Flower Beds & Specialty Gardens

How to Create a No Dig Garden

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If you lack the space for a large traditional garden or have low soil quality that doesn't support the strong growth of your vegetables, you may want to consider a no dig garden. No dig gardens consist of layering organic materials either ... more »

How to Create a Pizza Garden For Children

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Create a pizza garden with your children and grow everything except the dough, mozzarella and pepperoni! Not only will your children learn about gardening, but they’ll learn how terrific vegetables taste when they put them on their own pizza... more »

How to Create a Prairie Garden

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The Great Plains and Midwest regions of the United States are famous for their miles of beautiful prairies. Marked with the brilliant yellows, lavenders and crimsons of wildflowers, prairies are easily maintained once established, and can be ... more »

How to Create a Rustic Flower Garden

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While everyone enjoys the natural beauty of a flower garden, not everyone has the time or money for constant upkeep. A rustic flower garden can be the perfect solution for a low maintenance garden, creating a cozy, down-home feel without a lot of ... more »

How to Create a Victorian Garden

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The years between 1850 and 1890 are considered the height of the Victorian era, characterized by ornate decor and elaborate gardens. Victorian gardens were not simply beautiful outdoor spaces, they were considered outdoor parlors for both ... more »

How to Create Your Own Wildlife Tree

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A Wildlife Tree, which includes a variety of handmade edible ornaments hung on an outdoor tree, adds color and interest to the winter landscape in your yard. At the same time the ornaments provide nourishment for birds and other creatures when ... more »

How to Design a Garden for Children

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In spite of the current trend toward computer use, organized sports and other structured activities, children still love to have their own special places outdoors. A well-designed children's garden offers a place to dig, collect, observe and ... more »

How to Design a Mary Garden

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Design a Mary garden and continue a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. You'll want to consider choosing plants for their symbolism as well as bloom color, season and leaf shape. Leave space for a statue of Mary or Mary and Jesus as a focal ... more »

How to Design a Shady Flowerbed

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Many gardeners avoid the shaded parts of their property, preferring to leave a lawn there, but a whole variety of flower options are available to beautify this often-neglected spot. Whether you have an abundance of shade or you just want to ... more »

How to Design an Entertaining Garden

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Welcome family, friends and business associates to the oasis you've created in the backyard. Design a garden especially for entertaining and make room for everyone to eat, drink and be merry... more »

How to Dig a Trench for a Raised Flower Bed

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Raised flower beds are a popular choice for gardeners looking to minimize garden maintenance and get the most out of small spaces. Another advantage of a raised bed is the soil quality can be improved easily by mixing in compost. To raise the bed ... more »

How to Dry Flowers in the Microwave

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Drying flowers can be a great pastime and the results can be used for many different crafts that can all be a lot of fun. The only down sides to drying in the traditional method is that hanging flowers upside down is space consuming. You have to ... more »

How to Edge a Flower Garden With Landscape Rocks

By Melanie Marten

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While some choose elegant brick or miniature wooden fencing to edge their flower gardens, landscape rocks are another attractive choice. While these rocks come in a variety of colors, styles, and sizes to match any outdoor decor, there are a few ... more »

How to Edge Your Garden Beds With Bottle Blocks

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Save those glass beer and soda bottle to make blocks which you will turn into edging... more »

How to Establish Garden Pond Plants

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There are a variety of plant choices for a garden pond. Floating plants are simply placed on the surface of the water; however, emergent and submersed plants should be placed in containers. Establishing plants in a pond requires special gardening ... more »

How to Fertilize a Garden Cheaply

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If you're growing a garden, you must make sure the plants are well fed. There are plenty of commercial fertilizers on the market, but they can be expensive, and you may want to be more selective about what you add to your soil. There are ... more »

How to garden with flowers for free

By staceykekich

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Don't want to pay high prices for landscaping? Learn how to get free plants... more »

How to Get Results With Square Foot Gardens

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Square foot gardens are designed to use all the space available. The design concept of the square foot garden is versatile and elegant in its simplicity. It's easy to get good results with the square foot garden design by efficiently plotting the ... more »

How to Give a Garden an Elegant Makeover

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If scruffy old grass and weedy flower beds are keeping you from enjoying your garden, consider a makeover. Start with the backyard, creating a special place to relax, entertain and escape from the stresses of the outside world. Follow these steps... more »

How to Grow Pickerel

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Water gardening is quickly increasing in popularity and so are aquatic plants. Pickerel (Pontederia cordata) is a hardy aquatic perennial that rewards the gardener with blue-violet flowers atop 18 to 30 inch spikes from June through October. ... more »

How to Humanely Keep Wasps & Bees Out of Your Pool

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Swimming Pools & Gardens have sometimes been neighbors at odds, but with this neat little trick you'll be able make to keep them far closer to each other then has once been possible. Now smelling the flowers while on your floatie chair, or ... more »

How to Identify Types of Roses

By Sheila Wilkinson

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Everybody loves roses. After all, they're the flowers of love. But is it true that "a rose is a rose is a rose," as the poet said? Not so! Roses of different kith and kin have different attributes. Here's how to pick the roses of your dreams... more »

How to Install a Geodesic Greenhouse Kit

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Vegetables, flowers and herbs will grow year round in a geodesic greenhouse dome. Domes require only limited additional heating and cooling because their solar design makes them very energy efficient. Use a dome kit to construct a portable dome ... more »

How to Install a Planting Box on a Garden Shed

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Installing a planter box on your garden shed can give your shed a special touch of color and beauty and it's easy when you have the right know how. This is a simple plan to beatify your garden shed with pretty wood brackets to support your ... more »

How to Install the Floor in Raised Flower Beds

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Raised beds are ideal for people who have a small space and don't like to bend over. Most raised bed gardens are dug into the soil, framed to a height between 12 and 14 inches, and filled with garden soil. If needed, you can build a higher raised ... more »

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