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    Southern Plains May Garden To-Do List

    Harvest your vegetables and cut flowers. After all of the hard work you put into planting your spring garden, don’t forget to enjoy the harvest. By now your garden is…

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    Northwest May Garden To-Do List

    Now that May’s warmer weather is upon us, it’s time to think about the coming warm weather of late spring and summer in the Pacific Northwest. I suspect this year…

  • How-To

    Southeast May Garden To-Do List

    There’s still time to sow certain summer veggies. This might be the year to add something more to your patch of tomatoes and herbs. If you like okra, it’s my…

  • Design

    Southern California May Garden To-Do List

    Plant a perennial vine. Vines can provide an abundance of color and shade in the garden and are perfect for small spaces. If you have an unsightly fence or wall,…

  • How-To

    You Still Have Time to Plant Veggies

    As hyped up as some people get in April about gardening in the South, you would think by late May you should have your gardening household in order. For those…

  • How-To

    How to Garden More in Spring So You Can Garden Less in July

    I’m not here to pop the rainbow-colored bubble you call “spring,” but here in the Southeast, summer does follow closely on its heels. That first blast of humid air on…

  • Design

    Outstanding but Lesser-Known Shrubs

    Shrubs are the workhorses of the garden. If you play your cards right, you can design a low-maintenance garden from a handful of perfectly suited flowering shrubs. These stellar plants…

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    Small-Scale Rhododendrons for Year-Round Interest

    Rhododendrons (Rhododendron spp. and cvs., Zones 4-9) are an amazing group of stalwart evergreen plants that are often not considered by residential gardeners because they are afraid they’ll end up…

  • How-To

    Rose Rosette Disease: Can You Treat It?

    Roses (Rosa spp. and cvs., Zones 3-9)might be a candidate for the favorite plant of people who don’t garden. The last interaction with a rose most of these people had…