Gardens
25 Side Yard Garden Ideas for Forgotten Spaces
The strip between your house and the property line is easy to ignore. It is often only 3 to 10ft (90 to 300cm) wide, shaded by
Tim de Vries
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25 Kitchen Garden Ideas for Edible Beauty
The best kitchen gardens are the ones you can reach in your slippers while the pan heats up. They are planted for the next meal, with
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5 Pros And 5 Cons Of Oak Trees
Oak trees (Quercus spp.) are the most valuable trees you can plant for wildlife, and they live for generations. They are also huge, hard to replace
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25 Zen Garden Ideas for a Peaceful Escape
A zen garden asks you to do one thing: look. There is no border to deadhead, no lawn to mow and no plant list to learn,
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25 Backyard Orchard Ideas for Homegrown Fruit
A backyard orchard can be five apple trees on a lawn corner, a pear trained flat against a fence, or a Meyer lemon in a pot
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4 Pros And 5 Cons Of Leyland Cypress Trees
Leyland cypress (x Hesperotropsis leylandii) is a fast, upright evergreen that reaches 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 m) tall, with flat sprays of soft
Trees
Types of Japanese Maple Leaves: 12 Leaf Shapes and How to Tell Them Apart
Japanese maple leaves come in five basic shapes, and the difference is how deep the cuts between the lobes go. From broadest to finest: Amoenum (wide
Trees
Tree Seed Pod Identification: 19 Trees With Pods and How to Tell Them Apart
To identify seed pods from trees, sort the fruit into one of four shapes first: long flat pods, spiky or round balls, winged seeds, or cone-like
Plants
Companion Plants for Green Beans: What Works and Why
Mexican bean beetles can strip green bean leaves to lace and cost a badly hit crop 20 to 50 percent of its yield (Cornell), and the
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25 Greenhouse Ideas for Growing Through the Cold Months
A greenhouse on a clear January afternoon is the warmest, greenest place on the property, with lettuce growing a few feet from a snowdrift. It is