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Give Your Perfect Pets The Christmas They Deserve

Gift ideas and tips to ensure a safe and happy Christmas for your beloved, prized pets.All images are by author.

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Victorian Transportation Makes an English Country Garden Bloom

An account of one way that the Victorians brought so many exotic plants to Britain.

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How to Get Your Christmas Cactus to Bloom

Instructions on care of Christmas Cactus.

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Perfect Christmas Gifts for Gardeners

By buying one of these simple,yet effective gifts, your bound to please any gardener you know for christmas.If you want to go big, I don’t think any gardener would say no to a nice new tool shed or greenhouse! But to be realistic most of us cannot afford such a luxery to buy for ourseleves, unless otherwise budgeted for, little alone give as a gift!

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Dangerous House Plants

Aside from its aesthetic value, plants give us fresh supply of oxygen. There are some plants, however, that can make children and pets ill if accidentally chewed.

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Construct a Small Garden Pond for Pennies – Well Almost!

Gardening, garden pond construction, how to construct a garden pond on a budget. A quick and easy way to excavate and build a pond in a weekend.

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Confessions of a Kleptomaniac – The Art of Stealing, The Addiction to Beauty

A humorous look at the art of stealing, the addiction and its rewards.

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Essential Fall Gardening: November Tasks

A list of tasks that have to be undertaken in the garden in November, ranging from plants, planting bareroot, pruning to lawncare and greenhouse maintenance.All images are by author.

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Sun, Sea, and Cool Forest Glades – July in The Garden on The Oregon Coast at Treetops

A look at the garden in July, chores, tips, garden reading, from "Treetops" a garden on the Oregon Coast.

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Creation of an English Cottage Garden

How to choose the plants and design an old-world fragrant English cottage garden.