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Bonsai Tree Care
By: Niall Mehaffey

Bonsai was first discovered over one thousand years ago in China although it was not known as "bonsai" back then, instead it was known as "punsai".
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What type of lawn care works best for you depends on the time and money you decide to put into your lawn. If your lawn is your hobby, you can spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of time on it.
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Autumn typically signals the end of home grown vegetables from the garden, but with a little ingenuity you can harvest garden fresh produce well into the winter months. My Central Pennsylvania garden continues to supply fresh vegetables during the fall and winter when most gardeners in my growing region are content to dream about next summer’s bounty.
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Many gardeners think of fall as the time for limited blooming and the time when the excitement of new blooms each day with varied colors textures and shapes appearing from the flowing plants has lessened. At the same time, flower colors tend to move toward the yellow, orange, red end of the spectrum
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Spring Planting Tips
By: Michael McGroarty

Spring means that the garden centers are packed with people, and car trunks are packed with plants. Everybody has dirt on their knees, dirt under their nails, and is excited about gardening. To make certain that this excitement yields positive results, let's discuss the basics in this article of spring planting tips.
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We recently added a large back yard. Toward the back of the yard is our perennial bed and gold fish pond. There’s just an empty space between the house and the garden with freshly sprouted grass. I stood at the house and looked toward the pond and imagined the path I walk to get there. If I made that path a real path it seemed like it would add a lot to the yard. I took a rope and laid it out where I thought the path should go.
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Sometime during the year you will probably plant roses in your rose garden. There are many opinions on how to do this but I will tell you what has worked for me. First let me distinguish planting rose into the rose garden that are dormant plants compared with those grown in pots or containers.
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What is an "espalier" you may be asking yourself. The term espalier has changed over the years. Originally it defined a trellis, or a frame, to which a tree was to be tied. It presently refers to the process of training your tree or plant. The purpose of an espalier is to be able to grow a tree in limited space. The process originated with fruit trees in order to provide fruit in small gardens and courtyards. This art is now primarily used for decoration or privacy.
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