 Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
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This year for the first time, we are opening up a brief photo contest to allow members to contribute photos for consideration to be used for the cover pages of our annual National Gardening Survey research reports.
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Grow great potatoes. We'll show you how. Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost.
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In early spring, and again in fall, I pot up bright cheerful pansies and violas in containers of all kinds. The potting soil in containers is warm enough for the plants to thrive, and it adds a bright spot in the spring landscape.
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For those who can never get enough of tulips or can't wait until they spring up naturally in the garden, they can be forced indoors.
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When we think of shrubs, most of us picture foundation plants or a shrub border. Blooming shrubs lend the beauty of their flowers to the perennial garden, and also supply something else that most perennial gardens need: "bones," or a sense of structure.
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Climbing roses produce two kinds of shoots: the main structural canes and the flowering shoots, which grow from the canes. This is the guide you need to read for training your rose.
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"I'd like to show you how easy it is and hopefully inspire you to create your own hollow concrete sphere!"
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Let our experts guide you through choosing annuals and perennials for your containers this growing season.
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LOVELY PHOTO BY SUNKISSED"Winter through Spring blooms attract hummingbirds/butterflies"
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LOVELY PHOTO BY CSANDT
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LOVELY PHOTO BY VALS_GARDEN
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LOVELY PHOTO BY KENTPFEIFFER
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LOVELY PHOTO BY SCFLOWERS
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LOVELY PHOTO BY BLUEODDISH
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LOVELY PHOTO BY VALERY33
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LOVELY PHOTO BY SHIVE1
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LOVELY PHOTO BY STREVER
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LOVELY PHOTO BY ARCTANGENT"Miltoniopsis Jean Carlson - column detail"
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ACTIVE THREADS FROM OUR FORUMS
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THE NUMBERS FROM LAST WEEK
1,399 members joined.
4,228 posts written in our forums.
924 photos posted to the plant database.
766 plants added to personal inventory lists.
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 Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
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