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Serious Gifts for Serious Gardeners
Ideas that will delight the plant lovers on your holiday shopping list
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2011 Fine Gardening Wall Calendars
Start 2011 off right! Nothing beats a great wall calendar for delighting the eye as it reminds us of important days. And this one will absolutely, positively appeal to the…
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Meet Fine Gardening’s New Contributing Editors
Fine Gardening, the nation's leading supplier of useful, trustworthy gardening information, announces the appointment of eight new contributing editors...
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Frightful soil for a frightful Halloween!
It’s a wonder I ever got into gardening. This is what the soil looked like where I grew up in southwestern Virginia. Bright red clay. Hard as a rock when…
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Home Outside wins Garden Writers of America Best Writing Award
Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love won the 2010 Garden Writers of America Gold Award for Best Writing. It's a wonderful resource for landscaping ideas. If…
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Invasive barberries to be phased out by Connecticut nurseries
The Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association has decided to volutnarily phase out certain cultivars of Berberis thunbergii over the next few years. The move comes after growing concern about...
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Encore azaleas are hardier than previously thought
Several cultivars of the popular line of reblooming azaleas known as Encore azaleas are now being rated as hardy to Zones 6A and 6B . Here are the lists as…
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Lavender garden wins Backyard Garden Spaces contest
Out of more than 140 entries, we have selected our winner: Sandy Waldrop. Sandy and her husband have transformed an open meadow into a stunning space...
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Join us at Tomatomania
Come join us at Tomatomania! This unique event brings tomato enthusiasts from all over to White Flower Farm in Litchfield, CT. This year our own Homegrown/Homemade series stars, Fine Cooking's…