let’s accept random seeding, let’s tolerate small flowers like grace-notes decorating the paving. Not always, but sometimes.” Dear Gardening Friends, One of the reasons that I…
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Top 10 favorite garden witch hazels for spring bloom and fragrance
The snow has melted this week but the weather is still cold. The garden is bleak, brown and muddy. Witch hazels are the only woody plants that are providing…
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Cutting a Dahlia flower nearly needs a stepladder
Cutting this dahlia nearly needed a stepladder. The flowers are held at over eight feet high on smooth dark stems. The flower color is almost impossible to describe,…
Today is Poppy Day
Northview Gardens Moon Beds – Poppy Parade at last. I dreamt about this day in January whilst nodding off by the fireside; a sparkly June morning and poppies…
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