sharp; well maintained tools help make gardening tasks easier.
Weekly Garden Photo: Portland Japanese Garden
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Be sure to wash your pruners and saws…
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after cutting diseased tree or shrub limbs.
To give your patio the feeling…
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of an outdoor room, consider the use of walls, arbors and trellises.
Viburnums
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Viburnums are a wide ranging, popular garden shrub with over 120 varieties. Some viburnums, such as the arrowwood or maple-leaf, are ideal for the woodland garden. Others have a more formal feel such as the Korean spice or burkwood varieties and are suitable for shrub borders and specimen plants. Viburnums are a very low maintenance, easy to grow shrub which adds to their appeal.
Pull weeds after…
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a rain or watering as you are more likely to pull the entire root.
Many perennials, annuals and…
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even flowering shrubs not only make great garden plants but wonderful cut flowers as well.
When transplanting perennials…
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be sure to be plant them at there original depth.
Urban Woodland Gardens
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In urban areas the woodland garden is often started from scratch perhaps taking advantage of the space beneath a large tree. Both evergreen and deciduous trees are perfect for a woodland garden. Some light pruning may be necessary to allow some dappled sunlight into the space. Remove some lower branches will also increase the air flow through the garden and allow access. Usually preparing a site for a woodland garden involves only some light soil conditioning. In the city, however, the soil is generally of poorer quality than in country or suburban gardens so some additional site preparation may be necessary.
Types Of Flowers
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Before you begin planting a flower garden, become familiar with the types of flowers available to you. There are three type of flowers: perennials, annuals and biennials. Each is defined by its life cycle.
