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• How to Keep Plants Safe This Winter

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 478
  If you have planted perennials in your garden this year, there are a few things that you’ll have to do to make sure that they make it through the winter. Warmer climates usually do not have this problem, but if your nights do get near or below freezing, protecting this delicate plants is a good idea. By taking the ...
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• Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, colorful November

  
  Red Dirt Ramblings — Authority: 116
  [Please click on the photos in the gallery to make them larger]I managed to delude myself for the past few weeks imagining it was late September.  Last I looked, many trees had leaves, and I was still planting a shrub or two.  This morning, with its  light rain and cold front, shattered my illusions.I also [...]
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• Great Weather For Fall Cleanup

  
  Glenns Garden — Authority: 134
  The weather has been great all week in Chicago for gardeners to get out and do some fall cleanup. the weather has been averaging about 10 degrees above normal and is a great boost over earlier this fall. We have cut back all the perennials in one of the parking lots and cleaned the beds we will continue on to the ...
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• Design in the details

  
  blithewold.org — Authority: 114
  Open any one of William Cullina’s books and you’ll get a good idea of the sort of person he is (our kind) and if you’re me, you’ll read cover to cover and learn something new on each page. Invite him to speak, and you’ll have the pleasure of meeting one of the most articulate, knowledgeable, [...]
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  Bloomin' Blog — Authority: 134
  
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• Seeds! Seeds! Seeds!

  
  The Constant Gardener — Authority: 120
  Ooooooh! The RHSs seed list for 2010 has been published!One of the many great things about being an RHS member is that every year you get to choose 20 packets of seed collected from RHS gardens for the princely sum of 60p each. And theyre mostly quite unusual, so you get to pack your garden with some choice lovelies ...
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• A Nice Surprise

  
  Always Growing — Authority: 123
  “A Nice Surprise”, a copyrighted post, was written for my WordPress blog called Always Growing by Jan in Covington, Louisiana  When it comes to my garden, it doesn’t take much to make me happy.  A new flower, especially one on a plant that has never bloomed before, really is something I look forward to ...
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• pineapple sage, heroic late bloomer

  
  A Way to Garden — Authority: 121
  ISMILE AND NOD WHEN GARDENERS FROM ELSEWHERE tout pineapple sage (Salvia elegans) as a hummingbird plant. “Elsewhere,” as in wherever the plant blooms before the hummingbirds have been long-gone for six weeks, meaning decidedly not here. Yes, after probably 10 frosts, my pineapple sage decided to bloom the last ...
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• Bridgette New York Aster

  
  Digital Flower Pictures.com — Authority: 128
  New York AsterSymphyotrichum novi-belgii Bridgette(sim-fy-oh-TRY-kum) (NO-vee BEL-jee-eye)Synonyms: Michaelmas Daisy
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• Summer leftover: Asian-inspired garden

  
  Toronto Gardens — Authority: 127
  While doing the initial scoring for the East York Blooming Contest, I saw some high-scoring gardens that didnt make it into the final round, including this Asian-inspired front garden.The tall tree is a standard form of weeping mulberry (Morus alba Pendula). In horticulture, standard doesnt mean "run of the mill", but ...
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• Some girls buy shoes . . . .

  
  Red Dirt Ramblings — Authority: 116
  Last night, HH and I attended our church’s oh-so-swanky auction at the Skirvin Hotel, so, Friday, my husband asked me what I was planning to wear.I made a gesture toward the closet and said, “Something black.”  I then thought for a moment and said, “I think I need new black shoes though.”“Go buy some,” ...
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• June Gardening Tips

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 120
  These are just a few gardening tips for you to consider here in late June. Many people seem to think that just because all the plants have been put into their places for the summer and your perennials are blooming, or past bloom, there is no more work to be done. The garden is full of multi-colored flowers, so there ...
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• Things Are Heating Up

  
  millertime — Authority: 103
  November up here is looking more like September with the current temps.......causing some plants to hang onto their lives-and blooms! (Like this borage, too bad my tomatoes couldnt survive this well!)Theyre mixing with the fall foliage thats already been established....this is spirea Mellow Yellow.Of course the ...
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• The Cap Theory of Garden Clean-Up

  
  My Northern Garden — Authority: 111
  Looks good in hat Lose the hat, lady Let’s face it: Not everyone looks good in a cap. The young lady at right, for instance, has always looked good in hats. Her mother, at left, not so much. (And, why is she kissing a dog?) I think about caps while cleaning up the garden in fall, and today was a perfect day ...
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• From the memory banks: Sweet Autumn Clematis

  
  Toronto Gardens — Authority: 127
  Over the next few weeks, Ill be posting a few things that got lost in the shuffle of the too-many-things-to-write-about growing season. One of them is Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora – also widely but erroneously known as C. ternifolia, it seems through a printers error shortly after its discovery in ...
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• Gardening ideas

  
  Natural Gardening — Authority: 127
  Thinking about problem-solving in gardens and landscapes is interesting. What we bring to the process is gardening ideas, gleaned from memories, experience, and observation melded with the practicalities of light, soil, and climate. A class today had me thinking about this again. Theres no point in dreaming of lush ...
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• Striped Volcano Garden Phlox

  
  Digital Flower Pictures.com — Authority: 128
  Striped Volcano Garden PhloxPhlox paniculata Volcano Candy Stripe(floks) (pan-ick-yoo-LAY-tuh)The ‘Volcano’ series of Phlox was featured on this blog here. This one looked pretty amazing and better than the striped Phlox featured on this post. It had a much larger flower and was a darker pink.I really have to ...
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• Coneflowers yet again

  
  Doug Green's Blog — Authority: 117
  Just when you think you understand and have written about as much as your reader’s can stomach about coneflowers, along comes another rash of questions and fellow garden writers writing about this plant. When the new plants started appearing on the gardening scene, I remember hearing from the originating nurseries ...
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• Which Plants to Protect from Upcoming Frost

  
  All the Dirt on Gardening — Authority: 121
  So far, fall, 2009, has been frost-free and we still have time to get vulnerable plants pulled indoors. Houseplants that vacationed outside over the summer definitely want to be inside by now. Cacti and succulents that are not native have to be protected, too. Not everything will fit into the house, garage, shed or ...
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• Perennial Flowers and Record Keeping

  
  Doug Green's Blog — Authority: 117
  Some random thoughts about perennial flowers and record-keeping. I got a few comments – on and off-list about my latest blog post so here are the answers. Do I keep records? Sort of. I keep records of trial plants so I know what’s going on with that plant. I’ll show you the system next spring as I set it up ...
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