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Jul 30, 2010, "My Embankment Challenge"
Dear Doug, We bought a house last year in Kamloops, B. C. (Zone 4) up against a mountain--and the yard slopes down, ending in a fairly steep, five-foot
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Jul 29, 2010, Join a Garden Club
Most communities have a Garden Club with very knowledgable people who know local conditions, have tons of good advice, sometimes will drop by to do a walk
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Jul 29, 2010, Good Garden Design, I do not know, do 'U'
If 'U' hire an professional to design an good garden, then your likely on an better garden path than I, if you conclude, and accept his design as bona
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Jul 23, 2010, Dreaming Your Garden Into Existence
All gardening, but especially the design, begins in the gardener's mind. Gardening is a process. Elements of that process are, in their own way, like the
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Jul 22, 2010, Bold colors brighten my summer garden
I live in the south central United States where summer temperatures defy you to go outside unless you’re wearing light colored clothing and plenty of sunscreen.
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Jul 20, 2010, almost dead flowers, trees & bushes
Go to any box garden store and you will find plants that no one will bring home. Almost ead. Bring them home anyway and baby them back to health. Most
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Jul 20, 2010, Garden design technique: Under-planting
My big rule of gardening is to leave no bare soil. I do use woodchip mulches, but better than mulch is the technique of under-planting. The idea is to
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Jul 19, 2010, design a garden
the purpose of this site is to help you design a garden so that it works for you
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Jul 19, 2010, design a flower garden
how to design a flower garden article and comments from readers of garden author Doug Green
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Jul 1, 2010, "Useless" Garden Tools
I picked up an old, old garden rake, a hoe, and an unidentified tool with a long handle for twenty-five cents each at a yard sale. I pushed the handles
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Jun 22, 2010, stone edging and mulch
If using a stone edging on landscaped flower beds how high should the stone be stacked? This isn't a terraced bed but on level ground. I have had some
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Jun 21, 2010, Mulch - Do I remove to put new mulch down?
Hi Doug: Got a question, if I am putting new mulch on my garden beds, do I need to remove the old mulch first? Carol in Rockwood, Ontario Doug says
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Jun 15, 2010, backyard greenhouse
Backyard greenhouse do's and dont's from garden author Doug Green
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Jun 14, 2010, garden mulch
garden mulch and the one thing you want to do with this in a perennial garden.
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Jun 11, 2010, landscaping cost
Some labor numbers in landscaping cost estimates from Landscape Ontario
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