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Topiary and The American Rural Landscape
Parker Meyer Garden & Co. | October 8th 2008 by Parker Meyer
I drive rural roads often and I find lots of inspirational plantings and I want to share them with you. Here is my first select. read more
The Tool I Used The Most Today
Parker Meyer Garden & Co. | October 7th 2008 by Parker Meyer
I want to remind everyone to wear gloves your first time out this Fall! I gave myself blisters today by not wearing mine dome heading hedges of Ligustrum or privet (and, oh what happiness it gives me, anyway). The job is done and I created the nega read more
Dr. Seuss Trees
Greenwalks | September 18th 2008
The City of Seattle has a program where neighbors can band together and request a set of free trees for planting in the parking strip, from a list provided by the city. It’s a great way to green up the block and increase the density of the urba read more
Buddleia Arch
Greenwalks | September 16th 2008
I had the pleasure of walking under this lovely buddleia (butterfly bush) arch the other day. It doesn’t completely hide the ugly power pole it grows next to, but it does a lot to improve that part of the street, where there isn’t much i read more
When Good Trees Go Bad
Greenwalks | September 15th 2008
This beautiful old apple tree is planted in the parking strip in my neighborhood. It’s lovely for most of the year, with its spreading branches, silvery bark and gently fragrant spring blossoms. Unfortunately, it’s grown to tall for its read more
Grow and Care for Bonsai
BornToGarden.com | September 15th 2008 by Joyce Dierschke
We’ve located an awesome source for Bonsai growing information! Its all the information you need to grow healthy, beautiful Bonsai trees. In order to get the most Bonsai information about growing, pruning, watering, fertilizing, and more out to read more
Bonsai Tree Gardening – Basic Tips for Growing a Beautiful Bons…
start-a-garden | September 8th 2008 by chris meagher
The art of training the bonsai tree has been enjoyed for ages, and can make for quite the enjoyable and rewarding hobby. In fact, early forms of this practice actually began over a thousand years ago, when the Chinese started growing potted trees of read more
Episode #33 - Fall Tree Care
The Handyguys Podcast | September 4th 2008 by The Handyguys
Yet one more item to add to your handyguy list… Tree care! Do you give your trees any attention in the fall? The Handyguys discuss how the fall is an important time for both lawn care and tree care. But before they discuss this topic, the read more
Tools & Tips: Pruning, without Getting Carried Away
CalFinder Remodeling Blog | September 4th 2008
Fall is coming and with it, the chores of preparing for winter. Although we welcome the reprieve from all of the mowing, watering, and pruning, we’ve got to make a few final steps before we can sit back and relax for the winter. Just as the animals read more
Care of the Flower Garden
Backyard Gardening Tips | September 1st 2008 by James Mann
Image via Wikipedia Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health 1. The essentials must always be given major con read more
Mugo Pines- When to trim and prune
Ilona's Garden Journal | August 21st 2008 by Ilona
Google keeps sending people to my blog for answers on when to prune a mugho or mugo pine. I know I've mentioned it in posts, but never devoted something specifically to help my fellow gardeners answer that question definitively. Here is that post :)D read more
Roses, gardening and lots of other things too!
Under the Loupe | August 19th 2008 by Annette PIper
Yet another busy week has passed (when are they NOT busy these days)! My back is stiff, my hands are sore...and no, jewellery isn't that hard a job most of the time :) The cause of all this discomfort is the rose garden - it has now been pruned, so read more
Tree Pruning Tips
Gardening Class On The Net | August 18th 2008 by dono
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the mail. This type of gardening is as easy and sitting in your favorite chair, browsing the catalogs, and either dreamin read more
Garden Update August 2008
Ilona's Garden Journal | August 13th 2008 by Ilona
After all the heavy rain of spring we have fully entered the usual "drytime". This is very stressful for most plants, but the grasses of the plains just go dormant and bide their time. That is probably what made this area a prairie. Other than that t read more
Today in the landscape...
Northern Indiana Backyard Gardening | August 12th 2008 by Garden Girl Jo
Whether I beautified or butchered these two bushes is likely to be a matter of opinion! I must say I had fun though. The inner artist in me loves to take something and make it different! read more
Tree Pruning Service
It's All About The Blog | August 10th 2008 by Tom Whittaker
Today Dale and I cleaned the first floor of the house, which included some furniture rearranging and tree pruning. Now for normal people this is probably a lot easier, but for some reason every plant Dale buys grows to be 8 feet tall. This is the fi read more
Pruning the Vine
I Trust You | August 5th 2008
John 15:1-2 (Amplified Bible) I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continue read more
Google is not making us Stoopid in the Attention Crash
The Protagonist | August 5th 2008 by C
This article by Nick Carr in the Atlantic last month brought up some interesting points about the attention crash and Google in regards to whether these innovations are hurting us more than helping. This article on marketing brought up some more po read more
Cheap dirt
BuddyGarden Blog | July 28th 2008 by BuddyGarden
I was talking to my neighbor the other day and she told me her plants are doing really bad this year. She planted some Gernaiums and use Bacopa as a filler for her window box. I have been noticing her plants doing worst and worst every week but I w read more
Goodbye is such an easy word to say.
AainaA | July 26th 2008 by Support Team
Goodbye is such an easy word to say. So is striking the seventy percent contacts in a Facebook list! read more
trimming leaves
Lost in the Landscape | July 22nd 2008 by James
Here’s a little plant-tidying tip that I picked up years ago. If you have sword-shaped leaves that have died on their ends, instead of chopping off the ends blunt and square, trim them into a pointed shape using very sharp pruning shears or sci read more
JOHN 15:2
spiritual battleground. | July 18th 2008 by anonymous anonymous
I was sitting in a calm, flower filled meadow on a cloudless day and suddenly was overcome by hurricane force winds, and utter chaos. Or, at least, that’s how it felt on Wednesday, when the students returned from summer break. In the span of read more
Helpful tips to avoid injuring yourself in the garden
As the Garden Grows | July 17th 2008 by Tricia
Now that it’s July you’ve probably finished most of your major gardening work for the summer, unless of course you are in the process of doing some landscaping. However, it’s always a good idea to use proper body mechanics while in read more
Miniature Rose Pruning
Gardening tips and photography Weblog | July 17th 2008 by Neil.b
Miniature roses need minimal pruning other than maintenance pruning. Flowers are produced mainly on the current season’s growth, so our aim is to get a rose with healthy well-balanced new growth. February – March. Cut out any weak and disea read more
Pruning
BuddyGarden Blog | July 14th 2008 by BuddyGarden
My petunias are growing crazy. Today I gave it a “haircut”, aka pruning. Instead of cutting the stems off from the front, I cut a few stems back from the back so the blooms on the front is still there. This will encourage the plant to be read more
Recent Projects... pruning!
Northern Indiana Backyard Gardening | June 25th 2008 by Garden Girl Jo
We've had a large bush in our back yard up close to the house. It was a beautful, full bush that the Sparrows loved, BUT it was right outside my kitchen window and blocked the view of everything else.After looking at the original owner of our home's read more
Hibiscus Moya Grande Hot Pink
No Limit Gardening: Gardening Made Easy For Unstoppable Gard… | June 17th 2008
One of my favorite plants is the hibiscus. They're showy, regal and tall. You've got to admire a flowering plant that grows as tall as I am (6'6"). (...) read more
A Bit Of Garden Wisdom
Ilona's Garden Journal | June 15th 2008 by Ilona
This is not the time of year to do all this pruning and moving, but insuch a tangled garden it must be done, and now is better than never. ~Katy's Garden read more
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