Dramatic Accent Plants: Create A Persian Carpet Of Rich Design
A garden needs dramatic accent plants! Use them sparingly so that they will be effective. In contrast with its surroundings, a plant becomes an accent piece. Color, texture, shape, and
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Garden Steps: Stepping Up To A Better Garden
Use steps to make your garden more convenient and interesting. Practical types do the dutiful work of getting you up and down from one level to another. At the same
Tips On How To Care For Japanese Holly
Dependably hardy, at least as far north as southern New England, Japanese holly is also easy to grow in the mid-South. Like American holly, the Japanese make a larger plant
Natures Flashbulb: Growing The Gas Plant Dictamnus Albus
Photographers might be amazed to learn that a very old garden perennial could furnish enough light to be photographed at night long before the modern flashbulb or speedlight was invented.
The Carissa Bonsai – A Perfect Table Patio Plant
Few plants have everything— neat foliage, fragrant, attractive flowers, the possibility of fruit, and the case of culture. Yet the one which comes closest to this perfection, in my opinion,
What Are Espaliers: How To Train, Support, And Pattern A Flat Space
Expanses of unadorned walls are becoming a part of our American scene. This is equally true of residential as well as business structures. To the designer, these large unbroken areas
Tips On How To Create An Inspired Garden In The Shade
Although you may have rampant color in your shady garden in spring, summer flowers that bloom prolifically there are scarce. So you turn to other ways of making a shady
Create A Patioscaping Environment Where Anything Goes, And Anything Grows
When you arrange your patio, throw away preconceived notions. Work with a free hand and a free mind, confident that with patioscaping, anything goes and everything grows. For once, in
Dogwoods And Other Spring Flowering Trees For Spectacular Beauty
At the same time that spring-flowering trees are adding spectacular beauty to a garden picture, their tree foams accent the mass-like shape of bushes in the shrubbery border, planted near
Growing Allamanda Plants: How To Care For Golden Trumpet
Allamanda (al-uh-MAN-da) is a perennial flowering plant commonly pruned into an evergreen shrub that belongs to the genus Allamanda and is a member of the family Apocynaceae (a-pos-ih-NAY-see-ee). The genus