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Ground cover plants for Los Angeles gardens
Sun Drops are another ground cover plant great for Los Angeles gardens Living ground cover is a catch-all phrase for a lot of low growing plants grown together to literally cover the ground. In most...
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Quick tips for growing carrots
This yellow carrot is only one of many colors you can grow in your home garden. Carrots are not difficult to grow in the vegetable garden. Like many root crops, they are biennials, meaning they grow...
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An Expert’s Tips on Growing a Bird and Butterfly Garden
Butterfly on a Budleia flower For those garden enthusiasts and professionals who missed the Gardening Under Mediterranean Skies VIII: Style & Whimsy in the Sustainable Garden Pasadena symposium,...
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Garden Tips:Discourage Raccoon Pests
Raccoon family (Photo by Jane Gates) Looking at those little bandit faces, raccoons could fool you into thinking they are cute. In some parts of the country raccoons can be worrisome due to the fact...
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Quick Tips on Designing a Japanese Garden
The peace of a Japanese garden A Japanese garden can be designed into landscapes in almost any climate. Work with plants and materials that will be best adapted to you own conditions for easy...
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May Garden Tips for Southern California
May and June are the best time to plant, clean the garden, build new features — and crop artichokes! As we move into the dry, hot weather of summer, we only have a little while left to take advantage...
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Quick tips on growing radishes
Once a radish puts up a flower spike the root becomes too tough and stringy to eat. Radishes are some of the fastest-growing vegetables you can plant. That makes them ideal for marking out rows where...
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Tips on designing an English garden
Potting shed and wishing well in a drought-tolerant English garden. One very popular style of gardening all over the world is the “English garden”. An English garden is simply a garden that is designed...
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Tips on how to create a beautiful garden for you and your pets
Pets are part of our family — and garden. We love our pets – until they tear our gardens apart. And our pets love us, until they get injured out in the garden. Make the garden safe for cats and dogs....
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Garden advice even the experts get wrong
Nobody knows everything! We like to believe that the experts who write the books we buy, direct us with what we should do on television or on the internet, and write knowledgeable articles will...
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