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Painted milk jug hanging planter in a garden

Art DIY Garden

Painted Milk Jug Hanging Planters for Your Garden

This whimsical and charming idea came from a garden in Memphis, Tenn. This city hosted The Fling, a garden tour for top
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Blue insulators mark a garden path between lawn and steps

DIY Garden

Creative Garden Edging Ideas

Explore creative garden edging ideas that don't take a lot of money in this post. When you select a garden edge or
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A bucket with mosquito dunks and instructions for making a mosquito control bucket

DIY Garden

How to Make a Mosquito Bucket

Controlling mosquitoes in your yard is easy when you make a mosquito bucket. Often called the Mosquito Bucket of Doom,
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A white mouth dayflower bloom in a garden

Garden

3 Sweet Native Flowers in My Garden

Summer is full of surprises in my landscape. Between the natives that I've planted and the ones already in the garden,
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Weed growing in crack in sidewalk

Garden

How to Control Weeds Without Using Chemicals

This story originally appeared in my local newspaper's Master Gardener column. They’re the enemies of every gardener:
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Incrediball hydrangea in a one-gallon pot in a garden

Garden

How to Over-Summer New Plants

When you love plants like I do, people tend to give more of them to you. This is generally not a problem and is, in
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Red Knockout rose planted in garden

Garden

Growing Roses in My Garden

I grow roses in my garden, but I don't have what I think of as a "rose garden." You know, the formal paths lined with
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Cilantro blooms in a garden

Garden

Let Cilantro Go to Seed

Here's a short and simple tip for you: when cilantro is ready to bolt, let it. Cilantro is a cool season herb that
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A round white wool sower gall on an oak stem

Garden

Wool Sower Galls

A woody Southern landscape in spring is full of surprises, for instance, delightful spring ephemerals like trilliums.
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