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Lilacs explode with perfume and blossoms in May. The tresses of purple blossoms are a perfect symbol of spring’s promise.

Six Tips to Planting a Tree

The experts at the National Arbor Day Foundation offer the following six tips for planting a containerized tree...

Water Conservation

Here are a few tips on making sure that sprinkler systems are tuned up and ready to keep your landscape looking great without wasting water.

Blooms for Birds

Posted in: Garden Wildlife

Help the tiniest members of the bird world, hummingbirds, keep up their stamina and energy needed for their turbo-charged lives by planting the following blooms.

Tidy Up

Posted in: Garden Wildlife

Spring cleaning has gone to the birds… literally. Start the season off right, help tidy up your feathered friend’s haven.

Toothsome Surprise

For years I ignored salad burnet in my mother’s garden. The dainty, toothed leaflets caught my attention, but I thought it was rather a waste of space: small and monochromatic with an odd, sparse little flower, when there was a flower at all. Then one day I tasted it...

Lovely Lilacs

Lilacs are a beautiful, fragrant sign of spring, and they usually bloom vigorously for weeks. Why, then, do they sometimes refuse to flower? Here are the most common reasons lilacs don't bloom, and what you can do about it.

Too Hot to Handle

How do you know whether the pepper you want to grow is too hot to handle?

All Decked Out

A Missouri couple makes the most of their outdoor living space by adding an elaborate deck—complete with waterfalls, a gazebo, and a vegetable garden.

Wild Plum

Typically, when you’re looking for stunning garden specimens, you don’t go trolling the roadside. But that’s where I first became enchanted with wild plum: on a steep, dry embankment near an interstate.

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