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| Splashing Color on Your Garden | |
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| Creative Dreaming | |
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| Why Flowers? | |
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| Flowers Bring a Garden to Life with Color and Texture | |
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| Flowers Are Relaxing, Even Healing | |
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| Flowers with Fragrance Expand Our Sensual Enjoyment | |
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| Flowers Attract Wildlife | |
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| Shopping for Ideas | |
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| Picture Books | |
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| Magazines | |
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| Your Own Neighborhood | |
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| Nursery Shopping | |
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| Use Pen and Paper to Capture Your Dreams | |
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| Start a Garden Notebook | |
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| Gather Your Dreams in Detail | |
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| Now Choose the Best | |
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| What Would You Like to See? | |
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| What Else Is Important? | |
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| How Do You See Yourself in the Garden? | |
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| Designing with Flowers | |
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| Frames Are Important | |
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| What Do You Have to Work with? | |
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| What Can You Do Now? | |
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| Make Strong Lines | |
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| Backgrounds | |
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| Open Space | |
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| Easy Paths to Color Harmony | |
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| You Don't Even Have to Be Original | |
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| Or Create Your Own | |
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| Bold or Dainty? | |
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| Don't Forget Leaves | |
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| Color? | |
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| Ferns, Grasses, and Other Textures | |
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| Putting Everything Together | |
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| Designing in the Fourth Dimension: Time | |
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| Seasonal Moods | |
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| Small Spaces, Short Times | |
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| Give Each Season a Home | |
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| Each Season Has a Mood | |
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| Focal Points Are Accents in Time as Well as Space | |
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| Fussing Over Details Can Be Fun | |
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| Bloom Times Can Be Tricky | |
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| Fill Those Gaps | |
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| Infants to Patriarchs | |
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| Thinking Ahead a Year | |
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| Take an Assessment | |
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| Build on Your Successes | |
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| Here and Now: What You Have to Offer | |
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| Light Is Important for Food Production | |
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| Different Plants, Different Needs | |
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| Your Job | |
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| Soil Provides a Firm Foundation | |
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| pH Demystified | |
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| Your Job | |
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| Water--a Delicate Balance | |
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| Your Job | |
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| Air Is More Important than You Think | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Humidity | |
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| Wind | |
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| Get Ready, Get Set | |
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| A Time Budget | |
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| A Money Budget | |
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| Small Is Better | |
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| Prioritize before You Plant | |
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| Preparing the Bed | |
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| Get Rid of Perennial Weeds First | |
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| To Dig or Not to Dig? | |
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| Add Organic Matter | |
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| Other Improvements | |
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| Just before Planting | |
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| Buying without Busting Your Budget | |
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| A Small Investment Yields Big Rewards | |
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| Spend the Time to Design Well | |
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| Start with Just Three | |
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| How to Get Plants for Free | |
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| Hundreds of Plants for a Few Dollars | |
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| What Do They Need? | |
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| Drawbacks | |
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| Where to Use Them Best | |
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| How to Shop Without Feeling Overwhelmed | |
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| The Definite-List Trip | |
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| The Exploratory Trip | |
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| The One-Bed Trip | |
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| If You Can't Find the Plant You Want | |
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| Get the Healthiest Plants You Can Find | |
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| Does It Have Yellow Leaves? | |
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| Are the Roots and Top in Proportion? | |
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| Getting off to a Good Start | |
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| Care at Home | |
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| Deciding on the Best Place | |
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| How Far Apart? | |
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| Sudden Inspirations | |
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| Roots Are the Key to Plant Fitness | |
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| Naked Roots Are Vulnerable | |
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| Uncover Carefully | |
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| Spread out the Roots | |
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| Don't Plant Too High or Too Low | |
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| A Few Last Chores | |
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| Minimizing Aftercare | |
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| If You Want Fewer Weeds, Mulch | |
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| Water and Air Need to Get to the Roots | |
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| Look for Long Life | |
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| Is It Easy to Weed? | |
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| Buy Cheap and Use More | |
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| Strategic Watering | |
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| Deep Watering for Deep Roots | |
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| Use Fertilizers with Care | |
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| What Is a Fertilizer? | |
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| What Do the Numbers on the Label Mean? | |
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| Liquid or Granular Fertilizer? | |
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| Is It Possible to Use Too Much Fertilizer? | |
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| Pinching and Staking | |
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| Pinching | |
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| Staking | |
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| Deadheading and Cutting Back | |
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| Pruning Tips | |
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| Help! Something's Wrong! | |
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| Don't Panic | |
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| Take a Closer Look | |
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| Keep Diseases from Spreading | |
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| What If It's Dying? | |
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| Environmental Problems Are Most Common | |
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| It May Not Be Your Fault | |
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| Be Willing to Try Again, and Again | |
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| Should You Try to Save It or Not? | |
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| Can You Put up with Imperfection? | |
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| When Should You Put up a Fight? | |
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| Can You Find a Substitute? | |
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| Guidelines for Doctoring | |
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| Chemical or Organic? | |
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| Applying Chemicals Properly | |
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| The Stars of the Show | |
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| One-act Wonders: Annuals and Biennials | |
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| Annuals and Biennials are Short-lived | |
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| What Are the Advantages? | |
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| What Are the Disadvantages? | |
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| Pointers for Planting | |
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| Introducing the Flowers Themselves | |
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| A Bouquet of Hardy Annuals | |
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| A Bouquet of Half-hardy Annuals | |
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| A Bouquet of Tender Annuals | |
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| A Bouquet of Biennials | |
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| Flowery Carpets: Ground Covers | |
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| What Do You Mean, Ground Cover? | |
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| Using Ground Covers Creatively | |
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| Planting Tips | |
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| A Bouquet of Annual Ground Covers | |
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| A Bouquet of Perennial Ground Covers | |
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| A Bouquet of Shrubby Ground Covers | |
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| Sudden Entrances: Bulbs | |
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| What Are These Terms? | |
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| True Bulbs | |
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| Corms | |
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| Tubers | |
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| Rhizomes | |
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| Tuberous Roots | |
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| Plant for Long Life | |
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| Add Nutrients | |
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| Putting Them in the Ground | |
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| Moisture Is Important | |
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| While They're Growing | |
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| A Bouquet of Hardy Bulbs | |
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| A Bouquet of Half-hardy Bulbs | |
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| Encore Performers: Perennials | |
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| Perennials are Long-lived | |
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| Planting Perennials | |
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| How Deeply Should You Mix Your Amendments? | |
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| Not All Plants Need This Care | |
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| Plan for Permanence | |
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| Create a Strong Skeleton | |
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| Foliage Is Just as Important as Flowers | |
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| Fill in Long-term Bloom | |
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| Now, a Roll-call of Main Characters | |
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| A Bouquet of Hardy Perennials | |
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| A Bouquet of Half-hardy Perennials | |
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| A Bouquet of Tender Perennials | |
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| Social Climbers: Vines | |
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| What Are Vines? | |
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| Consider the Advantages of Vines | |
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| Choosing Vines | |
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| Different Ways of Climbing | |
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| Caring for Vines | |
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| A Bouquet of Annual Vines | |
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| A Bouquet of Hardy Vines | |
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| A Bouquet of Half-hardy Vines | |
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| A Bouquet of Tender Vines | |
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| Not Just Scenery: Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Tree or Shrub? | |
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| How Can You Use Them? | |
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| How to Get Them off to a Good Start | |
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| A Bouquet of Flowering Shrubs | |
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| A Bouquet of Flowering Trees | |
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| Matching Place and Plant | |
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| Enough of Everything | |
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| What Does This Garden Look Like? | |
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| Climate Is Your Limiting Factor | |
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| Can Anything Go Wrong? | |
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| Annuals and Tender Perennials Grown as Annuals | |
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| Bulbs | |
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| Perennials for Repeat Performances | |
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| Vines for Vertical Color | |
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| Shrubs | |
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| Sun's Abundant, Rain's Not | |
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| What Does This Garden Look Like? | |
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| What Is Drought Tolerance? | |
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| Wait to Withdraw the Water | |
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| Soil Preparation Is Important | |
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| Drainage Is Important | |
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| Too Much Sun? | |
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| Annuals and Tender Perennials Grown as Annuals | |
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| Bulbs | |
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| Perennials | |
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| Easy Vines | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Less Sun, Enough Water | |
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| What Does This Garden Look Like? | |
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| Why Is Shade a Problem? | |
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| What Are Some of the Advantages of Dark Corners? | |
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| What If I Don't Have Enough Shade? | |
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| What's the Soil Like? | |
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| Annuals, Biennials, and Tender Perennials Usually Grown as Annuals | |
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| Bulbs and Tubers | |
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| Perennials | |
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| Vines | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Dry Shadows | |
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| What Does This Garden Look Like? | |
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| What if There is Too Much Shade? | |
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| Make the Most of the Water You Have | |
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| Baby Them for a Few Years | |
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| Annuals and Biennials | |
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| Bulbs and Tubers | |
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| Perennials | |
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| Vines | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Wet and Wonderful | |
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| What Does This Garden Look Like? | |
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| Take Stock | |
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| Making Your Own | |
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| Annuals, Biennials, and Tender Perennials Grown as Annuals | |
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| Bulbs | |
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| Perennials | |
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| Vines | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Barrels, Tubs, and Pots | |
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| Your Container Sets the Mood | |
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| The Basics of Pots | |
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| Materials and Other Considerations | |
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| Designing with Pots | |
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| Soil Considerations | |
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| Potted Plants Need Extra Care | |
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| Water Regularly | |
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| Fertilize Lightly and Often | |
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| Choosing Plants | |
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| Winter Hardiness | |
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| Containment Can be an Advantage | |
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| Ground Covers and Perennials | |
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| Vines | |
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| Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs | |
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| Shrubs | |
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| Expanding Your Enjoyment | |
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| For the Birds (and Butterflies) | |
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| How to Invite Hummingbirds | |
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| How to Invite Butterflies | |
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| Give Them Flowers, Sun, and Shelter | |
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| Don't Forget to Feed the Caterpillars | |
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| Swear off Pesticide Use | |
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| Flowers for Hummingbirds | |
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| Annuals and Perennials | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Vines | |
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| Flowers for Butterflies | |
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| Annuals and Perennials | |
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| Vines | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| Plants to Host Caterpillars | |
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| Grasses and Sedges | |
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| Bringing the Garden Indoors | |
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| Blossoms and Branches for Fresh Arrangements | |
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| The Basics of Harvesting Flowers | |
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| Conditioning Your Blooms | |
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| Arranging the Flowers | |
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| Good Flowers for Cutting | |
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| Annuals | |
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| Perennials and Bulbs | |
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| Dried Flowers for Lasting Bouquets | |
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| Everlastings | |
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| Forcing Spring Bulbs and Branches | |
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| Branches | |
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| Bulbs for Indoor Bloom | |
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| Edible Flowers | |
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| Herbs | |
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| Vegetables | |
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| Annuals | |
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| Perennials | |
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| Bringing Plants Indoors | |
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| Easy Multiplication | |
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| What Is Propagation? | |
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| Seeds Can Be Easy | |
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| Proper Soil | |
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| Warmth | |
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| Moisture | |
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| Saving Your Own Seed | |
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| What Is Best Grown from Seed? | |
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| Dividing Is Easy Too | |
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| Cuttings: as Many Plants as You Want | |
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| What Part of the Plant Do You Use? | |
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| Start with an Easy Plant | |
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| Do You Need a Rooting Hormone? | |
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| Place Cuttings in a Soil Mix | |
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| Humidity Is Important | |
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| Now, Wait | |
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| Layering Woody Plants | |
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| Continuing the Quest | |
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| Finding the Plants You Need | |
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| Changing Your Mind | |
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| Fill in with Annuals | |
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| Obtaining Your First Choice | |
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| You Can Get Almost Anything By Mail | |
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| Books, Books, Books! | |
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| Online Information | |
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| Going Farther with Roses, Daylilies, Dahlias or | |
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| Resources | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Terms and Definitions | |
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| Colors of Flowers | |
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| Bright Blue Flowers | |
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| Lavender-blue to Light Purple Flowers | |
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| Purple Flowers | |
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| Cool Pink to Rose-red Flowers | |
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| Warm Pink to Coral Flowers | |
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| Warm Red Flowers | |
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| Gold to Orange Flowers | |
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| Light Yellow Flowers | |
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| White Flowers | |
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| Flowers Available in Many Colors | |
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| Your Flower Notebook | |
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| USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map | |
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| Index | |