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Encouraging the Honeybees: Making a Bee Garden

The honeybee populations of the USA have been drastically diminishing [Learn about Colony Collapse Disorder], and though no one knows exactly why, one factor is less foraging. We gardeners can do something about that! It is really important that you never use pesticides in your bee garden. They poison bees. Starvation is currently considered to be the leading cause of bee mortality.[1] So What Do Bees...

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The White Garden

Making an all white garden used to be quite a popular undertaking. Although the idea probably started, in modern gardening times anyway, with Gertrude Jekyll in her book, Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, it was Vita Sackville-West who created the most famous white garden at Sissinghurst Castle. This garden was “designed to be at its best in early July and especially in the evenings or when illuminated...

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The Blue Garden

While color-themed gardens intrigue in the planning stages, they can be a bit difficult to pull off. One drawback is the self-limiting nature of it… there are so many plants that attract our attention and to reduce them to only one color is quite a task. Then, next, the color blue is not a common one in nature, perhaps as an offset to all that sky. Finally, there is the color itself. Colors have visual and...

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The Kitchen Garden

Dreaming of succulent vegetables, fruits bursting with sweetness and juice, redolent herbs to spice up the cooking pot? Like many before you, a kitchen garden may be just what the doctor ordered, literally. With today’s emphasis on healthy eating of fresh fruits and vegetables, at least five to nine servings are recommended, what better inspiration than growing your own? Walking out your door...

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A Serenity Garden -making a peaceful place

Garden Retreats Any portion of a garden can become a place of peace and repose, and I think it is well worth making at least a spot in the garden a place of quiet and reflection. Better yet, creating a theme garden dedicated to a feeling of calm and relaxed enjoyment. Many of the accouterments in making this type of retreat would depend on what the gardener finds personally peace-invoking, but there are certain...