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Winter Outlines Garden Bones

Winter is a stark time for most of us in a temperate climate. Doubly so when a fresh snowfall creates lines and shapes, filled in with snowy white. We then see our garden in silhouette, and all its features are outlined for us to better judge the proportions and dimensions of our larger plantings and hardscaping. This is when we can decide how to improve the garden’s structure to give shape to the...
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Ten Winter Features

Everyone has their opinion of what makes something a joy to the eye. In winter everything is finely edited by our cold weather and killing frosts, but that only means we have a showcase for some plants that make the winter landscape beautiful and interesting. Trees: Crabapples- the bigger and brighter the fruits the better, but all of them lend a cheery spot to the landscape. Try Malus `Adams’,...
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5 Choices for Living Christmas Trees

Many of my specimen evergreen trees started out as our living trees for Christmas celebrations. It is a bit of work, you can’t keep them indoors very long, but instead of throwing away a tree, you have a beautiful reminder of your holidays year after year. If you are thinking of buying a living Christmas tree this year, here are five choices and growing instructions; followed later with landscape information...
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Flowering Cabbage & Kale

Time to think of the autumn phase of the garden already. When we picture autumn we picture the trees ablaze with color here in the Midwest, and in the Northeast of the USA, but there are other players on the stage. Perhaps theirs is a supporting role, but many bring lots of surprising color and add to the grand tapestry of of the season. Flowering Kale I tried growing my own flowering kale one year. I bought...
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Alberta Spruce

Alberta spruce, Picea glauca ‘Conica’ is a favored dwarf evergreen for foundation and landscape use. I have grown them in both my rural and city garden. Their greatest drawback is the spider mite infestations they are prone to- which I never suffered in the city because I was in the habit of hosing off the bushes regularly. Out in the country it was a different story, but read on to the “Garden...
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