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Make Your Own City Garden
The concrete paving behind her city-centre basement flat is not quite 8m wide and 5.5m long (26x18ft), but...
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A Look at the Different Types of Roses
There are a variety of rose types that you can plant in your garden. From popular to picky the styles...
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Landscape and Garden Planning: Where to Put Your Garden for Maximum Yield
Where should you put your garden? It's suggested that you choose a place that gets the most sun throughout the...
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Top Tips for Garden Landscape Planning
Before getting started on a new garden landscape, it's best to plan your project on paper first. You...
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Landscaping Basics: Planting Trees, Shrubs & Hedges
Planting trees, shrubs or hedges is a great way to add privacy and beauty to your landscape. Below are some...
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How to Attract Wildlife to Your Landscape
A mere 100 years ago, the greater portion of our landscape was farmland. There were wood lots, hedgerows, and weedy...
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How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes in your Landscape
Mosquitoes were bad enough when they just made you itch. Now that some of them carry the West...
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How to Stack Your Own Stone Wall
A well-built wall can last for centuries and roadside boundaries throughout Europe are solid testament to simple stacking techniques.They were...
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9 Tips for Planning Your Indoor Garden
House plants bring life and colour into the home and require little in the way of maintenance. Follow these simple...
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6 Getaway Gardening Tips
Heading out for a long weekend or vacation? Follow these tips to keep your garden alive and well while you're...
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7 Must-Follow Rules of Gardening
Nothing is worse than a garden that won't grow. Whether it's stubborn soil or pesky pests, a problematic garden can...
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7 Edible Flowers
This spring, let your garden do double duty and add flowers to your salads. Here are seven flowers that you...
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9 Bizarre Plant Life Species
Mother Nature gives rise to some of the most amazing and unusual looking organisms and when it comes to our...
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5 Steps to Starting a Vegetable Garden
Starting up a vegetable garden is a big job, but it's endlessly rewarding: you'll grow tasty, healthy vegetables for you...
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9 Cheap and Easy Gardening Fixes
Who says you can only use proper tools in the garden? These common household and workshop objects, including a couple...
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4 Ways of Looking at a Garden
Gardens bring us food, flowers and enjoyment. They also give each of us our own personal connection to nature. Here...
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Potted Plant Secrets
Are your houseplants always dying on you? Consult these expert secrets to make your potted plants thrive even when you're...
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Essential Gardening Tools
Want to get into gardening, but don't know where to start? First you've got to get your hands on the...
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10 Flowers for Romance
Flowers are the language of love. Find out what the 10 most popular flowers really say and create the perfect...
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Grow a Winter Wonderland
Wishing for a green Christmas? Here's a selection of winter-loving plants for your garden.
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A Guide to Exotic Houseplants
Are you fed up with houseplant staples? Exotic plants aren't as hard to come by or care for as you...
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Grow Your Own Essential Herbs
There's nothing nicer than being able to go out on your deck or into your garden and snip a few...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Enlighten yourself to the art of "mindful" gardening. DeAnna Radaj, casaGURU's home green guru, warns homeowners of the dangers of...
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Gardening Companions
Are your tomatoes and cucumbers hanging out with the wrong crowd? Improve your garden with companion planting, the art of...
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Pick the Right Bouquet for Mom
Flowers on Mother's Day? Of course! But instead of heading to your local florist to purchase the usual prearranged bouquet,...
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How to Care for Cut Flowers
Sure, flowers beautify your home. And they smell nice, too. But how can you keep them healthy, so that you...
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Get More Bang for Your Gardening Buck
Is your weekly trip to the garden centre draining your wallet? Here are nine ways to cultivate a lush outdoor...
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Veggie Gardening for Latecomers
If you haven’t yet planted a vegetable garden, don’t worry. Summer-planted gardens grow well because the soil is warm and...