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The Benefits of Houseplants in Winter: How to Keep Your Indoor Garden Alive and Thriving

Winter is here, and while the chilly weather may have you longing for the warmth of spring, there’s no reason why you can’t bring a little bit of the outdoors…

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Reducing Your Environmental Impact During Winter: Simple Steps to Follow

Winter is in full swing, and with the dropping temperatures, families are turning up the heat. However, what many consumers fail to realize is that heating and cooling are major…

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Evergreens – the Perfect Winter Backdrop: Designing Landscapes for Winter Color

Evergreens are plants that people seem to either love or hate. Usually, the hate stems from a series of failures to get them to survive through their first winter. Others…

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The Active Winter Gardener: a Time for Planning Ahead

I don’t know where the illusion first originated, but most non-gardeners live under the false perception that winter is a time of rest. For a true Northscaper, this couldn’t be…

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The Wonderful World Of Hydrangeas

When gardeners think of hydrangeas, they often associate them with the deep South, the showy blue or pink mop-headed flowers boldly encircling the foundation of some lovely manor or estate.…

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Understanding Winter Hardiness

Among the many factors that define the northern gardening experience and the use of plants in the north, none is more prominent than the concept of winter hardiness. Almost all northerners…

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Amazing Grapes: Growing Grapes in a Northern Climate

Growing your own grapes in a northern climate? Most people who live in the North wouldn’t for a moment think this is even possible, never mind practical. Even avid northern…

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Coping With Death in the Landscape: The Cycle of Life in Your Garden

As winter passes into spring and the snows melt away, our precious outdoor living spaces are revealed once more, along with the trees and shrubs, and other plants we so…

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6 Tips for Yard & Garden Tool Maintenance, Fall Cleaning for the Tools of Your Trade

Plants are not the only things in your yard that will benefit from winterizing this fall season. Many times we take for granted that the tools we put away the…

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Preparing and Maintaining a Lawn for Winter

Learn all about preparing a lawn for winter. Mow the lawn down to 2 inches and fertilize in early September, as this is the most important time to fertilize of…

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