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Protect Your Huge Investment, Your Home, written 2 weeks ago, Most family consider their houses as a family dwelling and a home, a place where each member of the family live and share memories together. But even if you have no plans to sell it your home for a profit, owning a home is still considere...

Medicinal Plant Garden Walk, written 2 weeks ago, Besides the Independent Garden... This blog is about urban gardening, nature, garden photography,indoor gardening and plant propagation. Due to content scrapers I've decided to shorten my feed, sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. I hope you c...

The Best Time To Harvest Herbs, written 2 days ago, There is one time of day that is better than all others to harvest herbs, and that is first thing in the morning. Why?Because the plants have rested overnight and their oils and moisture are concentrated in their leaves. During the day, or when tem...

One of the longest-running garden blogs on the web, Cold Climate Gardening also provides links, book reviews, and plant profiles to help you garden successfully. Freelance author Kathy Purdy shares her gardening insights with you. Come join the conversati

Plots Against Hitler - an update, written 2 days ago, I blogged a while back about a little war-era pamphlet I bought called Plots Against Hitler. Then this email turned up from Bill Murphy:I was surfing the web and came across your name. The 'Dig for Victory' postershowing a foot on a spade was act...

Feeding and Growing with Changing Seasons, written 1 day ago, The majority of your houseplants require year round care, but what indoor gardeners don't consider is that the level of care provided may need to change with the season. Most houseplants actively grow and bloom in the spring and summer mo...

Does Using a Dishwasher Actually Decrease Water Use?, written 1 day ago, I've been asking myself this question for far too long, so I finally did some research: Does Using a Dishwasher Actually Decrease Water Use? And How Much Electricity Does It Use?!

Tips on how to buy trees, written 2 days ago, How to buy trees is an important part of gardening. Choose the wrong one and you could be ruing the day you planted it.

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Milkweed evolves to repair itself faster, written 1 day ago, In keeping with this month's plant evolution theme we have a news story on milkweed evolution. The adage that your enemies know your weaknesses best is especially true in the case of plants and predators that have co-evolved: As the predat...

Magical Fountain Of Youth - Palmers Cocoa Butter, written 1 hour ago, Well, you can have it too, and at very little expense. Palmers cocoa butter is this magical fountain of youth. Here in America, Palmers cocoa butter is renowned as the ultimate agent for eliminating stretch marks and scars. The Pa...

Indoor comforts, written 1 week ago, The faithful companion.The hearth.

Garden Bloggers Blooms Day August 2008, written 3 weeks ago, 15th August, 2008, time for the gardener to revel in and showcase the blooms which greet her eyes every morning. It is a typical monsoon day at Indiagarden with rain clouds looming large in the sky and the plants swaying with 'green' aband...

Cheap Chainsaw - How To Find The Best Cheap Chainsaws, written 1 day ago, There are many traps for new buyers when shopping for a cheap chainsaw and the first instinct is to look for a second hand machine. While this may have some merit, did you know you could quite easily pick up a new machine for ...

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Garden Fashion, written 4 weeks ago, I have a close friend who is a shopping guru and under her tutelage I bought my first designer outfit last week. I am now a huge fan of Susana Monaco. I know nothing about other designers, but I fell in love with a Susana Monaco top. I went home without buying it...

Catalina Cherry, written 3 weeks ago, It's Catalina Cherry (prunus lyonii) season in the City of Ojai Community Demonstration Garden, and the birds and squirrels are eating their fill. This beautiful, drought- tolerant native tree blooms in the spring. Photos by Les Dublin.

Another mystery bird, written 1 day ago, Is this a baby female cardinal or what? It doesn't look the same as the other ones around here (it's fatter and it's tail is really long), but I can't figure out what else it could be. Any ideas?More:Here's a photo of baby female cardinal I took earlier this ...

New Design-Part One-Why?, written 4 days ago, The garden, my garden is an extension of my inner being. It is personal, not just a hobby. It exists not just geographically but metaphysically. The Faire Garden is not a location that stays put. It is the garden I create wherever I happen to be. At the ...