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Design School

• Pro Design Tips for Landscape Eyesores
• Creating a Garden Sanctuary in the Shade
• Welcoming Cool Weather Containers
• Bones of the Garden:  How to create structure, rhythm and personal style
• Garden Rooms: An Extension of your home (part one)--Site Evaluation
• ​Garden Rooms:  Important Landscape elements (part two)
• Color Inspirations for your Containers
• Tickscaping:  Minimizing Tick exposure
• Urban Fruit Gardens:  The Pleasures of Growing Fruit in Small Spaces.
• Using Natives in Small Spaces
• Creating Small Garden spaces for the Community
• Moonlit Gardens: Maximize the enjoyment of your garden into the evening.​
• Bountiful Bouquets:  Tips for Creating a Cutting Garden
• Make a Statement in Your Landscape
• Garden Inspired Fall Entrance Decorations:  Quick and Simple

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Where do I start?

• What type of gardener am I?
• I want to get my landscape installed NOW!
• I'm tired of wasting money.
• I have a limited budget.
• I am planning a large landscape construction project.
• My new house has overgrown gardens.
• I have a small space and feel overwhelmed.
• I have a green thumb, but needs some help.

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Garden Fun

• What are smokeless fire pits?  Why Use one?
• Garden Inspired Front Porch Decorations--quick and simple
• A Guide To Edible Flowers
• Toss and Grow Seed Easy to grow flowers for your garden and your vase
• Post Script--A View into our gardens--Following our own advice
• Therapeutic Relief of Gardening
• Mother's Day Gift Guide

Garden and Landscape Basics

•  Is it too early to plant?
• Homeowner and Gardener Alert:  Spotted Laternfly
• Landscaping Fabric: A Crash Course
• Common Outdoor Plants Poisonous to Dogs
• Wise Watering: Debunking the Myths
• Tips for Starting Your Landscape Projects
• Intro to NO Mow Turfto-mow-or-not-to-mow-an-intro-to-no-mow-turf.html
• Tickscaping: Reducing exposure to Lymes disease at home
• Simple Tips for Lyme's Disease Prevention
• Deer Resistant Annuals and Deer Spray Recommendations
• Soil is not Dirt
• Don't Guess, Soil Test
• Mulch: Sometimes it can do more harm than good.
• Top Ten Garden Mistakes
• What tools do I need?
• Worry Free Container
• Vital to Container Success is Potting Soil: Myths & Mixes
• Bring Your Garden Inside: Tips on Cut Flower Arrangements
• Tips for riding out this season's sticker shock.

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Seasonal Garden Care

• Top Fall Maintenance Tasks to Prepare your Garden for Winter
• ​Fall Care Guide:  Putting Your Garden to Bed
• ​​Fall is for Planting Bulbs:  Tips for Planting and Protecting Flower Bulbs
• Fall Planting Guide to Trees, Shrubs, Lawns and Bulbs
• Choosing the Right Container for Your Outdoor Plants
• Spring Prep:  Ready, Set, Grow!
• Guide to Midsummer Garden Care
• ​Pruning with Purpose: Rejuvenate your Hydrangeas
• ​5 Common Pruning Mistakes
• Enjoy the therapeutic relief of your garden this spring.

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Plant Profiles

• 7 Trees to Avoid
  
• Beauty Isn't Everything:  Plants to Avoid
• Bark that doesn't Bite:  Plant profiles of trees that offer spectacular winter interest.
• Seasonal Interest Landscape:  A Unique Selection of Deer Resistant Shrubs.
• Top 10 Perennials for 2020
• Flowering Ground Covers That Multitask
• Turn up the Heat: Plants that Dazzle in the Sizzle

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