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Author :: Doug Green  |
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| Article Title :: Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months |
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Would you like to have tulips blooming for two months in your
garden? Planting a few each of the following different types
will ensure a long season color show.
For the most part, the species tulips bloom the earliest. You'll
know they are species because they have those fancy Latin names
on the labels. You'll see name like "greigii", "kaufmanniana",
and "tarda". While they bloom earlier than the hybrids, they are
also the shortest so do make sure you plant them at the front of
the garden. And, if you want a naturalized looking garden, the
species tulips are the most natural looking and will tend to
self-sow.
As a rule of thumb, the later the tulip blossom comes, the
taller the flower. Th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Kathy Moran |
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| Article Title :: Teak Makes Patio Furniture Chic |
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Every year, teak garden benches, patio tables, chairs, dining
sets, lounges, sun beds, and planters, are becoming more popular
choices for furnishing porches, patios, decks, gazebos, gardens,
and backyards. It's easy to understand this trend, because teak
makes the most gorgeous, exquisite outdoor furniture available.
However, even though this may seem to be a recent development,
our fondness of teak is nothing new.
For centuries, teakwood, which comes from the Tectona Grandis
tree, has been prized for its radiant beauty, as well as its
ability to endure climatic extremes. Indigenous to Asia,
particularly Myanmar, Thailand, and India, it is also grown in
Indonesia on plantations that were (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Elizabeth Passage |
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| Article Title :: The Garden Wall |
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Wall Gardens
Both the strength and beauty of a dry wall may be enhanced by
using it as a wall garden. It may acquire a mossy and aged
appearance simply by planting flowers, herbs, or ground cover in
the soil in the crevices. A greater degree of color can be
obtained, however, by planting any of several flowering plants,
whose strong roots will serve the additional function of holding
the wall together. Typical plants which may be used to good
effect are: such flowering types as azaleas, alyssum, evergreen
candytuft, heather, phlox, garden pinks, sedum. snowy rock
cress, and creeping veronicas; such spreading plants as
lavender, moss, phlox and hardy verbenna; small rosettes and
little tuft (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Jenny Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Advice on Buying and Using a Meat Smoker |
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The Theory behind It is Low and Slow
You're probably wondering what gives smoked food its smoky
flavor? What causes the smoke and how does it work? In general,
"low and slow" cooking does not allow you to damage meat.
Because you are smoking the meat at such low temperatures, the
meat never has an opportunity to become overdone because you are
hardly cooking at its done temperature. In other words, if pork
is done at 160 F, it's difficult to overcook it and dry it out
when you are smoking at 200 F. In fact, smoking a pork butt (for
those insanely delicious pulled pork BBQ sandwiches) can take 18
to 24 hours to get the meat to fall apart, but the meat will
neither be dry or overdone. It's r (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Jenny Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Enjoy Your Garden and Patio For Longer With a Patio Heater |
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With the increased new trend in outdoor living, which has
undoubtedly been by TV Gardening DIY programs, we are all
spending more money on our garden and patio areas. Creating an
inspirational outdoor living space is something we can all do,
with a wide range of hard and soft landscaping products,
lighting, decorations and garden accessories available widely on
the market.
Some of the latest innovations are in garden heating which
allows us to spend more of our precious leisure time enjoying
our garden or patio area, be it for entertaining family and
guests or simply for relaxing. Patio Heaters provide instant
controllable heat and warmth, thus making your outside room as
comfortable and e (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Elizabeth Passage |
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| Article Title :: Landscaping: The Concept of Foundation Planting |
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Landscaping: The Concept of Foundation Planting
The special planting set close to the house is called foundation
planting and has great importance since it improves and enhances
the proportions of your house as well as relates the house to
the grounds. Evergreens are widely used for foundation planting
not only because they can thrive in the shade of the house, but
because of their year-round good looks. If you have not used
evergreens elsewhere, though, it can be a mistake to suddenly
use them at the foundation. The contrast will be too sharp; the
evergreens are apt to look forbidding.
There remains a wide choice of flowering shrubs, dwarf fruit
trees, roses and cushion chrysanthemums t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: David Chandler |
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| Article Title :: A Japanese Garden is Not Your Ordinary Garden |
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Japanese gardening is much different from the Western style
garden. Most would say that a Japanese garden is far more soul
soothing and inspires meditation. Japanese gardening is a
cultural form of gardening that is meant to produce a scene that
mimics nature as much as possible. Using trees, shrubs, rocks,
sand, artificial hills, ponds, and flowing water the garden
becomes an art form. The Zen and Shinto traditions are both a
large part of Japanese gardening and, because of this; the
gardens have a contemplative and reflective state of mind.
The basic methods of scenery are a reduced scale, symbolization,
and borrowed views. The reduced scale is the art of taking an
actual scene from nat (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Merchants Passage |
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| Article Title :: Transplanting Deciduous Shrubs |
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| Shrubs to be transplanted from a natural stand or from one part of a yard or garden to another are most safely taken with a ball of earth on the roots. The size of the ball will vary with the size of the plant. The average shrub should be transplanted with a ball of earth about one half the spread of the branches. This is simple enough for plants growing in a clay or clay loam soil. Shrubs growing in a sandy or gravelly soil are more difficult to move with a ball of earth than are those grown in clay or clay loam because the soil will fall away from the roots as the plant is dug. However, plants growing in light soils can be more easily dug with a large root system. A pick is used to comb th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Melissa Albright |
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| Article Title :: Landscape Gardening Tips |
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| Landscape gardening has often been associated with the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has told you that a good picture should have a point of interest, and the rest of the points simply go to make the piece more beautiful. So in landscape gardening there must be a picture in the gardener's mind of what he desires the whole to be.
From this study we will be able to work out a little theory of landscape gardening.
Let’s start with the lawn. A good extent of open lawn space is always beautiful. It is restful. It adds a feeling of space to even small grounds. So we might generalize and say that it is good to keep open lawn space. If someone to cover his (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Roger King |
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| Article Title :: There are a wide range of houseplants available in shops or can be grown in your own gardens |
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| Houseplants are one of the quickest and least expensive way of brings life and interest to a room. A splash of green instantly revives a rather tired scheme, and flowering plants provide a lively range of colors. There are few design rules about where to put plants and flowers look good almost anywhere, as long as they are not in the way of everyday activities. You should treat large floor-level plants as focal points, making full use of your lighting to show them off to best effect.
Some houseplants need less light than others, but normal artificial lighting is no substitute for the natural daylight that all plants need. Medium-sized plants can be placed on furniture, but there (read full article) |
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