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Spring is in the Air
All around the United States, the same fever is spreading. The "let's leave Winter behind" and "let's start Spring." Even people who don't have gardens are coming out of their burrows to schedule bicycle rides, walks around the neighborhood, jogs along pathways, schedule engagements across a table of an outdoor cafe.

Memorial Park - An Asset of Memory
Municipal parks planned as memorials should be started at once. Each of these can, in a way, be an arboretum. They should be large enough to afford spacious lawns set with shade trees of many kinds, and the backgrounds should be planted with broadleaved evergreens and conifers for accent. In the borders in front of these evergreens the flowering trees will give color in season. Rose and white dogwoods, redbuds, crabapples of various kinds, flowering cherries and scarlet leaved maples will all add their charm to the scene.

Living Memorials to Honor the Heroic
Living memorials to honor the valor of our heroic dead of our wars is are being considered all over the United States and, indeed, all over the world. Parks for beauty and recreation, arboretums to furnish material for horticultural studies, gardens for cultivation of special plants like roses or camellias, and avenues of trees for shade and comfort are among the most fitting of proposed memorials.

Spring Bulbs
The green shoots of spring bulbs forcing their way through the garden soil in February are a welcome sight. For not only do they foretell the arrival of spring, but their colourful flowers brighten the garden and lift our spirits.

Things to Consider When Buying a Hedge Trimmer
When buying a hedge trimmer, there a few questions you need to ask yourself. What job am I buying this trimmer for. Is it for trimming long or short hedges?

Reliable Spring Colour
When the flower buds of spring bulbs start to swell and take on colour it won't be long before the whole display is in full swing and the drama of the flower border will unfold. Even if you don't plant your spring flowering bulbs in the autumn you can still catch up by buying ready grown pots of bulbs at the garden centre. You don't need many to make a great impact and you can plant them all around the garden to add instant colour to pots, beds and borders.

7 Reasons to Learn How to Graft and 7 Ways Your Grafts Can Fail
If you have always wanted to try grafting but didn't know where to start, here are some ideas of why you may want to learn this skill. Because grafting is not foolproof, it is good to know why some grafts succeed and why others fail. This listing should get you started successfully.

Quick General Care of Roses
Caring for roses can be very simple, but there are some things that must be done. Learn how to do a few quick tasks that will ensure that you grow the best roses possible.

What Kind of Disease Does My Rose Bush Have?
There are 5 diseases that are the most common ones everybody who grows roses, should be familiar with. There are preventative measures you can easily take.

Lawn Care - Early Spring
After a difficult winter the effects of the weather will have taken their toll on most garden lawns. The weight of the snow and the very heavy rainfall will have helped compact many lawns, making them slow to drain and leaving the grass roots prone to rotting and water damage.

Grow Some Fast Spring Greens to Chase Away the Winter Blues
There's nothing else like the first fresh spring greens straight from your garden. If you're tired of stored vegetables or produce that's been shipped thousands of miles, then here are six fast growing foods to awaken your spring palate and get you into the mood for gardening.

Getting Started With Grafting
Grafting can be done easily with simple tools and some pre-planning. Start in the late fall by collecting the scion material, and properly storing it until spring. Then, when your stock tree is starting to leaf out, just follow these simple directions to make an easy whip or tongue type of graft.

Make a Quick Organic Garden
There can be no doubt as to the benefit of eating organically grown fruit and vegetables. Modern pesticides and harmonically enhanced produce are full of chemicals that we are not meant to ingest. Furthermore, there is much evidence of a global monopoly on fertilizer and seed sales, that has purposely driven the price if these items up many times beyond reasonable profit.

Home Herb Garden - The Benefits
There are great reasons to have a home herb garden (by the way it is pronounced either urb or hurb) but first what is an herb? Technically it is a seed producing flowering plant that does not produce woody stems. Non-technically it is a low growing aromatic (has a pleasant smell) plant used either fresh or dried for seasoning, medicinal purposes or even in perfumes.

How To - Inside & Outside Living
With the Spring bulbs now again starting to poke through the previously frozen soil of our gardens, we are again entering that time of year when many of us gardeners start getting seriously busy. Here I take a look at what's involved.


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