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4 Reasons Why Your Garden Needs Perennials

There is no doubt that your garden needs some perennials. You can’t do an enchanting garden only with shrubs and trees neither only with...

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Beyond Trimming: Creative Ways to Hide Yellowing Leaves on Tulips and Daffodils

We love spring in our gardens, don’t we? It’s the season to enjoy charming blooms like daffodils and tulips. These beautiful flowers...

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How to Ensure Your Spring Garden Looks Even Better Next Year

Are you ready to take your garden to the next level? Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to check on your flowering bulbs to ensure they are...

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An Early Flowering Evergreen - Oregon Grape Holly

Evergreens are valuable in the garden. Especially the ones that flower. However, there are only so many that you can use in the colder climate. One...

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The Most Low Maintenance Plants for Your Garden

I remember when I had filled our garden with the same plant species that thrived in my parents' garden.

Big mistake!

I wasn´t...

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These Bee-friendly Planting Combinations Bloom From Spring To Fall

This summer, I learned about BBM.

But what does the BBM mean? I'm glad you asked. It's an abbreviation for a bumblebee mile. Did you know that a...

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How to Get Your Orchids to Bloom Again

Our guests sometimes ask me, "Sari, how do you get your orchids to bloom again year after year" and I tell them, as I will do now to you, my little...

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Reduce Stress By Listening To Birds' Song In Your Garden

The other day, I discussed birds' songs with my sister via phone while I was on my daily walk. I had stopped listening to a beautiful, versatile...

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3 Reasons to Plant Sedum Autumn Joy

In the garden there are - or at least there should be - a group of plants that give a permanent backbone for all the other planting...

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